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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 884

Sudan
Early Campaigns
The Recapture of Khartoum
1898 (16 Apr.) 5m. card, 5m. (uprated with 5m.) and 1p. envelopes ex the Ashby correspondence from Lieut. Hamilton Hodgson at Wadi Halfa to Ceylon and redirected locally, all neatly cancelled and with various transit datestamps on face or reverse, all headed "Nile Expeditionary Force"; interesting contents with the writer penning at various times on his journey from Cairo to Atbara and posting them all on his arrival at Wadi Halfa

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Estimate
£200 to £250

Starting price
£140