BECHUANALAND
Postal History, Postmarks
POSTAL HISTORY
AB4301
1900 (May), Anglo-Boer War period. envelope addressed to Bulawayo, Rhodesia. Bearing a pair of QV ‘Jubilee’ 1d lilac (SG 61) tied by GABERONES STATION / B.B. single circle datestamps with ‘MY’ only - no day or year present. The letter was opened, censored and resealed with a blank white tape and tied by an unframed PASSED / PRESS CENSOR cachet struck in violet and also by a Bulawayo (21 and 22 ‘MEI’) arrival backstamps. Scarce censored mail from the Protectorate to Rhodesia.
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