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Auction: 24028 - Stamps and Covers of British Africa
Lot: 1048

(x) Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
The Steven Walske Collection of the Boer War Sieges
Siege of Douglas: late November 1901 to 20 January 1902
1902 (Jan.) envelope from Lord Methuen to his wife in Klerksdorp, bearing uncancelled GB 1d.lilac with red ink "5 Jan 02" alongside, showing Vryburg c.d.s. (5.1) and Kimberley Major W. Elton censor cachets with, on reverse, Johannesburg and arrival datestamps; the envelope with peripheral creases etc

provenance:
Harry Birkhead, March 2014

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£160

Starting price
£160