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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 375

(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 (Aug.) unstamped envelope from G. MacBeth of "B" Company at Randfontein to New York, marked "Stamps not procurable On Active Service" and showing F.P.O. c.d.s. partly covered by G.B. 2½d. added in London (4.9) and a fine strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp in violet. An unusual destination. Photo

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£95