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Auction: 21016 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1748

Sudan
Early Campaigns
The Recapture of Khartoum
1898 (March - April) 1pi. stationery envelopes (2) to England, both cancelled with Berber Stagg Type 29 datestamp (the latter faint), the first (vertical crease) to Brighton and including mention of enforced marches which "you will hear of I expect" and "It is now midnight & Dervishes are supposed to attack tomorrow", the second from A.W.B. Watson, Padre to the British Troops, now at Atbara River with mention of forced marches, mention of stamps overprinted ""Sudan" instead of ""Soudan", and "I must now go to a poor fellow whose hands have been shot off and stumps amputated"; also 1898 (16 Apr.) 5m. card, 5m. (uprated with 5m.) and 1p. envelopes ex the Ashby correspondence from Lieut. Hamilton Hodgson at Wadi Halfa to Ceylon and redirected locally.

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£160

Starting price
£80