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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 539

(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 (18 Oct.) picture postcard of St. Vincent from F.B. McRae of "G" Company on board the Idaho en route home to Prince Edward Island, bearing 20r. with c.d.s. affixed to the picture side, the message headed "Good Ship "Idaho" Transporting Canadian Troops St. Vincent Cape Verde Islands" and "Coaling up here. Expect to be in Canada before this reaches you". Photo

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Sold for
£260