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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 223

(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
The Stamp Issues
Produced Photographically by Dr. D Taylor on Unwatermarked Horizontally Laid Paper
3d. Baden Powell, 18½mm. Wide
Used
Pale blue used with seriffed surcharge Bechuanaland Protectorate 6d. on 2d. green and carmine Type 4 vertical pair, each neatly cancelled by 16 April c.d.s. and tied to backed piece; a few light fox marks in places and 3d. with a couple of short perfs. S.G. 8, 19, £715. Photo

provenance:
"Goodyear", Christie's Robson Lowe, June 1993

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Sold for
£350