Description
Stampless Sudan Post Office envelope to the Postmaster General in Nairobi carried on the first flight by Gladstone Airways, handstamped violet “Carried by the Airline between / Khartoum and Kisumu, Kenya Colony / Pilot’s signature” (signed T.A Gladstone) and oval “H.E / 11 FEB 1927 / THE GOVERNOR” (with manuscript “Entebbe, F.C.B”, red “KENYA – SUDAN / 1ST / AIR MAIL” skeleton datestamps of FE 12 27 on both sides, and datestamps of Kisumu (Feb 12/13) and Nairobi (Feb 14). Eight unofficial covers, together with a very small official mail from the Sudan, carried on this first flight from Khartoum to Kisumu via Entebbe,’ this cover from the Khartoum Director of Posts probably unique.