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Year: 1951
Ambatch Canoe on the Nile - 3 piastre
This stamp celebrates Sudan's riverine geography, indigenous watercraft engineering, and nomadic fishing cultures by illustrating a man navigating a traditional canoe constructed from the exceptionally buoyant wood of the ambatch tree (Aeschynomene elaphroxylon). The subject centers on the specialized survival skills and crafts developed by communities along the White Nile and the vast marshlands of the Sudd, where these lightweight, hand-bound rafts have been used for fishing, hunting, and transport for millennia.
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Month of the South Campaign - 55 millim
Sites and landscapes
59 years
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Month of the South Campaign - 3 piastre
Sites and landscapes
59 years
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Month of the South Campaign - 15 millim
Sites and landscapes
59 years
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Inauguration of the WHO Headquarters Building in Geneva - 55 millim
Sites and landscapes
60 years
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Inauguration of the WHO Headquarters Building in Geneva - 3 piastre
Sites and landscapes
60 years
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Inauguration of the WHO Headquarters Building in Geneva - 15 millim
Sites and landscapes
60 years
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Sennar Dam
Sites and landscapes
64 years
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Bohein Temple
Sites and landscapes
64 years
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Palace of the Republic in Khartoum - 2 millim
Sites and landscapes
64 years
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Palace of the Republic in Khartoum - 5 millim
Sites and landscapes
64 years
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Arab League Building - 55 millim
Sites and landscapes
64 years
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Arab League Building - 15 millim
Sites and landscapes
64 years
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Inauguration of the Arab League Headquarters in Cairo
Sites and landscapes
66 years
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The Stack Medical Research Laboratories - 10 piastre
Sites and landscapes
75 years
👁 38
General Post Office in Khartoum - 20 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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The Kitchener Gate in Suakin- 6 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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Nile Post Boat- 4 1/2 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum- 4 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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Port Sudan Harbor- 3 1/2 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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The Saqia Water Wheel - 3 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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The Mountains of Kassala - 2 1/2 piastre
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76 years
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The Blue Nile Bridge in Khartoum - 2 piastre
Sites and landscapes
76 years
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Nile Landscape with Shadoof - 20 piastre
Sites and landscapes
85 years
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Nile Landscape with Shadoof - 10 piastre
Sites and landscapes
85 years
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