One of two official stamps used by Col Charles Hume during his service in South Africa between 1899 and 1901.
Stamp has an oval, wooden handle and metal printing base.
Stamp imprint is round with a horn motif in the centre, surrounded by a circle.
Around the edge of the outside circle are the words, ‘DEPTX ONAFGEHAALDE BRIEVEN PRETRIA’, meaning, ‘Department of independent letters, Pretoria’.
Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902), Burma, Guerilla Warfare (1885-1895) and Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).