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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 165

(x) Mafeking
The town was surrounded by the Transvaal Army on 12 October 1899. The siege last seven months and the town was relieved on 17 May 1900 after 217 days
Postal History
1899 (30 Oct.) envelope "On Active Service" from Macloutsi, Bechuanaland, to England, bearing 1897 ½d. (2) and 1d. (3) twice cancelled by c.d.s. with a further strike below, the reverse with Palapye (2.11), Bulawayo (5.11) and Durban (6.12) c.d.s.; the adhesives with a few faults though a rare and spectacular franking. The earliest recorded Rhodesian Force mail out of Bechuanaland during the first month of the war. Photo

Note: Lt. Col. Plumer , with about 100 men, occupied Fort Tuli on 11 October 1899. On 24 October, a squadron under Capt. K. Maclaren, advanced via Macloutsie to Baines Drift, 80 miles south

provenance:
Bill Hart, 1993

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