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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 540

(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
The balance of the 1st. Contingent mail, comprising envelopes (43), etc. including, twenty-two with strikes of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in red or violet, one with "recovered from/wreck of mexican" cachet, civilian post mail, and a large range of letters from L.J. Street with much interesting details, etc. Condition very mixed in places with viewing essential

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Sold for
£850