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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 537

(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 (27 Sept) blue OHMS envelope (248x124mm., restored) from L.G. McKenzie at The Castle, Cape Town to Toronto and with handstamped signature of J. Lyons Biggar, complete with letter giving details of his working life, and a part envelope from the same correspondence with part Canadian Contingent cachet

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Sold for
£160