Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 6027 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1621

Sudan Military Telegraphs 1886 (9 May) presentation sheet (263x199mm.) prepared by Major Bagnold, successor to Colonel Webber as Director of Army Telegraphs in Egypt, to Emile Vidal, Inspector-General of the Imperial Ottoman Posts and Telegraphs in Syria, bearing 1d. to £1 set of eight and with an additional 1d. value bisected diagonally with each marked "1/2d" in manuscript, all cancelled with Army Telegraphs, Cairo double-ring d.s. for 9 May. A unique document and the only recorded usage of the bisected 1d. value. Photo Estimate £ 1,000-1,200provenance: Peter Langmead, 2001

Sold for
£1,400