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A Set of Second Boer War Mafeking Garrison Tickets 1889

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A Set of Second Boer War Mafeking Garrison Tickets 1889

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A Set of Second Boer War Mafeking Garrison Tickets 1889

Three tickets: one Mafeking Garrison Soup Ticket (number stamped "1417" and priced at "6d." (six pence), printed in black ink on green card); and two Mafeking Garrison Hospital Porridge Tickets (number stamped "94" and "99" respectively, each marked "FREE" with a place marked for a signature but are unsigned, printed in black ink on pink card). Lightly soiled, sharp edges, better than very fine.

Footnote: The Siege of Mafeking was the most famous British action in the Second Boer War. It took place at the town of Mahikeng (called Mafeking by the British) in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell, who went on to found the Scouting Movement, into a national hero. The Relief of Mafeking (the lifting of the siege) was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.