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Auction: 9020 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2843

x Sudan British Military Forces in Egypt and Sudan, 1801 to 1913 Early and Historical Letters 1879 (20 Jan.) three page a.l.s. from General Gordon to Colonel Nugent, Royal Engineers, written from Khartoum in which he mentions meeting the envoy of King John of Abyssinia and an engagement Gessi had in Baba-Gazelle (Captain Gessi, an Italian, was Gordon´s trusted ally). With transcript Estimate £ 300-400

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