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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 400

(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
Royal Canadian Field Artillery
1900 (26 Mar.) envelope from R.B. Blyth with Parsons' Flying Column at Van Wyks Vlei to Belwood, Ontario, bearing Cape 1d. witjh c.d.s. and showing a superb strike of the "recovered from/wreck on mexican" cachet in red alongside. Photo

Note: The "Mexican" sailed from Table Bay on 4 April and was sunk off Dassen Island after collision in fog with the "Winkfield" at 2am on 5 April. Several bags of mail were saved and were taken off by S.S. "Montrose"

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