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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 374

(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 (28 July) envelope (light foxing), complete with letter from L.J. Street of "D" Company at Johannesburg to his sister in Ottawa, marked "No stamps available" and showing F.P.O. 1 c.d.s. and light oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp in violet, arrival c.d.s. (30.8) on reverse; the letter includes "Our friend De Wet (?) was quite considerate indeed only burning half your letter..."

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