| | Stamps | |
| 1 | 1922 Crown Overprints (130+). Collection mint used controls. All types. Scope and much interest for specialist. Absolute bargain | £26.00 |
| 2 | 1939 50pi mint (D153) certified from Palace Collection | £8.00 |
| 3 | 1940 £E1 mint (D154) certified from Palace Collection | £13.00 |
| 4 | 1929 Prince Farouk’s 9th Birthday mint & used. Excellent condition | £6.60 |
| 5 | 1936 Postes control blocks D131 (A/37) 4 mills | £5.00 |
| 6 | D131 (A/37) 4mills | £5.00 |
| 7 | D135 (A/35 A/36) 20 mills | £14.60 |
| 8 | D135 (A/35 A/36) | £14.60 |
| 9 | Postes D129-D135 used, 20 stamps | £1.00 |
| 10 | 1952 Overprints King of Egypt & Sudan, used D184-D191, very fine | £4.50 |
| 11 | 1952 Overprints King of Egypt & Sudan. Air Mail, used A66-A74, fine | £3.00 |
| 12 | 50 years On ... Unmounted mint (pristine) collection 1956-59 definitives & commemoratives inc 14 control blocks,16 blocks of 4 and dozens of singles including Palestine overprints | £11.00 |
| 13 | 40 years On ... Hundreds, used collection definitives & commemoratives. Lots of interesting material and postmarks | £9.00 |
| | First-Day covers | |
| 14 | 1956 – 3 x FDC | £1.00 |
| 15 | 1957 – 8 x FDC | £5.00 |
| 16 | 1958 – 18 x FDC | £9.00 |
| 17 | 1959 – 20 x FDC | £9.60 |
| | Second Fuad (1927-1937) issue stamps | |
| 18 | 5 mills Type 1a, marginal block of 6 (3x2) showing dramatic perforation shift AND offset on reverse. A/25 printing, fine unmounted mint. Very scarce | £200.00 |
| 19 | 5 mills misperforated tête-bêche corner of proof sheet block of 10 (5x2) produced for booklet panes with die negative Type III & V. In a reversal of normal printing, the watermark is inverted on Type V and upright on Type IIl. Pristine unmounted and extremely rare  | £875.00 |
| 20 | Collection of values to 20 mills. Remainder collection of the late Dr Gordon Ward. Much to discover for a specialist or student of this issue | £5.00 |
| 21 | 5 mills collection (hundreds), much of it segregated in types by the late Mr John Revell. Control blocks, flaws, mint & used. Of interest to the specialist | £30.00 |
| 22 | 5mills, hundreds used, unsorted, ideal for research | £13.00 |
| 23 | 50 mills (D122) control block A/26 dark centre | £24.00 |
| 24 | (D122) A/27 dark centre | £20.00 |
| 25 | (D122) A/37 dark centre | £30.00 |
| 26 | 100 mills (D123) A/32 A/37 dark centre | £33.00 |
| 27 | 200 mills (D124) A/26 Pane 1 dark centre | £44.00 |
| 28 | (D124) A/35 A/37 Pane 2 pale centre | £39.00 |
| 29 | 5 mills proof with Cancelled on reverse, light brown | £10.00 |
| 30 | dark brown | £10.00 |
| 31 | 5 mills (D112f), PERFORATED proof with Cancelled on the reverse. Rare: only one sheet printed | £100.00 |
| | Second Fuad – Large Stamp proofs, all imperforate with Cancelled on the reverse | |
| 32 | 20 mills (D119a) with selvedge and dividing marker | £39.00 |
| 33 | (D119d) | £32.00 |
| 34 | 40 mills (D121a) | £30.00 |
| 35 | 50 mills (D122a) with selvedge | £39.00 |
| 36 | (D122e) | £20.00 |
| 37 | 100 mills (D123a) | £39.00 |
| 38 | (D123d) | £29.00 |
| 39 | 200 mills (D124a) | £39.00 |
| 40 | (D124a) ex Palace collection | £39.00 |
| 41 | (D124f), mint pair with oblique perforation and pale centre | £65.00 |
| | Booklets | |
| 42 | 5 mills mint horizontal strip of five including two tête-bêche, misperforated, FINE | £210.00 |
| 43 | 5 mills booklet cylinders in 2 x tête-bêche blocks of 12 from base of sheet Type IV A/26, 1st and 2nd Pane. Extremely rare and in pristine condition | £1075 |
| 44 | 5 mills booklet cylinders in 2 x tête-bêche blocks of 12 from the base of the sheet, Types V and III A/33 A/34, 1st and 2nd Pane. Rarest of all because of the small print. Pristine | £1150 |
| 45 | Booklet, 210 mills, each pane with A/30 control, 5 mills Type V with 1st Pane normal wmk and 2nd Pane inverted. Tone spots on first pane, otherwise fine | £240.00 |
| 46 | Booklet, 210 mills, without control numbers, 5 mills Type III with inverted wmk. Fine | £230.00 |
| 47 | Booklet, 120 mills, 5 mills Type III, one stamp on first pane has tone spot. Otherwise fine | £200.00 |
| | Second Fuad postal stationery | |
| 48 | 3 mills SPC 34 green white postcard used in good condition | £14.00 |
| 49 | 13 mills SPC35 red white postcard used | £13.00 |
| 50 | 13 mills red white postcard overstamped to UK, correct rate 10 mills | £12.00 |
| 51 | 13 mills SPC 35 red brown postcard overstamped to UK, correct rate 10 mills | £12.00 |
| 52 | 15 mills SRE 5 navy blue registered envelope, mint | £39.00 |
| 53 | 15 mills navy blue registered env used with 10 mills red. Exceptionally clear postmark (El Malaka Nazli) | £22.00 |
| 54 | 15 mills SRE6 dark blue registered envelope, mint | £27.00 |
| 55 | 15 mills SRE6 dark blue with additional 5x5mills to Berlin | £22.00 |
| 56 | 15 mills SRE7 plum registered envelope on white paper, mint | £25.00 |
| 57 | 15 mills SRE7 plum registered envelope with 40 mills + 2x4 mills POSTES to UK | £23.00 |
| 58 | 15 mills SRE7 plum registered envelope on cream paper, mint | £25.00 |
| 59 | 15 mills SRE7 plum registered envelope on cream paper, used with 20m + 5m POSTES to Geneva | £23.00 |
| | Second Fuad stamps used on cover | |
| 60 | 4 mills (block of 4x1mill), printed matter rate post Oct 1931 to Bordeaux. Very clean | £15.00 |
| 61 | 4 mills (2 mills SEN + 2 mills Postes), printed matter rate post Oct 1931 to Athens, clean | £15.00 |
| 62 | 15 mills (1,2,3,4,5 mills), foreign letter rate outside British Empire to Oct 1931 | £15.00 |
| 63 | 8 mills (5 + 3mills), Empire postcard rate to Oct 1931. Used to UK | £12.00 |
| 64 | 10 mills red, Empire postcard rate from Nov 1931. Used to UK | £15.00 |
| 65 | 10 mills violet, colour change, Oct 1934 postcard rate to UK | £15.00 |
| 66 | 5 mills understamped postcard to UK with 1d Postage Due | £18.00 |
| 67 | 10 mills understamped postcard to USA with 2 cents Postage Due | £18.00 |
| 68 | 20 mills olive green Air Mail rate to UK for one year to 1 Nov 1931, to promote the service | £21.00 |
| 69 | 40 mills including additional 12 mills charged by KLM for faster service | £25.00 |
| 70 | 20 mills Air Mail to Denmark, specially reduced rate for a short period in 1934 | £25.00 |
| 71 | 45 mills (4 x 10 mills + 4 mills + 1 mill) Air Mail for part of journey. Left Egypt 11 Aug 1933, arrived Germany 13 Aug, Groningen 14 Aug. The journey from Berlin to Groningen would be by rail. Clean cover includes “Par Avion Jusqu’a Allemagne” | £49.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 72 | 2 mills internal folded letter | £15.00 |
| 73 | 3 mills (2 + 1 mill) internal postcard with clear MANFALUT postmark | £19.00 |
| 74 | 26 mills (13 x 2 mills), internal Express letter post with POSTMEN CAIRO on reverse | £32.00 |
| 75 | 2 mills printed matter rate to Sweden (pre-Oct 1931 rate) | £15.00 |
| 76 | 4 mills green printed matter rate to UK (post-Oct 1931) | £15.00 |
| 77 | 130 mills (2 x 50 + 20 + 2 x 5 mills), foreign registered postal card to New York. Very clean | £29.00 |
| 78 | 195 mills (100 + 50 + 2 x 20 + 5 mills), registered postal card Alexandria to New Jersey | £29.00 |
| 79 | 175 miIls (100 + 50 + 20 + 5 mills), registered parcel card to Zurich (pink card) | £29.00 |
| 80 | 25 covers/postcards. Variable condition. Interesting postmarks (inc Rurals). BARGAIN | £5.00 |
| | Hotel stationery & postmarks – the following 9 lots are kindly donated by a member for sale on behalf of Circle funds | |
| 81 | Savoy Cairo – Hotel logo-printed stationery franked 1pi blue for France, perfect strike HSA2 of 6 I 02 TII. Unfortunately, front only but spectacular | £8.00 |
| 82 | 1905, upright b-w unusual postcard of Savoy Hotel front entrance (Lichtenstein/Harari), excellent condition, used with 2m DLR from Boulaq.Cairo 9 VIII 05 via Cairo to Ciney, Belgium. Good markings | £4.50 |
| 83 | Semiramis – 1890 5m postal stationery envelope (HG6, NP6), CTO with good strike of HSE1 4 I 09 TII | £5.00 |
| | Postcards | |
| 84 | 1891, somewhat battered b-w card of Kalabsha Temple (before it was moved!), with message “am now at the second cataract of the Nile, 1000 miles from Alexandria”. Franked 4m Sudan Camel Postman with illegible CDS and Travelling Post / Shellal- / Halfa 25 II 91 alongside. Faint Syracuse (NY) arrival | £4.00 |
| 85 | 1900, absolutely gorgeous series of five Morgenlandische Frauenschönheiten “beauties” colour cards (portraits of girls from Arabien, Indo-China, Armenien, Persien and Tatarei), all addressed from son to mother on the same day, all with Caire / bars 17 II 00 VIII CDS, and all properly franked with DLR 3m maroon (with upper Jubilee line) for en ville rate. One card Felice Lekisch practises his Arabic signature. Fascinating and beautiful, excellent condition | £15.00 |
| 86 | 1903, fine b-w card of Le Caire – Place de l’Opera & Monument Ibrahim Pacha (undivided back, no printer details), 2m DLR, sent from Ghezireh / Cairo 5 I 02 via Cairo to Huy (Nord) in Belgium. Neat | £3.00 |
| 87 | 1903, coloured card, fine condition, with amusing message including “we sail for Bombay tonight”, franked 2x2m DLR (one damaged) cancelled Port Said. Good Cincinnati / Station E machine arrival Dec 18 1903 | £4.00 |
| 88 | 1913, fine mezzogravure sepia card of Potsdam, with pair of 5m Deutsches Reich cancelled Potsdam 14.5 13, received excellent Alexandria-Cairo / TPO / Foreign Mails on arrival 20 V 3 en route to Cairo | £3.00 |
| 89 | Summer 1914, two cards of Torino, both with 2x5c Italian stamps, one cds Torino, other Venaria, both received excellent TPOs on arrival, first Alex-Cai as above, second Port-Said-Cairo. Neat pair | £4.00 |
| | Postal stationery - used | |
| 90 | 1892, 1890-issue 5m letter-envelope (HG2, NP SLS2), used from Helouan 5 VIII 92 TIII to Cairo (arrival mark same day), full message in German inside. Fine condition | £6.00 |
| 91 | 1893, 1891-issue postal stationery card with 3m on 5m surcharge (NP SPC5) cancelled Caire D 16 II 93 and (self?-)addressed to Hotel du Nil in Cairo. Message in German, crayon 18 possible room number | £8.00 |
| 92 | 1907, 1892-issue 2m on 3m provisional postcard (HG12, NP12), written in Douair and posted from Sidfa 15 JL 07 to Hastings. Fine condition | £5.00 |
| 93 | 1910, 1889-issue 1m wrapper (HG1, NP1), sent by N Spathis (lemonade manufacturers, neat bilingual violet oval cachet) from Cairo to Mrs de Witt Loomis at Shepheards Hotel. Amazingly perfect | £5.00 |
| 94 | 1925, 10 mills red Colossi of Memnon registered postal stationery env (NP SRE3, typo De La Rue), uprated with 10m First Fuad and sent from Alex R.1 4 MA 25 to Faggala, Cairo | £40.00 |
| 95 | 1942, 1939-issue 5m Boy King stationery envelope with “Expediteur” behind (NP SEN 32, uprated with 1m Boy King and Arabic-addressed from Atfih (27 AU 42, faint) to Saff via Cairo machine transit. Scarce cover, but unfortunately pinhole affects both vignette and stamp, hence | £24.00 |
| 96 | 1946, 1944-issue 25m air letter (HG1, NP1), most unusually uprated with 2m Marechal on reverse and sent from Cairo 16 JL 46 to Athens (arrival mark). Endorse “TWA please”. Full message in Greek, fine | £6.00 |
| 97 | 1952, 4m Farouk Marechal visiting-card envelope (NP SEN37), Arabic addressed and sent from Alexandria 22 7 57 (one day before the Revolution) to Dessouk. Stamp also cancelled with strange circular negative seal (initials?) | £10.00 |
| 98 | 1964 Air Letter, 80m magenta/grey-blue on white (Nefertiti, NP SALS5), addressed to Paris and cancelled with excellent and unusual strike Almaza Aeroport 24 OC 67 (123 months later than Sears records). Egyptian censor, full message in Arabic. Fine clean copy | £16.00 |
| 99 | 1966 Air Letter, 115m blue/rose-pink on white with list of countries on back, NP SALS 9, addressed to Canada, Alex machine cancel 6 12 70 and part Egyptian censor mark. Full message in Arabic | £14.00 |
| 100 | 1966 Air Letter, 140m brown/yellow on white with list of countries on back, NP SALS10, addressed to Canada, Alex machine cancel 18 8 71 and part Egyptian censor mark. Full message in Arabic | £14.00 |
| 101 | 1967, 1966-67 4mills minaret small-envelope (HG41, NP47, no wmk), sent from Foua (all-Arabic pmk) 18 3 67 to Ministry of Health in Cairo. Excellent condition | £4.00 |
| 102 | 1968, 1966-67 4 mills minaret small envelope (HG41, NP48, large eagles wmk), uprated with 1m UAR definitive (SG603, Arabic-addressed and used En Ville Cairo | £8.00 |
| 103 | 2005-06, 42 used examples of the Post Office’s new green-logo window envelope, used on official business, addressed to various towns and villages and covered with a plethora of postal markings. All apparently returned as undeliverable and unopened | £12.00 |
| 104 | 2007, £E2 ½ cassette envelope (NP3?, but flap A, 155x125mm, DSAR 38mm, LAR 71-72mm,no baseline), officially overprinted all-Arabic rectangular cachet Cancelled, and then used for registration from all-Arabic Sheikh Zayed / Ismailia CDS 2 5 2007. Excellent condition | £5.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint | |
| 105 | 1892 provisional envelope, 5 mills on 2 pi (146x111mm, HG7, NP8), mint, pristine with two opt varieties – left-hand 5 is deformed with blob between upright and bar and Arabic letter “qaf” broken and so looks like an ‘ayin. Unrecorded varieties | £10.00 |
| 106 | 1907 provisional 2m on 3m postcard, HG12, NP12). Perfect mint condition | £4.00 |
| 107 | 1949-issue 25m air letter (HG4, NP4), printed by the Survey Department, wmk Arabic. Pristine | £6.00 |
| 108 | 2007-08?, two mint cassette envelopes £E2 1/2 (NP3? but flap A, 157x125mm, DSAR28mm, LAR 71-2, no baseline) and £E1 (NP9? maroon/green but background definitely 45-degree screen). Both with large black official Arabic rectangular handstamp Cancelled. Pristine mint | £8.00 |
| | Postal stationery - military | |
| 109 | 5 I 18, 1917-issue 3m Ras el Tin postcard (HG25, NP25), used from Giza (Branch), via Alexandria transit to a sergeant at “Wireless Station, Sollum, WF (ie, Western Front)”. Postcard vignette a most odd colour, sepia-orange, because card appears to have been washed clear of its original message (and postmark) and reused. Sl wear, but strikingly odd | £9.00 |
| 110 | 5 DE 18, 10 millièmes De La Rue Colossi 1913-issue registered envelope (NP SCE2) sent from Qantara (Reg cachet Kantara alongside) to 9758 Latifa Hanem held in Turkish Prisoner of War camp in Abbassia. Bilingually addressed, triple censored (P of W / Central Censorship / Bureau in red; chamfered Passed / Censor / 4 faint black; Opened by Censor label). Army Post Office / SZ10 of 7 DE on face, overlapping military CDS markings on reverse. Opened for display, worn but most unusual | £145.00 |
| 111 | 8 III 19, almost precisely similar to last, but addressee is Madame ...?, camp is specified as Preston Barracks, PoW censor is violet, no chamfered censor, censor label is full. Five markings on reverse: APO SZ10 9 Mr, Cairo RA1 9Mr, Field Post Office GM2 10 MR, APO SZ10 10Mr, and finally Field Post Office SZ12(?) 11 MR. Not opened out, worn but still stunning | £145.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 112 | 1923, small folded lawyer's printed perf-edge entire with message in Arabic, franked Harrison 15m (SG 41) for registration (2/3 Reg cachet alongside) from Abbassia 20 SE 23) to Cairo. Unusual | £5.00 |
| 113 | 1925, Grey wrapper for magazine Al Musawar sent from Cairo to Abu Tig (typed address label) and franked with 1m First Fuad, printed matter rate. Unusual, CDS 50% | £5.00 |
| 114 | 1926, small and much-travelled folded note seemingly originally sent from Giza Maglis Hasby (Family Council) to Saff via Mazghouna. On return received clear Borombol Rural cartouche, but Rural CDS faint and obliterated by later use of resealing label | £14.00 |
| 115 | 1933, small cover sent from Cairo / T 20 AP 33, Arabic-addressed to President of Maglis Hasby, Saff (hence “official”, no stamp required). Provided with De La Rue 5m stamp, which then obliterated with two (pen-top?) marks and surrounded by three boxed-T stamps. Transit TPO of Fayum-Cairo & VV (50%, type 7A2, recorded only Nov 1929) and Saff arrival behind. Intriguing | £45.00 |
| 116 | 1942, US shipping company long buff envelope addressed to US, Air Mail endorsement cancelled with bars, franked horiz pair Marechal 200m, vert pair 50m plus 10m Boy King, all cancelled Port Taufiq-Ismailia & V.V. (TPO type 7A3.5) 7 AP 42. Both Egyptian and US censor resealing labels | £36.00 |
| 117 | 1947, Arabic-addressed registered cover franked 2x10m Farouk Marechal plus 10m Evacuation commem (SG 339), sent from Cairo / R.D.1 on 7 SE 47 to Asyut Hospital, with Aswan Reservoir CDS behind | £7.00 |
| 118 | 1972, Ut sint Unum, monthly Catholic magazine (single page folded to four, franked 1mill AR Egypt stamp (SG1131) and sent from Alexandria to Cairo, Excellent condition | £5.00 |
| 119 | 1986, Arabic addressed cover sent from Kafr el Sheikh 14 6 86 to Cairo but franked with 20h Saudi stamp in addition to Egyptian 5pi definitive (SG 1578). Most unusual franking – how was it not spotted? | £10.00 |
| | Egypt military interest | |
| 120 | 1948, small cover, addressed in Arabic in green ink to Matai (Minya; arrival CDS behind). No franking, but at top right is most unusual unrecorded negative seal Barid Harby Al-Qantara Shark (ie, Military Post, Qantara East). Triangular military censor mark also on face. Very striking | £28.00 |
| | Advertising covers/cards | |
| 121 | 1903, colour postcard with scene of dahabeah on Nile, large Hemeley Egyptian Cigarettes packet portrayed alongside with printed(?)advertising message in Danish. 2m DLR, from Cairo / D 17 XI 03 and addressed to Copenhagen | £28.00 |
| 122 | 1939, colourful Shell Specialised Lubrication card advising that “when your speedometer reads 21,073km [inserted by hand] you are very near the danger line” and offering a service at the Ibrahimia service station on the Corniche. Franked 3m Boy King and sent En Ville. Neat | £7.00 |
| 123 | 1953, colourful envelope of El Hilal Films (face) advertising on reverse new movie Le Couple Ideal starring Samia Gamal and Mohamed Marei (pictured). Franked with republic 3x20m defence (SG 422)+3m+4m (SG 417,497). Sent from Cairo to Bombay (clear arrival 5 II 55) | £8.00 |
| | Parcel cards | |
| 124 | 1997-2006, 13 parcel cards (blue, yellow, green) covered with myriad definitives (up to £E2, with several blocks of 5x2 various values noted) and revenues. Folds as ever but generally good condition, with several legible postmarks | £6.60 |
| | Express mail | |
| 125 | 1947, bilingual printed envelope (Naguib Ibrahim, Marchand – Tailleur, Alexandrie), Arabic-addressed to Cairo and franked single 40m Express stamp. Postmark Alex 26 FE47, faint Cairo arrival behind. Clean | £28.00 |
| 126 | 1950s? Most unusual small cover franked on reverse with block of eight 5-mill Air Mail (SG 433) to pay Express fee to Cairo. Cancelled with unclear but unrecorded TPO/ Asyut-Luqsor (as 6A1.4) | £10.00 |
| 127 | 1954-1966, small collection of 12 assorted covers, all with Express markings or franked at Express rate. Mixed lot of adhesives, interesting group for study | £15.00 |
| | Official stamps and mail | |
| 128 | 1915, 4m DLR vermilion overprinted bilingual O.H.H.S. with Arabic with hamza (SG O89, NP O16), full pristine lower right pane of 100 stamps with control 1 in circle and selvedge on top three sides including decorative effect at left. Includes variety “broken Arabic r” on stamp 24 (174 on the sheet). VF mint, hinged on selvedge only | £98.00 |
| 129 | 1916, small buff envelope Arabic-addressed to Ahmed Bey Shoukry, Helmiya el Gadida, and sent unfranked (Official oval top left and CDS of Hilwan 10 VIII 16. Cairo H arrival same day. Clean | £6.00 |
| 130 | 1936, long buff OHMS env, Arabic addressed, franking paid by Official oval of District Survey Office, Assiout, sent to Cairo registered with black/ red Official Reg label over envelope’s OHMS printing. Outgoing CDS is rare Asyut / (Etat) 7 JA 36; arrival Cairo Delivery / RA1. Neat cover | £7.00 |
| | Post Office forms | |
| 131 | 1931, 1923-issue buff Post Office Enquiry form (210x300mm), furnished with 10m deep red Second Fuad and postal order counterfoil for 800m attached. Query about lost registered item sent from Cairo / E 18 NO 33 and responded to by faint Kafr Ammar CDS in blue next day with postmaster’s seal in violet alongside. Spectacular | £34.00 |
| 132 | 1905-06, Five Post Office receipt forms - Nos 2I, 4G (2 types), and 177A) for deposit declaration and insured letters and box service, properly used and provided with clear and scarce handstamps – Magaga (2), El-Fashn, Minya, Samallut. Unusual, fine condition | £14.00 |
| | Resealing labels | |
| 133 | Mixed collection of 17 used covers, all resealed with “Found Open” labels, 1936-1999. Two parcel cards, 6 internal, others from UK, India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, AUE, Hong Kong, Brazil. Good lot for study | £40.00 |
| 134 | Type 4 “Found Open” label (1923), mint top marginal block of four, sl creasing but NH mint fine condition | £5.00 |
| 135 | Type 8 “Found Open” label (1935), full sheet of 20 with variety of marked printing flaws, VF NH mint | £20.00 |
| 136 | Type 9 “Found Open” label (19968-9), full sheet of 20, VF NH mint | £20.00 |
| 137 | Accumulation of mint “Found Open” labels, including Type 12 block of 10 plus full sheet of 20, and full sheets of 20 of Types 13-16. Fine condition, unusual | £25.00 |
| | Trilingual Telegram | |
| 138 | 1944, Palestine telegram form with all instructions in English, Hebrew, Arabic, sent from Jerusalem 28 AP 44 to Adly Pasha Street, Cairo, Palestinian company denying insurance responsibility for lost goods | £6.00 |
| | Hotel interest | |
| 139 | 1891, 3m surcharge on 5m DLR card (NP SPC5), pristine mint, with Simon Arzt Egyptian Cigaret Manufactory logo and letterhead on reverse, with message “Purveyors to HH the Khedive”. Striking | £18.00 |
| 140 | 1898, much travelled Austrian 2-kreuzer postal stationery card uprated with 3-kr stamp, sent first to Shepheards Hotel (Type HS5 CDS), then redirected to Continental Hotel (Type HC1c), and then back to Shepheards. Two further markings, a boxed Non Reclamé and a red Bureau des Rebuts, mean the card was not delivered and ended in the Dead Letter office. A showpiece for Hotel enthusiasts | £150.00 |
| 141 | 1899, 1pi postal stationery Enveloppe-Letter (NP SLS3) addressed to Geneva and cancelled with two strikes of double-ring Luxor Hotel CDS (Type HL1) 11 III 99 T.2. Neat Geneva Facteurs behind. Rare and clean | £100.00 |
| 142 | 1901, b/w PPC (Garée de Kantara) franked French PO Port-Said red opt on 10 black, cancelled Port Said / Egypte 14 NOV 01 and addressed to Germany (Marienberg arrival 21 11 01. Red circular cachet Egyptian Cigarettes Manufactory / Simon Arzt / Port-Said at top right. Clean, neat card | £20.00 |
| 143 | 1902, incoming cover franked strip of 3x1d Edward VII Transvaal stamps and addressed to the Manager, Savoy Hotel, Cairo. Sent from Johannesburg 2 May 02, oval South African Press Censor, Cairo transit and faint Grand Continental Hotel (why Continental?) arrival 12 V 02 (HC2). Readdressed in red to Zurich and arrived 28 VI 02. Neat and colourful | £28.00 |
| 144 | 1906, small envelope (crossed anchor and key logo behind) addressed to Germany and franked 1pi blue DLR, cancelled Port Said 5 VII 06. Small circular Simon Arzt / Egyptian Cigarettes / Port-Said cachet in black alongside franking. Clean | £20.00 |
| 145 | 1927, Shepheard’s printed cover with 5m First Fuad and Hotel HS7 cancel of 19 X 27 addressed to Commercial Attaché of American Legation in Cairo | £18.00 |
| 146 | 1932, Clean cover addressed to Zurich, franked with horiz pair of Second Fuad 20m (SG163) for registration and cancelled with Luxor Winter Palace CDS 28 FE 32 in blue (Type HW5) with blue reg cachet alongside. Transit strikes of Napoli, Swiss arrival behind. Striking | £120.00 |
| 147 | 1935, Shepheard’s printed cover addressed St Moritz and franked with 2x1m, 3m and 30m of 1933 Air Mail stamps, and bilingual Par Avion sticker. Cancelled Shepheards HS8 25 JA 35 | £25.00 |
| 148 | 1936, Shepheard’s illustrated cover addressed to Berne, franked 3m+30m 1933 Air Mails and cancelled with Hotel cancel HS8 of 10 FE 36. Cairo, Roma transit marks behind | £18.00 |
| 149 | 1938, Air Mail envelope addressed to Switzerland and franked 3+30m 1933 Air, cancelled Winter Palace Hotel cancel HW6 of 28 JA 38 | £18.00 |
| 150 | 1944, off-white envelope franked Boy King strip of 3x15m+2m for Air Mail to UK, cancelled by Cooks CDS Type 5 of 20 IX 44 (70%). Clear Censorship Dept circle alongside | £8.00 |
| 151 | 1939, incoming cover from Paris (left 1 Juin 1939, franked 2fr25 New York exhibition) addressed c/o Cook’s office in Cairo, redirected to Neuilly in France with Cook (Cairo) markings (Type HTC10) 7 JU 39 8-9A in arrival and 4-5P after redirection. | £10.00 |
| 152 | 1949, Air Mail env addressed to USA and franked 22m Marechal (SG 301) + 40m Air (SG 330), cancelled with unusual Continental Savoy Hotel Cash type HC12. Censor mark alongside | £25.00 |
| 153 | 1967, Official printed long cover (1961-62 issue) franked 5m and 50m Officials (SG O687,689), cancelled El Mugama / PO Midan / el Tahrir / R 26 2 67 and sent across the square to Nile Hilton Hotel. Two strikes of House to House Delivery CDS and Hilton Type HN3 arrival CDS behind. Unusual | £35.00 |
| 154 | 1967, 1965-66 issue smaller Official cover, franked 5x10m and one 35m Officials (SG O921,924), sent from Mugama 30 7 67 to Nile Hilton, where HN3 applied on arrival 2 8 67. Still unusual | £30.00 |
| | Ship mail interest | |
| 155 | 1895, incoming printed cover from Bombay, franked India Queen Victoria 2-anna stamp cancelled 30 NO 95. Transit marks of Sea Post Office same day, Suez 9 II and finally Caire A next day. All on reverse, neat | £18.00 |
| 156 | 1904, postcard piece with 5m DLR and large portions of three strikes (one on reverse) of Piroscafo Postale Italiano – Nuova Orleans 31 AGO 1904 | £10.00 |
| 157 | As last, similar piece with 2m DLR, same date, two part-strikes | £10.00 |
| 158 | 1924, Lloyd Triestino perfinned 60c Italian stamp posted on board SS Asia(?) for Cairo. Brindisi b/w card, and cancel is Brindisi Centro / Arrivi-Partenze 10 3 24 | £10.00 |
| 159 | Alexandria Paquebot – two items. 1, small fragment with two French stamps cancelled Alex Paquebot CDS 24 DE 38. 2, fine clean 1969 folded advertising letter from Mauritius franked four bird stamps totalling 20c cancelled Port Louis 8 JA 69. Alex Paq CDS is 28 AP and Cairo machine arrival is 29 4 69 | £9.00 |
| 160 | 1940, sepia card, good condition, of Egyptian liner Zamzam steaming to right. Postally used with Arabic message from Gedda to Cairo (stamp taken and sl corner crease but generally fine condition) | £10.00 |
| 161 | 1954, 16pp b-w photo-brochure announcing the launch of the Khedivial Mail Line’s de-luxe new vessels Mecca and Gumhuryat Misr, with colour card cover. All comfort aspects illustrated, with list of worldwide agents. Good condition; someone has added handwritten list of vessels to outer back cover | £12.00 |
| | Revenues | |
| 162 | 1944 Arabic handwritten document issued in Aleppo and provided with mixed Syrian (four stamps) and Egyptian revenues, latter comprising 2x200 mills (Royal Crest, Feltus 423, page 47) cancelled with large crowned cachet in blue of Egyptian Royal Consulate in Beyrouth | £10.00 |
| | Salt Tax | |
| 163 | 1897, Ministry of Finance Salt Department receipt 215x175mm completed and with Balliana CDS 24 FE 97 and large blue-green departmental handstamp above. Interestingly, “signed” by intaglio seal impressions of Controller, Chief of Section, Receiver and two witnesses – not a single actual signature | £8.00 |
| | Revenues used for franking | |
| 164 | 1981, Arabic-addressed cover from Tanta 20 2 81 franked with Syndicate of Education Professionals 20m revenue (Feltus 731, page 82) instead of normal. Addressed to Cairo. Same-day arrival | £8.00 |
| 165 | 1986, Arabic-addressed cover used within Cairo 17 7 86, franked with unrecorded 10mills turquoise Medical Profession Syndicate revenue instead of normal stamp. | £8.00 |
| | Sinai interest | |
| 166 | 1991, most unusual commemorative postcard (limited edition no 15) printed for Austrian Military Forces in Sinai on occasion of 75th year of operations in the Suez Canal area. Franked with 1991 Cairo Stamp Exhibition 10pi (SG1798) and cancelled with El Arish PO CDS. Unused otherwise, clean, neat | £7.00 |
| 167 | 2002-2004, two internal covers sent to Sinai and returned as undeliverable, franked with £E1 stamps (2002 is AR) and receiving a mass of different Sinai cancellations – Ras Sedr, Sharm el-Sheikh, Suez, Ismailia, Ganoub Sina, Tor Sina etc (not all in English). AR cover has handstamp explaining return | £8.00 |
| | Maxi cards | |
| 168 | 2008, 150pi stamp on face of Al-Azhar Mosque cards and cancelled “Alexandria, Capital of Islamic Culture”. One (folded) forms Eid greeting from Egypt Post unused, other (single) unused | £6.00 |
| | Rural Service | |
| 169 | 1916, double censored cover from Tima to Deum in Sudan. Franked De La Rue 5 mills pictorial (SG 77) cancelled with double-bridge Tima-Hosna 9 JUL 1916. On reverse are strikes of Tima, Asyut-Luqsor TPO, El Shallal, Khartoum and Ed Duem 22 VII as well as large Sudan Opened by Censor / 8 cancelled by boxed-K marking. Spectacular | £90.00 |
| | TPO markings on cover | |
| 170 | 1917-1953, mini-collection four covers and two folded letters, with Fuad/Farouk frankings or Official endorsement:, and all with legible TPO cancels: three Cairo-Asyut (7A3, 7A3.7 both sizes), two Alex-Cairo (5A2, 7A3.7), one with both Cairo-Tanta (7A3.4) and Minuf-Kafr el Zayat (7A3.4) | £20.00 |
| | Booklet stamps on cover | |
| 171 | 1921-1956, mini-collection of three covers: 1921, Harrison 5m (SG89, top perfs trimmed), Arabic-addressed cover Girga-Cairo; 1923, Harrison 5m (SG 90, bottom perfs trimmed), Arabic-addressed cover Zifta to Cairo; 1956, 10m Defense (SG 419, top selvedge attached), Arabic-addressed cover Fayum to Saray el Gezira, Cairo (machine arrival) | £28.00 |
| | Egypt stamps cancels | |
| 172 | 1879 De La Rue 1pi rose (SG47) used in Smirne, date illegible, SMIR clear | £5.00 |
| 173 | 1872-75, Third Issue 1pi, unclear cancel and violet negative star in circle handstamp | £6.00 |
| | Sudan covers | |
| 174 | 1951, neat incoming cover from Khartoum (machine cancel), “franked” by bilingual boxed violet Postage Paid cachet in stamp position. Addressed Finance Ministry, Cairo (arrival 6 JLY 1951) | £6.00 |
| | Literature – buyer to pay postage costs | |
| 175 | The Times Book of Egypt, 26 Jan 1937, 137pp, 19x25cm, packed with basic information including 40 pages of illustrations and 13 pages of advertisements. First page a dedication (printed) by the young Farouk. Map of Egypt inside front and back covers. Heavy, but wonderful | £40.00 |
| 176 | With Kitchener to Khartum, by G W Steevens, sixth edition, 358pp, hardback, 13x19cm, packed with maps and plans, a classic. Heavy for postage! | £10.00 |
| 177 | Philatelic History of Jordan: 1922-1953, by RT Ledger, MBE (Jerusalem 1953), paperback, 17x24cm, 142 pages, many illustrations, some of them in colour, with maps, diagrams, postmark illustrations; overall a comprehensive and detailed guide to the first 30 years. A must for the Jordan collector. Fine | £25.00 |
| 178 | Michael M Sacher, Government “Certified Official” & Post Office cachets of the British Mandate of Palestine (1981), paperback, A4, 90pp, BAPIP monograph, exhaustive multi-illustrated listing, excellent condition | £5.00 |
| 179 | Tel-Aviv Stamps (Y.Tsachor Ltd), 15 lavishly-illustrated catalogues dating between May 5 1999 and Mar 5 2008 describing a wealth of Holy Land/Palestine/Israel stamps and postal history | £5.00 |
| 180 | Miscellany of a dozen items all relating to Overland Mail research, including several articles by Gordon Ward and three complete copies of The Philatelist, with catalogues, photocopies etc | £5.00 |
| 181 | Sudan, The Postal Markings 1967-1970 by E.C.W. Stagg, an immaculate hardback copy formerly Robin Bertram’s, but no dust cover (if there ever was one?) | £8.00 |
| 182 | Sudan, The Postal Markings 1967-1970; as last but a ringbound photocopy in good condition | £3.00 |
| 183 | Sudan, The Postal Markings of the Travelling Post Offices 1887-1989; supplement by J.F. Dight, a slim ten-page pamphlet | £1.50 |
| 184 | Stamps and Posts of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Gisburn, H. and Thompson, G.S. publ. by Stanley Gibbons Ltd. 1947. A slim hardback volume in very good condition. No dust cover | £5.00 |
| 185 | L’Egypte des Pharaons et le Timbre Post. Scarce book, hard cover, pages loose in sections as published in French in 1950 by Hélio Vaugirard, the French stamp printers. Important are 12 black/white full page illustrations with coloured reproductions of the stamps on which they appear. Plus a full colour illustration of Nefertiti. All in slip case. | £80.00 |
| 186 | 1898, Willard Fiske, All About Postal Matters in Egypt (Harry Hayes reprint, 1977), 24 A5 pages with added foreword detailing Fiske’s quixotic attempt to persuade Egypt to use European instead of Arabic script. Rare, unusual, excellent condition | £4.00 |
| 187 | 1920, List of Names of Mudirias, Principal Towns and Villages forming Fiscal Units (Min of Finance), photocopy version of book invaluable for tracing part-postmarks, listing every town and village in English and Arabic. Photocopy version, A4, spiral bound, 179 pages but unaccountably missing page 99! | £12.00 |
| 188 | 1981, Robson Lowe, The “Royal” Collection of Egypt (plus Parsons Collection of Ottoman Empire), 60 A5 pages crammed with material ex Byam, Mackenzie-Low, Fuad and Farouk, many rare and unique. Excellent condition | £4.00 |
| 189 | 1981, Palestine: Stamps (1865-1981), published in Cairo and Beirut, completely detailing the progression from the Ottoman period to the liberation movement of 1967 and thereafter; listing thematic stamps on Palestine issued by other countries and postmarks used up to 1981. Richly illustrated in colour, hard back, 70pp, 21x24.5cm, pristine condition | £12.00 |
| 190 | 1994, The London Philatelist (Vol 103, Nos 1212-1218), six pristine copies of the Royal Philatelic Society magazine with six sections of the late Samir Fikry’s extensive illustrated article on “Egypt: Rarities from Before the Twentieth Century”. No 1217: Peter Smith 3pp on Egypt-UK postal rates | £7.60 |
| 191 | 2006, Cairo: The Practical Guide (15th edition). American University Press guide to how to live in Cairo, with infinite detail of how to get about, where to eat, where to stay, how and where to buy vegetables, where to have your shirt pressed etc etc including basic Arabic, consumer directory, addresses phones | £6.00 |
| 192 | 2008, Alberto Siliotti, Alexandria and the North Coast. New American University guide in 48 pages, 115x215mm, lavishly illustrated with 170 photos, maps, drawings, Alex-Alamein. Pristine | £4.00 |
| 193 | 2008, Michael Haag, Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City 1860-1960. Brand=new, with dust-jacket in plastic wrap, American University publication, 140pp 26x26cm, packed with ancient photos and commentary by TE Alex expert: people (including the lovely Eve Cohen, Lawrence Durrell’s “Justine”), places (Ramleh station, Ras el Tin, Cook’s Corner), maps, trams, hotels. The lot. Fantastic | £15.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint - postcards | |
| 194 | 1884, 20pa+20pa reply postcards (H&G2, NP 2), fine condition, sl sun-browning on Réponse back | £3.00 |
| 195 | As last, hinge remains on reverse of Réponse card, otherwise fine | £2.00 |
| 196 | 1894, 3m+3m reply postcards (HG8, NP8), fine condition, sl sun-browning on Réponse back | £4.00 |
| 197 | As last, excellent condition | £4.50 |
| 198 | 1899, 4m on 5m surcharge postcard (HG9, NP9), unrecorded variety Arabic “re” short in al-qirsh. Good | £6.00 |
| 199 | 1899, 4m on 5m surcharge card, two varieties, no accent and first I and second M of Millièmes thin (HG9 unrecorded, NP 9a). Excellent condition | £7.00 |
| 200 | 1899, 4m/5m+4m/5m reply cards surcharged, variety second E of Millièmes broken on both cards (HG10 unrecorded, NP10a). Excellent condition | £12.00 |
| 201 | 1946, 6m Farouk Marechal green (HG40, NP41), mint card, pristine | £11.00 |
| 202 | 1946, 13m Farouk Marechal carmine (HG41, NP42), mint card, near-pristine | £12.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint - envelopes | |
| 203 | 1888, 1pi ultramarine (HG2, NP2), fine condition | £1.00 |
| 204 | 1889, 1m brown visiting card (HG4, NP4), fine condition (2), one 2mk upright, one wmk inverted | £2.00 |
| 205 | 1902, 1pi blue-grey (HG2b, NP2b), slight sun staining | £2.00 |
| 206 | 1928, 2m grey Fuad (HG24, NP27), wmk vertical, good condition | £4.50 |
| 207 | 1955, 4m second fellah (HG39, NP43), wmk Type II horizontal (NP43a), pristine mint | £4.50 |
| 208 | 1967, 10m Eagle of Saladin (HG43, NP 49), no filigree inside, pristine mint | £3.50 |
| 209 | 1972, 10m Ramadan iris (HG48, NP54), one normal plus one with Arabic printing shifted upwards (NP 54a), pristine | £3.50 |
| 210 | 1972, 20m sepia Metwalli Gate (HG47, NP55), pristine mint (2), dark and light shades | £2.00 |
| 211 | 1972 as last, but watermarked Large Eagles (clear), so NP 55b, pristine mint | £3.50 |
| 212 | 1975, 10m Ramadan Festival (Belmabgoknis flower, NP56), mint, perfect (2), dark, light shades | £2.00 |
| 213 | 1985-86?, envelope as last, uprated with 1pi and 3pi of 1985-86 definitive issue, as sold at the Post Office for 5pi rate. Value in last line of Arabic on reverse crossed through. Perfect mint | £2.00 |
| 214 | 1991, 10pi Philatelic Exhibition (NP57), perfect | £1.00 |
| 215 | Accumulation – seven 1888-1902 mint covers, mixed condition. NP2(2),2a,3a(2),4,5,6. Priced to go at | £5.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint - registered envelopes | |
| 216 | 1929, 15m dark blue Fuad embossed registered envelope (HG4, NP5, Harrison & Sons under flap, litho printing). V. slight surface wear but a rare envelope | £30.00 |
| 217 | 1934, 15m Fuad embossed plum (HG5, NP7), Survey of Egypt printing, flap stuck down, otherwise excellent condition | £22.00 |
| 218 | 1938-39, 15m red-violet Boy King (HG7, NP8), impeccable pristine mint, PO-fresh | £37.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint – registered letter sheet | |
| 219 | 1969, 55m brown violet on white, pale green overlay (HG1, NP1), pristine mint | £2.00 |
| 220 | As last, with flaw on U of UAR (break in first leg), pristine mint | £2.00 |
| 221 | As last, with U first leg completely broken to appear as JAR instead of UAR (NP1a), pristine mint | £4.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint – air letters | |
| 222 | 1970, 30m aerogramme (Arab countries rate, HG14, NP14), mint, fine condition | £2.00 |
| 223 | As last, uprated 20m+50m of 1972-76 definitive set (NP312,314), as sold at Post Office for 100m rate | £2.00 |
| 224 | As last, uprated 2x20m+50m of 1972-76 definitive set (NP312,314), as sold at Post Office for 120m rate | £2.00 |
| 225 | 1971, 100m Sphinx, UAR (HG15, NP 15), good condition | £2.50 |
| 226 | 1976-1984, 45-60-120-210m, complete set of four pristine aerogrammes (N17-20), pristine | £3.50 |
| 227 | 1976-84, 60m (NP18), distinct shades (2), dark and light, pristine | £2.50 |
| 228 | 1976-84, 120m (NP19), distinct shades (2), dark and light, pristine | £2.50 |
| 229 | 1976-84, 210m (NP20), distinct shades (2), dark and light, pristine | £2.50 |
| 230 | As last, uprated 1pi+3pi of 1985 definitive set (NP335,338), as sold at Post Office to cover 5pi rate | £2.00 |
| 231 | ca 1983, 55m registered letter sheet uprated with 5m 1978 definitive (NP 21) and handstamped bilingual Air Mail for use as 60m (Arab countries) air letter sheet. Excellent condition mint | £35.00 |
| | Postal stationery - mint – Sudan envelopes | |
| 232 | 1897, 5m carmine (NP6) with bilingual overprint Soudan and equivalent. Mint pristine | £2.00 |
| 233 | 1897, 1pi blue (NP2) with bilingual overprint Soudan and equivalent. Mint pristine | £2.00 |
| | Postal stationery - used | |
| 234 | 1879 20-para brown, Egypt’s first card (HG1, NP1), neatly cancelled Mansourah / Depart 2 JU 82, arrival Alexandrie / Arrivee same day.. Neatly addressed, clean neat card | £3.00 |
| 235 | 1888 5m carmine envelope (HG6, NP6, uprated with 5m De La Rue adhesive for registration from Badreshen 22 VI 10 11.15AM (100% info strike and reg cachet alongside) to Giza (Giza Succursale on reverse 4.30PM) Clean and neat | £4.00 |
| 236 | 1888, 2pi orange envelope (HG3, NP3) addressed to Holland and cancelled Port Tawfik / Suez 10 OC 99 TI (80%). Roermond arrival 18 OCT behind, good | £2.50 |
| 237 | 1899 4 millièmes on 5 millièmes surcharged stationery reply card with variety, acute instead of grave accent on the E (H&G10, NP10c). Face card is cancelled to order with Shepheard’s Hotel (Type HS6) of 4 III 08. Reply card is not cancelled, but still attached (just). Clean and neat. | £4.50 |
| 238 | 1913, 1m brown felucca wrapper (HG3, NP3), uprated with 1m and 10m First Fuad and wrapped around a message sent Registered (Cairo black on white label behind) from Cairo 8 DE 24 to uncommon CDS Nazla (arrival two days later). Most unusual | £10.00 |
| 239 | 1922, 10m carmine colossi (HG3, NP3) registered envelope, very neatly used, uprated with 5m pink Crown opt and provided with two wax seals (initials LM) and Cairo black on white Reg label, sent from Cairo / R D 5 2 FE 23 10.30A to Kasr el Dubara (Cairo R A 2 arrival 2pm). Clean and pretty | £14.00 |
| 240 | 1931, 3m Ras el Tin dark green card (HG31, NP 32), Arabic addressed and message, perfect and rare Wahat el Dakhla (ie Dakhla Oasis) CDS on vignette 24 JA 33. Registration handstamp obliterated behind. Absolutely stunning | £35.00 |
| 241 | 1937, 4m green Fuad wrapper (HG9, NP9), neatly addressed (manuscript) to Kafr el Cheikh and cancelled spot-on 1 / Cairo 14 JL 38. No other postal marking. Complete, sl central bend, otherwise perfect | £50.00 |
| 242 | 1939, 2m Boy King visiting-card envelope (vignette 18mm wide so HG29, NP31), vertical wmk, Arabic-addressed within Cairo, cancelled Cairo machine 29 APR 1940, card enclosed. | £12.00 |
| 243 | 1946-50, 6m green Farouk Marechal card (HG40, NP 41, Arabic-addressed and message both sides, cancelled with most unusual El Sal’a CDS of 25 MR 50. Card worn corners, but striking | £8.00 |
| 244 | 1965, 10m Eagle of Saladin envelope (HG42, NP 44), Arabic addressed (Asyut machine arrival behind) from indistinct CDS 23 JU 65 | £3.00 |
| 245 | 1975, 10m belmabgoknis flower cover (NP56), uprated with 1p+3p of 1985-86 definitive issue, as sold over PO counter with value on reverse crossed through, Arabic-addressed and posted from El Arish / T / (date illegible). Contents remain | £3.50 |
| | Interpostals | |
| 246 | 1871, Kehr V 159, Dardanelli black on lemon, excellent mint condition, 80 per cent gum remains | £4.50 |
| 247 | 1874-76, Kehr Vb 195, Godaba ochre on white, neat used, part-strike VR Poste Egiz / 12… Excellent | £2.00 |
| 248 | 1874-78, Kehr Vc Kena 298, Kena red on white, with faint but undoubted half-strike of bilingual Smith Type V-4, date unclear. Excellent IP | £6.00 |
| 249 | 1874-78, Kehr Vc 296, Karaskou grey-violet on white, part-strike (one fifth) bilingual CDS …”86”. Fine | £4.00 |
| 250 | 1878, Kehr Type VI, embossed, Arabic “rt” open, indigo on dark brown, fine mint, sl adhesion behind | £3.00 |
| 251 | 1880, Kehr Types VIII/VIIIa 533/649, Enchasse used with third-strike CDS, clean and neat, no date | £2.50 |
| 252 | 1880, Kehr Types VIII-VIIIa, 59 mint examples, all different apart from shades or gum/no gum. Good | £20.00 |
| 253 | 1880 as last, 38 mint examples, many with full gum. Some duplication. Good condition | £9.00 |
| 254 | 1884, Kehr Type IX, five mint, excellent appearance: Alexandrie, Benha, Helouan, Mallawi, Toukh | £5.00 |
| 255 | 1884, Kehr Type IX, Economat, used with CDS showing Port Said in upper and lower halves(?) | £3.00 |
| 256 | 1884, Kehr Type IX, Economat with Senoris CDS 4 FE 91. Sl nick in edge | £4.00 |
| 257 | 1887, Kehr Type X, blank, faint star & crescent CDS Ebchaway 10 OC 91. Unusual | £4.00 |
| | Diplomatic/Official mail | |
| 258 | No date, small grey cover with lion/unicorn embossed on flap, addressed Ministry of Pensions, Blackpool, unfranked but authenticated with British Consulate / Port Said lion/unicorn circle in blue and initials. Marked “Urgent”, but no postal markings whatever. Clean, neat | £14.00 |
| 259 | Cover as last, authenticated with perfect “His Britannic Majesty/s Consular Court for Egypt” lion and unicorn circular stamp, addressed to Fleet Street with London EC machine arrival of 25 APR 1940. Return address is Sir R Cator, HBM Consular Court for Egypt, Alexandria. Slight scuffing on rear | £15.00 |
| 260 | Bilingual bicoloured printed cover of Egyptian Red Crescent Society addressed to Johannesburg, unfranked but for large Red Crescent circle in red, Egyptian censor and CDS Cairo R.D / Singles 2 of 3 2 72. Manuscript Air Mail and registration, no other postal marking. Spectacular | £10.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 261 | 1924, b/w postcard of Alexandria – Station of Ramleh (published Zakal), franked on face with 1m First Fuad plus 1m,2m4m Crown overprints for Germany, leaving station scene clear. CDS Alex 21 AP 24 | £6.00 |
| | Air interest - oasis | |
| 262 | 1933, printed env (“Dr Hess” on flap with return address in manuscript: Congress d’Aviation, Dakhla Oasis), franked with 3m+30m 1933 Airs to cover Express (bilingual boxed handstamp) from excellent Wahat el Dakhla CDS 19 DE 33 to Cairo (Postmen arrival four days later!). Transit via weak but undoubted Wahat el Kharga, another oasis! Roughly opened but outstanding | £40.00 |
| | Military postal history | |
| 263 | B/w real photo postcard showing four uniformed soldiers posing in front of imposing columned building. Postally unused, but message on reverse reads “From A B Caldwell, Fairbarn Soldiers’ Home, Palais, Ramleh, Egypt, Jan 28th 1919”. Good condition, most unusual | £3.50 |
| | TPO markings | |
| 264 | 1904, Achemoun-Tanta (Type 8A7), cancelling 2m DLR on face of b/w card (Alexandria – Mosque de Sidi Yaber – Khardiache) addressed to Paris. Info strike 85% (25 IX 04) behind with Alex CDS. Unusual | £6.00 |
| 265 | 1956, small cover roughly opened at right, franked 2x5m fellah for Alex, cancelled V V / Cairo-Alexandria (unrecorded, as 7A3.7 but without &) of 20 MR 56. Faint, 60%. Alex machine arrival behind | £3.50 |
| | Booklet stamps on cover | |
| 266 | 1929, printed cover of E Fischer / Raffinerie Hawamdieh addressed to Switzerland and franked 3x5m Second Fuad. All are booklet stamps, first with top perfs extended, pair with bottom perfs trimmed, cancelled faint Hawamdieh / Cash 23 JA 29. Cairo machine transit behind | £10.00 |
| | Stamps | |
| 267 | 1953, £E1 with bars (SG 454, NPD191), used horizontal pair and used vertical pair. Fine condition | £3.00 |
| 268 | Another two pairs as last | £3.00 |
| 269 | Express – 1926-1952, all five mint (only 26m sl traces of hinge, others NHM) | £3.00 |
| 270 | As last, all five neat used | £2.00 |
| | Revenues | |
| 271 | General revenues – 1887, first issue, 5/10pt reddish lilac (Feltus 1), used with adhesion behind, pen cancel and part double-red circle. Neat | £1.00 |
| 272 | Salt Tax – 1892, First Issue, 10m, £E1, £E2 values (Feltus 201,203,204), all with spot-on cancellations. Good | £4.00 |
| 273 | 1892 provisional issue, 50m on 500m and 100m on £E1 (Feltus 206-7), good | £3.00 |
| 274 | 1892, De La Rue issue, five values (250m, 500m, £1x2, £2), all with excellent CDS cancels | £3.00 |
| 275 | Consular service – 1927, two values, 39m and 386m (Feltus 420,424), both used, good | £2.00 |
| | Illustration | |
| 276 | Charming small coloured print (image 162x96mm on sheet appx 186x120) of “Port and Island of Massowah”. Date and source unknown, but ideal adjunct to postal history page | £6.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 277 | Colour PPC (Paysage en Egypte, Cairo Postcard Trust 454) to France, pair of 1914 1m Pictorials on face cancelled Abu el Matamir 13 VI 14 TII with Alexandria X / 13 VI 14 4-PM ” + TPO Damanhur-Abu el Matmar / &V.V / 13 JU 14 T-31 (type 7A3 noted as identification uncertain in catalogue) | £4.00 |
| 278 | Sepia PPC (4 – LE CAIRE – Pont Abu El Leila – CAIRO Abu El Leila bridge T.B.) to France, with Crown overprint 4m green (D81) cancelled DAHER / CAIRO / -1 AP 23 ?? | £4.00 |
| 279 | B/W PPC (no caption, no publisher, real photo, native scene with children and donkey) to Finland, franked Second Fuad 10m pale rose (D113), cancelled 23 FE 33 T83 / Aswan-Luqsor / & V.V (7A3,A7) | £4.00 |
| 280 | B/W PPC (Port de Suez) with long message in French and 10c Sower on face, addressed to Marseille and cancelled faint octagonal Ligne N Paq. Fr. No 4 / 23 FE 06 | £3.00 |
| 281 | Cover to Athens, franked block of 4 Second Fouad (D112 type II) with top margin, CDS Badrashen / 5 SE 33 5.??, better info strike, Cairo machine cancel on reverse | £4.00 |
| 282 | Reg cover to France, Boy King 2m+3m+10m(x2)+15m cancelled 18 AP 38 11 –12A / Imad el Din / R&P + Emad el Din Reg label. CDS behind 18 AP 38 12-1P / Cairo / R.D. (17) + arrival marks. Part flap lost | £3.00 |
| 283 | OHMS cover to an engineer in Cairo, sealed by OHMS label and franked Farouk military issue 10m violet (D160) cancelled by machine 21 JAN 1948 / CAIRO | £2.00 |
| 284 | Reg cover to Paris franked Second Fouad 40m (D121) cancelled 13 JA 38 10-A / Sultan Hussein / R&P / CAIRO | £2.00 |
| 285 | Reg air mail cover to Paris franked Fouad Postes 5m (D132) + pair Boy King 30m (D148) cancelled 20 FE 50 4-/ Camp Cesare / Traffic plus 21 FE 50 1 00 P/ R.D. Aeroport Farouk in reverse | £5.00 |
| | Army Post | |
| 286 | On Active Service cover printed (corner) YMCA NEW ZEALAND, to New Zealand, franked Army Post 10m carmine (NP AP2), CDS N.Z. / -3 AP 40 1 / F.P.O. 1” + double square Passed by Unit Censor 108 | £5.00 |
| | Hotel interest | |
| 287 | B/W PPC (Thebes – Tomb of Kaemhat, publisher Mohamed Aboudi Luxor) to Los Angeles franked Second Fouad 13m (D115) cancelled 17 3 37 3 30 P/ Winter Palace Luqsor | £3.00 |
| 288 | Colour PPC (Alexandrie – Panorama vers la Mer – LL), m/s Imprime and addressed to France, franked 4m DLR with Alex/C CDS 7 I 14. On face, large violet oval handstamp Grand / Hotel Bonnard / Alexandrie, Egypte | £3.00 |
| 289 | Real photo postcard (Cataract Hotel, Aswan), taken from Elephantine with felucca in foreground, addressed to Winterthur with message in German, neatly franked 4m Crown opt + 2m+4m First Fouad, cancelled faint Cataract Hotel / Aswan (Type HCA3) of 22 DE 25 | £4.00 |
| | Official mail | |
| 290 | Reg philatelic letter to French philatelic magazine Le Monde des Philatelistes in Ivry-sur-Seine franked official 55p (NP O124) cancelled 1 4 93 / First Day of Issue. Vert fold on left of commercial cover, but not touching stamp or cancels | £3.00 |
| | French Expeditionary Corps in Egypt | |
| 291 | Stampless cover addressed to Bordeaux, cancelled French military * Corr. d’Armees * Alexandrie FR / 20 NOV 15. Strong vert fold not touching cancellation, part of back flap missing, small rust stains | £3.00 |
| 292 | Stampless cover addressed SP41 (Secteur Postal 41), a military unit in Egypt, cancelled French military cancellation * Corr d’Armees * Alexandrie FR / 5 FEVR 18, roughly opened at top | £3.00 |
| | British Expeditionary Corps in Egypt | |
| 293 | Lot of five picture post cards, unfranked, cancelled light Base Army Post Office and some censor marks | £2.00 |
| 294 | B/W PPC (Alexandrie – Le port, publisher The Cairo Postcard Trust Cairo 6.851), unfranked, cancelled Base Army Post Office - Z - / B / 6 DE / 15 | £2.00 |
| 295 | Colour PPC (Alexandrie – Place Mohamed Aly – publisher Emil Pinkau & Cie Soc. An. Leipzig), unfranked, cancelled Field Post Office - 157 - / + / 3 AP / 16 + red triangle Passed by censor 3046 | £2.00 |
| 296 | Sepia PPC (Canal de Suez – Dahabeahs in the trench of El Gisr – publisher LL), unfranked, cancelled Field Post Office - T.52 - / + / AU 8 / 15 + circular violet “Passed by Censor */ Indian Expeditionary Force, partially over cancellation | £3.00 |
| 297 | B&W PPC (Alexandria – Garden and Monument to Nubar Pacha – publisher L.C 78 ), unfranked, cancelled Field Post Office - D11 - / + / 4 MY / 16 + red triangle Passed by censor 3483 | £2.00 |
| 298 | 4m postal stationery card (SPC21), full message on reverse, addressed to France and cancelled faint Army Post Office A/ 22 AU 18 with red chamfered Passed by / Base Censor / E.E.F., then Cairo / K 23 VII 18. Readdressed to UK and received Kendal arrival 25 AU 18. Battered but neat | £3.00 |
| 299 | Colour PPC (Egyptian Types and scenes - Walk upon ass – publisher LL), unfranked, to Wales and written in Welsh, cancelled very light “Luxor / 9 1 16 9 30 PM” ” + rectangular black boxed Luxor Convalescent Dep(ot), last word incomplete | £2.00 |
| 300 | B/W PPC captioned “Review of the 54th Division, Opera Square Cairo, December 1918” publisher A Reid Copyright – PO Box 1481 Cairo – card written but not passed through post | £3.00 |
| 301 | Front only of buff cover addressed to Cheltenham, cancelled clean Base Army Post Office Z / B 3 DE 18 with magenta triangle Passed by Censor No 3581 alongside. | £2.00 |
| | Air Mail covers | |
| 302 | Bank’s Air Mail cover addressed to New York, franked 50m air definitive (NP A17) and cancelled -4 JU 40 7.30 / Alexandria / D-1 with censor resealing and clear diamond censor 16 (Andrews 6b6, 17 days earlier than recorded). Air Mail mention deleted by black handstamp | £3.00 |
| 303 | Air Mail “Via Air France” cover addressed to Bremen (Germany), franked 30m air definitive (NP A15) and cancelled 25 JL 38 4-5P/ Port-Said / U | £3.00 |
| 304 | Air Mail cover addressed to Paris, franked 5m+20m air definitives (NP A8+A14) – cancelled (unclear date) / Alexandria / D-1 with cancellation of Marseille on reverse | £3.00 |
| 305 | Air Mail cover addressed Plymouth (England), 2x20m air definitives (NP A14) and cancelled 20 JU 36 4-5P/ Hilwan les Bains. Handwritten mention “By KLM Air Mail”, Cairo transit mark behind | £3.00 |
| 306 | Air Mail OHMS cover addressed to London, franked 8m+20m air definitives (NP A11+A14), cancelled 21 AP 36 1030P/ Cairo / D | £3.00 |
| 307 | Air Mail cover addressed to Paris, franked 5m+20m air definitives (NP A8+A14) and cancelled Mouvement Etranger / Caire / 18 AP 38 930P. Roughly opened at left, strong fold not touching stamps | £3.00 |
| 308 | Air Mail cover addressed to Mulhouse (France), franked 30m overprinted 1946 Air Navigation Congress (NP C130), Farouk Marechal 1m (D155) + Boy King 13m (D143). Handstamp “Imprimé” (printed matter) + “By Air France” – CDS -6 JA 47 9,00 P / Alexandria D1 | £3.00 |
| 309 | Colour PPC (Sakkara King Zoser's step pyramid) to Germany, franked 85m Abou Simbel air definitive (NP A92) and cancelled fine 19 10 75 - 6 30A / UAR / Alex / Station Maritime | £1.00 |
| 310 | Special French 1fr60 philatelic postcard postal stationery (PhilexFrance 82) – machine cancelled Lyon Satolas Aeroport 9-11-82, with various fancy marks. Postcard prepared for special flight of Concorde AF 4721, but flight announced for November 9 was delayed to 10th for technical reasons | £5.00 |
| 311 | Card as last (1fr60 Eiffel tower uprated with 40c stamp) – machine cancelled Lyon Satolas Aeroport 9-11-82, with various fancy marks. Postcard prepared for special flight of Concorde AF 4721, but flight announced for November 9 was delayed to 10th for technical reasons | £5.00 |
| | Air Mail stamps | |
| 312 | Air Mail definitive stamp of 90m (NP21), block of four with control A/32, unused never hinged, pencil mark with light attempt of erasing behind | £2.00 |
| | Egyptian Mail with Foreign Postage Dues | |
| 313 | Sepia PPC to Switzerland (Egypt – Camel group near the great Pyramids of Cheops – publisher L Scortzis et Co - Cairo), franked 4m First Fouad plus 1m+2m Second Fouad (D106 D107), cancelled by unclear Port Said F, with two Swiss postage due stamps 5 and 10 cancelled Rehetobel 30 XI 27 | £5.00 |
| 314 | Sepia PPC showing three-funnel “SS Mariette Pacha, Paquebot des Messageries Maritimes par grosse Mer” fighting giant seas. No publisher, message in French but no postal markings. Slight wear but good | £4.00 |
| 315 | Cover addressed “poste restante” Paris, franked strip of 3x5m Second Fouad (NP D112), cancelled -6 JU 29 9-P/ Alexandria / G, with 30c French postage due stamp cancelled by unclear Paris CDS | £5.00 |
| 316 | Company printed cover to Switzerland franked 17m Farouk Marechal (NP D163), unclear machine cancel of Cairo, with strip of 3x5 Swiss postage due stamps cancelled ALTDORF on 29 V 46 | £5.00 |
| 317 | Company printed cover (corner “Librairie Ahmed Massoud”) to Paris, franked 2m Second Fouad (D156) + 30m Marechal (D166) with poor Cairo cancel and strip of 3x3f French postage dues cancelled Paris. Roughly opened with some rust spots | £5.00 |
| | Documents and varia | |
| 318 | PPC of ship “M.V. CILICIA” addressed to Scotland franked by 2 ½ d blue British stamp George VI (SG 467) cancelled by blue retta with Arabic blue censor mark alongside. Light stain on view face | £5.00 |
| 319 | PPC of Pavillon de l'Egypte – Architecte: M. Lardat at International Exposition of Paris 1937 – unused | £5.00 |
| 320 | Fuad 2m orange embossed small stationery cover (SEN29 ) uprated with 2m Fuad Postes, unclear machine cancel Cairo 1938, to professor of theology in Montpellier, France. Contains carte de visite of Nicolas – Metropolite d'Aksoum – Vicaire du patriarcat grec-orthodoxe, with his best New Year wishes | £5.00 |
| 321 | Egyptian Post Office folded stiff New Year card illustrated with musicians and palms, containing 30m El Rifai Mosque definitive (D325a) cancelled 1 / Cairo / -1 JA 83 with bilingual message from Postal Organisation | £2.00 |
| 322 | Philatelic Crusaders for Peace, large card with winking/blinking owl sponsored by Contantin St Tsirimonis of Alexandria, addressed to Amsterdam and in memory of King Paul I of Greece, covered with peace messages and franked 1,2,3,4,5,10m UAR definitives. CDS shows only Hadayek… | £2.00 |
| 323 | Colour PPC (Paris L’Obélisque du Louqsor, Place de la Concorde, published A.Papeghin, Paris-Tours), Franked 90c Pasteur for Ohio, machine cancel Paris R.P. / Depart 18 VII 1923 | £2.00 |
| 324 | Sepia real photograph card (crinkle edge), Interior of Azhar Mosque, published Lehnert and Landrock, K. Lambelet succ. – Cairo. Mint, unused, sl crease but good | £2.00 |
| 325 | Original photograph from AFP press agency showing President Nasser, Marshal Salal (Iran), General Aref (Iraq), King Hassan II (Morocco), King Hussein (Jordan) at January 1964 Arab heads of state conference in Cairo. On reverse, text in Flemish or Dutch | £15.00 |
| 326 | Sepia original photograph from Associated Press in Paris, showing a parade of troops preceded by a brass band in Suez in November 1936 during the celebration of Ramadan. On reverse, text in French | £15.00 |
| | De Lesseps interest | |
| 327 | B/W upright card by Fritz Schneller, Nuremberg, Port Said: Monument Lesseps, photographed in cut-out arch above, undivided back, excellent condition | £3.00 |
| 328 | B/W PPC (Maison de de Lessep à Ismailia, made for Aroughetti Bros, Suez), addressed within France, long message in French, franked 10c Sower with CDS Marseille Pl St Ferreol / B du Rhone 20 * 19 - 2 | £3.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 329 | Letter from Mudir of Sennar to the Director of the Sudan Railways. In Arabic with one side and a translation on the other. In manuscript Wadi Halfa 3rd March 1878 | £20.00 |
| 330 | Cover to Egyptian PoW. 10mil cancelled by Hebron Arabic/English postmark 27 SE 48 with Gaza T backstamp 2.OC.48, addressed to Camp 1 altered in red manuscript to Camp 792. Egyptian censor mark of 102 (used in Gaza Strip) and Red Cross cachet of Geneva. Egyptians only in Hebron for a short time so scarce cancel | £45.00 |
| 331 | Front with 10th Anniversary of Human Rights Declaration opt Palestine. CDS Gaza T 13.5.61. The 35mil stamp is the brown opt Balian 4b cat. 1500, NP PCct cat. $200 | £100.00 |
| 332 | 1 mil small DLR stationery envelope cancelled with beautiful full strike of Fayoum-Wasta TPO. Day part of cancel missing | £10.00 |
| 333 | 1 mil small DLR stationery envelope cancelled by 29.V.94. Alexandria Exposition postmark | £10.00 |
| 334 | UPU Egypt carte postal 20 para cancelled with rareish Alexandria Station with killer A. 23.MR.85 | £15.00 |
| | British Forces stamps | |
| 335 | Camel Xmas seal pale carmine block of 16 | £5.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 336 | Parcel card sent 27.1.22 from Cairo to Switzerland, franked 120 mills (SG 95, 97). Vertical fold away from stamps | £35.00 |
| 337 | Postal card 5 mills (NP SPC3) sent 18 IV 00 from Cairo to Germany with imprinted illustration (photo of sugar cane transport) on back; RR! | £50.00 |
| 338 | Boat mail: cover franked 3m+2x1m Second Fuad, cancelled Khedivial Mail Line SS Talodi, and on reverse 3 postmarks: Port Sudan 6 SEP 30; Shellal-Halfa TPO 13 SP 30 and arrival Suez 15 SE 30 | £20.00 |
| 339 | Letter from Dutch sailor forwarded by Worms & Co to Holland; scarce meter mark 20 mills 17 XII 34; transit Port-Said and arrival Den Helder. Cover has horizontal fold which does not detract | £12.00 |
| 340 | Censored air cover to USA; mixed franking 90 mills (SG 159, 248, 253, 276, 278); stamps obliterated by retta | £8.00 |
| 341 | Censored R-cover from Duqqi 7 DE 41 to USA; mixed franking 52 mills (SG166a,249); New York and Washington postmarks on reverse | £10.00 |
| 342 | Official cover by air to Holland; postmarked Comité Directeur De La Revolution 6 AP 57; franked 15 mills (SG 420) + 37 mills (SG O277, 280, 3x281); civil censor; nice cover | £7.00 |
| 343 | Postal stationery envelope 3 mills, laid paper (NP SEN34: $100) post office fresh | £30.00 |
| 344 | Zeppelin Jerusalem Flight from Port-Said. Slight foxing under stamps | £55.00 |
| 345 | French PO Port-Said Censored R-cover 22-10-16 to Bombay (R and censor labels on back); very nice cover! | £25.00 |
| | Fuad stamps with “Cancelled” on reverse | |
| 346 | Fuad 3 mills blue green, marginal horiz. pair (NP D109b) | £15.00 |
| 347 | Fuad 20 mills blue, marginal horiz. pair (NP D118a) | £30.00 |
| 348 | Fuad 100 mills deep lilac, horiz. pair (NP D123d) | £15.00 |
| | French Post Office in Alexandria | |
| 349 | 1923 5 mills UM gutter block without millésime! (see cat. Dallay €475) | £75.00 |
| 350 | 1921 60 mills on 2 fr special royal printing (see note 5 in NP p.649; Dallay Nr. 48A II €2650) | £125.00 |
| | Hotel postmarks | |
| 351 | Continental – 12 V 01 IV, type HC2, two strikes 75% on DLR 1m+2m for Hungary. Caire transit and Budapest arrival on good clean coloured PPC of Pyramids at the inundation (reflection) | £2.50 |
| 352 | 31 X 04 II, two 80% strikes on horiz pair of 2m DLR neatly addressed to Italy with message on face of clean and neat b-w PPC The Small Pyramid (Lichtenstern/Harari). Good | £3.00 |
| 353 | 28 I 12, HC4 good strike covering both vignette on 2m postal stationery card (HG14, NP14) and uprating 2m DLR green, addressed to Switzerland. Neat clean card | £3.00 |
| 354 | 10 DE 37, HC 7 (90%) on unaddressed small cover with full set of Ophthalmology Exhib (NP72-4). Clean | £2.50 |
| 355 | Savoy, Cairo - ? I 07 TIII HSA2 on 2m visiting-card stationery envelope (HG5, NP5) neatly addressed to Geneva | £2.50 |
| 356 | Savoy, Assouan – 28 II 14? rare HSY1a in blue (45%) cancelling 1m+3m DLR pictorials on excellent b-w card ASSUAN – Bisharin Camp – LL addressed to Switzerland | £3.50 |
| 357 | Semiramis – 6 II 09 VI, HSE1 (90%) cancelling 4m DLR on b-w card for Belgium – Le Caire – Groupe des chameaux aux Tombeaux des Khalifs – message covers all over both sides. Fine card | £4.50 |
| 358 | 9 V 07 IV (85%) cancelling 4m DLR on coloured Max H Rudmann Cartosport card of dancing girl addressed to Switzerland. Fine marking, card a little scuffed | £3.00 |
| 359 | Shepheard’s – 15 MR 94 TIV (HS1, 80%), cancelling 2-milliemes wrapper (HG2, NP2) addressed to Geneva | £8.00 |
| 360 | 4 III 08 (HS6) 98%, CTO on outgoing half of 2m surcharge on 3m stationery reply card (HG13, NP13), fine condition but v.slight cracks in upper edge | £3.00 |
| 361 | 2 IV 08 (HS6) 85% cancelling 4m DLR on colour card R158 The Tombs of the Califs, sl corner wear | £2.50 |
| 362 | 28 II 27 (HS7), 75% cancelling 10m red First Fuad on Gaddis and Seif colour card, Thebes – Tomb of Queen Nefertari, addressed to New Jersey. Fine appearance | £2.50 |
| 363 | Luxor Hotel - 17 II 08 TII, HL2 65% cancelling vertical pair of 2m DLR for Germany (faint Charlottenberg arrival) on upright colour card Tempel von Kom-Ombo (CA & Co), excellent condition | £3.00 |
| 364 | 18 II 09 TIV, HL2a in blue, 75% on DLR4m franking colour card The Avenue of Sphinxes (Savoy Library, N Zachos) addressed to France. Fine all round | £3.50 |
| 365 | Winter Palace - 6 II 09, HW2a in blue (70%) cancelling 4m DLR for Switzerland (Luzern arrival hs) on ethereal upright Max Rudmann card Tempel von Karnak. Good condition | £3.00 |
| 366 | 26 I 10, HW2 (85%) cancelling 4m DLR on colour card of Winter Palace Hotel (Dr Trenkler co, Leipzig), message in English (I am still hesitating over the dahabia), good condition but corners scuffed | £3.00 |
| 367 | 23 XII 10, HW2 (80%) on 1m+3m DLR for Switzerland, on upright b-w card Temple D’Amenothes a Karnak (Haute Egypte) S.I.P., excellent condition | £3.00 |
| 368 | 6 I 26 (HW4), 70% cancelling First Fuad 10m red to Switzerland on remarkable sepia upright card Baby negresse (L&L). Fine condition | £4.00 |
| | Stamps – blocks of four – 1947 Airs | |
| 369 | SG 330 A/47 Top right u/m | £2.00 |
| 370 | SG 330 A/47(Arabic) bottom right u/m mint | £2.00 |
| 371 | SG 331 A/47 Top right u/m | £2.00 |
| 372 | SG 331 A/47 (Arabic) bottom right u/m mint | £2.00 |
| | Stamps – blocks of four – barred definitives (short perfs means do not extend to margin edge) | |
| 373 | SG436 A/40 B/40 bottom left mint | £1.00 |
| 374 | SG 437 A/42 bottom left u/m mint | £1.00 |
| 375 | SG 438 A/52 bottom right perfs to margin, mint | £1.00 |
| 376 | SG 438 A/52 bottom right short perfs | £1.00 |
| 377 | SG 439 A/50 A/51 A/52 bottom right u/m | £1.00 |
| 378 | SG 440 A/44 bottom left short perfs u/m | £1.50 |
| 379 | SG 440 A/44 bottom left mint | £1.50 |
| 380 | SG 441 A/51 bottom right u/mint | £1.00 |
| 381 | SG 442 A/51 bottom right u/mint | £1.00 |
| 382 | SG 442 A/51 bottom right short perfs u/mint | £1.00 |
| 383 | SG 443 A/50 bottom right u/mint | £2.50 |
| 384 | SG 444 A/48 A/49 bottom right u/mint | £2.00 |
| 385 | SG 444 A/48 A/49 bottom right short perfs u/mint | £2.00 |
| 386 | SG 445 A/49 A/50 A/52 bottom right u/mint | £2.50 |
| 387 | SG 446 A/49 A/50 A/51 A/52 bottom right u/mint | £3.00 |
| 388 | SG 447 A/40 A/50 A/51 bottom right u/mint | £3.50 |
| 389 | SG 448 A/51 bottom left u/mint | £3.00 |
| 390 | SG 450 A/48 A/49 A/52 bottom right u/mint | £4.00 |
| 391 | SG 451 A/48 A/50 A/51 A/52 bottom right u/mint | £6.00 |
| 392 | SG 451 A/48 A/50 A/51 A/52 bottom right mint | £5.60 |
| 393 | SG 452 A/48 A/50 bottom right u/mint | £15.00 |
| 394 | SG 453 A/49 A/50 A/52 bottom right mint | £25.00 |
| 395 | SG 454 A/49 A/50 bottom right mint | £30.00 |
| | Stamps – blocks of four – barred Air Mail | |
| 396 | SG 464 A/47 (Arabic) bottom right u/mint | £5.00 |
| 397 | SG 465 A/47 (Arabic) bottom right u/mint | £6 |
| 398 | SG 481 A/47 top right u/mint | £2.50 |
| | Stamps – Varieties on Modern Definitives The following 11 lots are all listed for the first time in the new 7th edition of the SG Middle East catalogue: | |
| 399 | 1974, SG1137 ab, with watermark. VF mint NH, left lower corner block of four with printing date 28 VI 76, very rare | £40.00 |
| 400 | 1993, SG 1874 a Type II, very rare. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four | £40.00 |
| 401 | 1994, SG 1917 a, rare colour variety. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four with printing date; with a block of four No 1917 for comparison | £10.00 |
| 402 | 2001, SG 2020 ab, perf 11 ½ and different colour, rare. VF mint NH block of four | £6.00 |
| 403 | 2001, SG 2021 a Type II, rare. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four; with a similar block of No 2020 (Type I) for comparison | £7.00 |
| 404 | 1999, SG 2025 a, Queen Nefertari perf 14 ½, also a lighter colour shade, very rare. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four | £30.00 |
| 405 | 1999, SG 2032 b (No 2020 but with wmk), rare. Two left upper corner blocks of four with different shades (brown and pinkish). SG cat £16 | £8.00 |
| 406 | 1999, SG 2033 (No 2022 but with wmk), rare. Left lower corner block of six with printing date and a slight shift of horizontal perf downwards | £8.00 |
| 407 | 1999, SG 2034 (No 2031 but with wmk), rare. Right lower corner block of four with printing date and slight shift of vert perf to the right. SG cat £20 | £12.00 |
| 408 | 1999, SG 2034 a (No 2032 a with wmk), rare. Left lower corner block of four with lighter colour shade. SG cat £32 | £16.00 |
| 409 | 2003, SG 2238 a, 110p colour variety. VF mint, NH right lower corner block of 6 with printing date 15 XI 03 | £6.00 |
| | Stamps - Rare Modern Definitives | |
| 410 | 1972, SG 1135 var with wmk, Balian 705, VF mint NH single, very rare | £12.00 |
| 411 | 1977, SG 1138 a, no wmk, Balian 703, VF mint NH single. Michael cat €20 | £10.00 |
| 412 | 1985, SG 1343 ba, with wmk, rare. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four | £11.00 |
| 413 | 2001, 2G 2023 a var, with perf 11 instead of 13x13 ½, darker colour shade and larger inscriptions. VF mint NH left lower corner block of 6 with printing date | £11.00 |
| | Stamps - Officials | |
| 414 | 1991-1999, SG O1806-14, including the newly listed O1807a (q0p brown) and O1808b (20p ultramarine). VF mint NH complete set of 13 stamps | £6.00 |
| 415 | 1999, SG O1807a, the newly listed 10p brown, VF mint NH left lower corner block of four with printing date | £4.00 |
| 416 | 1999, SG O1808b, the newly listed 20p ultramarine, VF mint NH left lower corner block of four with printing date | £4.00 |
| 417 | 2001, SG O2183a-89, the newly listed set of seven but on unwatermarked paper (limited printing). VF mint NH blocks of four. SG cat £18 | £9.00 |
| | Stamps – Year issues | |
| 418 | 2004 complete: 99 stamps including the Prestige Booklet of 30 stamps, the withdrawn Telecom Egypt stamp and half-sheet of 25 stamps marking the 92nd anniversary of the National Bar Association with portraits of all 23 presidents including Sameh Ashour, whose stamp was later removed from the sheet, and six miniature sheets including the scarce “Administration Presentation” MS., VF mint NH | £36.00 |
| 419 | 2005 complete: 37 stamps and three miniature sheets, VF mint NH | £12.00 |
| 420 | 2006 complete: 25 stamps and four miniature sheets including the rare sheeting marking 50th anniversary of Egypt-China relations (only 5,000 believed to exist). VF mint NH | £30.00 |
| 421 | 2007 complete: 26 stamps and three miniature sheets plus two examples of the scarce Marsa Alam stamp showing different shades. VF mint NH | £21.00 |
| 422 | 2008 complete: 24 stamps and 1 miniature sheet, VF mint NH | £10.00 |
| | Stamps – Modern issues | |
| 423 | 2002, SG 2234-43, including the newly listed 2238 a; the last definitive set of ten stamps with multiple reprints that have distinctly different shades - two of the 10pi value, 2x25pi, 2x£E1, one of 110pi (2238 a) – so total number of stamps offered is 17. VF mint NH, beautiful assortment. SG cat £18.90 | £20.00 |
| 424 | 2006, 50th anniversary of China-Egypt diplomatic relations, set of two se-tenant stamps, official FDC and scarce miniature sheet. VF mint NH | £30.00 |
| | Sudan stamps | |
| 425 | 1952, £1 Camel Postman definitive reprint without wmk, right upper corner block of four. VF mint NH | £11.00 |
| 426 | 1991, eighth definitive set, complete, 16 stamps in official folder. VF mint NH, Michel cat €60 | £12.00 |
| 427 | 1991, Officials, eighth definitive set, 16 stamps overprinted S.G. in Arabic. VF mint NH, Michel cat £75 | £15.00 |
| 428 | 2003, ninth definitive set, complete, 14 stamps (50-500 dinars). VF mint NH | £13.00 |
| 429 | 2003, as last, but imperf miniature sheet combining the 14 stamps. Rare, only 1,000 issued. VF mint NH | £30.00 |
| | Stamps – Egypt errors and varieties | |
| 430 | 1995, the newly listed variety SG 1874 a Type II with vertical perforation shifted to the right and coming through the “8” of 80p. VF mint NH right upper corner horizontal pair, also with double image | £25.00 |
| 431 | 2001, the newly listed Official SG O2189, £E1 value with major horiz misperf, shifted 5mm downward, cutting across head of eagle emblem and making Egypt and “misr” at bottom instead of top of stamp. Mint NH left vertical marginal pair | £11.00 |
| | Prestige Booklet (Discover the Treasures of Egypt) | |
| 432 | Set of three very beautiful FDCs, one for each of the high-value booklet stamps (£E5 Sphinx, £E5 Nefertiti, £E10 Tutankhamun mask). No FDC was issued for the three panes of nine lower-value stamps | £13.00 |
| | Stamps – Egypt used, in fine condition | |
| 433 | 2004, the withdrawn Telecom Egypt stamp, SG 2371 a | £6.00 |
| 434 | 2006, complete year (25 stamps and four miniature sheets) including the scarce 50 years of diplomatic relations with China (only 5,000 believed to exist) | £22.00 |
| 435 | 2007, complete year (27 stamps), including the scarce Marsa Alam stamp and three miniature sheets | £15.00 |
| 436 | 2008, complete year (24 stamps and one miniature sheet) | £10.00 |
| | S Newspapers by post | |
| 437 | 10 AU 10 - 1m, cds of Cairo, sent "en ville", Greek & French, rather tatty | £3.00 |
| 438 | 25 NO 25 - 2 x 1m; cds Alexandria, Arabic; fair condition | £5.00 |
| 439 | ?? AU 45 - 2 x 1m, cds Alexandria Station to Cairo; Greek , fair | £5.00 |
| 440 | 13 AP 46 - 2m, cds illegible, to Cairo, Greek, fair | £5.00 |
| 441 | 17 AP 54 - Registered - 21m, Cairo station to Cairo, good | £15.00 |
| 442 | ?? ?? 56 - 1m, cds Cairo to Cairo, fair | £5.00 |
| 443 | ?? ?? 61 - 1m, cds Le Caire, Imprimes to Cairo, Greek, fair | £5.00 |
| 444 | ?? FE 75 - 1m, cds Cairo Egyptian Railways, Weekly Commercial Bulletin for Traders in English & Arabic, good | £6.00 |
| | Newspapers not posted | |
| 445 | Egyptian Mail of 15.6.43 - celebration of United Nations Day | £5.00 |
| 446 | Egyptian Mail of 15.8.45 - the Victory edition | £7.00 |
| | Catalogue – postage extra on this item | |
| 447 | Zeheri, 1972 bound in green leather (scuffed), few annotations | £10.00 |
| | Civil censor marks | |
| 448 | 25 varied covers, 1939 - 45 together with articles by Boulad, 1968; Murphy 1987; Grey 1990 (?); Trovero (in Italian) 1994 | £20.00 |
| | Sundry covers | |
| 449 | 4..4.27 - Registered cover to Basra, franked 52m, arrival mark Basra 8.AP 27, addressed "Kiernander" | £25.00 |
| 450 | 6.IX.16 - P/cd (Moustapha Pacha Barracks, Alexandria), no franking, marked "On Active Service", with 5-pointed purple star (censorship) with CDS of Alexandria Seamen’s Home (85%) | £8.00 |
| 451 | Group of 7 covers & 6 cards, the covers are all stationery of Hotels without Post Offices dated 1928-1954, the postcards all show Hotels, again without Post Offices. | £7.00 |
| 452 | 8 Air Mail covers, all with "cancelled" Air Mail instructions, good to fair condition | £4.00 |
| 453 | 2 covers, 120mm x 93mm, one printed O.H.H.S., internal, no franking, CDS Cairo G 25.XII.16; the other printed O.H.E.M.S. franked 10m to UK; CDS Mansura 18JU26, transit Zagazig 18JU, Pt Said 19 JUN 26 | £4.00 |
| 454 | Boy King; 50 covers , mixed condition showing a variety of frankings | £25.00 |
| 455 | A selection of Maritime companies, letterheads, bills, receipts, brochures, Bills of Lading, more than 50 - mixed condition | £30.00 |
| 456 | Labels on cover - over 100 (great majority 19th century) covers & letter sheets, bearing or sealed with the labels of Government, or commercial firms. Mixed condition, but generally good | £35.00 |
| | TPO cancellations – in the following 77 lots the emphasis is on the cancellations. The covers/cards are of mixed quality but all are acceptable to good From Abu Kibir | |
| 457 | Abu Kibir-Salhia / & V V (Type 7A3), 25 SE 19 T-118, 80% info strike and franking 5m DLR pictorial on neat printed cover. Very faint Mansura-Cairo / & V V (7A3) and Cairo arrival behind | £2.50 |
| 458 | & V V / Abu Kibir-Salhia (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7, tiny lettering), 27 AP 57 T-195, 60% info and cancelling 10m Defense on neat accountant’s printed cover addressed t Cairo (machine arrival behind) | £4.50 |
| 459 | Abu Kibir - / Abu Hammad / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.5), 1 JL 39 T-219), 99% info strike and cancelling 5m Boy King on neat cover addressed to Cairo (faint machine arrival behind) | £5.00 |
| | From Alexandria | |
| 460 | Alexandria / Marsa Matruh / & V V (Type 7A3.5) 28 MR 39 T-267, 60% as transit on clean 5m Boy King cover to Cairo from Marsa Matruh / T. Cairo / TPO 24 / E (Type 5C1) alongside | £3.00 |
| 461 | & V V / Alexandria-Abu Qir (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7), 18 FE 44 T-285, 60% info strike and cancelling 2x5m Boy King on neat cover to Heliopolis | £4.00 |
| 462 | Alexandria- / Cairo / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.5), 29 OC 40 T-24, 65% info strike and cancelling 1m+5M Boy King on printed envelope neatly addressed to Cairo. Cairo / TPO 24 / E behind | £4.50 |
| 463 | Alexandria / TPO / Marsa-Matrouh (Type 5A2.7, recorded in QC 160), 5 1 57 T300, five strikes 65% on Express letter franked 2x20m Eagle of Saladin definitive plus 4x5m Peasant’s Day commem | £2.50 |
| | From Asyut/b> | |
| 464 | & V V / Asyut-Cairo (Type 7A3.7, dm 28mm, Smith no dates), 24 MA 40 T-83, 99% info strike and cancelling 5m Boy King on roughly opened but repaired letter to Cairo. Illegible bs | £3.00 |
| 465 | & V V / Asyut-Cairo, as last, 21 MR 40 T-83, 65% cancelling 5m Boy King, typed letter to Cairo | £2.00 |
| 466 | & V V / Asyut-Luqsor (Type 7A3.7, dm 30mm, vertical sides near-straight), 24 AU 48 T-910?, 75% in blue, info strike and cancelling 10m Marechal on neat printed letter to Cairo. Illegible blue CDS behind | £3.50 |
| 467 | & V V / Asyut-Luqsor (Type 7A3.7, dm 30mm as last), 19 SE 49 T-8..?, 85% in black, info strike and cancelling 4x10m Marechal (one damaged) for Express (manuscript) on neat letter to Cairo. Faint blue backstamp Heliopolis | £3.50 |
| 468 | & V V / Asyut-Luqsor (as Type 7A3.7, dm 30mm, different Arabic and “& V V” much smaller), 2 MR 42 T-91, 80% info strike and cancelling 6m Boy King on neat letter to Cairo (machine arrival behind) | £3.00 |
| 469 | TPO / Asyut-Luqsor / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 6A1.4), 2 NO 57 T-83, 70% on face and cancelling 4x10m Defense (one damaged) on reverse for Express (manuscript) on Arabic-addressed cover to Cairo. Faint Express arrival CDS behind | £4.00 |
| | From Beni Suef | |
| 470 | TPO / Beni Suef / El Lahun / & VV (unrecorded, most like 6A1.4), 19 8 89, very faint as transit on 5pi-franked Air Mail cover from Aba el Waqf (?). Very late TPO usage | £2.50 |
| | From Cairo/b> | |
| 471 | Caire-Mansura / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.4), 13 MR 29 T-188, 90%, as transit mark on govt folded letter sealed with govt labels, Official oval, sent from Moshtohor to Cairo. Very faint Service Ambulant / Shibin el Qanater-Qallin / & V V (Type 4A1, unrecorded) alongside | £4.00 |
| 472 | & V V / Cairo-Alexandria (Type 7A3.7) 6 MR 51 T 33, 70% info strike on neat Express cover franked block of four 10m Farouk Marechal. Twenty years later than Smith! Manuscript “Not money” on reverse | £3.00 |
| 473 | Cairo-Asyut & V V / TPO (Type 6A1) 30 NO 22 T-39, 90% transit on neat cover franked 5m Harrison from Nag Hamadi (85%) to Alex. Smith records 1921-22 | £3.00 |
| 474 | Cairo-Asyut / & V V (Type 7A3.4) 3 MR 41 T-91, 95% info strike and cancelling 6m Boy King on filing-holed (away from markings) cover to Cairo. Smith records 1925-1942 | £3.00 |
| 475 | Cairo-Mansura / & V V (Type 7A3) 17 NO 18 T-43, 85%, as transit on folded letter franked 5m DLR pictorial and sent from Zagazig to most unusual El Ibrahimia / Sharqia (80%). Smith dates 1908-1923 | £3.00 |
| 476 | & V V / Cairo-Marg (unrecorded, Type 7A3.7) 17 DE 40 T-79, 70% info strike and cancelling 1m+5m Boy King on neat cover to Alex. Three indistinct CDS behind | £3.00 |
| 477 | Cairo-Marg / A V V / B (unrecorded, as Type 7B1.2), 6 MA 40 T.800, 100%, presumably CTO on pristine home-made “centenary” cover marking 100 years of English stamps, info strike and franking 1m Boy King and 1m 1933 Airs, addressed to sergeant in Aboukir. No backstamps | £4.00 |
| 478 | Cairo-Minia / & V V (Type 7A3) 11 SE 34 T-77, 85% on printed cover to Fayum franked 5m Second Fuad. Smith records Minya with a “Y” for this type. Faint & V V / Wasta-Abouxa (7A3.7) behind | £2.50 |
| 479 | Cairo-Port Said / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 5 SE 37 T-30, 70% info strike and cancelling 5m Postes Fuad on neat cover addressed to Cairo. No backstamp | £2.50 |
| 480 | Cairo-Port Said / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 6 MR 39 T-18, 85% info strike and cancelling 2x10m Boy King (one pinholed) for Express fee to Cairo. Excellent Cairo Postmen / Express Section behind | £3.00 |
| 481 | Cairo-Tanta (Type 8A4), 12 NO 29 T-137, 95% on clean 5m cover to Cairo. Smith records to 1929 | £3.00 |
| 482 | As last, 9 SE 30 T-138, 60% on printed cover to Cairo franked 5m | £2.00 |
| 483 | Cairo-Tanta / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 7 ?? 43 T-156), 65% on 1m+2m Boy King postal stationery visiting card envelope (NP SEN33), no backstamps | £6.00 |
| 484 | Cairo / TPO 24 / E (Type 5C1), 14 OC 39 7-P, 95%, excellent strike, one of many markings on OHHS cover used and reused. Smith records only March 39 (but illustrates August 1940) | £3.00 |
| 485 | V V / Cairo Assiout (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7, but no ampersand and spelling of Asyut differs), 6 OC 51 T-83, 85% info strike and cancelling 10m Marechal on neat printed merchant’s cover (Ahmed Kalil and his son Tawfik, Merchants of Butter, Mallawi) to Cairo | £4.50 |
| | From Damanhur | |
| 486 | Damanhur-Abu el Matamir / & V V (Type 7A3), 31 OC 21 T-33, 70% info strike and cancelling DLR 2m green pictorial sealing folded letter to Cairo. Faint Damanhur CDS behind | £3.00 |
| | From Dessouk | |
| 487 | Disuq-El Aseifar / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 27 JA 59 T??, 70% info strike and cancelling UAR Egypt 10m definitive and neat handwritten letter to Cairo (machine arrival behind). Smith records only 1936-1939 | £3.50 |
| | From Fayoum | |
| 488 | Faiyum-Sannuris / & V V (Type 7A3), 14 JL 18 T.155, 75% info strike and cancelling DLR 5m pictorial on folded sheet (no contents) addressed in red pencil to Beni Suef. Very faint Abuksa-Wasta Type 7A3 behind | £3.00 |
| 489 | & V V / Fayum-Cairo (Type 7A3.7), 7 NO 43 T-895, 65% cancelling 2x4 block of 5m Boy King for Express (manuscript) to Cairo (faint Postmen Express Delivery arrival mark). Filing hole, pinhole affects one stamp, but away from marks | £3.50 |
| 490 | & V V / Fayoum-Roda (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7 but with stars at each end of date slug), 24 AU 45 T-141, 60% cancelling 4x1m Boy King on printed folded form addressed to Cairo | £4.00 |
| 491 | & V V / Fayoum-Roda, unrecorded as last, 5 AP 42 T-140, 95% on reg cover with 3x6m+3x1m Boy King addressed to Fayum. File hole away from stamps and markings | £4.50 |
| 492 | El Fayoum-Qalamsha / & V V (Type 7A4), 5 SE 45 T-30, 70% info strike and cancelling 3x10m Marechal stamps for registration to Alex. First-class strikes of Fayum / R, Cairo Station (Hall 28) and R / Sidi Gaber behind. Astonishingly late use of First World War marking | £5.00 |
| | From Luxor | |
| 493 | Luqsor Shellal / & V V / TPO (unrecorded, as Type 6A1.6, but saayra in parentheses below termini), 11 FE 29 T-71, 99% as transit on neat 5m cover from Isna to Luqsor. Good markings | £4.50 |
| 494 | & V V / Luqsor-Shallal (Type 7A3.7), 16 SE 38 T-89, 90%, info strike and cancelling 5m Boy King on neat cover to Alex (faintest of machine arrivals behind) | £2.50 |
| 495 | Luqsor-Shallal / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 21 NO 41 T-71, 85% cancelling 5m Boy King on merchant’s printed cover to Cairo. Boxed T alongside, and 2m Due applied on arrival in (Cairo machine behind). Spectacular cover, Smith recorded TPO only 1933-1938 | £16.00 |
| 496 | & V V / Luqsor-El Shallal (Type 7A3.7), 29 FE 56, T-89, 70% info strike and cancelling block of 4x10m Defense for Express delivery of neat handwritten cover to Cairo (weak Cairo Delivery / Express behind) | £4.00 |
| | From Mahalla | |
| 497 | V V / Mahalla-Baltim (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7, but without ampersand), 15 MR 57 T-500, 80% info strike and cancelling 10m Ramses head Egypt definitive on neat letter to Cairo. Reverse has clear machine slogan cancel International Fair / Egyptian Cotton / Cairo 5-25 Apr in blue | £4.50 |
| 498 | Mahalla / Kafr el Sheikh / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.5), 17 JA 37 T-98, info strike and 90% cancelling 5m Fuad Postes on neat typed cover to Cairo. Pinhole in one CDS | £4.50 |
| | From Mansura | |
| 499 | Mansura-Mit Ghamr / & V V (Type 7A3), 29 X 16 T-8, 65% as transit on folded letter franked 2x1m+3m DLR pictorials cancelled neat and unusual Nawasa el Ghet. Faint Mansura arrival behind | £3.00 |
| 500 | Mansura-Dumiat / & V V / TPO (bridge Type 6A2), 13 DE 17 T-16, 75% on 5m DLR pictorial on clean folded letter sealed with white on black Eg Govt label. Mansura transit behind | £3.00 |
| 501 | Mansura-Mattaria / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3, though Smith has Mattaria-Mansura), 30 I 16 T4, 99% as transit on folded letter franked DLR pictorial 5m and cancelled Manzala CDS. 100% Mansura arrival behind. File hole affects one Manzala CDS | £5.00 |
| 502 | Mansura-Cairo / & V V (Type 7A3, dm 28mm), 17 SE 18 T-44), 90%, info and cancelling 5m DLR pictorial on neat clean cover for Cairo (Cairo / F arrival mark) | £2.50 |
| 503 | Mansura-Cairo / & V V (Type 7A3, dm 32mm), 26 FE 24 T-189, 100% info strike and cancelling 5m Crown opt on neat letter to Zaqaziq, sun-faded across one corner affecting one CDS. Better on back | £3.00 |
| 504 | Mansura-Kafr Saqr / & V V / TPO (Type 6A1.2, Smith records no dates), 17 NO 24 T-19), 100% info strike and cancelling 5m First Fuad on fragile and battered cover to Cairo. Kafr Saqr CDS and Cairo machine behind | £4.00 |
| 505 | Mansura-Kafr Saqr / & VV / TPO as last, 12 AP 33 T-54, 95% info strike and cancelling 3x5m Second Fuad on battered reg cover. Mansura / R arrival behind | £3.50 |
| 506 | Mansura-Cairo / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 23 FE 31 T-162, 85% as transit on folded letter “franked” with Official oval from Zaqaziq to Cairo | £2.50 |
| 507 | Mansura-Tanta / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 6 MA 36 T-52, 75% as transit on 3m Fuad brown postal stationery card (NP SPC36) with 70% Mansura / Station (Hall 10). Card file-holed, but very neat and clean | £3.00 |
| 508 | Mansura / Mataria. & V V (Type 7A3.5), 8 AU 40 T-108, 65%, info strike and cancelling 1m+5m Boy King on neat letter to Cairo. Faint illegible TPO plus perfect Cairo / TPO 24 / E (Type 5C1) behind. Long Arabic letter on headed merchant’s notepaper remains | £2.50 |
| 509 | Mansura / Mit Ghamr / & V V (Type 7A3.5), 12 DE 45 T-22, 65% info strike and cancelling 40m Marechal for Express (? no mention) to Cairo bank. Cairo machine arrival behind | £3.00 |
| | From Marg | |
| 510 | & V V / Marg-Shibin el Qanater (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7), 12 FE 47 T.272, 75% info strike and cancelling 10m Marechal on handwritten and redirected cover to Cairo. No legible backstamps | £3.50 |
| | From Mataria | |
| 511 | Mataria-Mansura / & V V (Type 7A3), 3 FE 20 T1, 70% as transit on unfranked official folded letter from Mansura to Dikirnis (both good CDS) | £3.50 |
| 512 | & V V / Mataria-Mansura (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7 but Arabic in three lines), 8 JA 42 T-102, 85%, most oddly on a reused Telegraphs and Telephones cover with blue/green Official Reg label apparently from Malaka Nazli en ville in June 1942. Earlier use? Odd | £4.00 |
| | From Minya | |
| 513 | Minya-Cairo / TPO / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 6A1.3), 12 AU 31 T-75, 100%, info strike and cancelling 5m Fuad on front only of cover to Cairo. Fragile but undoubted. Excellent strike | £2.50 |
| 514 | Minia-Suhag / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 4 JU 39 T-85?, 65% cancelling3m Boy King on printed postcard addressed to Cairo. File holes away from marking. Smith records 1927-1933 | £2.00 |
| 515 | & V V / Minia-Suhag (Type 7A3.7), 30 SE 41 T-85, 85% info strike on folded letter franked 3x1m Boy King (all TPO cancels, no other markings). Smith records only Sept 1942 | £3.00 |
| 516 | & V V / Minia-Suhag as last, 24 NO 41 T-85, 60%, folded letter franked 3x1m Boy King, pencil T behind, and 6m Due affixed on arrival in Qena(?). Spectacular | £13.00 |
| | From Mit Ghamr | |
| 517 | Mit-Ghamr-Banha / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 95% (missing T and GH of Mit Ghamr) on official folded letter “franked” faint green Official oval. Other strike is 70% Mit Ghamr / Traffic. Smith dates only Dec 1929 | £3.00 |
| | From Port Tawfiq | |
| 518 | & V V / Port Taufiq-Ismailia (Type 7A3.7), 13 JL 35 T-105, just one of eight CDS on 5m-franked cover from Sidi Gaber and addressed to Gebel-Asmar Mine, Abu Zenima in Sinai (via Suez), including & V V / Alexandria-Cairo (Type 7A3.7, Smith records only Aug 1940), and faint Abu Zenima arrival | £6.00 |
| | From Qena | |
| 519 | & V V / Qena-Luqsor (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.7), 3 JL 37 T-71, 75% info and cancelling Fuad 5m on neat letter to Cairo. Illegible bs | £4.00 |
| | From Shallal | |
| 520 | Shallal-Luqsor (as Type 8A1 but Arabic all in one line), 9 IV 06 TIV, 70% info and cancelling DLR 5m on cover to London. Bani Suwef-Caire / Ambt (Type 3A1b) and London arrival mark behind | £3.50 |
| | From Suhag | |
| 521 | Suhag-Luqsor / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.4), 12 AP 39 T-74, 70% cancelling vignette on neat Boy King 2m stationery visiting card envelope (NP SEN 30), Arabic-addressed | £4.00 |
| | From Talkha | |
| 522 | Talkha-Tira / & V V (Type 7A3.4; Smith in doubt about Tira), 10 MR 39, full strike but not clear cancelling 3m Boy King on printed postcard of Nabarouh company to Cairo | £3.00 |
| | From Tanta | |
| 523 | Tanta-Dumiat / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 5 JA 35 T-53, 75% info and cancelling 5m Second Fuad on cover addressed to Zagazig PO box. Registered receipt attached. Stained at left away from marks | £3.00 |
| 524 | Tanta-Cairo / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 22 AP 36 T-136, 95%, info and cancelling 5m Second Fuad on neat cover Arabic-addressed to Cairo. Orman T and Cairo Station (Hall 18)( on reverse | £2.50 |
| 525 | Tanta-Cairo / & V V (Type 7A3.4), 30 DE 40 T-39, 80% cancelling 2m Boy King stationery visiting card envelope (NP SEN 31) uprated with 1m Boy King stamp and addressed to Cleopatra, Ramleh. Neat | £10.00 |
| 526 | Tanta-Zagazig / & V V / TPO (Type 6A1.2), 27 AU 42 T-223, 85% info strike and cancelling 6m Boy King on Arabic-addressed printed envelope to Cairo. Reasonable condition | £3.50 |
| | From Teh el Barud | |
| 527 | Teh-el-Barud-Caire (unrecorded, as Type 8A1a), 9 III 10 III, 75% as transit on face of colour PPC franked DLR 2m and cancelled El Manashi (65%) for Cairo. Most unusual | £5.00 |
| | From Zaqaziq | |
| 528 | Zaqaziq-Aga / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.4), 21 JA 42 T.177), 99% info and cancelling registered cover to Cairo franked 3x6m+3x1m Boy King (one pinholed). Cairo Delivery CDS behind | £5.00 |
| 529 | Zaqaziq-Aga / & V V as last, 22 SE 39 T.162, 95% info and cancelling 5m Boy King on neat cover to Cairo. Flap lost, illegible marks behind | £4.00 |
| | Two TPO markings | |
| 530 | 1934, folded printed matter letter franked 2m Second Fuad (torn on opening), cancelled (plus info strike) Asyut-Minia / & V V (unrecorded, as Type 7A3.4) 22 FE 34 T-77; in transit collected Cairo-Minia / & V V (Type &a£, but Smith records only 1922 and MinYa for Minia). Neat, good strikes | £3.50 |
| | Three TPO markings | |
| 531 | 1942, much travelled letter franked with vertical pairs of 1m+2m Boy King cancelled Aga 7 SE 42, first addressed to Sakha, and redirected to Kafr el Sheikh. On reverse are CDS of both those towns, together with handstamps of TPO / Shirbin-Qallin & V V (unrecorded, two strikes), Tanta-Dumiat (Type 7A3.4) and Dumiat-Tanta (7A3.4) | £4.00 |
| | Cairo-Alexandria TPO | |
| 532 | 22 DE 23 and 28 JA 24, two clean covers franked with 5m pink Crown opts, first cancelled Cairo-Alexandria / & V V (Type 7A3); second (flap lost) cancelled Alexandria-Cairo / TPO (Type 5A2) | £3.00 |
| | TPO to Turkey | |
| 533 | 1940, intriguing pair. Two similar sepia photocards of the Pyramids, one franked 1m+2m (plus 2x5m on face), second 1+2+10m 12 days later, both from faint but unrecorded Mahalla / Kafr el Sheikh / & VV (Type 7A3.5) to Turkey, both receiving sold hexagonal 34 (Andrews 6d4) censor marks | £6.00 |
| | TPO accumulations | |
| 534 | 1921-1942, seven folded letters, all unfranked but given official authority by using Officials Ovals or government labels, all including faint TPO markings of one sort or another | £3.00 |
| 535 | 1903-1923, six covers, six folded letters and two cards, all franked with DLR definitives or pictorials, all with faint TPO markings of one sort or another | £6.00 |
| 536 | 1920-1940, seven postal stationery cards and one 2m Fuad embossed visiting card envelope, all with faint TPO markings of one sort or another | £3.50 |
| 537 | 1929-1937, fifteen covers and four folded letters, all franked with Fuad stamps, all with faint TPO markings of one sort or another | £7.00 |
| 538 | 1938-1944, 25 covers and five folded letters, all franked with Boy King stamps and all with faint to good TPO markings of one sort or another | £12.00 |
| 539 | 1945-1952, 12 covers, all franked with 10m Farouk Marechal (two of them Express, so 40m), all with faint to good TPO markings of one sort or another | £5.00 |
| 540 | 1950s, four covers all franked with early republican stamps (one Express), all with faint TPO markings of one sort or another | £2.50 |
| | Machine cancels | |
| 541 | 1945-2007, three covers with different machine frankings, inc perfect 1945 Alex Frankotyp in violet on clean (but neatly file-holed) cover of Office des Territoires Occupes ou Controles. 2007 example from Tor’a el-Buulakia. Clean and interesting | £2.50 |
| | Paquebot markings | |
| 542 | Paquebot / Port Said (Type 4) – 14 clean cards/covers, 11 with Egyptian stamps 1949-1959, variety of Farouks Marechal, bars and Republic, mainly shipping line envelopes, plus three with GB stamps (1920-1937, two shipping line envelopes). Interesting group for study | £15.00 |
| 543 | Port Taufiq / Paquebot (Type 4.2) – two covers, 12 NO 54, 1 FE 55 with Republican stamps to London | £4.00 |
| 544 | Paquebot / Alexandrie, 13 MA 35, good elusive mark Type 4.1) on incoming cover originally with three Turkish stamps, now two. Pity! | £3.00 |
| 545 | Straight-line Paquebot (Type 3), good full strike off stamp used with Port Said CDS (date illegible) on GB 1d stamp, London arrival on reverse is FE 16 04. Good marking, cover a little grimy | £3.00 |
| 546 | Straight-line Paquebot (Type 3) neatly cancelling Italian 20c and 40c stamps, both perfin TL on colour artist card of young woman (T Corbell) addressed to Ramleh. Only cds is faint San Stefano 14 JL 29(??) on face | £4.00 |
| 547 | Straight-line Paquebot (Type 3.2), cancelling GB 1d on postcard (Malta) with Port Said CDS 29 IV 10. Readdressed in Taunton for Cambridge. Good markings | £3.00 |
| 548 | Straight-line Paquebot (Type 3.2), cancelling GB 1/2d on b-w card (P&O ‘Egypt’ in heavy seas) with Port Said star/crescent CDS 8 I 08 (slightly off card, 90%). Excellent clean card | £3.50 |
| 549 | 1908, French office straight-line Paquebot, clear strike alongside Port Said French office CDS 15 3 08 on b-w card (SS Awana crossing a Dredger) with 10c French stamp on face. Ink smudge but nice card | £3.00 |
| 550 | 1929, shipping line cover addressed to Ibrahimieh, franked GB 1 1/2d, cancelled with fine Marseille-Gare / Bches de Rhone wavy-line machine Paquebot canceller of 17 II 1929. Two Egypt arrival marks. Good clean cover | £3.00 |
| | Non-Egypt Paquebots | |
| 551 | 1927, good (corner crease) colour card (White Star Line – Triple-screw RMS Olympic), GB 1 1/2d stamp with fine New York NY17 straight-line machine Paquebot cancel Jul 26 1927. In Arabic, addressed to Paris | £3.00 |
| 552 | 1937, Messageries Maritime envelope franked 65c French stamp, addressed to Beyrouth, cancelled with faint Marseille-Gare / Bches du Rhone CDS with double-rectangle Paquebot machine cancel. Very faint Beirut arrival | £3.00 |
| | Maritime mail | |
| 553 | 1884, part cover addressed to Cairo with India 1a and East India 2a stamps on reverse, cancelled with B-in-bars roller cancel. Same mark on face, where another stamp may once have been. CDS on reverse (flap lost) are Wellington Pier R.H. /Des.5 of Dec 21, Sea Post Office A of 21 Dec and Suez / Arrivee 2 JA 84. Just enough to be intriguing, but damaged | £4.00 |
| 554 | 1932, plain cover franked vert pair of 10m 2nd Fuad, addressed to Bologna and cancelled double-ring ... postale Italiano / ...speria of ... Ago 1932. Redirected to Chamonix, with Bologna arrival 10.8.32 | £2.00 |
| 555 | 1940, envelope fragment (lower half, no stamps) addressed to Alex with fine large red double-ring anchor mark Marine Francaise / Service a la Mer and black CDS Dakar-Naval 5 Janv 40. Alx machine arrival | £2.00 |
| 556 | 1940, slightly tatty plain cover addressed to Folkestone, no stamps, cancelled excellent two-line Received From / H. M. Ships. Folkestone machine arrival 11 Sep 40, readdressed to Wimbledon | £2.00 |
| 557 | 1943, small env franked KG VI 3d, endorsed On Active Service and addressed to Alex. Stamp and blue-on-white Reg label cancelled FPO 515 10 AP 43, over blue tombstone “From H.M.Ships” cachet. Backstamps of BAPO 4 and Alexandria R.A. Dirty but interesting | £2.00 |
| 558 | 1943, On Active Service cover addressed to Alex, faint “From HM Ships” cachet with faint FPO 186 30 (both over officer’s endorsement) JU 43, Alex arrival the same day | £4.00 |
| | Station postmarks | |
| 559 | Tanta: all-Arabic CDS reading Tanta Mahatta / 14-1-2002 / (6) – clear strike on Arabic-addressed air mail cover franked 30p Goddess Silakht.. Unrecorded type | £4.00 |
| 560 | Accumulation of 36 covers, ranging 1917-1951, all with good or fair Station CDSs – Cairo, Minya, Asyut, Mansurah, Tanta, Minya, Luqsor. Condition mixed, some excellent strikes. Priced to go at | £16.00 |
| | Star & bridge markings | |
| 561 | Accumulation of 18 cards and covers, date range 1907-1914, all star and bridge (Type X) CDS – Aswan, Ismailia, Luqsor, Port Said, Tanta, Mansura, Zagazig. Condition mixed, some excellent strikes | £8.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 562 | 1966-issue 80m Air Letter (Nefertiti, no back panel) Arabic-addressed with illegible CDS to Mogadishu, Somalia. Arrival CDS is 5.1.67 | £2.00 |
| 563 | 2007, £E2 1/2 cassette envelope with Post Office large black boxed “Cancelled” (Arabic) handstamp, then used for registration from illegible CDS to Cairo (arrival 5 6 2007). File hole but clean | £2.00 |
| | British military usage | |
| 564 | 1942, YMCA On Active Service red-on-buff printed cover cancelled EPP 25 of 21 AU 42 for Cairo, but redirected and backstamps of Sidi Gaber and Sidi Bishr. Folds but interesting | £2.00 |
| 565 | 1954, fresh cover franked QEII 3d for London, cancelled Field Post Office / B / 218 of 19 MR 54 | £2.00 |
| | Interpostal seals – all mint, Kehr numbers | |
| 566 | 61 Scibin-el-Anater (Type III) | £3.00 |
| 567 | 138 Metelino (Type IVA) | £7.00 |
| 568 | 76 Abuhomus (Type IV) | £3.00 |
| 569 | 274 Alessandria (Type Vc) | £3.00 |
| 570 | 78A Alessandria (Type IV) Small pin hole | £1.00 |
| 571 | 286 Dongola (Type Vc) off centre but a scarce item | £10.00 |
| 572 | 87 Medinet-el-Faium (Type IV) | £3.00 |
| 573 | 377D indigo on buff (Type VI) | £3.00 |
| 574 | 102 Tanta (Type IV) | £3.00 |
| 575 | 731 Alexandrie (Type IX) | £2.00 |
| 576 | 108A Alessandria (Type IVA), off center but shows spacing on printing stone | £2.00 |
| 577 | 782 Minia (Type IX) | £2.00 |
| 578 | 109A Atfe (Type IVA) | £3.00 |
| 579 | 785 Port-Said (Type IX) | £2.00 |
| 580 | 116 Damanhour (Type IVA) 3rd retouch | £2.00 |
| 581 | 798 Tanta (Type IX) | £2.00 |
| 582 | 125 Ismailia (Type IVA) 3rd retouch | £3.00 |
| | Stamps | |
| 583 | 1872 1pi typo, watermark inverted, perforation 12 1/2 x 13 1/3 (SG 31var , NP D17i), very fine used | £10.00 |
| 584 | 1872 20pa LITHO, perforation 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, (SG 26, NP D21), thinned used with Alessandria /(Cas)sa cancellation 17 MAG 72 | £10.00 |
| 585 | 1872 1pi LITHO, perforation 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, (SG 27, NP D22), very fine used | £13.00 |
| 586 | 1879 5pa, broken triangle at top right, (SG 44var, NP D32b), very fine used | £15.00 |
| 587 | 1906 1m, watermark inverted (SG 58var, NP D45a), very fine used | £3.00 |
| 588 | 1906 1m, watermark inverted (SG 58var, NP D45a), very fine used | £17.00 |
| 589 | 1906 1m, watermark inverted (SG 58var, NP D45a), very fine used | £11.00 |
| 590 | 1906 1m, watermark inverted (SG 58var, NP D45a), very fine used | £26.00 |
| 591 | 1914 5m, booklet stamp, watermark sideways to the right, (SG 77a, NP D57k), very fine used | £3.00 |
| 592 | 1927 2m, King Fouad Type I (SG 149, NP 107), very nice used | £2.00 |
| 593 | 1937, 15m Farouk Boy inverted watermark (SG 256var, NP D144var), unmounted mint | £1.00 |
| 594 | 1953, Nefertiti 100m, watermark inverted (SG 429var, NP D207a), very fine used | £9.00 |
| 595 | 1955 5m block of four including "extra dot" variety (SG 507var, NP C158b), unmounted mint | £4.00 |
| 596 | 1957 10m Rameses II (SG542var, NP D242a), inverted watermark, block of four, unmounted mint | £9.00 |
| 597 | 1957 10m vertical pair "gun on plane" variety (SG 545a var, NP C189a), unmounted mint | £4.00 |
| 598 | 1958 10m Kasem Amin (SG 563var, NP C200a), watermark sideways to the left (inverted), block of four, unmounted mint | £17.00 |
| 599 | 1959 Petroleum 10m extra dot variety. "arabia" reads "garbia" (SG 594var, NP C220d), unmounted mint | £4.00 |
| 600 | 1959, set of 17 plus £E1 overprinted (SG603-619, 634), 3 top values marginal control, unmounted mint | £12.00 |
| 601 | 1959 Nefertiti 55m on 100m, misplaced overprint "U" missing, (SG 588var, NP D252b), lower left corner marginal, unmounted mint | £11.00 |
| 602 | 1959 Flag orange colour watermarked Printing Experiment, unmounted mint | £11.00 |
| 603 | A quantity of 1000 used stamps | £15.00 |
| | Miniature sheets | |
| 604 | 1958, Flag miniature sheet (SG MS570), unmounted mint | £4.00 |
| 605 | 1959, Transport miniature sheet (SG MS601), unmounted mint | £3.00 |
| | Officials – Royal collection | |
| 606 | 1926 15m misperforated (SG O146var, NP O48b) unmounted mint | £11.00 |
| 607 | 1926 20m misperforated (SG O147var, NP O49b) unmounted mint | £8.00 |
| | Postage Dues | |
| 608 | 1921 10m lake, watermark pointing down (SG D103var, NP PD26i), very fine used | £5.00 |
| 609 | 1927 2m misperforate (SG 174var, NP PD32d), unmounted mint | £3.00 |
| | Perfins | |
| 610 | Perfins, a group of 12 used stamps | £6.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 611 | Marine cover from ship S/T Agios Georgios V to ship S/S CNOSAGA c/o the Greek G.M. Livanos USA franked Farouk Marechal 3 bars and airmail stamps, cancelled PAQUEBOT - PORT SAID. Very nice | £20.00 |
| 612 | Hotel Minerva, Cairo, cover to Greece, 3x10m Farouk Marechal on reverse | £10.00 |
| 613 | Windsor Palace Hotel, Alexandria, cover to Greece franked 2xSG418+SG412, includes 3 page letter written on Hotel headed paper | £15.00 |
| 614 | National Bank of Egypt cover to Greece franked 22m Farouk Marechal plus censor cancel | £5.00 |
| 615 | 1938 Royal Wedding first day postcard to Cairo franked 3x5m (SG 265, NP C75) cancelled CAIRO 20 JA 38 | £15.00 |
| 616 | 1941 British cover from Egypt to England franked British blue 10d cancelled "EGYPT 18-MA-41 POSTAGE PREPAID" plus censor. Very nice | £20.00 |
| | Postmarks | |
| 617 | "DALLA ST(AZIONE)" on 1872 10pa | £8.00 |
| 618 | Used abroad SCIO on 10 para | £30.00 |
| 619 | Used abroad GEDDA, WADI HALFA on 1881 1pi blue | £21.00 |
| 620 | Used abroad Turkish SMYRNE on 5m DLR pair. Very nice | £15.00 |
| 621 | Retta cancel on DLR, Farouk Boy and Marechal. Six stamps | £3.00 |
| 622 | 1914 5m, cancelled RURAL SERVICE, four used stamps | £3.00 |
| 623 | HOTEL mini collection of 26 postmarks, SHEPHEARD'S, LUQSOR, SEMIRAMIS, GRAND CONTINENTAL, SAN STEFANO, CATARACT | £11.00 |
| 624 | Railway and TPO postmarks on DLR (9 stamps and a pair), 1914 pictorial (3 stamps), Farouk Boy (3 stamps), a total of 17 stamps | £4.00 |
| | Maritime Mail | |
| 625 | Nine clean covers, all posted by Hendry with a series of interesting mail routings – Istanbul, Piraeus, Sudan, UK – with four all-Egypt; and interesting markings, frankings (one Togo opt on Afrique Occidentale Francaise, another 5/50+10/100m Agric Exhibition) and vessels – Talodi, Rashid, Taif, Roda . Fascinating group suitable for expansion | £45.00 |
| 626 | Six covers or cards, all good condition, mixed bag of markings, including PPC from the Khedivial Mail Steamship & Dock Company Ltd in Alex (large cachet, 1906) and PPC to the SS Germania of the Hamburg and Anglo-American Nile Company with clear company arrival handstamp of the Luxor base (1910). Two French lines, one Sudan, and a modern machine-franked cover of the Luxor Shipping Agency in Port Said (1964). Interesting group | £45.00 |
| | Rural Post | |
| 627 | Mini-accumulation of 66 stamps with Rural Service or Service Rural markings, plus 1 envelope and 1 postcard, interesting because it is incoming mail from Germany to a professor at the cotton research institute in Baltim. Fascinating research lot | £25.00 |
| | Registered postcards | |
| 628 | 1943, printed commercial card with full Arabic message, sent from Abbassia / R25 MR 43 5.00P to Samalut, provided with black/white mute Reg label and franked at 19m (4m postcard plus 15m registration). Cairo transit mark on face, folded down centre but unusual and colourful | £4.50 |
| 629 | 1945, printed commercial card with full Arabic message, sent from Hadaiq el Qubba 20 JL 45 to Ezbet el Zeitoun (clear arrival behind next day), franked vertical pair of 13m Boy King after postage rate raised to 6m and registration to 20m. One corner lost but unusual | £4.50 |
| 630 | 1953, as last, commercial printed card with Arabic message, franked 20m barred Marechal+2x3m barred Boy King and sent from Bab el Luq / Registration 6 JU 53. Arrival CDS unclear | £4.50 |
| 631 | 1954, as last, but franked 20m barred Marechal plus pair of 3m First Fellah from Maadi to Cairo, faint Registration cachet | £4.50 |
| | Savings Bank cancel | |
| 632 | 1943, small envelope franked 31m for registration (and AR?) to Cairo, cancelled with clear Faqus / Savings Bank CDS of 20 MR 43. Cairo Delivery behind. Worn but interesting | £4.00 |
| | Post Office Customs form | |
| 633 | 1940, Form 25Q, “Note of Amount of Customs Dues etc Paid”, 190x280mm, duly completed and signed, with tax paid by 10m Boy King cancelled by clear Alexandria / R (1) of 6 JU 40. File holes but unusual | £4.00 |
| | Overseas Dues | |
| 634 | 1952, air envelope franked KES overprint stamps – 2m,5m (damaged)+strip of 4x10m for Paris. Pen-mark T27 alongside, and on arrival provided with three French Dues – 20f, 5f, 2f neatly cancelled 4 8 52. Worn but interesting | £4.50 |
| | Express and AR | |
| 635 | 1951, Arabic-printed commercial cover, Arabic typewritten address, franked with two blocks of four of Farouk 10m Marechal for total of 80 mills. Sent from indistinct Cairo cancel 25 MA 51 at registered, avis de reception and Express rate (AR and Express cachets). Reverse has clear Mahmasha / T and two other handstamps. Most unusual franking | £8.00 |
| | 1990s varieties used | |
| 636 | 1993 Airs, 80p Tutankhamun mask, with gold colour shifted noticeably to left but not as far as recorded “two beards variety” (stamp is SG 1874 Type II, NP 118a). Used in block of 2x5, strip of 5 and pair on parcel card with illegible markings | £15.00 |
| 637 | 1993 definitives, £E2 Queen Ti (SG 1871, NP 364), blocks of 20 each on both sides of a parcel card, clearly showing two varieties, crack through eye and crack through nose (NP 364a-b). Cannot make out NP 364c on last stamp of block. Pane on reverse has no varieties. | £26.00 |
| 638 | As last, pane on one side has no varieties; on the other the 40 stamps are split into two blocks of 2x2. One block has both “crack” varieties | £24.00 |
| 639 | 1999 £E1 Hosni Mubarak 4th Term (SG 2123, NP1458), used in horizontal strip of three on small parcel card (16x13.5cm) with illegible markings. Left-hand stamp, alone remarkably, shows prominent 1mm leftward slip in pale blue colour. Unrecorded. Stamps to right creased | £30.00 |
| | Postal history – bulk lots | |
| 640 | 66 covers of King Farouk period from 1937 to 1944 with stamps ranging from 1 millième to 100 millièmes (alone on flimsy censored air letter from National Hospital Supply Co of Cairo to New York).. Interesting postmarks, various notations and official markings. Better quality | £30.00 |
| 641 | 24 covers and three fragments, all with King of Egypt and Sudan overprint stamps, many in colourful combinations, ranging from 1m to 50m Air used alone. No combinations, all KES. Good assortment | £12.00 |
| 642 | 31 covers and cards, all franked with barred-Farouk stamps (sometimes combined with republican, as expected), ranging from 1m to 30m and 50m Air used alone, local and foreign destinations. better lot | £14.00 |
| 643 | 12 covers all franked with stamps from 1947 Airs set (some combined with Farouk Marechal), including good examples of properly used BEPITEC and IMABA covers. Includes 100m | £8.00 |
| 644 | 65 covers, postcards, reply cards bearing King Farouk 1940s stamps from 1 millième to 100 millièmes, in addition to five large official and/or diplomatic mail covers from embassy to consulate with various denominations including two of 50-piastres. Mixed lot, but all with interesting postmarks and markings | £40.00 |
| 645 | 106 modern parcel cards, various colours, sizes, many multiple blocks of recent high-value stamps & revenues, occasional miniature sheet. Values from 10pi to £E5, with these blocks noted: NP353x32,8, 363x35,25,20,15,14,12,6, 364x25(5), 370x10, 371x16; commems 381x27,16; Airs 118x20(4),15(2) etc etc… many more blocks, including large revenue blocks. Much better condition than usual | £48.00 |
| | Postcards | |
| 646 | Set of 12 b/w photo postcards of Alexandria, published Oriental Commercial Bureau, Port Said. Numbers 101-112. See Nofal Alexandria p228. Excellent condition, mint | £5.00 |
| 647 | 1945, colourful folded cartoon map card for Christmas from Middle East Force, Dodecanese-Khartoum, Tripoli-Tehran. Message inside from serviceman serving in Ismailia (X marks the spot). Good condition, sl staple hole and stain | £4.00 |
| 648 | Vertical colour card of Universal 5 horse power safety oil engine, astonishingly sent from Khartoum (3m Camel postman stamp) to Dawawin / Cairo (arrival Sept 1924). Arabic message, file-holed but remarkable | £4.00 |
| 649 | Vertical colour card advertising Sandy’s Liqueur Old Vatted Highland Whisky and detailing agents in Alexandria and Cairo. Pen-mark across Cairo details, but mint and most unusual | £4.00 |
| 650 | Vertical colour card “made and published by M T Sheahan, Boston”. Face reads “To a” (illustration of a violet), and signed “Forgotten Friend”. Addressed to Miss Nabihat Kattimi, SMGS, Bab el Louk. Good condition, unusual | £4.00 |
| 651 | Liebig litho card of “Ports d’Outre-Mer” series: Alexandrie, showing coinage, Port and Ras el Tin. Mint | £3.00 |
| 652 | NOT a postcard – stiff bicoloured invitation to Visit of HBM’s Fleet to Cairo (Citadel Barracks) dated 22 Nov 1913. “Bearer is the guest of No 3 Mountain Battery, RGA”. Good condition | £3.00 |
| | Hotel in arrival | |
| 653 | C&S (embossed torn flap) company envelope franked GB 1d cancelled London EC Mar 11 08, addressed to Semiramis Hotel, transit excellent Port Said-Cairo / TPO (Type 5A3) and arrival Semiramis HSE1 18 III 08, almost complete. Room number 232 in blue pencil on face | £4.00 |
| | Mourning notices | |
| 654 | 1933, Double folded sheet ending up as apparent cover 24.5x15.5cm with massive black border, fully addressed to Barclays Bank, Cairo, and franked 2m Second Fuad cancelled Cairo 29 OC 33. Arabic notice notifies of death of Benjamin M Mousally. Pinholed, but spectacular | £4.00 |
| 655 | 1946, Double-folded sheet ending up as apparent cover 21x13.5cm with wide black border, addressed to Barclays Bank (only) and franked 30m (why?) Marechal KES opt. Bears notice of death of Rahmin I Schonwald on May 8 1946. Pinholed, but striking and unusual | £4.00 |
| | Airmails | |
| 656 | 1933 Aviation Congress; registered cover to London franked complete commemorative set of 5, CDS Cairo R.D.4 dated 20 Dec. 1933, roughly opened but clean cancels | £40.00 |
| 657 | 1933 Aviation Congress; complete set of five lightly mounted mint. SG 214-218 current catalogue £90 | £25.00 |
| 658 | 28m air cover, crested on reverse, to Loxley Hall, Warwick franked 3m, 5m+20m 1933 litho airmails cancelled bilingual Alexandria D dated 12 JU 36 | £1.00 |
| 659 | Pre-printed air cover to insurance company in London franked 10m+50m 1933 litho air stamps with civil censor in cerise and bilingual ‘by airmail’ handstamp in red. Cancelled Cairo D5 29 SE 39 | £2.00 |
| 660 | Another almost exactly as above, even same date 29 SE 39, but cover has crease away from stamps | £1.50 |
| 661 | 4m printed rate air cover, 2x2m Farouk airs cancelled Cairo wavy roller 21 JUN 1947 to Philadelphia | £1.50 |
| 662 | CITEX printed cover to Citex Paris franked 2m+30m Farouk airs with cancel for special flight and civil censor, block of 4 imperf between exhib stamps cancelled Cairo on reverse 29 JNE 1949, very clean | £12.00 |
| 663 | BEPITEC printed cover to Bepitec Brussels franked 2m+30m Farouk airs with cancel for special flight and civil censor, block of 4 imperf between exhib stamps and cancellation of the exhibition | £12.00 |
| 664 | 40m real photo postcard (Ibn Tulun mosque) to Stockholm franked 40m Farouk airmail stamp + KES opt, CDS Heliopolis 2 MR 53 and civil censor. Also same stamp used with dk red opt instead of black | £2.00 |
| 665 | 110m air cover to California franked 2x SG 1137a cancelled bilingual Heliopolis slogan 1976 | £1.50 |
| 666 | 175m air cover to Cheltenham franked 3x 55m +2x5m Queen Ti, SG 1873 airmail (Tutankhamun’s mask) and SG 2020a cancelled bilingual Tourist Luqsor 199 | £2.00 |
| | Commemoratives | |
| 667 | 1925 International Geographical Congress, the set in three used pairs, 5m is marginal, CDS Alexandria 9 AP 25. SG123-125, currently catalogued at £33 per set in singles | £20.00 |
| 668 | 1926 Agricultural & Industrial Exhibition; set of six SG126-131fine used, most have the exhibition cancellation, one has Cairo Station. Currently catalogued at £70 | £20.00 |
| 669 | 1926 Agricultural & Industrial Exhibition; complete set of six, SG126-131 lightly mounted mint. Cat £70 | £24.00 |
| 670 | 1926 Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition; top value 200 mills lightly mounted mint marginal. Cat £36 | £12.60 |
| 671 | 1928 Medical Congress, Cairo set of 2 in unm blocks of 8, SG176-7 Cat. £17 +, first printing | £6.60 |
| 672 | 1933 International Railway Congress, set of four SG189-192, lightly mounted mint, cat £70 | £25.00 |
| 673 | 1934 Universal Postal Union; complete set of 14 fine used. SG219-232 currently catalogued £275 | £85.00 |
| 674 | 1964 set of 13 flags for 2nd Arab League Heads of State Council, lightly mounted mint, SG805-17. | £4.00 |
| 675 | 1969 set of 41 flags for African Tourist Year, LMM, not easy to find complete. SG980-1020. Cat £44 | £15.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 676 | Consular mail from French Consulate General, Cairo, to judge in the Mixed Courts at Bacos, Ramleh. Cover unfranked and has two different consular cachets. Postmark is Cairo F dated 8 SE 17 | £8.00 |
| 677 | Long cover (9 in) franked 1 piastre pale blue DLR chalky paper clear Cairo C 5 XII 13 10.30AM to USA | £1.00 |
| 678 | Similar long cover (9 in) with 10m blue (Colossi) CDS clear Cairo F 26 1 14 5.30PM, same addressee | £1.50 |
| 679 | Crested cover to Los Angeles franked 2nd Fouad 15 mills cancelled Port Said Traffic 7 OC 31. On back is cachet, “When in Port Said visit the Simon Arzt Store” | £2.00 |
| 680 | Pre-printed commercial cover franked 5 mills pictorial DLR SG7 cancelled Alexandria C 9 VI 15 to Genoa, with red oval Passed by Censor No. 6 and OPENED BY CENSOR tape; backstamped Genova 11 7 15. Another cachet in purple across postmark difficult to read but Gp. Postal Centre (?) | £2.00 |
| 681 | Great Britain 1d Edward VII postal stationery cover with unclear cancellation – looks like Lewisham – to Cairo with on reverse clear Port Said-Cairo T.P.O. dated 12 IX 06 T10. Part of back flap is missing | £3.50 |
| 682 | Internal commercial Arabic printed cover franked 55m SG777 (Mitwalli Gate) and 779 (Nefertari), CDS Ragheb Pasha (Alexandria) R.P. sent within Alex, transit & receiver behind 13.3.71. Colourful, good strikes | £2.00 |
| 683 | NZ Forces in Egypt; On Active Service airmail cover to NZ franked 10m Farouk Army Post + 30m 1933 air with bilingual airmail etiquette and boxed censor 94. Cancelled N.Z. F.P.O. 1 3? AP 40, very clean | £16.00 |
| 684 | NZ Forces in Egypt: On Active Service ‘Honour’ airmail cover to NZ with 10m Farouk Army Post + 30m Boy King grey with bilingual airmail etiquette and boxed censor 91. Cancel N.Z. F.P.O. 1 13 JL 40 | £16.00 |
| | Stamps - Gaza | |
| 685 | 1948 set of air stamps less 2m, 3m and 5m values i.e. the higher values only unmounted min, SG 23 to 31 Catalogued at around £30 | £12.00 |
| 686 | 1955-56 Pictorial definitives of Egypt overprinted for use in Palestine, set less 100m and 500m, the £1 is marginal, all fine used, 16 values, SG 69 to 86 current catalogue value over £100 | £42.00 |
| | Stamps - definitives | |
| 687 | Farouk Marechal ‘Royal Printings’ NP D155-163, imperf. on card and ‘Cancelled’ on reverse, 1m to 17m | £36.00 |
| 688 | Boy King ‘Royal Perforations’, six values, 1m, 2m, 3m, 5m, 10m, 15m + 20m NP D 136-145, UMM | £30.00 |
| 689 | 1964 to 1967 Pictorial definitives SG 769 to 785 set of 17 lightly mounted mint, catalogued £37 | £17.00 |
| | Stamps - Officials | |
| 690 | O.H.H.S. opt in English and Arabic by DLR issued 1907 set of six fine used SG O73-78, catalogued £6 | £1.80 |
| 691 | O.H.H.S. opt on 4m both types with and without hamza on alef; SG O86, O89 fine used. Cat. £12.25 | £4.50 |
| 692 | O.H.E.M.S. opts of 1922-23 on Harrisons, SG O111-120, set of nine (one 15m) fine used, cat £62+. | £20.00 |
| 693 | 1926-1935 litho. issue, complete set of twelve fine used, SGO138 to O149, current catalogue £10.50 | £4.00 |
| 694 | 1938 complete set of nine officials, fine used, SG O276-284. Current catalogue £8.25 | £3.50 |
| | Stamps – Postage Dues | |
| 695 | Crown overprints set of four SG D111-114 fine used.Current catalogue £15 | £5.00 |
| | Postcards | |
| 696 | 1900 nice colour ppc of Port Said by Dresdener Kunstanstalt, franked 5 mills DLR stamp tied Suez cds 4 XII 00 with Bruxelle arrival cds | £2.50 |
| 697 | 1907 B&W ppc Canal De Suez franked 2m DLR tied SUEZ cds 26 IV 07. Message says “ss Golconda, Suez 26 IV 07” to England. Golconda, a BISN cargo ship, struck a mine off Harwich in 1916 and sank | £4.50 |
| | No-Value fiscals | |
| 698 | 1920-27, four documents written in Arabic each tied with surcharged No Value stamps to 3 piastres & used as revenues. Three are signed testimony, the other an application for leave | £16.60 |
| | First Issue | |
| 699 | 1866 First Issue. Stockcard with 7 x 5 para (4 unused), 2 x 10 para (I unused), 1 x 20 para unused, 2 x 1 pi (used) and 4 x 2pi (used). Genuine, clean stamps | £59.00 |
| | Star and crescent | |
| 700 | 1904 B&W ppc franked 5 mill DLR stamp tied KOSSEIR star & crescent cds 22 JL 04 with KENA transit cds 25 VII 04 to England. | £4.50 |
| | Flight covers | |
| 701 | 1932 Imperial Airways cover Alexandria to Dodoma, Tanganyika | £14.00 |
| 702 | 1932 Imperial Airways cover Cairo to Salisbury (S.Rhod) | £14.00 |
| 703 | 1932 Imperial Airways cover Aswan to Nairobi, franked vertical pairs of Fuad 1m+20m, boxed T alongside and Kenya-Uganda postage dues of 35 cents. Tidy & spectacular | £80.00 |
| 704 | 1931 First Flight cover Luqsor to London with 27 mils chestnut | £8.00 |
| 705 | 1933 Aeronautique set (5) on FDC (5 mils stamp upside down) | £30.00 |
| 706 | 1931 First Flight cover Cairo-Nairobi with 2x27 mils chestnut (1926) airs | £12.00 |
| 707 | 1931 First Flight cover Luqsor to Canterbury. Bridge receiver. | £10.00 |
| 708 | S.A.l.D.E. FDC addressed to Greece (registered) | £1.00 |
| 709 | 1949 Bepitec special cover addressed to Edinburgh from Cairo | £5.00 |
| | FDCs | |
| 710 | 1928 Medical Congress FDC | £1.00 |
| 711 | 1938 5 mils Royal Wedding FDC (plain) | £1.00 |
| | Forces prepaid covers | |
| 712 | Forces Prepaid cover No I Moascar 1935. Green seal | £5.00 |
| 713 | 1933 Forces Prepaid cover No 3 on Royal Engineers env with 1pi Postal Seal. Tidy | £6.00 |
| 714 | 1933 Prepaid cover No 4 with Postal Seal | £6.00 |
| 715 | 1933 Prepaid cover No 4 with Postal Seal. Bit untidy | £4.00 |
| 716 | 1934 Prepaid cover No 6 with Letter Seal | £2.00 |
| 717 | 1934 Prepaid cover No 6 with Letter Seal | £3.00 |
| 718 | 1933 Prepaid cover No 6 with green Seal | £4.00 |
| 719 | 1935 Prepaid cover No 13 with tidy retta cancel and 14x13% pf red | £2.00 |
| 720 | Prepaid Forces cover No 19 (1935). Carmine seal. | £2.00 |
| 721 | Prepaid Forces cover No 20 (1936). Carmine seal | £2.00 |
| 722 | Prepaid Forces cover No 21 (1935). Green seal. Roughly opened. | £3.00 |
| 723 | Prepaid Forces cover No 22 (193?). Green seal. | £3.00 |
| 724 | Prepaid Forces cover No 23 (1935). Green seal. | £3.00 |
| 725 | Prepaid Forces cover No 25 (1936). Carmine seal. (SG A9) | £4.00 |
| | Rural Service | |
| 726 | 5 I 27 Samalut-Daquf Rural Service cover to France with strip of 3x5m First Fuad | £3.00 |
| 727 | 3 II 27 Rural Service cover Samalut-Daquf to France with 3x Fuad First set 5 mills, cartouche Qutusha. Untidy back. | £3.00 |
| | French offices | |
| 728 | French P0 in Port Said. 21 mint stamps. All low values SG 101-4, SG 122-30 etc. Cat £40++ | £10.00 |
| 729 | Alexandria SGI UM block of 6 with part edging. Cat. £3.50. | £1.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 730 | Seven fronts about 1917-24 addressed to Groves & Lindley, Huddersfield, with registered (5) CDS including Salloum, Shabrakit | £2.00 |
| 731 | 1918 philatelic looking cover addressed to Lieut Roper at Sidi Bishr with SG 73-76 and SG78 separately cancelled with Alex-Abuqir cancels. Bit tatty | £1.00 |
| 732 | Bundle of cut-out postmarks (c 50). Mostly officials on pieces of parcel card | £4.00 |
| | Salt Tax | |
| 733 | Set of 4 Salt-tax stamps with 4 different cancels | £1.00 |
| | Proofs | |
| 734 | Proofs (horizontal pairs). No watermark, SG 73-8 | £30.00 |
| | Officials | |
| 735 | SG 0138-49 set FU. Cat. £8. | £2.00 |
| | Stamps | |
| 736 | 1866, First Issue. Six stamps, three perforated – 5para (wmk 1c), 10para (wmk 1b), 20 para (wmk 1a); and three imperforate proofs: 10pa (wmk 1a), 2pi (no wmk), 210pi (no wmk). All mint with minor hinge remains | £80.00 |
| 737 | 1914, First Pictorial issue – group of six horiz imperf pairs of six values: 1m brown-sepia, 2m green, 3m orange, 4m red, 5m carmine, 10m blue (Bal 115-120. All mint NH | £60.00 |
| 738 | 1927 Second Fuad. Set of five marginal horizontal 5m dark red-brown tête-bêche with oblique perforation and inverted wmk. Pristine condition (Bal D112). Very scarce | £90.00 |
| 739 | 1937, Young Farouk – corner block of four 50pi green with control A/45 A/46 (Bal D153). Pristine condition | £60.00 |
| 740 | 1938, Farouk 18th Birthday - £E1 green, pristine condition (Bal 80) | £70.00 |
| 741 | 1952. From the Royal collection… a rare chance to acquire the 30m Farouk Marechal with “King of Egypt and Sudan” overprint in brown (colour trial; only 100 exist). Stamp mounted on certificate of authority and validation | 50.00 |
| 742 | 1952, Farouk Marechal, corner block of four of 50pi with “King of Egypt and Sudan” in dull red rose. Control block A/49 A/50 in both Arabic and English. Pristine condition | £85.00 |
| 743 | 1953. First post-Revolution pictorial issue, block of four of 32m blue Mosque imperforate (NP D202a), in pristine condition. Scarce | £75.00 |
| 744 | 1953, post-Revolution booklets. Two booklets, each containing four panes with 6x10m Defense stamps. One stitched at left, other at right. Neat and scarce pair | £96.00 |
| | Stamps | |
| 745 | 1946 First Egyptian Stamps 80th Anniversary complete set in half sheets with margins all MNH | £14.00 |
| | Royal-collection stamps | |
| 746 | 1945-51 9 Different Commemoratives Ex-Royal (each stamp has the Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back as a guarantee it came from the Royal Collection), all superb MNH | £20.00 |
| 747 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" selection of 13 colour trials; all the elusive "adopted-colour" colour trial (much scarcer than rejected colours), all are MNH and each has Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 of each exist | £350.00 |
| 748 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" 40m block of four with green (instead of red) colour trial MNH; each has Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 stamps exist and blocks are almost impossible to find | £75.00 |
| 749 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" 4 different colour trials of the 2m postage due MNH (including adopted blue colour); each has Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 of each exist | £75.00 |
| 750 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" 4 different colour trials of the 4m postage due MNH (including adopted blue colour); each has Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 of each exist | £75.00 |
| 751 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" 4 different colour trials of the 12m postage due MNH (including adopted blue colour); each has Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 of each exist | £75.00 |
| 752 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" postage due 30m colour trial MNH (elusive red adopted colour); with Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 stamps exist | £20.00 |
| 753 | 1952 "King of Egypt & Sudan" complete set of "adopted-colour' colour trials of the postage dues; all MNH and each has Arabic 'Qubbah Palace' on the back. Only 100 of each exist | £220.00 |
| | Royal-collection stamps on Bileski cards – with the famous Amarna bust of Nefertiti | |
| 754 | 1927-37 King Fuad (French) 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, and 15m X-Back (5 cards) | £70.00 |
| 755 | 1926-37 King Fuad (Postes) 5m, and 10m X-Back (2 cards) | £40.00 |
| 756 | 1937 King Farouk (Young) six different values as issued with scarce shades on card | £30.00 |
| 757 | 1937 King Farouk (Young) 2m, 3m, and 100m X-Back (3 cards) | £35.00 |
| 758 | 1937 King Farouk (Young) 1m, 3m, 4m, 40m, and 50m as-issued & X-Back (5 cards each with 2 stamps) | £60.00 |
| 759 | 1944 King Farouk (Marechal) 20m, and 50m X-Back (2 cards) | £30.00 |
| 760 | 1947 Queen Nefertiti 30m + 30m (Fine Arts set) as issued | £10.00 |
| 761 | 1947 King Tut 50m + 50m (Fine Arts set) as issued | £10.00 |
| 762 | 1951 King Farouk & Queen Narriman Royal Wedding as issued | £25.00 |
| 763 | 1933 Airmail 1m, 4m, 7m, 8m, and 10m as issued (5 cards) | £30.00 |
| 764 | 1936 King Fuad Army Post 3m, and 10m as issued (2 cards) | £30.00 |
| 765 | 1939 King Farouk Army Post 10m as issued | £12.00 |
| 766 | 1938 Officials Complete set as issued (9 cards) | £85.00 |
| 767 | 1927 Postage Due 2m, and 4m as issued (2 cards) | £10.00 |
| 768 | 1927 Postage Due 4m, and 10m X-Back (2 cards) | £12.00 |
| 769 | 1948 King Farouk 2m Gaza with spectacular overprint shift error | £30.00 |
| 770 | 1948 King Farouk 1 Pound Gaza | £45.00 |
