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Argyll Etkin Ltd Sale: 44

Great Britain and British Commonwealth
The John Marks Collection

Pictorial Envelopes
image Sale No: 44
Lot No:234
Symbol:

Pictorial Envelopes. 1900 (Dec 19) Hand-drawn front depicting a caricature of a press censor, wearing a mask and holding an axe with the letters P.C, a large pen placed on an executioners block, posted within Durban franked Natal 1d, addressed to T. Oliver Fraser, Press Censor, at The Durban Club. Fraser was on the staff in Durban of Capt. Percy Scott of H.M.S "Terrible". An attractive item, which was used on the front cover of the ABWPS publication "British Press Censor Cachets of the Anglo-Boer War" by Peter Prime. Photo on Page 40. (Image1)



Opening GBP 100.00
Sold...GBP 170.00


Closed..Sep-25-2019, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 44
Lot No:235
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1899-1901 Hand illustrated covers (9), postcards (5, one a printed Boer patriotic card with an additional drawing on the address side) and a front, and printed envelopes (3) and fronts (2), several depicting Kruger, fourteen posted in South Africa (ten with F.P.O cancels), many of the illustrations rather crudely drawn, some faults. (20).



Opening GBP 150.00
Sold...GBP 320.00


Closed..Sep-25-2019, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 320


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