David Feldman - Great Britain & British Empire Tuesday, December 4, 2018, at 10:00 CET

107 Geneva, December 4, 2018 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page SG Cat. N° Estimate ( £ ) 30467 F / 106 ARMY TELEGRAPHS: 1900 (May 14) Envelope endorsed “On Active Service” with 1897-1902 1d tied by “ARMY O - S / TELEGRAPHS” cds, endorsed “from Sergt. S G Glanville / Field Telegraphs / Armoured Trains / Ootsi”, countersigned by Commanding Officer, reverse with further strike, Bulawayo / Rhodesia ctransit and London arrival cds, some creasing, very rare usage of this cancel on mail with only two covers recorded 1’000 - 1’500 30468 H F / 106 CROCODILE POOLS: 1900 (Apr 28) Envelope endorsed “On Active Service” with 1897-1902 1d lilac tied by “CROCODILE POOLS” cds (“ILE POOLS” visible), countersigned at lower left, reverse with BULAWAYO / RHODESIA transit and London arrival cds, minor cover faults, plus the same 1d lilac single with Crocodile Pools cds in blue 300 - 400 30469 F / 106 CROCODILE POOLS: 1900 (Apr 13) Envelope with Mafeking 1900 1s on 4d green & brown tied by Mafeking cds, endorsed “North” with reverse showing “CROCODILE POOLS” and “BULAWAYO / RHODESIA” transit cds, Shepherd’s Bush London arrival, minor envelope faults, scarce 600 - 800 30470 F / 108 DEVONDALE: 1896 Cape of Good Hope 1/2d reply card to Zwartkops, neatly cancelled ‘DEVONDALE/ BECHUANALAND/JY.29.96’ cds showing date slug inverted, an extremely rare usage and apparently the only recorded example of this datestamp on cover or card 900 - 1’100 30471 H F J / www FRANCISTOWN: Collection written up on 21 album pages from QV to QEII with 50+ stamps, 19 covers, showing the various cancels, with covers incl. 1899 registered env. with two 1897-1902 2d (opened out for display), four KGV covers incl. non-philatelic usage to Portugal and areg’d envelope to England, two used ppc’s, etc., an attractive lot 200 - 300 30472 www FRANCISTOWN: 1915 (Apr 12) Large part Union label for bullion sent by The Tati Company Ltd. to Bulawayo, bearing 1888 1s and 1912-14 1s (8) and 6d cancelled by Francistown cds, a fine and rare example of bullion mail from The Tati Company, plus two QEII cheuqes from the Tati Co. 300 - 400 30473 H F J / www GABERONES: Collection written up on 28 album pages from QV to QEII with 70+ stamps, 16 covers, showing the various cancels incl. “Gaberones /B.B.P.”, “Gaberones”, “Gaberones / B.P.”, “Gaberones Station / B.B.” in black and violet, “Gaberones Village”, etc., with covers incl. 1893 cover to England with 1891-1904 6d (foxed), 1912 cover to Scotland with 1904-13 1d, later with Official stampless mail 150 - 200 30474 F / 108 35 GUBULAWAYO: 1893 (Dec 24) Registered envelope to the Cape Times with 1891-1904 GB ovpt 4d tied by “679” BONC with Gubulawayo cds adjacent, reverse with WESTERN TPO DOWN cds and registered Cape Town oval ds, minor foxing, neatly written up on an album page, fine 200 - 300 30475 F / 108 KANYE: 1900 & 1902 Two postcards; the first 1900 (Jan 27) 1d Postal stationery card from Kayne, Bechuanaland, to England, endorsed via “Beira” with Bulawayo / Rhodesia transit cds, some faults, but reverse with interesting message “...a day of reckoning is coming. They have left us exposed to the render mercies of the boers for 3 months. Mafikeng is still unrelieved, also Kbley, as far as we know. A great many refugees have come into Kanye, flying from boers; second card from Palmietfontein COGH to Gaberones Bechuanaland censored three times 100 - 150 30476 H F / www KURUMAN: Collection written up on 4 album pages incl. 5 stamps and 3 covers, incl. 1890 cover with 1888 2d tied by crisp cds, 1892 cover with 1891 2d tied by blue “534” BONC with cds adjacent, and the same blue cancels on 1d stationery card to Griqualand West written in Bantu, a nice lot 300 - 400