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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 45

(x) Boer Invasion of Natal
Ingogo
1899 (13 Dec.) envelope (horizontal crease and four fox marks on face) "via Newcastle" to a Boer soldier serving in Colenso with the Lydenburg Commandos, bearing 2½d. blue and green with fine "ingogo/rail" double-ring datestamp and with "P.K. Newcastle./Z.A.R./14 Dec1899" datestamp in blue on reverse; a scarce cancellation used on the second to last day of usage. Photo

Note: Ingogo was taken by the Boers on 12 October, having by-passed both Mount Prospect and Charlestown

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