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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1606

Afghanistan
Postal History
Second Afghan War
1879-87 eighteen envelopes, mostly with contents and connections to the war, including 1879 from Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (Foreign Secretary, Government of India) to London and Suffolk (this with contents relating to the war, Lady Cavagnari, etc.), 1879 from Jelalabad to Peshawar, 1880 ex the Sandbach correspondence to 1st. Division Kabul Field Force, Kabul, 1880 from Marlborough House to Lady Cavagnari at Hampton Court, 1880 ex the Sandbach correspondence from Kandahar to Chatham, etc., chiefly fine. An interesting group

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£1,800