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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 342

(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
The Units
1900 (9 Feb.) Y.M.C.A. "crossed flags" envelope (Type E), complete with letter on similar headed paper, from D.L. McKeand of "A" Company at Belmont Camp to Listowel, Ontario, bearing 1d. (2) twice cancelled by part Orange River c.d.s.; the letter mentions "Lords Roberts and Kitchener passed through here to-day on way to the Modder" and with mention of enclosing a coin which accounts for a weight over ½oz. Photo

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£170