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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 953

Sudan
Covers and Cancellations
A selection housed in a carton of various covers and cancellations including a folder with Khartoum covers and cancels on pages and Hagners with nice 1912 cover with clear "khartoum/atbara/local/a"" cancels (2) carried on Atbara Railway TPO, various airmail covers from Khartoum and stamps on piece with different Khartoum post marks, another red album with mostly covers and some postcards incoming and outgoing from Sudan including registered cover to Sinkat with Port Sudan registered label No. 125 and "national mark of egypt/for sudan" oval handstamp in violet, National Bank of Egypt seals on reverse, 1904 photo card from Italian Expedition showing the 'Redempter' anchored at Meshra Al Rek, 1933 cover (opened-out) from UK to Glover Expedition in Cairo, then forwarded to Khartoum where it received "shella/halfa" TPO No. 1 c.d.s., then returned to Cook's, most unusual with many postmarks, 1939 and 1940 covers sent to Wales via air mail, the first bearing "headquarters equatorial corps/torit" boxed and dated handstamp in violet, 1934 letter card sent from British Post Office in Tangier intended to go by air mail but stamped "Insufficiently prepaid for Air Mail" then sent by ship, as denoted by GB stamps cancelled by "ship letter tangier" handstamps (2) and a 1940-50 selection in a small black album of covers (42) from the G.R.C. Lumsden correspondence on political service. An interesting lot well worth viewing.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£480