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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 228

(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
The Reversed Design Variety
3d. pale blue on blue, variety reversed design, from the upper right corner of the one sheet thus printed, neatly cancelled with 27 April c.d.s. and affixed on fragment. Extremely fine and undoubtedly the finest of the five examples in private hands. One of the great rarities of Mafeking, and indeed all Boer War philately. B.P.A. Certificate (1993). S.G. 19a, £48,000. Photo

Note: Of the ten examples known, three are mint and seven are used. One of the mint and two of the used are in the Royal Philatelic Collection, thus leaving only seven examples of this spectacular variety in private hands. The above example is the earliest recorded date of use

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

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Sold for
£34,000