MAFEKING STAMPS COLLECTION

Item Specifics

Condition

Unused

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

SG18 1d Deep Blue/Blue (Unused)
SG22 3d Deep Blue /Blue (Unused)
Selection of Mafeking overprints on British Bechuanaland.
The Siege of Mafeking (Now Mafikeng) during the Boer War in the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) started on October 13, 1899, two days after the declaration of war by the Government of the Transvaal Republic. It lasted 217 days, having been ended on May 17, 1900. Due to shortage of stamps and in order to assure postal operations during the Siege, the commanding officer and defender of the town Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell ordered at the outset the overprint of the existing entire supply of stamps with the “MAFEKING BESIEGED” overprint together with new values and later the issue of two new stamps for local postal use only.
The “Mafeking Blues”, as these two new values of 3d and 1d were called, consisted of two designs (Colonel Baden-Powell and Sgt Major Warner Goodyear, Troop-leader of the Mafeking Cadet Corps, respectively). The first of the values to appear (Baden-Powell 3d small format or “head” stamp) was officially issued on (Monday) April 9, 1900 but in fact circulated three days earlier, on (Friday) the 6th. Since this format did not give justice to the design, it was decided that a larger format of the same value be produced. It is generally accepted that April 10 is the first day of its issue. That same day the other value (Goodyear 1d or the “bicycle” stamp) was issued as well to honour the boys of the Cadet Corps. A first larger and horizontal design of the “bicycle” stamp was rejected. The ferroprussiate process was used to produce both values.

British Bechuanaland was a short-lived Crown colony of the United Kingdom that existed in southern Africa from its formation on 30 September 1885 until its annexation to the neighbouring Cape Colony on 16 November 1895. British Bechuanaland had an area of 51,424 square miles (133,190 km2) and a population of 84,210.
Mafeking cancellations on various British Bechuanaland pieces . All prior to 1895 annexation . The showpiece is (33) 1d used Nov 15,1895 One day before annexation .

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