1898 PRESIDENT KRUGER, Kunst published artist card showing Kruger holding the Orange Free State flag and the Dutch Three Color flag, postally used with the stamp removed, a rare early Boer War card, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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1900 CANADIAN CONTINGENT SOUTH AFRICA, Cape-Town Canadian Postal Corps red oval transit h/s dated MAY15-1900 (Bailey & Toop #M2-3 RF-E), this is the rarest of the 3 Contingent hand stamps since by mid-1900 most Canadian soldiers mail was routed through the British post office at Durban and Port-Elizabeth, on a letter from Canadian Private Roberts of the First Contingent Company-A), posted at the British Army Field Post Office on MAY 12th with a British 1d stamp paying the soldiers letter rate, addressed to his father c/o Randolph Stuart at the Greenwood-City mining town noting a Greenwood-BC receiver b/s on JUN14-1900, Stuart owned the mining camp at Long Lake and also held the Calumet-Hecla mining claims that he had sold for $60,000 in OCT-1899, a rare Boer War item with great BC mining town connections, VF est ($375+ US) (Image)

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1900 BRITISH-ARMY-FPO VOLKSRUST SOUTH-AFRICA, letter from the F. J. Fisher General Store, posted at the British Army Post Office on OCT9-1900 using the soldiers 1d rate, addressed to the Natal Bank in Durban with routing via Pietermaritzburg on OCT 10th and Durban arrival the same day, note a Passed Press Censor h/s, during the early stages of the Transvaal British annexation and the begining of the Boer Guerrilla War, some stains, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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