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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 122

(x) Kuruman
The town was besieged for the first time from 13 November 1899 to 1 January 1900 when it surrendered to Boer forces. General Warren re-occupied the town from 24 June 1900
Postal History
1900 (29 Nov.) Budrick's "Memoir of the Boer War" printed illustrated envelope in blue and vermilion to England, marked as from J.C. Davis of the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles and bearing Cape 1d. neatly cancelled by squared-circle datestamp; the adhesive defective and the envelope with central vertical fold though a most attractive souvenir envelope posted during the second siege of the town. Photo

provenance:
Kenneth Griffith, September 2003

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Sold for
£380