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Auction: 6027 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1537

Sudan The Red Sea Littoral, 1884-85 incoming mail: 1884 (13 Nov.) mourning envelope from Huntly addressed to "Captain Gordon, Royal Marines, Souakin, Egypt", bearing GB 2 1/2d. lilac tied by "178" duplex and showing, on reverse, Suez and Souakin (27.11) c.d.s., and 1884 (11 Dec.) envelope addressed to A.E. Sandbach at Cairo, bearing GB 2 1/2d. lilac tied by Hereford duplex and with manuscript "Field Battalion RE" at left; also 1885 (19 Mar.) leaflet entitled "Our Soldiers in the Soudan", a pictorial lecture by Capt. G. Kirwan Estimate £ 150-200 Note: Capt. Gordon (late Major-General) Gordon was not related to "Chinese" Gordon, but he had an illustrious military career, and he was present at several battles during the 1884-85 Suakin Campaign

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