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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 548

(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
1st. Canadian Mounted Rifles, later renamed the Royal Canadian Dragoons
1900 (June) unstamped envelope from B.R. Armstrong of "B" Squadron at Deerdepoort to St. John, showing F.P.O. c.d.s. alongside oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in magenta, and (5 July) captured "Spoorweg" stationery envelope from A.W. Turner of "A" Squadron at Rietfontein to Peterborough, Ontario, bearing 1d. with F.P.O. c.d.s. and with a light strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp (9.7) in magenta

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