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Auction: 25028 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1410

Canadian Contingent
Pre Contingent Mail
Early Patriotic Card: 1899 (23 Oct.) Rule Britannia "Private Post Card" (Rowe 50-2, winking lion) to Sydney, Nova Scotia bearing ½c. green tied by Montreal flag postmark with the arrival c.d.s. (25.10) on the reverse. The message was an encouragement to enlist, "If you are not a Boer, go to the war. England expects every man to do his duty". Photo

provenance:
Ed Richardson, November 1991


literature:
The Postal History of the Canadian Contingents, Kenneth Rowe, 1981; illustrated (page 16)

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Estimate
£200 to £250

Starting price
£120