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Auction: 9020 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2909

x Sudan British Military Forces in Egypt and Sudan, 1801 to 1913 The Nile Expedition 1897-98 1897 (12 Nov.) pair of 5m. cards from Wadi-Halfa to Lieut.-Col. W.E. O´Leary "Financial Secretary War Office Cairo", one written in English and the other in Arabic, both neatly cancelled with "halfa" c.d.s. and with arrival c.d.s. (12.11) at lower left corner; the message on both reads "Instructions have been carried out". An unusual pair of cards on Army business Estimate £ 80-100

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