POSTAL COVER
SOUTH AFRICA
BOER WAR 'OPENED UNDER MARTIAL LAW'
CENSORED COVER TO CAPETOWN
Postmark: Partial 'Johannesburg'
Received Postmark on Reverse: 'Cape Town' with transit postmark for 'Johannesburg'
Date: 11th December 1901
Postage Stamps: Transvaal One Penny red overprinted 'E.R.I.'
Size: 5.5" x 3.75"
Opened by Military Censor and re-sealed with pink tape printed with 'On His Majesty's Service, Opened under Martial Law'
With faint black oval Censor's cachet: 'Passed Press Censor, Johannesburg'
With black circle Censor's cachet: 'Passed Censor, Capetown'
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