Cape of Good Hope stamps were also used in the new Colony with a special overprint reading "Orange River Colony" (_Fig._ 100). A sixpence blue stamp of the Orange Free State (_type of Fig._ 98) was in readiness for issue at Bloemfontein when the British forces took over the control, and a few of these escaped the "V.R.I." overprint. The stamp is familiar to collectors with the overprint, and strictly speaking, without the overprint it has no record of postal use. A type-set label was issued by the Orange Free State early in the war to indicate the franking of official correspondence probably on military service. The stamp has a border of fancy type ornament and simple type inscriptions in three lines "IN DIENST--R.D.M.--O.V.S." The so-called "Commando Brief" stamp alleged to have franked the correspondence of burghers on commando is a bogus production. KRUGERSDORP. The South African Republic stamps alleged to have been used in this Transvaal town with V.R.I _typewritten_ across them are believed to be purely fictitious creations. KURUMAN. During the siege of this town in British Bechuanaland Cape of Good Hope stamps were overprinted "KURUMAN BESIEGED" and the date, but they are not fully credited by philatelists as _bonâ fide_ issues. LYDENBURG. During the temporary occupation of this South African Republic Town in September, 1900, the stamp commemorative of penny postage (_Fig._ 101) was surcharged "V.R.I. 1d." and the ordinary Transvaal stamps were locally overprinted "V.R.I." (_Fig._ 102). The values are ½d. green, 1d. carmine and green, 2d. brown, 2½d. blue, 3d. on 1d. carmine and green, 4d. sage green and deep green, 6d. lilac and green, 1s. ochre and green. [Illustration: 101 102] MAFEKING. During the memorable siege of Mafeking, a Bechuanaland town but under the Cape postal administration, arrangements were made for a local post, and for occasional transmission of letters to Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia, and the United Kingdom. The postal arrangements of the town had only been transferred to the Cape Colony shortly before the siege, a fact which explains the variety of Bechuanaland and Cape stamps available in the town during the siege. Payment of postage at the special rates chargeable for the service in the town and beyond was payable in the stamps of either "British Bechuanaland," "Bechuanaland Protectorate," or of the Cape overprinted "Mafeking--Besieged," and the new value (_Figs._ 103-114). As will be noticed from the illustrations, the Bechuanaland stamps were chiefly created by overprinting the name "BRITISH BECHUANALAND" or "BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE" on English stamps. [Illustration: 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114]