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Auction: 7025 - Bechauanaland, Somaliland & Sudan, The John Inglefield-Watson Collections
Lot: 1940

Sudan Covers and Cancellations World War I Civil Censorship 1915 (19 June) 5m. red stationery envelope from Baka to Khartoum, showing a doubled strike of the very rare "Passed by Censor" and, on reverse, El-Obeid (19.6) and Khartoum (23.6) c.d.s.; the envelope with flap missing and with small part at top cut away, though believed to be one of only two recorded examples. Photo Estimate £ 100-120

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