Stamps of Sudan, colonial era

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 9, 2016 22:40:02 GMT -5 kacyds, Gordon Lee, and 6 more like this

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In between everything else over the past few weeks, I've sorted a medium-sized collection on album pages and a couple of small accumulations of Sudan prior to its independence in 1956. If I've done this right, you'll see a medium-rez .jpeg right below this, and, below that, a link to the same Vario page in high-rez. It has been about 600 years since I've written any HTML code.

There are 14 pages in total, and I should get them all up in the next few days. I promise to get all the cat hair off my wife's scanner before I scan any more!

The earliest stamps of Sudan

Detailed image this-a-way.

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mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 15:35:39 GMT -5 kacyds, guyana1230, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 15:35:39 GMT -5 OK, here are some more Camel Post stamps, 1902-1921. Detailed image on a clean scanner.

mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 15:40:18 GMT -5 kacyds, guyana1230, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 15:40:18 GMT -5 More overprints and more camels. Getch'er ice-cold 300dpi image here!

mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 15:43:18 GMT -5 kacyds likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 15:43:18 GMT -5 The fourth Camel Post series, and my favorite - 'cuz I got 'em all, including one with a lovely Khartoum ASON cancellation. There begins to be a pattern here....

mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 15:46:40 GMT -5 kacyds, greaden, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 15:46:40 GMT -5 A different person on (I assume) a different camel: the legendary Major General Charles George "Chinese" Gordon. Also known as Gordon Pasha.

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 15:55:51 GMT -5 kacyds, guyana1230, and 1 more like this

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More overprints, more Chinese Gordon. Only the British Empire could come up with a character like him.

These images can get really large if you click on them. This is an $80 Epson scanner we got about four years ago, and I'm not sure I've ever had a more bang for the buck piece of electronics, ever.

mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 15:59:27 GMT -5 kacyds, guyana1230, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 15:59:27 GMT -5 Yet another Gordon memorial set. I only have three of them, and at least two are spacefillers that have seen better days. But here they are, for better or worse.

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 16:03:31 GMT -5 kacyds, Gordon Lee, and 2 more like this

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Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 16:03:31 GMT -5

This is all I've managed to get ready so far, so how about a few official-stamp overprints to round out the day? (You can hardly contain the excitement, haah?

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Officials and miscellaneous surcharges.

There are six more pages; I'll get them posted here when I can.

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mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 21:30:39 GMT -5 kacyds, Philatarium, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 21:30:39 GMT -5 Here's a 1941 series with attractive colors and an interesting backstory. Do they really have palm trees there? I guess so.

mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 21:35:38 GMT -5 kacyds and Philatarium like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 21:35:38 GMT -5 The fifth and last Camel Post series - though the motif appeared on a couple of Sudanese stamps after Sudan gained its independence. And a postage due stamp, too.

mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 22:13:10 GMT -5 kacyds, Philatarium, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 22:13:10 GMT -5 Some commemoratives (!?) and a bunch of official stamps, all from 1948. Step right this way....

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 22:18:45 GMT -5 kacyds, Philatarium, and 2 more like this

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An airmail set; it's really nice, and I wish I had the whole set. They were also overprinted, and in that state are Sudan's only air mail official stamps.

They look like they should be from right after World War I, not right after World War II.

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mourningdoves Master Stamp Bear Stamp Bears Supporter Posts: 1,132 Location (Country): Connecticut, USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 22:24:20 GMT -5 kacyds, Philatarium, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mourningdoves on Feb 10, 2016 22:24:20 GMT -5 I think this set is just flat-out beautiful. Links heah! Fresh-off-the-grill links heah!

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 22:29:19 GMT -5 kacyds, Philatarium, and 1 more like this

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The last issues of Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (the only time I've ever seen that word used for anything other than "it's like an apartment except you buy it").

Note the shockingly original commemoratives in the first row.

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 10, 2016 23:15:39 GMT -5 kacyds likes this

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Thanks for posting the pics! The enlarged view of these is really nice.

I had to "Like" the Airmail stamps since I collect W/W Airmail, but I can't say I'm thrilled with the motif they chose to be on them.

I'd much rather see some type of Airplane. They are "Airmail" stamps after all.

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 11, 2016 1:57:31 GMT -5

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Feb 10, 2016 22:29:19 GMT -5 mourningdoves said:

The last issues of Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (the only time I've ever seen that word used for anything other than "it's like an apartment except you buy it").

The New Hebrides were an Anglo-French condominium, with a very complicated set of legal arrangements and parallel stamp issues, one from the British authorities and the other from the French.

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Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 11, 2016 19:56:39 GMT -5 kacyds, Butterfly, and 3 more like this

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@michaelcayley, I'll confess to being one of those annoying kids who won all the geography bees. I'll also confess that the Pacific Islands were my Achilles' heel. I'm usually good at retaining that kind of information, but whenever I even hear names like Vanuatu or - yes - the New Hebrides, my reaction is "Zounds! Now the world will know that I am a fraud!" But thanks for the heads-up that Sudan wasn't the only condominium.

oldtriguy1960, yeah, now that you mention it, there's nothing in those stamps that jumps out at you and says "Air travel". The designs are so defiantly retro that their message is more like "Steam-powered locomotives, how cool is that???". Glad you liked the scans. I'll have to see if I've got any more good collections around here.

garner72 New Member Posts: 18 Location (Country): Canada	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 11, 2016 23:57:18 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by garner72 on Feb 11, 2016 23:57:18 GMT -5 Thanks for the scans! I love the camel series.
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Craig Gone But Not Forgotten Is your leg wet? Yikes! Sorry 'bout that ... Posts: 6,627 Location (Country): USA	Stamps of Sudan, colonial era Feb 12, 2016 0:41:57 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Craig on Feb 12, 2016 0:41:57 GMT -5

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