Sudan Stamps : The Arab Postman.

A gift arrived Friday from a colleague: Very nice.

Scott users, don't complain, Gibbons cat numbers for
1898 issues are up to Cat#46, for the 1921 issues (23 years later)
our cat #'s are back to 37.






And... for the punctures... if the "S" had 14 holes,
and the "G" 12 holes, this stamp would be worth a
pushbike
( I priced the cheapest roadbike on Friday ...$3000
but that's another story)

Nice, Rod!
Might be a nice start to a thread/topic on "unconventional" means of delivery (unconventional to us, that is!). Makes a change from trains, planes and automobiles.

I guess the apparent date/number anomaly is caused by using the information in the SG Simplified Catalogue. Three different issues with three different watermarks have been rolled into one, listing just the cheapest version of each value/colour. The first issue in 1898 had a rosette watermark; the 1902-21 issue had moons and stars as the watermark; the 1927-41 issue had the plain initials S G as the watermark. The 6 piastre and 8 piastre first appeared in 1936 on chalk-surfaced paper, and were later issued in 1941 on ordinary paper. You really need to check the watermarks to ID some of those issued with the same value more than once.
Sorry that's a bit wordy.

Excused :)
Apologies to Stanley Gibbons.
That makes sense.

Agreed Stampgal, your turn :)

And I don't know if the Simplified lists the AS punctures, but Gibbons Part 1 does, again.

Gorgeous stamps, but an absolute ****** to identify correctly!

Sorry, Rod, I am AFS this weekend (Away From Stamps).
However, I have something interesting to share when I get home...

Thanks Tony!
(thinks to himself....Oh for a new set of specialist catalogues)
I didn't win lotto tonight, so back to the 1963 gibbons.

Jubilee, yep they are a bit ornery, but once you establish
the script here.... (2 types) it gets a little easier I find.

I think I saw the film 4 feathers about the Sudan and when I saw one of those stamps in a friends stamp album..i think that started the ball rolling on stamps for me !

Sc#12 1898 5m Punctured AS = Army Service.



Sc#11 1898 3m
Wadi-Halfa Camp SON (Socked on the nose)

Beyond Shellal to the limit of Egyptian territory at Wadi-Halfa, about 200 miles farther, the country is desert, with innumerable valleys separated from one another by granite ridges running at right angles to the route which the railway would have to follow, thus making railway construction on this length too difficult and too costly to be practicable.

[Note: This is the reason that the steamers, with TPO, were used between Shellal and Wadi Halfa]

Agatha Christie's "Death On The Nile" takes place on board the Nile Steamer 'Lotus' running between Shellal and Wadi Halfa. She actually wrote this book on the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan



Nile Steamer Lotus