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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 227

(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
Cover
1900 (16 May) envelope to Fort Miller, bearing 3d. deep blue, marginal from the right of the sheet, in combination with seriffed overprint Cape 3d. on 1d. carmine, Bechuanaland Protectorate 1d. on ½d. vermilion and 6d. on 2d. green and carmine, each neatly cancelled by c.d.s. endorsed "Mafeking Notes, etc." in pencil at foot; the 3d. with damaged lower left corner, the envelope with some light soiling, creases and part of reverse removed, nevertheless a scarce mixed issue franking which appears to have been charged at the book rate of 1/-. S.G. 3, 6, 8, 20. Photo

Note: Fort Miller was on the Western defence line and was manned by the Town Guard under Capt. Vyvyan

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