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1 / 31897: First issue SOUDAN overprints, all six positions of the eight values issued, written up on album pages (47 used, 1 unused), in addition block of 20 for the 2 m. green and block of four for the 3 m. orange-yellow, both unused. Ex collection Janssen Gi = £ 750+.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 150 CHFLot# : 429 Sudan
1 / 11926 (May 18): Long and splendid letter from Colonel E.A. Stanton, ex Governor of Khartoum written to Dr. William Byam describing in much detail over six and half pages how he came to design the "Camel Postman" issue of Sudan. A lively letter "I was at the time second in command of the XIth Sudanese stationed at Korti a small village in the Donghola province which we had just reconquered from the Dervishes...(I was to draw) a suitable design for a new Sudan stamps to take the place of the surcharged Egyptian one...on my interview with Kitchener I was told I was to go on drawing designs until I produced one he approved of - he would give me no suggestions...it was not to include Kitchener's portrait or that of anyone else...I got hold of the sheikhs of the of our friendly arabs the Hawawir tribe and persuaded him to ride past me several times on his camel while I photographed him with a postcard sized box Kodak I had....not a success and I could not in any case have them printed in time...I had no paper and Korti possessed not a single shop leave alone a stationer...I got to work and eventually produced a fairly respectable drawing of a Colonel of the Hageen...in flowing garments holding two spears on his back and not Slatin Pasha as some have hinted....attached to the saddle were two mail bags...I added a row of coloured reductions with suggested combinations of colours such as my paintbox could produce...somewhat in fewar I presented myself on Sir H. Kitchener's return with the sketch effort No. 1 and my intense surprise he expressed his entire approval...I received a set of the stamps signed by the Sirdar (for my efforts)....not long afterwards I was asked to design stamps for "Postage Due"...*. Sold together with a photograph of the Camel Postman design (now in the Khartoum Museum); the letter is much more lively and involved than we can print here, but interestingly, the original wash drawing for the Postage Due issue will be sold by Corinphila in the "Besançon" collection of Sudan.Starting bid : 350 CHFHammer price : 1,200 CHFLot# : 508 Sudan
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Sudan 1925, Imperial Airways survey, first flight London to Cape Town, souvenir postcard, sent by Alan Cobham from Khartoum, Sudan to Hampstead, London, addressed to Cobham's wife, dated 22 December 1925, personal message; "Dearest, I arrived Khartoum today. All going very well indeed. Shall be here Xmas. I am wishing you greetings to know I shall write you a long letter. Kisses for Geoffrey and self. Love Alan", franked with Sudan, 3 m. green and 5 m. black, with perforated red flight vignette to reverse, some creasing to corners, minor rubs and soiling as would be expected, a very rare example out of Sudan; just three examples recorded.rnProvenance: Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection, Harmers, New York, 1946.Starting bid : 1,000 CHFHammer price : 1,000 CHFLot# : 509 Sudan
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1927: Pioneering Aviation, René Guilbaud return leg flight cover, from Dongola, Sudan to Paris, France, via Luxor, Egypt, dated 9th February 1927, franked with Sudan 10 m., 15 m. and 2 p., tied by despatch datestamp, very fine 'Winter Palace Luqsor' datestamp in black alongside dated 11 February 1927 and violet boxed "VOYAGE AERIEN / FRANCE-MADAGASCAR", central vertical filing crease, otherwise fine and rare cover; one of four known surviving covers.rnRemarks: After waiting for two months for a replacement engine Guilbaud left Lokoja, Nigeria returning via Congo, Tanganyika, Sudan and Egypt to reach St Raphael, France on 7 March 1927. The aircraft was a Hydravion CAMS 37 GR.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : 650 CHFLot# : 510 Sudan
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1924/1925, On State Service, 1½ a. lake, and a pair and single 4 a. violet, used on Registered Official cover, from Baghdad to Khartoum, dated 15 April 1927, addressed to the "Governor General of the Sudan", endorsed "By Air Mail Registered", carried on Imperial Airways flight leaving Baghdad on 16 April arriving in Cairo 17 April 1927, then by surface mail, arrival to reverse dated 23 April 1927, central vertical filing crease well clear of adhesives and flap missing, the rate of 13½ a. for 1oz letter by air or 30-40g by surface, made up of 3 a. registration, 4½ a. surface and 6 a. air fee; the surface rate expressed in grammes while the air fees are in ounces, scarce and interesting cover.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 511 Sudan
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1931, Royal Air Force 47 Squadron envelope (flap with insignia in blue), franked with 5 m. brown and black and Air mail 3 p. black, from Khartoum to Kent, England, dated 31 October 1931, sent from the RAF station in Khartoum, carried air mail via Imperial Airways northbound flight to Britain, minor soiling and odd tone spot, a scarce and attractive cover.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 512 Sudan
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1932, Two Imperial Airways London to Cape Town first flights; both large format Sudan Postal Administration envelopes (27 x 21cm) used to enclose covers carried on this flight, one on the stages from Juba to Nairobi, with violet cachet "FIRST FLIGHT / Juba to Cape Town", manuscript total weight 80g, the other from Khartoum to Nairobi, weight 250g, endorsed "1st Flight Khartoum - Cape Town", rare, two unique envelopes, both sealed with wax impressed with Post Office seals.rnProvenance: T.E. Field Collection.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 513 Sudan
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1936, Official Military mail, OHMS cover sent from Gebeit, Sudan to Aboukir, Egypt, with datestamp 31 July 1936, "No. 207 (Bomber) Squadron - Royal Air Force - 31 Jul 1936" cachet manuscript "Cert. Official" with signature, to reverse the railway marking "Shellal-Halfa TPO No.2" dated 10 August, Cairo Station and Alexandria transits and arrival all dated 11 August 1936, rare R.A.F. official mail Sudan to Egypt.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 514 Sudan
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1936, First Flight cover, Khartoum (Sudan) to Kano (Nigeria), signed by pilot Captain Jones, endorsement top, franked with 1931, Sudan Air Mail, 3 m. green and sepia, 5 m. black and green, and 10 m. black and carmine, tied by 14 February 1936 datestamp, with arrival to back dated 16 February 1936, comes with picture postcard of the arrival of the plane "Daelalus" at Kano airport and newspaper cuttings reporting the inaugural flight, minor soiling, a very attractive example.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 240 CHFLot# : 515 Sudan
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1932/1937, Selection of nine air mail covers from Sudan, comprising three internal mails, four to Britain, one to Greece and one to Uganda, all carried by Imperial Airways service, includes 1934 RAF envelope from Juba to Entebbe, Uganda, also a 1934 registered cover sent from Gebel Aulia to Metelin, Greece, carried via Athens, mounted upon seven exhibition pages, describing the routes and rates, a varied range of frankings and postmarks, a few with slight faults, although in the main fine for such mail, scarce assembly.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 528 Sudan
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Imperial Airways G-ADVB "Corsair" Crash at Faradje, Dangu River, Belgian Congo 15 March 1939: Registered Envelope from Mozambique to Paris, dated 10 March 1939, carried by the Imperial Airways Short S23 seaplane "Cambria" on 12 March 1939, which left Durban, South Africa for England, the plane picked up mail in Beira, Mozambique, Mombasa and landed in Kisumu on 13 March, mail was then transferred to "Corsair" leaving Kisumu on 14 March which lost its way in bad weather and made a forced landing on the river Dangu near Juba, Sudan. All but one of the adhesives are washed off, bearing French special cachet 'AVION ACCIDENTE" in black, applied in Paris only on mail from Mozambique. There are only two covers known from Mozambique - one other recorded in 'Air Crash Mail of Imperial Airways' which was thought to be the only example. Nierinck 390315c.rnRef: "Air Crash Mail of Imperial Airways and Predecessor Airlines", by Kendall C. Sandford, page 164.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : not sold -
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