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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 373

(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 (26 July) unstamped envelope from G.W. Woodliffe of "B" Company at Springs to London, Ontario, marked "No stamps obtainable" and showing F.P.O. 31 c.d.s. alongside oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp in violet and arrival c.d.s. (31.8), all slightly overlapping, London c.d.s. (30.8) on reverse

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Sold for
£55