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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 283

(x) Rustenburg
Major-General Baden-Powell and Col. Hoare occupied the town on 14 June 1900. Baden-Powell left the town on 7 August. The next British occupation of the town started with the arrival of Brig.-General Broadwood on 26 September
Transvaal stamps handstamped "v.r." in violet or black
Covers
The following section offers the finest group of covers from this Siege issue ever formed, representing over a quarter of all the covers recorded to date
1900 (24 June) envelope to Sir John Swinburne, Newcastle-on-Tyne, marked "H. Swinburne, Lieut., Pioneer Regt. FF" and lower left corner and bearing ½d. green and 1d. rose-red and green pair, [37-38] in the "control sheet", cancelled by squared-circle datestamps, arrival c.d.s. (22.7) on reverse, upon arrival redirected to Ode, Norway and with three notations regarding receipt, two in red ink with one initialled "J.S." (John Swinburne);ne 1d. defective though a remarkable franking. Photo

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