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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1037

(x) Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
The Steven Walske Collection of the Boer War Sieges
Siege of Kuruman: 14 October 1899 to 1 January 1900 and November 1900 to April 1901
1901 (5 Jan.) soldier's envelope to Bristol, headed "From Sergt J.C. Davis, B Company DEOVR", marked "By Despatch Rider" and "O.C. Dukes" for countersigning though not carried out and bearing Cape 1d. tied by "kuruman/c.g.h." squared-circle d.s., the reverse with Vryburg (9.1) over-cancelled by arrival c.d.s. (4.2), conveyed by the "Tantallon Castle" to Southampton; some faults. Photo

provenance:
Harry Birkhead, March 2014

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£1,800 to £2,200

Starting price
£1400