Catalog: Drummond OS5, Nierinck #390315a
Date issued: 1934, EKU March 20, 1939
Printing: Black
Perforation: Die cut
Inscription: "SUDAN / FOUND / OPEN / OFFICIALLY / SEALED" with thick outer border and rectangle at center
Control Number: "Pmr. No. 29 / 1934." inside upper right frame line
Description: Large 1939 OHMS cover from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia to Khartoum reclosed on sideflap with single Sudanese official seal. The black 3-line handstamp on the front reads "Damaged by Water when the / Imperial Airways Aircraft forced / landed near Juba, Sudan."
The seaplane, bound for Great Britain, was forced down on the Dangu River near Faradje, Belgian Congo on March 15th enroute to Juba, Sudan. Stamp floated off due to immersion in the river. Mail aboard was recovered, but apparently only a few covers have survived.
Ten months later the aircraft was salvaged and flown to England by Captain J.C. Kelly Rogers.
A scarce crash cover with the only recorded use of this seal.
Catalog: Drummond OS6
Date issued: Unknown, EKU March 26, 1969
Printing: Black
Perforation: Die cut
Inscription: Bilingual Arabic/English "SUDAN / FOUND / OPEN / OFFICIALLY / SECURED" with circle in center for postmark and thick outer frame line
Control Number: "Pmr. No. 29" at upper right inside frame line
Description: 1969 cover from "Military Forces Hospital" at Maadi, Egypt to a Post Office Box in unspecified town (note manuscript "without destination") in Sudan repaired at Khartoum with two black on white die cut official seals of Sudan. Seals postmarked "26 MAR 1969 / KHARTOUM / MAILS."
The only known on cover use of this seal to date.
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Updated January 15, 2011