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Auction: 6027 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1646

Sudan Covers and Cancellations 1896 (13 Dec.) unstamped envelope (complete with contents) from Capt. F.G. Anley at Merowe to his mother c/o Cook & Sons at Cairo, marked "Field service Merowe" and showing incorrectly applied boxed "T" h.s. deleted in blue crayon, Wadi-Halfa c.d.s. (25.12) and Cook´s Tourist Service c.d.s. (1.1.97) applied on arrival, the reverse with a further strike of the Cook´s c.d.s. and two Cairo c.d.s. (1.1.97); the letter mentions that there will be another advance at High Nile. Photo Estimate £ 200-250 Note: Letters to Egypt at this time were treated as internal mail and generally sent free of charge provenance: Henry Mauerberger, May 1989

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