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| 2850 |
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 Consignment remainders comprising mostly commercial and official mail with several early Camel items, 1944 & 1945 from 'GAMBEILA'
(Ethiopia) to Addis Ababa via Cairo or to USA (faults; with enclosure), numerous airmails with better destinations including Burma, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Kenya, Norway, Nyasaland, Palestine and Yugoslavia plus 1931 press photograph
(212x138mm) of 'City of Arundel', WWII censored civilian mails including inwards airmail from Australia, etc, high postmark content including registered covers, attractive advertising covers, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine.
Fantastic value at estimate.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 Autographs of notables "Leslie Rundle" (promoted in the field to Major-General for performance in the 1898 Khartoum Expedition),
"FR Wingate" (Reginald, Governor-General of the Sudan 1899-1916), "Kitchener of Khartoum" (victor at Omdurman, toning), "Francis of Teck" (aide to General Sir Garnet Wolseley in the Sudan and father of Queen Mary), "WS Gordon" (toning), and "S
Gordon/Cairo May 7th 1899" (Colonel Staveley "Monkey" Gordon who served on Kitchener's staff at Suakin, later at the War Office in Cairo); also 1901 mourning cover for Queen Victoria with 'THE PALACE/KHARTOUM' embossed on the flap to Staveley Gordon
in the hand of General Wingate; and a spotty social note signed "CG Gordon/5 Oct 69" (between his exploits in China that gave rise to the nickname "Chinese" Gordon, and his appointment to the Danube Commission in 1871). Handy lot for the autograph
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
| 2852 |
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 Commercial registered mail with some early covers but strength in the post-WWII period mostly domestic covers addressed in Arabic
and from numerous village post offices & agencies, many on Registration Envelopes, a few advertising covers, some interest also in the registration labels, generally fine to very fine. Another little goldmine.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 Commercial airmail covers 1930s-1950s to an array of overseas destinations including Aden, Australia, Brazil, Burma, Cyprus,
Czechoslovakia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, French India, French West Africa, Gibraltar, Ireland, Italy (one a commercial samples envelope at concessional rate), Jersey, Libya, Malta with unframed 'A.V.2', Mauritius with 'INSUFFICIENTLY PAID...', New
Zealand, Palestine, Roumania with boxed 'O.A.T.', Saudi Arabia, Scilly Isles (!), Singapore, South West Africa, Syria, Tangayika, Turkey, Uganda, United States by trans-Pacific Clipper & by diplomatic pouch, Yugoslavia with Yugoslav triangular flight
datestamp in blue, etc, many are registered, several censored, good postmark interest, generally fine to very fine. A marvellous origin/destination group that could be developed into an exceptional collection. See also Lots 2873 and 2875.
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Estimate AU$1,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,150.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 Commercial inwards airmail covers 1930s-1950s including from Aden redirected to Lebanon, Australia, Bahrain 1950 with Overprints on
GB 1a x6, via Damascus, Indian Forces in Burma, Canada with 'O.A.T.' cachet, Canary Islands via Germany with huge KLM label on the reverse, Eritrea when an Italian Colony and under British Occupation with 'MEF' or 'BMA/ERITREA' Overprints, Ethiopia,
French West Africa, Gold Coast, Greece, Iraq 1927, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Peru, Trinidad, Tunisia from British Consulate, etc, also from GB x10 at different rates including 1½d Empire Air Mail Scheme and
16.1.1941 crash cover with 'DAMAGED BY SEA/WATER' cachet, a few missionary items, several censored, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. An excellent companion group to the previous lot, or for separate development.
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Estimate AU$850
Currently Opening at...AU$650.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 Commercial airmail covers 1930s-1950s that all transited through Sudan including Basutoland 1940 to Forces in Nigeria, Brazil-Saudi
Arabia, Ethiopia to GB USA and Southern Rhodesia, Gold Coast to Austria Portugal and Switzerland, Jamaica-Tanganyika, Nigeria-Kenya, Italian Somalia-Zanzibar, South Africa to Forces in Nigeria and a remarkable 1936 cover to the Philippines with
5-line jusqu'a handstamp, etc, many registered &/or censored, condition rather variable. A very interesting lot.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 Belgian Congo commercial mail transiting Sudan including 1919 'ABA' to Italy with late usage of Sudan Censor No 1 cachet, 1920
'NIANGARA' to Belgium "Via Kartoum" [sic], then mostly airmails including 1932 'AKETI' to Belgium with boxed 'Par Avion, via Juba' cachet, 1934 to Madagascar with 'SUDAN AIR MAIL/JUBA' transit, 1936 to Tanganyika with 'JUBA' cds, 1938 to USA with
'PAR AVION/DE "Juba"/A "Londres" ' cachet, 1930s from "Niangara" to USA with 'ABA' cds & 'UTILISER L'AVION' cachet, 1943 & 1944 trio to Switzerland with Sudan Censor 13 label & cachet, or censored in Sudan & Egypt, 1934 to Madagascar with 'SUDAN AIR
MAIL/JUBA' transit, 1936 to Tanganyika with 'JUBA' cds, 1940 'POKO' to GB "via Aba" with very fine 'T' handstamp (per Sabena to Juba & south per Imperial to Durban), 1940 from a British missionary at "Juaibor, Wath Kec UNP Sudan" to GB via
Elisabethville with 'CENSURE CONGO BELGE' cachet & superb British-pattern 'PASSED/ PP 15' cachet, 1945 to Louisiana USA with boxed 'O.A.T.' cachet in red, 1946 'DUNGU' to Egypt with superb boxed 'Par AVION - Via JUBA' cachet in purple, and a couple
more, condition variable but all presentable to very fine. A fascinating lot.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1878 4pp 8vo holograph letter headed "Kartum [sic]/23 Decr 1878" and signed "CG Gordon", writing to Edward Thomas Rogers, Britain's
chief diplomat in Cairo, minor blemishes. An exceptional historical letter from Gordon's time as Governor of Equatoria, which states "...I hope you...will keep HH [His Highness] as independent as you can. I think he has been very shabbily treated by
the Commission in their report...About the Nile, it was Cairo's own fault, for they had daily telegrams of the extraordinary rise here...long before the crisis...certainly the telegraph was broken for some time, yet it was cut at the critical
moment...This place and the Soudan generally have been exceedingly sickly far worse than was ever known before, and now we are savaged with small pox. We have one revolt which I think has lasted 8 months...of the Gibar's [?] family of slave
dealers...& they must give in soon..."
General Charles George Gordon (aka Gordon Pasha or 'Chinese' Gordon), was perhaps the most prominent European figure in 19th century Sudan. Joining the civil service of the Khedive of Egypt in 1873, he held senior administrative posts including
Governor of Equatoria, based in Gondokoro (now in Uganda). He left for England in 1880 but was required to return in 1884 to evacuate Khartoum, which was threatened by the Islamic fundamentalist Mahdist Uprising. Largely successful in evacuating
civilians, Gordon then staunchly held-out during a siege of Khartoum that lasted almost 12 months. The promised reinforcements wasted time reaching Khartoum, arriving two days after the Mahdist victory and Gordon's murder, a public relations disaster
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1884 wall map (420x590mm) 'To Illustrate Obstacles to Navigation of the Nile' with imprint 'Lithod at the Intelligence Branch War
Office Feb 1884' at lower-right, covering the region south from Cairo to 250 miles (400km+) south of Khartoum and west as far as El Fasher, printed in black with numerous navigation comments in red, such as "Impassable at Low Nile and difficult even
at High Nile", "Nuggers can pass with their cargoes", etc, also includes the extensive network of telegraph lines, characteristic folds but quite fine overall. A marvellous item of ephemera to aid appreciation of the vast distances and topographical
challenges during the military campaigns. Fun fact: nuggers are Egyptian transport vessels with square sails. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1884-85 Lieutenant later Captain JT ('Frank') Burn-Murdoch original correspondence to his "dear Mamma" or "dear Papa" at various
addresses, beginning with the transcript of a telegram advising "You have been selected for Egypt", a few before departure, 7.10.1884 from Alexandria, then OAS covers the first of 12.10 from Cairo "...in my tent under the shade of the
Pyramids...crowds of the British soldiery climbing up the Pyramids..."; 14.10 headed "Steamboat between Siout & Assaouan" with cds of 'SORAC' & 'ASSIOUT' "..I hear that a mail boat is to catch us up today..."; 6.11 from 'ASSOUAN' "...we are still
here and getting very tired of it...We get two posts from Cairo here, on Sunday & on Wednesday but English letters only come by the Wednesday post..."; 20.11 "...[camels] are awfully awkward brutes to get on to a boat..."; 6.1.1885 from Korti with
part-cds probably of Dongola "...[I have] command of a transport company, 330 camels, not a change for the better...The enemy have been very quiet today and we have only exchanged a few shots..."; 12.2 from Metemneh with no postal markings "...the
enemy say our [gun] fire was like rain and they don't very much like facing it again..."; cover with light but obvious 'KORTI/[star & crescent)/...' cds but no letter; 9.3 similar envelope and a letter whinging he hasn't yet been promoted; 15.3 with
illegible cds "...it is always a comfort to be as near the front as possible..."; 26.4 describing a difficult Nile trip between Aswan & Assouat "...we have stuck on sandbank after sandbank...time is simply no object to the natives here...", with
cover from 'ESNEH'; 20.05 from the French ship 'Siam' at Marseilles, advising he will soon be home; etc.
The Godden De Luxe album also includes typed transcripts of all the letters plus of others previously offered in our sale of 12.12.2024, two batches of his tiny diary pages and small sketches by him of barges on the Nile, of his tent at Aswan, and of
the route of the Nile near Kosko. Condition variable but most of the covers are good to fine and most of the letters are fine to very fine. A fascinating all-too-human archive from a participant in Britain's first great military debacle in Africa,
offered largely intact.
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Estimate AU$5,000
Currently Opening at...AU$3,800.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
| 2860 |
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 1885-97 social covers including with 'SOUAKIN/5FE85/...' cds tying Egyptian 1pi, with 25mm 'WADI-HALFA/2 JU 90/...' cds (with
hyphen) tying 1pi, with 24mm 'WADI HALFA/9 JA 93/...' cds (no hyphen) on 5m Envelope addressed in Arabic, with 'SAWAKIN/6 I 96/...' cds on 2m Envelope to Alexandria, with 'WADI-HALFA/CAMP/8OC96/...' cds on 5m & 1pi, with 29mm 'WADI HALFA/7 IV 96/...'
cds on 1pi, and a few others, most with only minor blemishes.
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1890-97 aged cover to Herefordshire GB with Egyptian 1pi blue & very fine 'SOUAKIN' cds, and Egyptian Envelopes 5m native usage to
Cairo with 'SAWAKIN' cds & 1pi x2 to GB from 'WADI-HALFA/CAMP' (central fold) or 'SAWAKIN' (light toning). After the British abandoned Sudan in 1885 and until the Dongola Campaign of 1896, Suakin - on the Red Sea - was the only Sudanese settlement
maintained under Anglo-Egyptian control.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1896 two stampless On Active Service envelopes to London with 'WADI-HALFA/CAMP' cds of '31OC96' or '8NO96' and boxed 'T' handstamp,
on arrival the first taxed '1D/FB' and the other '5D/FB', both split in transit caused by bulky contents and repaired with multiple 'FOUND/OPEN AND - OFFICIALLY/SEALED' labels tied by London cds, light overall soiling. With the letters headed
"Merowe/Sudan/19th Oct 1896" or ".../23rd Oct 96", to his mother, full of interesting comment about Army life and operations. The sender was Captain (later Major-General) Frederick Gore Anley. The first was incorrectly treated as a soldier's letter
and under-charged. The other was correctly charged for a double-rate officer's letter.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1897 (Jan 5) cover to London with Egypt 5m x2 tied by 'WADI-HALFA/CAMP' cds, Cairo transit & 'SOUTH KENSINGTON SO/JA 18 97/SW'
arrival backstamp, light stain on the reverse. The sender, Major [later Major-General] Sir Charles Fergusson, had a distinguished military & civil administration career in the Sudan & Egypt, before becoming a Corps Commander during WWI. After the war
he was Miltary Governor of Cologne and served six years as Governor-General of New Zealand 1924-30. The addressee, his father Sir James Ferguson served in the Crimean War. He was Governor-General of South Australia (1868-73), of New Zealand (1873-75)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1898 (Sep 14) native cover to Egypt with 5m tied by one of two largely very fine strikes of the scarce 'DEBBEH' cds (void at the
base; recorded 15 months only), very fine 'CAIRE/28IX98 IX/...' transit & small-part Alexandria arrival, flap removed, very minor blemishes. PO 1897; closed 1902. Debba PO circa 1904; renamed Ed Debba late-1920s. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1898 (Oct 11) cover from Northern Ireland to "Col Jackson/1th Soudanese Battalion/Fashoda/Egypt" with Jubilee 2½d tied by 'ARMAGH/
1 ' cds, the reverse with transits of Alexandria and Cairo where endorsed "Halfa" with 'WADI HALFA/SPS/28X98/...' backstamp, from where it was sent south to Fashoda via Khartoum with transit of '5NO98' Ex John Firebrace. One of only two inwards
covers to Fashoda recorded during the Fashoda Incident. In September 1898, a small French garrison occupied Fashoda (modern-day Kodok), with grand ambitions to consolidate a French corridor from Senegal to the Nile. A superior British force was sent
to the town where the situation was defused by diplomatic means, with the French withdrawing on 11.12.1898. This kept alive Cecil Rhodes' dream of a British corridor from Cape Town to Cairo. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1898 (Nov) cover with embossed regimental badge of the 11th Soudanese Regiment in red on the flap, to the military tailors
"Mortimer & Co/Wady Halfa" with 5m tied by 'KHARTOUM/26..XI.98/...' and 'WADI HALFA/6 XII 98/...' arrival backstamp. A rare cover from the forces at Fashoda during the Fashoda Incident. Note that Fashoda had no post office until 1902, and was renamed
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1900 (Apr 17) plain 'OHHS" cover with 'SOUDAN' Overprints 5m punctured 'SG' (Inverted and Reversed) SG O1 tied by very fine
'BERBER/SPS' cds (Proud D2; rated x20), to "Inspector Sudan Posts/Halfa" with large-part 'WADI-HALFA/CAMP/20AP00 TIII' arrival backstamp (Proud D3, recorded 13 months only; LRD by 3 months), minor blemishes & light central vertical fold. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1905 (Mar 11) social cover from Chad with 'TCHAD' Overprints 50c x3 tied by very fine 'ABECHER/OUBANGUI-CHARI-TCHAD' cds, to France
"Via El Facher/Karthoum/Alexandrie", the reverse with 'AEF TCHAD/16/MARS/32/ADRE' plus Sudanese 'GENEINA FORT/17MAR32/...', 'FASHER/26MR32/...', 'SHELLAL-HALFA/ TPO /13AP32/...' and Cairo machine apparently of '11 APR' but that cannot be correct.,
repaired minor flap tear. With the enclosed letter in French, commencing "Ma chere Mamman". A marvellous cover that illustrates the complex political situation in French Central Africa and the vast Saharan distances involved. Abéché is in the far
northern interior of Chad; Adre is about 150km ESE - or 5 days travel - on the border with Sudan; Geneina is only 30km (one day) into the Darfur Region of Sudan; El Fasher is 320km and 9 days almost due E; the Nile at Rabak is a further 800km & nine
days to the east; Rabak is 280km S of Khartoum; and Cairo is 1800km N of Khartoum, along the Nile, taking at least a week via the riverine TPO. This cover travelled more than 3000km, in a bit over a month, simply to reach the Mediterranean and get
out of Egypt.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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 1906 cover to London with 5m tied to the reverse by 'EL-OBEID/11.II.906/...' cds, Khartoum transit of '18.II.1906' and London
arrival of 'MR1/06', repaired opening tear clear of the stamp & postmarks. With the enclosed 6pp letter with printed 'CAMEL CORPS/KARDOFAN' (corrected to 'KORDOFAN') and endorsed "Abu Jabbad/4.2.06" which states "...I am delighted at the penny
postage between here & England...orders to return to El Obeid as soon as my camels had rested...very peaceful...only excitement being a few scares of night attacks when we had been fully encamped in the heart of an enemy's (!) stronghold..."
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-25, 05:30 PM |
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