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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 155

(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 "Long Tom" Siege Cards
A selection of the issued cards (7), comprising Types I and II addressed locally and both with Siege datestamp, the latter with "seige" error, Type I to Pietermaritzburg arriving 3 March, Type II to England arriving 25 March and with deleted tax mark, Type II via Lourencos Marques to Beira with arrival c.d.s. (13.3), triangular-framed "passed/press/censor2 and taxed "10c" as normal military mail; also Type I with forged Ladysmith Rail c.d.s. and Type V unaddressed philatelic creation with 27 February c.d.s.

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