BOKSBURG NORTH, Transvaal postmark/cancel (D/R) 19 DEC 10 on horiz. pair KGV 1d (SG.274). £7
BOKSBURG NORTH, Transvaal postmark/cancel (D/R) 9 MAR 26 on South Africa KGV 1d pair, 4d piece. £6
GEYSDORP, Transvaal postmark/cancel (D/R) 20 OCT 11 on KE7 1d (SG.274) piece, vertical crease. £10
GRAVELOTTE, Transvaal postmark/cancel (D/R) 5 DEC 41 on South Africa ½d piece. £5
9 used HEIDELBERG, Transvaal postmark/cancel (T.3) on 1d (SG.176). £7
Boer War Irreconcilable F.C. LAUNSPACH (carved wooden serviette ring fame), Bermuda postal history 1902 cover to F.C. Launspach, Burts Island, Bermuda with 2 x Transvaal 1d ovp'd "E.R.I." tied BRAAMFONTEIN, B.O. JOHANNESBURG 4 FEB 1902 9.30am and b/stamped JOHANNESBURG 4 FEB 1902 10.30am where PASSED PRESS CENSOR worn handstamp applied to face, on arrival b/stamped HAMILTON MR 15 1902/C with "Not Darrells" and directed "Hawkins" in red manuscript, the cover opened left edge and at top leaving tears through flap. Very few Bermuda Boer War POW covers can be matched to actual events. F.C. Launspach is listed as one of the prominent personalities amongst the Boer War prisoners detained at Bermuda, and as an irreconcilable was one of the last to leave on 20 August 1904 bound for the United States. Many of the prisoners occupied themselves by making handcraft which were sold in many of the stores in Bermuda. The POWs on Burts Island eventually formed the Industrial Association for Carvings and Curios, and some of these items are preserved in the South African National Museum of Military History including a wooden serviette ring with carved name F C Launspach (see photo of similar type serviette rings). £240