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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 512

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 2
The First Contingent, 2nd. (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment
The Units
1900 (12 Feb.) Y.M.C.A. "crossed flags" envelope (Type E) ex the Osborn correspondence from Belmont Camp to Belgium, bearing 1d. with two Orange River c.d.s. and showing local delivery number below the reverse (no flap) with arrival c.d.s. (3.3), and 1900 (21 Jan.) unstamped Canadian Contingent "Maple Leaf" crested envelope from Modder River to London, Ontario, marked "Active Service. Stamps not obtainable" and showing light F.P.O. c.d.s., London Paid c.d.s. (12.2) c.d.s. and cancelled "T" handstamp, arrival c.d.s. (22.2) on reverse

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