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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 413

(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

Strathcona's Horse
1900 (18 Dec.) blue OHMS envelope (225x95mm.) from J. Howe at Pretoria to Halifax and redirected to St. John, bearing G.B. 1d. pair with F.P.O. 46 c.d.s. with Halifax duplex (22.1) below and showing a fine strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa" datestamp (27.12) in violet, Halifax and St. John c.d.s. on reverse. Photo

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Sold for
£240