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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 524

(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 (25 Apr.) envelope (edge faults), complete with long letter with insight into daily routine, from C.W. Gamble of "A" Company at Bloemfontein to Victoria, bearing ½d. pair sharing F.P.O. c.d.s. and with a superb strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in red alongside, arrival c.d.s. (27.5) on reverse

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Sold for
£130