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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 955

Sudan
Covers and Cancellations
c.1882 fascinating envelope claimed to have once contained the Military Dispatch sent to Arabi Pasha with a note on the front reading "found in the room occupied by Arabi the night before the bombardment" initialled "E.T.R.", the initials of Edward Thomas Rogers, H. M. consul at Cairo.

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Estimate
£50 to £100

Starting price
£40