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Auction: 11029 - Summer Collector's Series sale
Lot: 157

St. Helena The Boer War 1900 (4 Sept.) envelope to British Bechuanaland, bearing 1890 1d. pale red with Circle of oblongs (CNC.1) and showing despatch c.d.s. alongside type 1 censor handstamp initialled "FWA", the address including note to Postmaster in Afrikaans inscribed "Please forward the letter, the woman does not know anything about it. She arrived there just a short time ago"; some faults though most unusual Estimate £ 70-90

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£140