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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 174

(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
1902 (24 May) envelope from P.O.W. P.A. Coetze at St. Helena to a family relative in the Women's Refugee camp at Mafeking, bearing 1d. carmine cancelled by c.d.s. alongside a fine strike of the triangular-framed "passed/censor./st. helena/head office." cachet in deep violet, upon arrival Opened Under Martial Law label applied and tied by two Mafeking censor labels and arrival squared-circle datestamp on reverse. Photo

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£260