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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4066

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
The Boer War
1901 (5 May) censored envelope registered from Norvals Pont to a P.O.W. at The Castle franked at 5d., censored a second time in Cape Town and then sent onto Green Point and Belle Vue Camps, and finally on the S.S. Armenian to Bermuda, censor label tied by Cape Town Registered oval datestamp on reverse

Note: Under contract to the British Government the S.S. "Armenian" was used in 1901 to convey the first group of 963 Boer P.O.W.s to Bermuda Camps. She departed Cape Town on 8 May1901, and reached Grassy Bay on 28 June

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