Egypt Study Circle Auction 60 on Sunday April 5, 2020
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Lot
Description
Reserve
POSTAL STATIONERY
001
 Airletters. Nile Post SALS4 used to Bristol, SALS12 mint, SALS14 mint and with additional stamps, SALS15 mint, and two of SALS17 with discoloured gum mint, total seven airletters
£7.00
002
 Postal stationery letter sheets. Ten mint or used items comprising SLS1, 2, 3 and 6. Mixed condition
£7.00
PICTORIAL ISSUES
003
 Nice collection of first and second Pictorial issues on album pages. Over 80 stamps, mainly used.
£3.00
BOOKLET STAMPS
004
 Booklet SB13, 120m containing four panes of 6 x 5m Young King stamps all with controls A/38 A/39, trimmed at one edge. Cat $200 in Nile Post
£50.00
005
 Booklet sheet of 5m Young King stamps comprising 60 stamps (10 panes) with A/40 control, from the left side of the double pane sheet. Cat $125 in Nile Post
£30.00
006
 Young King double booklet panes from bottom two rows of 5m and 6m sheets with selvedge on three sides and no controls. Also right marginal pane of 6m with trimmed edge at left. Cat $90 in Nile Post
£20.00
007
 Airletters.1953 First post-revolution pictorials 240m booklet with four panes of six 10m defence/soldier stamps. Stitched at left. Cat $105 in Nile Post
£30.00
008
 Ditto but stitched at right. Cat $105 in Nile Post
£30.00
009
 Egypt’s last stamp booklet Discover the Treasures of Egypt in Stamps 2004
£8.00
POST REVOLUTION COVERS
010
 Bundle of over 50 post-revolution covers. Good range of cancels and cachets with interesting overseas destinations
£20.00
AIRMAILS MAIN COLLECTION
011
 Peter Andrews’ principal Egyptian airmail stamps collection in two green Merton albums. Starting with first issue and including the Zeppelin set, it has lots of control blocks and runs up to 1995. Mainly unmounted mint in plastic mounts but also lots of used sets. High catalogue value. Worth viewing
£90.00
STOCKBOOK WITH MIXED STAMPS. Worth viewing
012
 Beige stock book with a range of mainly mint stamps. Lots of Young King and a few post-revolution. Cheap at the reserve
£15.00
ACCUMULATIONS IN SMALL BOXES
013
 Black box of Egypt commemoratives from early to 1970s. Lots of corner marginal blocks. Mint and fine used. Excellent range. Hundreds
£60.00
014
 White box of Egypt official stamps only. All 1972-1985 large size issue, mint and used. Thousands of stamps including lots of bundles of 100. Plenty of scope for extensive study
£15.00
COMPLETE SHEETS OR LARGE BLOCKS. Too big to be scanned completely
015
 1937 Young King 1m value in full sheet of 100, control B/42 A/42. Sheet split in two and re-joined by three stamp hinges. Part illustrated
£7.00
016
 1937 Young King 20m grey-violet in sheet of 100 less strip of five from top right corner. Selvedge on four remaining sides and control A/38 A/40 A/42 A/43. 95 unmounted mint stamps that still display well
£3.00
017
 1947 36th Conference of the Interparliamentary Union, Cairo: 10m green in unmounted mint sheet of 50. Control A./47 in all four corners. Part illustrated
£7.00
018
 1958 Declaration of Human Rights set of 10m and 35m in full unmounted mint sheets of 50 with control A/58. Part illustrated
£10.00
019
 1960 World Refugee Year set of 10m and 35m in full unmounted mint sheets of 50 with control A/60. Part illustrated
£10.00
020
 1961 Tower of Cairo 50m airmail stamp (Nile Post A79) in full sheet of 50 with just three stamp hinge mounts. Control A/61. Part illustrated
£7.00
021
 1962 Patrice Lumumba 35m in full unmounted mint sheet of 50 except for three stamp hinge mounts. Control A/62. Part illustrated
£3.00
022
 1965 30th Anniversary of the Revolution 100m large-size stamp in full unmounted mint sheet of six with vertical and horizontal folds in the gutters. Part illustrated
£3.00
023
 1967 Arab Solidarity for Palestine Defence 10m in full unmounted mint sheet of 35. Part illustrated
£7.00
024
 1970 30th Anniversary of Egyptian Pharmaceutical Industry 20m in unmounted mint sheet of 20. Part illustrated
£3.00
025
 1977 Fourth Anniversary of Suez Crossing 140m showing Sadat in full unmounted mint sheet of 16 with gutter margins between. (Nile Post 2003 cat $80). Part illustrated
£10.00
026
 1997 5pi definitive showing Queen Ti in full unmounted mint sheet of 80 (Nile Post D366). Part illustrated
£3.00
BOY KING CANCELLED-BACKS
027
 1937 Young King Farouk with Cancelled backs. Fourteen values: 2m, 3m, 2x4m, 6m, 10m, 13m, 15m, 20m grey-violet, 30m olive, 40m, 50m, 100m and 200m, four of them with left selvedge attached. The 13m has a small surface thin at the bottom left corner and there are tiny edge thins on three others. Arabic printing on reverse of the 200m. Nile Post 2003 cat $506; Abdel-hadi 2010 is $995. A scarce assemblage Part illustrated
£200
COMMEMORATIVES
028
 1926 King Fouad 58th Birthday 50p purple, good used
£3.00
MINIATURE SHEETS
029
 Six pre-revolution unmounted mint miniature sheets, two each of 1949 Agricultural and Industrial plus Med Games and Treaty
£7.00
030
 Excellent selection of 16 unmounted mint and two used post-revolution miniature sheets. Some duplication but several of the better ones are there, such as1958 and 1959 with two of each
£12.00
031
 Selection of nine pre and post-revolution miniature sheets with mounts in the margins, low reserve
£3.00
AIRMAIL VARIETIES
032
 1953 ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ overprint obliterated with SIX bars. Seven used stamps comprising 2x2m with bars in different positions, 3m, 5m, 8m, 30m and 100m. The 8m has a pencil note indicating the double overprint is forged. Nile Post 2003 mint catalogue value is $425 but they are unpriced used. Abdel-hadi 2010 prices them at $625
£90.00
033
 1953 ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ 3m with DOUBLE overprint and three bar deletion. Unmounted mint marginal example. Cat $100 in Abdel-hadi 2010
£15.00
EXPRESS MAIL
034
 Stock sheet of Express Mail stamps, 15 mint and 14 used. All basic types are present. Condition generally good but a couple are damaged. Good range of shades
£7.00
COVERS AND POSTAL HISTORY
035
 Lloyd Triestino shipping company postmarks on 35 cut-out pieces with Egyptian stamps. Various vessels noted including Vienna, Helouan, Esperia and Ausonia
£10.00
036
 Printed return envelope addressed to Germany stamped with 3x5m Crown Overprints tied by oval violet ‘Lloyds Triestino/Asia’ cancel. A couple of thins to the surface of the envelope but clear of the stamps
£10.00
037
 Four postcards with TPO cancels for Cairo-Alexandria, Port Said-Alexandria, Port-Said-Cairo and Beni Souef-Cairo. Also a cover with slightly unclear Abu el Matamir-Damanhour on the back. Five items
£8.00
038
 1937 registered cover with Oalyub village cancel and registration mark. Served by the Egyptian State Railway Cairo-Tanta line
£3.00
POSTA EUROPEA
039
 Entire sent 1.1.1862 from Tanta with Type III, the Tanta cachet is faint but complete and with handwritten date inside. Also on the front is a red crayon 1/ indicating prepayment. Written in Arabic, it is also addressed in Arabic, possibly to Cairo
£8.00
FRENCH CONSULAR POST
040
 March 1842 entire from Alexandrie, large double circle with ms Col Vapore Francesi charged 18? decimes and with disinfection slits, on back is Marseille arrival plus part only Malta Purifie. Back damaged on opening, otherwise clean
£12.00
041
 Two entires from Alexandrie to Pastré Frères at Marseilles dated 1852, sent from different companies with good cachets for each, one charged 10 decimes, the other 9 decimes. Both have Marseilles receivers, one has boxed Paquebots de la Mediterranée
£12.00
042
 Two entires from Alexandrie to Messrs Thos. Pate and sons at Livorno; one with ms “Par le Bateau Francais” dated Type II 6 Sept. 59 with reddish charge rate 13 decimes. Does this imply paid? Other charged in black 10 decimes, dated 11 Nov 61 with ms “Messageries Imperiales”, the early designation for the French Maritime company. Both have Livorno receivers on reverse
£20.00
043
 1845 entire from Alexandrie with Type II datestamp with brackets to Marseille, boxed red Paquebots de la Mediterranée and charged 90 decimes, sender’s commercial cachet in blue. On reverse is two-line ?? Purifie? Lazaret Marseille cachet in black and Marseille double ring receiver
£15.00
044
 1853 entire from Alexandrie with Type II date-stamp with brackets to Marseille with ms Par Bateau Francais. Posted by Sinadino with their cachet on front together with boxed red Paquebots de la Mediterranée
£15.00
045
 Commercial entire written in French and posted at the Alex consular office 11 Juin 58 Type II cancellation to Marseille with boxed red Paquebots de la Mediterranée, also ms Par bateau francais. The ms rate at 60 appears excessive if decimes. On reverse is a wax seal and Marseille receiver, date unclear
£8.00
ITALIAN CONSULAR POST
046
 Entire letter from Alexandria dated 19 MAI 1868. Although seemingly posted at the Italian consular post office, it is endorsed ‘Par le Bateau Messageries Imperiales’ and was transferred to the French post where handstamped Type II without brackets and boxed Piroscafi Postali Francesi was added. Messina arrival behind, addressed to Livorno
£15.00
047
 Similar to last but to Livorno, franked 40 centesimi rose of 1863 issue cancelled 234 ‘killer’ and Italian Consular Post cds date illegible, Livorno receiver au verso. Some foxing as seen on front
£20.00
048
 Twenty centesimi ESTERO issue of 1874 on small piece cancelled 234 of Italian Post but with horizontal lines forming a circle rather than the lozenge of dots used hitherto. Alongside is part Alessandria cds dated May 1
£3.00
AUSTRIAN CONSULAR POST
049
 Outer letter sheet from Alexandrien 18.12 (Type 1) struck in blue to Trieste receiver au verso 25/12 in brown box. 15 (soldi) in blue crayon indicating the charge and Col Vapore Diretto in manuscript. Clean and neat
£15.00
050
 20 para De La Rue postal stationery card posted at Cairo to the Director of the Austrian Post at Alexandria. On reverse small Austrian receiver and Alexandrie Arrivée transit 5 AV 84. The sender requests that his mail be readdressed
£15.00
051
 Stampless entire from Imperial Ottoman Bank Alex with inside neat Bureau des Archives handstamp dated 29AUG1865 to the same bank at Constantinople. Letter concerning official bank business was transported via the Austrian Lloyd Agency receiving the Constantinople receiver of that company. Charged 15 soldi in blue crayon and with Alexandrien Type I struck in black.
£20.00
BRITISH CONSULAR POST
052
 Cover, 1857 sent ‘Via Marseilles’ (manuscript) to London from British Post at Alexandria with double arc of Alexandria in grey-blue on reverse (a much poorer one on the front), London thimble transit in red, and Andover receiver. The manuscript charge appears to be 10. Some pen calculations appear on the back
£5.00
053
 Almost complete envelope (top missing) franked 2 x 4d of the 1865 series, letters HM IM cancelled London W.C. X Fe 9 (1872) and 2 WC6 killers, addressed to Alexandria with Alex British Consular thimble receiver all on the front
£20.00
WARTIME COVERS
054
 1942, small buff cover opened for display, franked 3m Boy King, cancelled Cairo 24 5 42 and addressed to 44 RTR, MEF. On the face are a manuscript “Missing believed PoW”, violet oval cachet of the Desert Purchasing Organisation / Cairo, Deputy Chief Field Censor crowned cachet, Egyptian and British “Return to Sender” cachets, a GHQ No 1 MEF Certified Missing cachet and several manuscript endorsements. On the reverse are Base Army Post Office and FPO 138 cancels. A significant and scarce cover
£25.00
055
 19 Feb 1943, small cover carried free with US Army Postal Service APO cancel and IS Army “Passed by Army Examiner” cachet. Contents remain mentioning aftermath of tank battles of Alamein and Tobruk. Excellent condition, Interesting contents, Dennis Clarke write-up
£15.00
056
 1944 buff cover addressed to DAG (Royal Greek Army), ALS SMQ, NEF. Ismailia transit mark and deputy Chief Field Censor on face, but carried free so no adhesive. Reverse has cancel of BAPO 4 (29 AU 44) and offset Egypt machine cancel of same day.
£15.00
EGYPT BOOKLETS
057
 1951, 240 mills booklet, complete with four panes of 10 mills Marechal and interleaving, stitched left, no control numbers (SG S817, NP SB16)
£90.00
058
 1940, complete pane of 60 of 5m Boy King, originally intended for booklet production, control A/40 at lower left, perforated through right (ie centre) margin. Unmounted mint, but divided horizontally at centre
£10.00
FAROUK MARECHAL VARIETIES
059
 Marechal 1 mill, horizontal pair, inverted watermark (NP D155c), hinge remains, sl rust spot
£8.00
060
 Marechal 100 mills single, printed on gummed side of paper, minimal hinge remains. Not recorded by NP, while Magdi 158a records only 75 copies
£80.00
PROOFS, ESSAYS
061
 1922 Harrison imperf essays: 15m blue and 20m green, printed on thin card, UMM (NP E233a, E235). See footnotes on NP page 33
£20.00
062
 As last, 5 mills imperf horizontal par, gummed, tiny hinge indication
£8.00
ITALIAN CONSULAR POST IN EGYPT
063
 Outer wrapper of a letter from Cairo to Venice franked Second Issue 1pi to pay for Cairo to Alexandria, where it was handed to the Italian post to receive a 40 centesimi Italian stamp for Alexandria to Venice. On the front the Egyptian stamp is cancelled Cairo 20 MAG 70 with the Italian Alessandria d’Egitto Poste Italiane next day while the Italian stamp is cancelled with the ‘killer’ 234 in a lozenge of dots. The reverse has the Egyptian V.R. Poste Egiziane Alessandria 20 MAG 70, a Verona transit and Venezia receiver 26 MAG 70. Fragile but a rare combination
£250
SHEETS OF STAMPS
064
 1939, 40 mills Farouk in full sheet of 100 but for two stamps removed from top right, control A/42 B/42 A/43 (SG 278, NP D149), unmounted mint. Too big for A4 scanner, so part illustrated
£60.00
065
 1958, Egyptian Industries, issued in a mini-sheet (5x5) of se-tenant stamps in horizontal rows (SG 565-69, NP C202-06). Pristine unmounted sheet with control A/58
£5.00
066
 1976, Suez Canal Crossing, 110 mills massive stamp (SG 1297, NP C777), issued in a sheet of two singles and two pairs of stamps. Pristine unmounted mint sheet with printing number and date 4 X 76, cat £57. Too big for scanner, part illustrated
£5.00
067
 2009, two unmounted mint sheets, 2009 4th Extraordinary Session of PAPU Plenipotentiary Conference in Cairo and 2009 Fifa Unde-20 World Cup. Both sheets 16 stamps and nine commemorative labels. Part illustrated
£5.00
CROWN OVERPRINTS ON COVER
068
 27 1 24, plain envelope (flap lost) addressed to Paris and franked with single and pair of 5m pink Crown opts. Spectacular near full CDS of Minia
£8.00
069
 13 FE 24, neat cover to Athens franked for registration with vertical pair of 15m Crown Overprint (milleima), cancelled Sidi Gaber / R&P, with Registration cachet alongside. Sealing wax behind
£8.00
AIR MAIL COVERS
070
 Mar 12 1925, Baghdad-Cairo airmail cover sent registered and AR from Hamadan to Paris with 3 x 1kr blue on reverse and fine strikes of framed “AR” and “Poste Aerienne/Bagdad-Caire” handstamp in black, via Cairo March 20. Cut down slightly at right but striking
£80.00
071
 10 DE 36, neat cover from Hinaidi franked 21 fils for RAF HQ Cairo, manuscript instruction “Per Misr Airwork / Air Mail”, reverse handstamps of Baghdad and Cairo / Par Avion
£15.00
OFFICIAL STAMPS
072
 100 covers with Official stamps, mainly 1960 to 2000 period. Huge range of cancels and postal markings. Not illustrated, low reserve
£20.00
073
 1972-85 Officials issue (SG O1161-77, NP P93-102). Staggering compilation perfect for research, with literally hundreds of stamps in full mint sheets of 100 including successive printing numbers, together with documents backed with large used blocks of this fascinating long-lived issue: 80 mills, three sheets, 2x70 mills, 2x60m, 3x55m 3x50m, 3x30m, 9x20m, 10x10m, and an amazing 40 sheets of the 1m. Total 75 sheets, 7,500 stamps, plus used, plus 12-page QC report on the study. Not illustrated
£90.00
HOTELS INTEREST
074
 22 I 05, sepia photocard of imposing single-storey house (anyone recognise it?) franked pair of DLR 2m for Maidstone and cancelled Cataract HCA1b
£3.00
075
 15 III 08, colour card of wall carving, franked 2m DLR on face for Lyon (no message), cancelled back and front with Luxor Type HL2a (blue)
£3.00
GROUPS OF COVERS
076
 28 Postal Organisation / Philatelic Office Cairo printed covers, mainly sent to England. Wide range of types and postal markings to study. Sample illustrated
£3.00
077
 Bundle of 50 post-Revolution covers addressed in Arabic. Wide range of stamps, cancels and markings. Sample only illustrated
£8.00
078
 Accumulation of over 50 post-Revolution covers addressed to France. Lots of airmail envelopes and wide variety of commems and definitives, a few uncancelled. Sample only illustrated
£8.00
079
 Group of 22 covers of the 1950s, all to the same address in Sweden on printed envelopes from the International Statistics Agency in Alexandria. Good range of adhesives. Sample only illustrated
£8.00
INSTRUCTIONAL MARKINGS
080
 5 X 20, colour card (Victoria monument) written aboard SS Sergei, franked 2m DLR, addressed to London and cancelled at Hai el Arab / Port Said. Boxed T alongside together with Port Said / D transit mark. No tax raised Beige stock book with a range of mainly mint stamps. Lots of Young King and a few post-revolution. Cheap at the reserve
£6.00
081
 21 11 66, plain cover franked 35m for postage and registration from agency postmark within Cairo. Three attempts at delivery by regulation, then returned to sender with trilingual Returned to Sender cachet
£3.00
082
 10 5 81, Arabic-addressed cover franked 55m for postage and registration locally but undelivered despite three days of attempts. Returned to sender from El Sabtiya with two bilingual Non Reclame cachets
£3.00
EGYPTIAN POSTAL HISTORY
083
 1889-1915 Postage Due, used, with greater part of Franca handstamp across face, along with part of cds
£5.00
084
 2 MAY 1929, unsealed printed company envelope, franked 2m from Cairo to Port Said via Cairo machine roller cancel. On arrival received rare Facteurs / Port Said CDS, faint but undoubted
£8.00
085
 23 MR 49, long air mail envelope franked with cutouts from the 1949 Agriculture and Industry Exhibition miniature sheet, together with 2x10m+5m Marechal for Air Mail to US. New York registered mark behind. Vertical folds away from stamps
£5.00
SMALL-TOWN CDS
086
 Nine covers with small town circular date stamps
11 JA 29, Balyana / R&P, Fuad 15m, Baliana Reg cachet, Suhag / R behind.
12 NO 37, Mazghuna, 10m Fuad, Mazghouna Reg cachet. Cairo / Station), Gizeh / Registration / A and Orman / RA behind.
5 HA 53, Kafr Kila el Bab (also Mahalla el Kobra, Santa), stamp lost.
26 MR 63, Manshiet Smouha, MS plus three stamps, red/black printed Reg label.
10 1 81, Miniyit el Murshid, pair of 70m definitive to USA.
5 6 81, Suhag / T / Madinet Nasser, 20m definitive local.
9 8 81, Shabur, 20m definitive local.
23 8 81, Shubra / D / el Khima, 5m definitive local.
23 9 93, Helmiet / el Zaitun / R&P, 5x30m definitives, registered and censored Not illustrated
£15.00
REGISTERED COVERS
087
 17 FE 36, small envelope with Air sticker, franked with single 100 mills 1933 Air to cover postage and registration to UK. Alex b/w Reg label on face, Harrow Reg arrival
£8.00
1934 UPU CAIRO STAMPS ON COVER
088
 2 JU 34, Credit Foncier printed envelope franked with 2x 15m+5m Fuad for registration to London, with large red Cairo label. Cancelled Cairo / R, but flap lost so no arrival
£8.00
089
 26 DE 34, plain cover addressed to Zurich, franked 3m uprated by 1m Fuad, clearly never sealed, cancelled Alexandria / Depart, no backstamp
£4.00
POSTAL AGENCY MARKINGS
090
 1963-64, accumulation of four covers, all franked 35 mills for registration and postage and cancelled by postal agencies (ie, sub-post offices) in Belqas, Matariya, Mit Ghamr and Cairo. An area rich for research
£5.00
PAQUEBOT-MARKS
091
 Port Said – 1902-13, two covers (one with Baluchistan Infantry symbol on flap) and five cards, all franked 1d for England, with variety of three Paquebot lozenges, early placed off the stamp, later definitely on the stamp. Interesting group. Part illustrated
£8.00
SHIPPING INTEREST
092
 Mar 1901, b/w card of Ismailia to Munich with Kais. Deutsche / Marine-/Schiffspost / No 29 CDS. SS Andalusia en route from Wilhelmshaven (dep Mar 7) to Tstingtau, China (arr Apr 30) carrying relief crews and returning relieved crews to Germany during the Boxer Rebellion. Scarce
£20.00
093
 23 MY 1907, one-penny GB Registered letter stationery (stamp vignette reported damaged) from Bwlch y Cibau, Wales, tracking Colonel Sandbach (who was returning from the East aboard SS India) in Brindisi (May 27) via London (May 24), Lecce (illegible) and on to Port Said (June 3). Good write-up included
£15.00
094
 13 II 11, colour card of Camposanto, Genoa, franked GB 1d for Portland, Maine, with scarce Alexandria / B alongside two lozenge Paquebot markings. Long message
£4.00
095
 23 5 30, Printed business envelope from Alexandria to Liverpool with Lloyds Triestino vessel “Vienna” cancel on Fuad 25m blue. No backstamp
£10.00
096
 19 JU 52, plain cover to Liverpool, franked Marechal 2+10+15, first two with King of Egypt overprints, Paquebot / Port Said CDS, and Devonshire return address. Striking
£4.00
097
 20 AP 63, air envelope franked for England with 60m Air stamp and Port Taufiq / Paquebot CDS. Clean, neat, no backstamp
£3.00
098
 (date?), clean cover with 10 1/2d GB Machin, addressed to USA, Paquebot / Port Said cds and several printed references to SS Canberra Paquebot Mail. Clean and neat, no backstamps
£3.00
099
 11 3 91, clean cover with Dutch 75ct stamp cancelled latest Paquebot / Port Said cds and addressed to USA. References to MV Conti Finlandia and Captain Maanstra. Cairo A PT / RCTP CDS 12/3, US marks on reverse
£3.00
100
 Oct 1991, souvenir of ESC visit to Cairo 91 – Peter Andrews’ own envelopes posted from cruise ship Ra II, with local definitives and Sitmar Travel violet handstamp: seven self-addressed covers, three mint Ra envelopes
£5.00
101
 27 7 33, Lloyd Triestino cover (piroscafo Esperia) on flap from Naples to San Stefano, carried by M/N Victoria (handstamp). Alexandria and San Stefano / Traffic CDS on arrival. Also, b/w photocard of Lloyd Triestino shipping office in central Alexandria
£7.00
102
 1967, Colour card of Adriatica Line Paquebot Esperia (ex Ausonia), sent from Italy to Cairo 1957 with clear civil censor mark. Faint Cairo receiver on face has slogan Alexandria, Pearl of the Mediterranean
£3.00
SIGNATURE LETTERS
103
 29 Oct 1893, handwritten Antiquities Department (Giza Palace) A4 letter in French signed by Jacques de Morgan, French Director of Antiquities 1892-93, who worked at Naqada and Dahshur. Five co-signees. Part illustrated
£40.00
104
 29 9 1888, A4 letter handwritten in French from Antiquities Museums Conservation department (Boulaq), signed by Eugene Grebaut, Director-General of the Museums Service, who was Director of Antiquities 1886-92
£40.00
105
 22 4 1886 letter in Arabic (14x19cm) from Museums Conservation department (Boulaq) signed by Gaston Maspero in his first term as Director of Antiquities. Vigorous responses in Arabic and French
£40.00
106
 23 9 1887, brief Antiquities Department letter in Arabic (18x19cm), written and signed by Victor Loret, Director of the Antiquities Department 1897-99
£40.00
107
 21 May 1905, De La Rue 3pi stamped paper (wmk 1900), formal note in French signed by Georges Daressy seeking 3 ½ months leave to travel to Europe. Counter-signed and approved by Gaston Maspero, Director of Antiquities for second time 1899-1914. French Egyptologist Daressy supervised the Egyptian Museum move from Boulaq to Giza in 1891
£60.00
108
 29 Mar 1907, Antiquities Service A5 typed letter to Minister of Public Works seeking urgent permission for work at Karnak. Signed by Gaston Maspero
£40.00
109
 1 Nov 1909, Antiquities Department typed letter addressed to Boinet Pasha, adviser to the Public Works Department, signed by Gaston Maspero and discussing land appropriation for work at the Temple of Abousir
£40.00
110
 6 Apr 1911, Antiquities Service A4 typed letter in French on Government watermarked paper signed by Gaston Maspero seeking how best to use a tugboat bought three years ago for work on saving the monuments of Nubia, now completed
£40.00
111
 21 June 1909, printed form signed by Georges Daressy, described as a conservator attached to the Egyptian Museum, accepting new civil pension terms
£40.00
112
 13 Jul 1916, flimsy copy of an urgent letter typed in French on government watermarked paper and signed by Georges Daressy as Director General of Antiquities, seeking co-operation from the Public Works Department for excavation in Luxor
£40.00
113
 12 Jan 1918, copy of a letter typed in French on government watermark paper addressed to Public Works and signed by Pierre Lacau, the French Egyptologist who was Director of Antiquities from 1914 to 1936. He is considering how best to rebuild a wall damaged between Luxor Temple and the Abul Haggag Mosque
£40.00
EGYPT REVENUES
114
 1963? Regional Savings Bank revenue stamps, nine different examples in various colours, of 5, 10 or 20m value, photogravure by Survey of Egypt and inscribed UAR above and Regional Savings Banks below. Feltus (page 71) lists 11 types
£40.00
115
 1919, Lawyers’ Syndicate, newly issued self-adhesive revenues, three (5, 20 and 100 pounds) for the Court of Cessation, Ramsis, the fourth (£E10) for the 8 October Elementary Court, Giza
£30.00
116
 Misr Petroleum perfin with distinctive Three Pyramids punctures, on 200 mills Engineering Syndicate first UAR issue (rouletted, no watermark) – see Feltus page 84, number 756
£30.00
117
 Journalists’ Syndicate 10 mills revenue in complete sheet of 100 stamps (Feltus 86, number 809), with printing date of 5 II 72 and printing guide marks in selvage. Part illustrated
£40.00
118
 General Revenue showing short-lived 1pi value, complete sheet of 100 stamps with printing date 10 IV 87 in selvage. This value was current only for a few months in a period of high inflation, quickly replaced by the 2pi, and then again by the 5pi. Part illustrated
£30.00
EGYPT STAMP VARIETIES
119
 Four stamps showing printing flaws: 1961, UAR glass lamp 4 mills misperforate (Magdi page 226, 294), UM; 1978 pharaonic column definitive 35 mills with yellow colour shifted downward (Magdi p.240, 377a); 1980 Cairo International Fair 20 mills with Arabic value omitted (Magdi p.246, 829a), fine used; 2005, local production of training aircraft K8, 150pi, enormous horizontal perforation shift not recorded by Magdi (p.430)
£60.00
120
 1933 Air set, 1 mill block of four with printing error, second E of Aerienne deformed. Unmounted mint
£20.00
EGYPT POSTAL HISTORY
121
 7 IX 08 flimsy grey envelope addressed to Cairo, franked with DLR 5 mills booklet stamp (perfs extended at left) and sent from Alex. Neat Cairo / E and Dawawin / Cairo marks on reverse early next day
£30.00
122
 18 III 12, fragile printed buff government envelope addressed to Ministry of Public Works, Cairo, sent unfranked but then badly damaged at top and sent for resealing from Cairo / I with three Type II sealing labels cancelled by Cairo / Delivery handstamps
£20.00
EGYPT / PALESTINE REVENUES
123
 1962? Feltus Second Arabic Issue of general Egyptian Tax revenues for use in Gaza/Palestine, 20m carmine value with typographed black Arabic overprint in complete pristine sheet of 100 with A/59 control. Wmk UAR upright. Excellent UMM. Part illustrated
£100
ITALIAN PoWS IN EGYPT
124
 Small group of Italian PoW correspondence, four Red Cross cards of various sorts and four folded letter sheets. Usual mixed condition, various markings including fine No.12 P.O.W. Working Unit and 2652 (Italian) Coy
£20.00
SIMON ARZT STORE
125
 Three picture postcards with different views of the store. One has special cachet THE SIMON ARZT STORE, another sent by Paquebot POSTAGENT a/b SS Maasdam
£7.00
126
 Picture postcard showing Simon Arzt store in “Sultan Hussein Street” franked UPU Congress 13 mills to Germany with Simon Arzt postmark 10 SEP 34 in violet as used in first weeks after PO opening
£10.00
127
 P&O (flap) air cover to England franked 20+8 mills 1933 Airs with Simon Arzt postmark 22 AP 35
£3.00
128
 Lloyd Triestino (flap) registered cover to Germany franked 53 mills with Simon Arzt postmark 20 AP 37 and registration cachet
£15.00
129
 First Day Cover ‘Dissolution of Mixed Courts’ to New Zealand, additional franking 7 mills; postmark SIMON ARZT / (CAISSE) 14 OC 49
£8.00
130
 Censored and resealed Registered cover (store’s printed envelope) sent by air to UK, postmark SIMON ARZT / (CAISSE) 12 JU 52 with Registration cachet, faint AERODROME / DU / CAIRE transit
£20.00
EGYPT POSTAL HISTORY
131
 Registered cover franked 30 mills to Netherlands with block of 4x10 mills Statistical Congress added and paquebot postmark AMSTERDAM-BATAVIA 27 V 29. Curiosity!
£8.00
132
 Alexandria Austrian PO postcard 20 para on 5 kr sent 29 6 89 to Stuttgart, good clean postmarks
£15.00
133
 Parcel card franked 130 mills (Fuad 1, 10,20+100m) to Switzerland; central vertical fold as usual strengthened behind, and two perforation holes. Neat and clean
£6.00
134
 Picture postcard (“View from the Cataract”) franked 28 mills with five Air Mails, by air to Netherlands with postmark CATARACT HOTEL ASWAN (ESC Type HCA3) 6 MR .0 for 1950
£6.00
135
 1922 5 mills pink Letter Sheet (NP SLS9, $100) uprated with additional franking of 10 mills (vertical pair of Fuad 5m brown) for registration (mute label) from Dawawin 25 FE 22 to Cairo
£17.00
136
 1930 5 mills chestnut brown Letter Sheet (NP SLS10a, $40) uprated with horizontal pair of Fuad 5m brown for registration(Cairo label) from Cairo to Heliopolis 1 SE 37
£7.00
137
 1949 Airmail letter sheet wmk ‘Extra strong’ (NP SALS3, $20) from Kafr el Zayat (date?) to England. Censored, neatly typed address and return address, 6but otherwise no message contained
£6.00
SUDAN POSTAL HISTORY
138
 Sudan 1935 Registered Air cover franked 7½ + 10 pi (SG 72 + 73) from Khartoum 24 4 35 to England
£20.00
EGYPT STAMPS
139
 Egypt two high values UPU Congress issue (SG 231-2, £320), VF used
£50.00
140
 1874, 5pi with selvage, unmounted mint (SG 41, £60), with tiniest hinge remains on selvage
£20.00
141
 1878, 5 para on 2½ pi mint, with major shift in overprint to the right, adhesion behind
£5.00
CANCELLED BACK
142
 5m Fuad II tête-bêche, imperforate with CANCELLED back, UM (NP D112j, $300)
£75.00
EGYPT REVENUES
143
 1892 First Issue Salt Tax stamp £E5 lilac (Feltus 205), used in Hehya 22 DE 94
£5.00
144
 1892 De La Rue Salt Tax stamp £E5 reddish purple and blue (Feltus 212), cds of Damanhour / Caisse 15 OC 92
£4.00
SUDAN PERFIN
145
 Sudan 1914 10 pi punctured AS (certificate Charles Hass), SG A25 (£275)
£75.00
SOUDAN
146
 1938 Air cover from France (Quimper) to Atbara, Egyptian Soudan, Manuscript: "by air to Wadi Halfa or Khartoum". Franked by pair of Miners stamps (Yv.395) plus 10c & 35c Sowers for a total of 4F75 (1F75 UPU letter to 20g + 3F Air Mail surcharge). Cancelled 17/5/38, it passed though Marseille-Gare Avion 19/5 (machine mark), Sudan Air Mail – Khartoum 23/5 transit, arriving Atbara 24 May (Stagg 46). REDIRECTED to Khartoum (Stagg 44) where it arrived 5 June 1938. The postmarks on the back trace that route. Early air mail, pre WWII
£15.00
147
 Postcard illustrating a scene from the new town Port-Sudan inauguration in 1905 (postal flag in the right foreground). Unused, but with a 1 mill Large Camel Postman stamp, cancelled Port-Sudan 27 November 1915 on the front, on the occasion of the Port-Sudan Quays (docks) inauguration. Card printed by P. Marzari & C., Schio (Italy). Very fine and scarce
£12.00
148
 Postage Dues - First Soudan Issue, 1897. Set of 4 Egyptian Dues overprinted with SOUDAN (SG D1-D4). The 2 ills is fine used: Wadi Halfa Camp, November 1897 (Stagg 25). The 4 mills, 1 piastre and 2 piastres are mounted mint. Cat £26
£9.00
149
 Tewfekia.Sudan - very fine strike (8 II 03; Stagg 19-2a, 5 segments) of this scarce location on a 20 mill 1901 Postage Due, ultramarine & carmine. Short-lived (1900-03) the name Tewfekia-Sudan, 1½ miles north of Wadi Halfa Camp, was to differentiate it from a post office of the same name in Egypt. Later in 1903 the name was changed to Halfa
£4.00
POSTCARDS
150
 Muhammad Ali superb portrait by Auguste Couder (1789-1873) shown on a special commemorative postcard issued by the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, exclusively on the occasion of their exhibition "Bonaparte et l'Egypte" in 2008-9. Mint
£6.00
151
 Napoleon's Egypt Campaign (1798-1801). Postcard depicting the special life-size diorama window commemorating that Campaign, with a French soldier and Egyptian Mameluke, at the famed military Musée de l'Empéri, in Salon-de-Provence, France
£3.00
152
 Chemins de Fer de l'Etat Egyptien: Two postcards reproducing Egyptian railway posters of the early 20th century. "Le Nil au Soleil Levant" and "Crepuscule en Egypte". Mint
£3.00
EGYPT COVERS
153
 Taxed Cover to the USA. 16 December 1918, envelope from Cairo to Baltimore franked 5 mills Sphinx definitive. Insufficiently paid, it was delayed in Cairo (boxed T) and subjected to civilian censorship (boxed "Passed Censor 1"). New Cairo departure date-stamp, 17 December. At New York, the arrival stamp indicating the amount due (5c), not being clearly legible, the US postman applied a linear cachet 21 January 1919 showing the date. The 5 cents USA Postage Due stamp was applied on payment of the tax
£8.00
154
 Ethiopia to Egypt: 1934 stampless Bank of Ethiopia envelope, with red wax seal on reverse, from Addis-Abeba with Empire d'Ethiopie fine red machine mark (star of David and Lion of Juda), 17 August 1934, addressed to a bank in Cairo. Addis-Abeba pink Registration label, overstruck with bank's red oval cachet. Port-Taufiq transit 25 August and Cairo arrival the same day on reverse. Very fine and rare
£15.00
155
 Ethiopia to Egypt: In October 1935 Mussolini's fascist Italian army invaded Ethiopia (Abyssinia). This cover from Addis-Abeba (14 December 1935) to the American Express Co in Cairo is marked as registered but there are no labels. Instead there is a censorship pink resealing tape with the handstamp "Empire d'Ethiopie - Censure Militaire". Franked 16 guerches Ethiopian stamps. Back: Dire-Daoua transit and Port-Taufiq CDS 20 Dec. Rare period item
£15.00
156
 Rotary Club - 50th Anniversary commemorative issue, SG 505-6, cancelled first day 23 FE 55 on Registered illustrated FDC addressed to Jean Boulad at the Canal Company in Ismailia. Red Le Caire Registration label and Ismailia arrival 24 Feb 55
£3.00
157
 Service de l'Etat cover to USA with strip of 3 x 10 mill, pair 1 mill & 5 mill 1938 Official stamps (Balian 393, 388 & 392), plus pair 1953 20 mill Defense (Balian 502), postmarked Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, 5 8 1957. Official cachet & censor marks. Very attractive
£12.00
158
 Registered envelope from Philatelic Society of Egypt to Jean Boulad d'Humières, (former President) in Lausanne. Franked by 20 mill stamp on the front and six times 30 mill on the back. Superb strike of Cairo RD Special 4 datestamp (5 4 1973), usually smudged or illegible. Postman tried to correct the time of deposit by cancelling 7 P in central CDS. No registration label, but red Registered mark with separate registration number and date by black linear cachet
£3.00
FRENCH POST OFFICES
159
 Port-Saïd 1899 French type Sage overprinted PORT-SAÏD - 20c dark red & green. Fresh looking. Mounted mint, with some gum disturbance. Cat €20. Yv.6 / SG 110
£3.00
160
 Forgery: Port-Saïd – 150 / MILLIÈMES fake surcharge and fake postmark on a genuine Merson 50c, normal centring. From the November 1921 Local Surcharges (Joffre issue). Yvert 68 / SG 173. Rare genuine surcharged stamp catalogues over €500. Good appearance
£10.00


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