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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 514

(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 (Mar.) unstamped envelopes (2, small faults) ex the Street correspondence from Bloemfontein to Ottawa, both marked "Active Service", one (20.3) with Army P.O. c.d.s. (date inverted) and one (22.3) with F.P.O. c.d.s., both showing oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in red

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Sold for
£70