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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 565

(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
Royal Canadian Artillery
1900 envelopes (2) from members of "E" Battery, the first (Aug., part flap missing) from H.J. Dibblee (High Sheriff of Woodstock, N.B., who was instructed to collect and destroy the "Connell" stamps) from Warrenton with hand-drawn illustration of a lion in the lower left corner, the second (unfranked) from Major G. Hunter Ogilvie, commanding "E" Battery, from Vryburg with a light strike of the oval-framed "canadian contingent/south africa." datestamp in violet and showing Montreal Free datestamp on arrival

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