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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2661

Canada Soldier´s Covers 1866 (13 Mar.) envelope (trivial soiling) from Goble´s Corner, U.C. to "Sergt. N. Wolverton No. 2 Co, W.A.I. Bate. Sarnia C.W.", bearing 1864 1c. rose pair cancelled with pen strokes and showing circular undated despatch handstamp in blue dated in manuscript, faint arrival c.d.s. on reverse. Photo Estimate £ 700-800 provenance: Sam C. Nickle Note: A Post Office Circular of 1 January 1865 advised that "Non-commissioned officers and privates serving with companies of the Volunteer Militia called out by His Excellency the Governor General for active service on the Frontier will, as regards letters addressed to, or sent by them within the Province of Canada, be extended the privilege enjoyed by the same ranks in Her Majesty´s troops and under the same conditions." All the Canadian Militia were called out in 1866, the year the Fenians crossed the border from the United States into Canada.

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