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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 385

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 1
The Second Contingent, 1st. and 2nd. Battalions, Canadian Mounted Rifles, The Royal Canadian Field Artillery and others
Forming and En Route
1900 (15 Feb.) envelope (210x100mm.) to Lt. Col. G. Sterling Ryerson, representative of the Canadian Red Cross Society, marked "Evidence before Hospitals Commission" and showing a superb strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/en route/south africa" datestamp in violet, used a day prior to arrival at the Table Bay roadsted. A most unusual item showing the En Route datestamp that did not pass through the mail and which, until recently, was considered to be the last day of use of this rare datestamp. Photo

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