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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 950

Sudan
Covers and Cancellations
A selection of postal history c.1900-1950s in the form of covers and postcards (c.35) written up on pages and housed in boxed green FG Popular album including 1906 cover registered to France bearing 1p. pair and travelling via Port Said and Suez, interesting, 1936 cover to C.R. Williams bearing GB 1d. and 1½d. with hand stamp "received after departure of vessel" and variously redirected to Cairo, Atbara and Port Said, cover to Egypt bearing 5m. olive-brown and black cancelled by good strike of "kheedivial mail line/s/s talodi", 1937 cover from Sudan to Egypt bearing 1902-21 2p. purple and orange-yellow readdressed to Aden, readdressed to Port Said and finally on to Cairo, picture postcard from Sudan to Scotland showing the Sudan Defence Band, unused "found open/officially secured" label with original gum and 1893 Mocambique block of four apparently found on the body of reporter Charles M. Sheldon in the Nile.

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Sold for
£120

Starting price
£110