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1.1 A Man, a Book, an Island - The Hero of Mafeking returns to civilian life and conducts an experiment

NOT.ICE.

T HE new issue of stamp
beari11g the Colonel's
photograph, will be produced
on Monday, tho 9th in~tant.
'l'heso stnmps enn only be
issued on production of letter
uddrcsscJ locally ( ~[ufeking

or forts). :\o person ciin for
the present be allowed to
hand to the officer in charge
of Siege Post Office more
than one letter per diem.

.J. V. HOW A'l',

Il-fofckin~, Post111aster.

April 7th, 1900.

"THE MAFEKING MAIL" , Special Siege
Slip No. 112, of Saturday April 7th 1900,
announced the new stamp issue. Note the
limitation of one letter per person per day.

During the siege there became shortage of postage stamps. Id and 3d stamps
were produced locally by a photographic ferro-prussiate blue-print method.
The stamps were on ly intended for local usage within the besieged Mafeking.

\" , J... , H. y es L .R. C. S . E:1_;, JJ . R . C.P . L nd •
.LO.

":i · "HE R ui:r1y CA1P.

Cover cancelled "MAFEKING AP 91900", official first day ofissue for the small
format Baden-Powell stamp. Only four covers are recorded from this date.
Three pence rate for covers between Mafeking town and the outlying forts and
outposts. The Railway Camp was located on the edge of the town, in siege postal
zone I (Brickfields). The addressee, W.A. Hayes, was principal medical officer on
Baden-Powell's staff, and he was the designer ofthe Warner Goodyear cyclist stamp.