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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 550

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 2
The Second Contingent, 1st. and 2nd. Battalions, Canadian Mounted Rifles, The Royal Canadian Field Artillery and others
1st. Canadian Rifles, later renamed the Royal Canadian Dragoons
1900 (28 July) envelope from Kroonstad to London and redirected to Ireland, bearing Canada 2c. violet cancelled by F.P.O. c.d.s. and also tied by London datestamp (25.8); envelope with central vertical crease though a most unusual usage of a Canadian adhesive prepaying the 1d. soldiers rate. Photo

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