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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 868

Sudan
Early Campaigns
1896 Dongola Expedition
1896 (24 Aug.) Anley correspondence envelope, complete with contents, from Kosheh, to London, marked "Active Service No Stamps Available" and showing Wadi Halfa Camp datestamp, boxed "t" and "2½d/f.b." handstamp; writing to his mother he says "They seem to be getting on very slowly in S. Africa. I think there will be a big business there before long. I should like to get back to the English Army in time for that". Photo

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