1900-02 Covers, cards, etc., showing aspects of censorship or martial law including a Photo of officers including Thomas Paterson at Steytlerville and a cover with censor cachet initialled "T.P" by Paterson; card written and signed by E.J Cullen, censor clerk at Winburg, bearing censor cachet containing his "E.J Cullen" handstamp; cover from Heidelberg to a P.O.W in Ceylon endorsed "If your correspondent is not more careful he will get into serious trouble"; cover endorsed "Censored Boshof. File for notification to authorities"; cover with four differing censor cachets; covers censored by Resident Magistrates (2); postwar censor cachets (3); letters referring to censorship; manuscript censorship; notes written by senders to the censors; martial law passes (2), etc. An interesting lot. (27). (Image1)

1900-02 Postcards (4) and a cover all disallowed by the censor, endorsed "cannot pass" (4) or "stopped", one card from a P.O.W at Green Point Camp to Germany with circular "CENSOR / PRISONERS OF WAR" cachet applied but then crossed out by the censor, two cards and a cover to P.O.Ws at Green Point, the other 1902 card from Sea Point to Braamfontein. An unusual and very scarce group. (5). Photo on Page 78. (Image1)

1900 (Jan 6) Cover from Stellenbosch bearing Cape 1d pair, to Poste Restante Lourenco Marques endorsed "Enclosures for the Z.A.R", and a cover from Germany to Nelspruit endorsed "Interdit", both handstamped violet boxed "STOPPED BY CENSOR / RETURN TO CENSOR". Also a cover from Johannesburg to Stellenbosch, apparently hand delivered, the enclosed letter concerning a previous letter which was returned by the censor at Durban. (3).

1900 (June 7) Stampless Boer "Veld Dienst" cover from Volksrust to a farm at Van der Merwe Station, Pretoria district, backstamped at Machadodorp (June 9) and then strangely, two months later, at Lourenco Marques (Aug 14), boxed "STOPPED BY CENSOR" then applied (probably at Durban). An exceptional cover, posted at Volksrust five days before the British occupied the town (with the destination then already in British hands) and transferred to the British for delivery; only a couple of other examples recorded of the boxed "STOPPED BY CENSOR" cachet (with "RETURN TO SENDER" removed). A little light staining, otherwise fine and rare. Photo on Page 78. (Image1)