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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 168

(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
1900-02 selection of civilian mail comprising 1900 envelope (faults) to England franked at 4d. and 1902 envelope to Cape Town franked at 7d., both cancelled by single-ring datestamp, 1900 envelope to England bearing ½d. pair sharing squared-circle datestamp, 1902 unstamped envelope to Berlin and redirected locally, showing squared-circle datestamp, framed "passed/press censor" handstamp in violet and taxed 25c., and 1902 envelope to Germany, bearing 3d. (3) cancelled by Army Post Office Mafeking c.d.s. and showing framed "passed/press censor" handstamp in violet

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