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Auction: 25028 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1473

Canadian Contingent
Fourth Contingent Mail
Sixth Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles
1902 (24 May) stampless "Active Service" envelope with the original letter written "On the Ocean" on board the S.S. 'Winifredian' en route to Durban, posted at Cape Town with Army Post Office, Cape Town c.d.s., London Paid transit (27.6) and Hamilton (3.7) c.d.s.; the letter concluding, "Silas Gibbons, 6th C.M.R., Cape Force..."; some light soiling. The only recorded 6th Regiment letter posted at Cape Town. Photo

provenance:
Ed Richardson, November 1991

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Estimate
£500 to £600

Starting price
£350