Lot 346
Newspaper Used to Scotland: 1899 (14 Oct.) Complete Somerset Budget edition, to Edinburgh, Scotland bearing 1893-1902 Standing "Hope" 1d carmine (stamp with two pieces of selvedge applied over vertical edges before use, possibly to maintain the stamp’s position) tied by SOMERSET EAST 16 OC 99 C.G.H. c.d.s. cancel, very scarce., ex Dillaway. SG 59a.
Estimate $200 - 300
This 14 October 1899 edition includes the Proclamation of War between Great Britain and the South African and Orange Free State Republics which took effect from 12 October. Few complete newspapers of this historical significance illustrating this special postage rate have survived. Very historical.
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