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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 1770

Sudan
Army Service Stamps
1906-11 Watermark Multiple Star and Crescent
1906 (June) envelope from Khartoum to Cairo addressed in local script, bearing watermark Quatrefoil 2p. black and blue (placed inverted) cancelled with a superb retta with only a few burred points, the reverse with despatch, T.P.O. and arrival War Office datestamps; the stamp not tied though almost certainly belongs; the envelope with a couple of creases and a little trimmed at top. Believed to be the sole recorded cover with the 2p. as a single franking. Photo

Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200