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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 533

(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 (31 July) unstamped envelope from G. Eakins of "C" Company at Springs to Toronto and redirected locally, showing F.P.O. 31 c.d.s. and fine oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in violet, and (30 Aug.) envelope from Lt. J.C. Mason of "B" Company at Eerste Fabricken to Toronto, bearing ½d. pair with A.P.O. 50 c.d.s. and showing largely fine oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in violet; both with small faults though not unattractive

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