1899-1902 Covers and cards with patriotic picture postcards (15); 1902 cover from G.B to Capt. De Witt Hamer, P.O.W at St. Helena, with Deadwood censor; pictorial envelopes (2); 1901 postcard from Reginald Bray to General Barton addressed with an attached cigarette card, charged 1d postage due, returned with an autographed letter from Barton in Pretoria; also a Christmas card; 1902 (June 3) telegraph form to the Commandant at Carolina with "ARMY / TELEGRAPHS" c.d.s code "C-A" sending the Kings congratulations on the termination of hostilities; stampless soldiers cover to USA with G.B 2½d added in London, etc. (31).
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Lot No: 1451
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1902 Cover with a printed handpainted caricature of De Wet talking to a Boer officer with a caption "A long start. Boer Staff Officer: The British are 80 miles off. General De Wet: Saddle up!", addressed to England endorsed "from W. Simons, S.A.C", a G.B KEVII 1d cancelled at Army Post Office, Bloemfontein.
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Lot No: 1452
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Service Suspended. 1899 (Oct 15) Cover from England to Johannesburg franked 1d, a "T / 15 / L" charge mark of London crossed out, two differing violet boxed "MAIL SERVICE SUSPENDED" cachets (52x8mm and 101x12mm), Cape Town Returned Letter Office c.d.s (Jan 17) on reverse, fine.
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Lot No: 1453
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Registered Mail. 1899-1902 Registered covers, many with censor cachets, some P.O.W mail including covers to Umbilo Camp, Belle Vue, Ceylon and Tuckers Island Bermuda, cover to Bechuanaland, cover to France with a Boer censor label, etc. (24).
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Lot No: 1454
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Christiana. 1901-02 Covers (3) and a front comprising stampless O.A.S cover and a cover to USA franked by three Cape 1d stamps both with red rubber c.d.s with "CHRISTIANA" and the date across the circle; and a stampless O.A.S cover and a front franked Cape 1d to St. Helena both with red oval "Christiana" datestamp (other words excised from the datestamp), the front with the datestamp applied away from the stamp which was cancelled in manuscript and in transit by a Kimberley c.d.s, all with red Press Censor. A couple with a few very minor faults, otherwise fine and scarce cancels. (4).
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Lot No: 1457
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Australia. 1902 G.B KEVII 1d Envelope from F.P.O 9 to Queensland endorsed "From 200 O.H Toll, 1st A.C.C, On Active Service", arrival backstamps, very minor soiling and flap missing. Trooper Osmond Toll served in the Queensland Unit, First Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse, in South Africa from March until June 1902.
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Lot No: 1458
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British P.O.W Mail. 1900 Covers, franked 3d from London (Feb 24) to "Capt W.G Thomson, Suffolk Regiment, Prisoner of War, Pretoria, via Delagoa Bay" backstamped at Cape Town, red Press Censor, violet oval "CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE S.A.R / PRETORIA" and circular "GEZIEN / 22 APR. 1900 / CENSOR"; or franked 1d from Belfast to "3762 Pte. R. McLaughlin, G. Company Mounted Infantry Detachment, 2nd Royal I. Rifles, 3rd Field Force Division, Sterkstroom Camp" with Cape Town datestamp, Press Censor cachet and censor label, redirected with violet "PRISONER OF WAR / PRETORIA". A fine pair, Thomson was captured at Colesberg on 6th January and McLaughlin at Reddersburg on April 4th. (2).
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Lot No: 1462
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P.O.W. Mail - Belle Vue/Green Point. 1900-02 Covers and cards (43) and fronts (3) sent to (28) or from Green Point Camp, or to (13) or from (4) Belle Vue Camp, various camp censors, one cover from Belle Vue to "Militia Ground Green Point", other covers to Green Point addressed to Naval Recreation Ground, No. 3 Athletic Grounds, Green Point Track (4), Proctors Camp, or care of Captain Proctor or "Lt. Col. Heyman, Censor Prisoner of War" (2). Also a telegram to Green Point with arrival c.d.s and "GREEN POINT" cachet, Green Point Track canteen notes for 1/, 2/- or 5/- (2 colours), a picture postcard of prisoners with handicrafts in Green Point Camp and a Photo of prisoners in the camp. (53). (Image1)
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Lot No: 1463
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P.O.W Mail - India. 1903 (May 5) Cover from Carolina franked Transvaal 1d, addressed to "P.D Grobler, Fort Arbetragie, India, hut no 9". Posted a year after the war ended, only Boers who still refused to sign the Oath of Allegiance remaining as prisoners. Fort Arbetrage does not seem to be recorded as a camp for P.O.Ws.
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Lot No: 1464
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Refugee / Burgher Camps. 1902 Cover to London franked G.B 1d tied by Army Post Office Bloemfontein c.d.s, with violet cachet "Superintendent / Native Refugee Camp" signed by F.A Adcock at Geneva O.R.C, and a cover self addressed to Adcock at the Native Refugee Camp, Geneva. Also 1902 cover with G.B 1d cancelled at F.P.O 47, to a nurse at Mafeking Refugee Camp but redirected to Irene Burgher Camp, and 1902 cover from Middelburg to Durban with oval "BURGHER CAMP / MIDDELBURG" dated cachets on both sides. (4)
