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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 157

(x) Lydenburg
The town fell to the British on 6 September 1900. Transvaal stamps and postal stationery found in the town were overprinted "V.R.I." with or without additional surcharge, and used between 7 September and 8 October
Postal History
1900-02 selection of military mail covers to England, comprising 1900 (July) bearing 1d. lilac with "army post office/3 m.b./south africa" rubber datestamp, 1900 stamped and unstamped, both with Natal P.O.A. 43 obliterators, 1901 bearing 1d. with F.P.O. 25 c.d.s. and 1902 to a P.O.W. on Burts Island, Bermuda bearing 1d. with A.P.O. Lydenburg c.d.s., censor labels and arrival c.d.s. An attractive group

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