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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 152

(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
The Siege Handstamp
A comprehensive collection on a range of envelopes/cards (16) with dates from 7 (first recorded date)-26 February, two unfranked, the others mainly bearing Natal 1d. though one on a ½d. card, one with Natal Telegraph 1d. and one most unusually bearing G.B. Army Official ½d., varieties include "seige" for 8th., 9th. and 21st., the last with additional "21th" error, and others with incorrect or inverted letters; a fine group

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£950