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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 957

Sudan
Covers and Cancellations
1884-1915 selection of covers (13) from the Sandbach correspondence, those relating to A.E. with 1884 and 1898 from England to Cairo and Wadi Halfa respectively, 1898 from England to "Egyptian Army Cairo" with Merowi datestamp on reverse, 1896 (complete with letter) written on board H.M.S. Jumina at the Bitter Lakes and posted from Suez to Wales en route to Sudan, 1898 (2, both with interesting contents) from Merowi and Wadi Halfa to his mother at Oswestry, and some relating to Major H.M. who died from gangrene in Aden in 1895 aged 37. An interesting group

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Sold for
£160

Starting price
£140