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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 351

(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 (2 Apr.) envelope to Ottawa, bearing G.B. 4d. green and brown neatly cancelled by F.P.O. single-ring c.d.s. and showing a fine strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp in red at left, the reverse with Ottawa and House of Commons (in blue) c.d.s. for 7 May. Scarce and most attractive. Photo

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Sold for
£380