طـوابـع ســودانـيــه قـديـمــــه

Quote: The sender wrote the name of Sudan as Soudan, which was the way the French write Sudan * The date of the stamped letter was JL 98, which I assume meant July 1898. As far as I know there was many Post offices in Darfur, the region that you may assume Dar Mali was located. * I think this Mr. Williams was in a mission inside French Soudan and he was carrying along with him some of the newly issued stamps of Camel Post (issued in Mrach 1898) and the Sudanese stamps were OK to use outside Sudan * May be the Dar Mali postal services did not carry on hand French Soudan stamps even though their first stamp was issued in 1894. * The abreviation letters S.P.S on the stamp continue to be a puzzle to me. Definitly there was no Sudanese Post Services outside Sudan, and I 'm not sure whether the French Colonialists would omit the letter F from their stamp