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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 146

(x) Ladysmith
The town was besieged from 1 November 1899 until 28 February 1900
Nearly all mail was detained in Ladysmith until the siege ended although a few covers are known to have been smuggled out during the siege
1899 (2 Nov.) Natal ½d. brown card, written at "8 am" to Pietermaritzburg, cancelled with double-ring datestamp and with G.P.O. Natal arrival c.d.s. (2.11) at left; a scarce item carried out on the last mail before the rail was destroyed after noon on the same day

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