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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 856

Sudan
Early Campaigns
1884-85 First Nile Expedition
1885 (3 July) envelope (opening faults at top) ex the Orde correspondence to England, marked "On Active Service No Stamps" and "C.R. Orde Capt, Commandant SAL Soudan", showing framed "t" and small "2½d" tax handstamp; the letter includes "All movement of troops has been stopped" and "Pearson has just come in from Akasher with news that the retiring move is to go on at once". Photo

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