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Auction: 25028 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1455

Canadian Contingent
Second Contingent Mail
First Battalion, Mounted Rifles
1900 (6 Dec.) envelope to Cape Town bearing G.B. Jubilee ½d. vermilion pair (precancelled) tied by Field Post Office/4 c.d.s. (Zeerust) with boxed "passed/press censor." handstamp in purple and signed by the censor at Zeerust in red ink, Cape Town arrival c.d.s. and with the personal label of A.P. Butler affixed at left. Also 1900 (27 July) incoming cover to Dr Ross bearing Canada Q.V. 2c. carmine tied by Kingston duplex and marked "Please forward"; the doctor had been transferred to the N.S.W. Medical Corps at Daspoort,, much redirected via Pretoria, Middelburg and Kaapsche, some soiling. (2 covers)

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Estimate
£350 to £400

Starting price
£250