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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 542

(x) Canada
Canadian Contingents in the Boer War, 1899-1902
The John Wannerton Collection, Part 2
The Second Contingent, 1st. and 2nd. Battalions, Canadian Mounted Rifles, The Royal Canadian Field Artillery and others
Forming and En Route
1900 (30 Jan.) envelope (Allan Line crest on flap) from Capt. R. Costigan of "E" Battery to Montreal, showing a superb strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/en route./south africa." datestamp in lilac, manuscript "10" due (deleted) replaced with "4", part arrival c.d.s. on reverse; part of flap and upper right corner torn away on opening though an attractive example of this rare handstamp on the first recorded date of use. Photo

Note: The Second Contingent embarked on the S.S. "Laurentian" which sailed from Halifax on 20 January 1900 and made a planned stop at St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands on 31 January. On the day before the ship arrived at St. Vincent, mail to be landed was cancelled by an impression of the "En Route" handstamp by the four postal workers on board. Despite the total of 265 officers and men on board the "En Route" cachet is rare with only about twenty examples recorded to date

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