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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 885

Sudan
Egypt Used In Sudan
1896 (24 June) 1pi. envelope from Wadi Halfa Camp to London, written just a couple of weeks after the morale-boosting victory at the Battle of Firket), and 1897 (10 Sept.) 5m. envelope (fault at foot), uprated with 5m., from F.W. Rowsell, a civil servant employed by the British Government in Egypt and Sudan from Sawakin to Alexandria; 1898 envelope complete with letter, from Lt. Col. Collingwood, 2nd. Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers at Cairo to England writing home with "We start for Khartoum on the 8th. but do not expect to be there before October", and 1898 5m. cards from Assouan to Edinburgh (heavy crease) and Korosko to Guernsey with interesting military content

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Sold for
£120

Starting price
£80