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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 332

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 1
The First Contingent, 2nd. (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment
Forming and En Route
1899 (16 Nov.) Canadian Contingent unstamped "maple leaf" crested envelope from R.C. Bach of "E" Company to Medford, Mass., U.S.A., part of the unscheduled transfer of mail at sea to S.S. Rangatira showing framed tax handstamp and New York "due/10/cents" duplex (6.12) and, on reverse, London (29.11) and arrival (7.12) c.d.s. Photo

Note: The S.S. Sardinian" proceeded directly to Cape Town. Within sight of St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, two pillow slips of mail were transferred in mid-ocean on 15 November

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