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Auction: 18029 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1117

(x) Swaziland
1898-1902 Anglo-Boer War
1902 (18 Jan.) Orange River Colony 1d. brown reply paid card (the two halves severed and rejoined) to England, the message marked at "Swaziland", the imprinted stamp struck out and annotated "Swaziland" and subsequently cancelled by Field Post Office 8 Base Office datestamp for 25 January, London arrival datestamp (22.2) on reverse. Most unusual. Photo. See Peter van der Molen handbook, page 158

Note: This card could have be brought to the area by a member of Plumer's Column which had arrived at Wakkerstroom on 12 October 1901 from the Free State to re-inforce Coleville's Column

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