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Auction: 11013 - Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 221

x Cape of Good Hope Boer War 1899 (12 Oct.) black on red telegram from Johannesburg to London with message "Announced Commandant Cronje over border" and intended for the London press, bearing Transvaal 1d. block of four tied by squared-circle d.s. in blue and showing "geweigerd" (Refused) h.s.. A rare and most unusual item written the day after the war began Estimate £ 120-150

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£230