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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 510

(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 (6 Jan.) and (16 Feb.) unstamped envelopes from troops at Belmont Camp, the first a "Maple Leaf" crested type from N. Gray of "C" Company to Coldwater, Ontario showing F.P.O. c.d.s. and "T" handstamp, the second from Lt. C.W.W. McLean of "G" Company "via New York" to St. John, New Brunswick with F.P.O. c.d.s. and London Paid transit c.d.s. (9.3)

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Sold for
£170