Stanley Gibbons : A Sudan Fallacy.

yes fortunately I amanged to complete that along with asterix. hey nonny no

I decided I wanted some of these Sudan camel stamps, so I bid for this lot and won it. I think I went way overboard in quantities though, but the price was right!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...140416935376

I will investigate getting some Tintin stamps... but not so many!

Hehehe Nice ones BeeSee,
pick them over, take out the nice cancellations,
and boost with some of your duplicate stock
and remarket to get your money back.

To help you with your cancellations, here are some Travelling Post Office markings. Sudan has a great potential for routes around the pyramids and down the Nile, very romantic thematic.







and a cancellation from Juba
(and would be a contender for Jubilee's aniline thread)

there are only 40 or so yinyion stamps

Bee, you lucky duck! That is a great lot. In addition to the info from Rod, you might also run across army cancels. I haven't had time to look at ebay in two months. Just the thought of what I've been missing...

C.

P.S. Thanks, Rod, for the pic of the cancels.

I've looked in my only "antique" SG catalogue, Stamps of the British Empire (1904). Sorry Rodney, but there's no description of the design shown under the image. The only notation is "(Engraved and printed by Messrs. De La Rue & Co.)". You'll need to continue searching ...

Ryan

You must have an amazing Library, Ryan,
and I always wondered why I kept a copy of a 1949 catalogue,
"may come in handy one day" is the only excuse I have.

Thanks for trying, somehow I smell "gossip" in that report,
I slip this query into "back of book", until I spot an older catalogue.

I was watching a curious program last evening on "six ways the internet will save society" or something like that.
The speaker suggested unlike the great library of Alexandria
where <everyone> who passed through Alexandria had to submit their documents for copying and lodging in the Library, and how it was lost, eventually to fire, the internet and and the dissemination of knowledge, protects it all.

Which brings me to another point, there is a vast volume of philatelic knowledge scanned and maintained by a Journal scanning group called "JStor"
If any Aussies have access or how to access this source
I would appreciate an email, my trips to Perth Library have met with no success.

Rod-

You might have more luck at the libraries of Murdoch or UWA. I believe that JSTOR is oriented toward educational members.

Thanks Collin, I'll make some enquiries tomorrow and post back.

(...and it may be under a new Prime Minister of Australia)

WU certainly has access to JSTOR, but I thought you already knew that. I'm not sure if they let any old stamp collectors in to access it though. You might have to wait until Cody gets there.

What the...

This lot http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...TRK:MEWAX:IT is already higher than the one I won with 190 stamps!