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Auction: 8031 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 192

Cape of Good Hope - Boer War Printed or Hand-Illustrated Covers 1901 (Nov.)-02 (Oct.) group of four hand-illustrated cards by Boer artists, comprising unused postcard showing Diyatalawa Camp and with handpainted illustrations of flowers, 2c. card from Colombo to London, underfranked and charged 1 1/2d. postage due, showing head and shoulders portrait in pencil of a Boer headed "Diyatalawa Camp", 2c. card from Kandy addressed locally with handpainted illustrations of a man entitled "Before and after my Prisonership" above "Diyatalawa Camp", and 6c. card from Diyatalawa Camp to Germany with drawing of a man and his horse drinking from a stream. A delightful group. Estimate £ 250-300 provenance: Bill Hart, 1993

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