SUDAN
Airmails
Air Mail cover 1892 (Dec.) copy of a handwritten message in English, French, German and Russian which was attached in a metal container (a replica of which is included in this lot) to the neck of a Crane which was caught whilst in captivity at Dongola, during the Mahdi rebellion. Most unusual
Details
Air Mail cover 1892 (Dec.) copy of a handwritten message in English, French, German and Russian which was attached in a metal container (a replica of which is included in this lot) to the neck of a Crane which was caught whilst in captivity at Dongola, during the Mahdi rebellion. Most unusual
Further details
Note: An account of the above is included on page 55 of E.C.W. Stagg's book "Sudan - The Stamps and Postal Stationery 1867 to 1970"; the Crane had apparently been bred and brought up on an estate in Southern Russia, and from where it had made it's 2000 mile jouney