Egypt Study Circle Auction 63
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AUCTION 63 - OCTOBER 2021 - LISTING OF LOTS
Lot
Description
Reserve
EGYPTIAN STAMPS
001
 20 Oct 2020, £E4 stamp issued for CAPMAS with mistake in the spelling of Egypt – EYGPT. This stamp was later withdrawn from all post offices in the country. Full mint sheet of 50 stamps (part illustrated)   
£190.00
002
 As above, EYGPT error on commem stamp on FDC with same spelling in first-day special cancel   
£40.00
003
 As last, error stamp in lower marginal UMM block of six (2x3)
£38.00
004
 3 April 2021, Golden Parade of the Pharaohs issue, commemorative presentation pack including all 22 stamps at £E5 each on First Day cover plus mini sheet and strip of three on FDC plus brochure (only 1500 printed). Sold out at post offices in ten days (part illustrated)   
£68.00
POSTAL STATIONERY
005
 1880-81, two neat examples of first postcard, 1879 De La Rue 20 para (NP SPC1), used from Ismailia and Cairo to Alexandria. Clean markings on both cards   
£10.00
006
 29 MR 26, 10 mills registered envelope (NP SRE3, De La Rue) uprated with First Fuad 5m and sent from Tukh to Rashid (clear backstamp)
£18.00
007
 18 SE 34, Fuad embossed 1930 5 mills letter sheet (NP SLS10), uprated with Fuad 15m and sent from Zagazig to downtown Cairo with Postmen Cairo arrival 2 ½ hours later   
£15.00
008
 4 FE 40, Boy King 15 mills registered envelope with ruled frame around stamp vignette (NP SRE10, cat $250.00), used Arabic-addressed from Fashn to Cairo. Clean cover.   
£25.00
009
 1 DE 40, Boy King 5mills letter sheet (NP SLS 11, cat $100), uprated with Boy King 1+5+20m for registration and AR and sent from Bulaq Cairo downtown. Arrival time same as departure cds   
£15.00
010
 24 MA 52, Farouk Marechal 10m letter sheet (NP SLS 13), uprated with pair of Marechal 10m and 20m with KES opt, for registration and AR En Ville in Cairo   
£15.00
011
 1984 55 mills registered letter sheet of 1969 uprated with 2pi+5m adhesives and used En Ville within Cairo from Saiyida Zeinab to El-Daher. Original sheet is Nile Post SRLS1, with printing error broken U of UAR   
£20.00
POST OFFICE PAPER
012
 6 SE 51 , UPU postal identity card from the Egyptian Post in the name of Ahmad Mohammad Chehab, valid for three years, and photograph tied by 2x40m Farouk definitives and taxed with 2x5m general revenues.  
£15.00
INSURED REGISTERED COVER
013
 1935, Insured and Registered cover from Cairo to Baveno in Italy, franked with King Fouad 15+200mills stamps and with five wax seals   
£75.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS
014
 1932-1980, group of 12 Express covers, all franked at correct rate for the time, showing a wide variety of Express cachets and circular datestamps   
£20.00
015
 1909-1985, group of 26 incoming covers and postcards from unusual sources including Equatorial Africa, Yugoslavia, Italy, Mauritius, Aden, South Africa, Switzerland, Lebanon, Russia, Cyprus, Albania, Japan, China, Saar, Norway Mexico, Vatican   
£28.00
016
 1913-1918, group of three registered Official covers used from Tanta and San Stefano, all addressed to Armenian lawyer Boghos Bey Agopian of Mixed Court in Alexandria  
£35.00
017
 1934-1955, group of nine covers and postcards, local and incoming, all of them carrying postage due markings and/or postage Due stamps – 4,6,10,10,20 mills   
£28.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS - TPOs
018
 1909-1939, Ten covers all used with TPO handstamps: Tanta-Dumiat, Cairo-Asyut, Aswan-Luxor, Cairo-Asyut (Type 4A1), Cairo-Alex, Cairo-Tanta, Alex-Cairo, Dumiat-Tanta, Mansura TPO,  
£30.00
019
 1910-1952, group of ten covers used with TPO markings as last, including Tanta-Mahalla Kobra, Minya-Cairo, Aswan-Luqsor, Dumiat-Tanta, Tanta-Sa el-Hagar, Tanta TPO, Damanhur-Tanta   
£30.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS - RURAL SERVICE
020
 1929-1940, five covers used locally, all with Rural markings, including Bani-Mazar-Hilmia, Zagazig-Hihya,   
£24.00
021
 1918-1938, ten covers locally used with Rural markings including Basyun-Kafr el-Dawar, Faraskur-Ghoneimia, Qanatir Khairia-Izbit Awkaf Malakiya (blue), Tod-Talaa   
£35.00
022
 1907-1917, four covers locally used with Rural markings including Wasta arrival from Tammuh, Nabaroh II (cartouche Behout), Tanta arrival from Santa   
£30.00
023
 Feb 1947, Obvious forgery of Rural marking on a rather neat Express cover from Cairo to Shoubra.. Biba-Dashtout (with final UT missing as usual) Rural marking of 1914 added to the face in blue.   
£10.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS – STATION MARKINGS
024
 1898-1932, Group of six covers with different markings for Alexandria Station, Cairo Station, Tanta Station   
£18.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS – BOOKLET STAMPS
025
 1924-1953, group of covers and a certificate, all of them duty paid with stamps from booklets, including pair of First Fuad 5m on document, Harrison’s 5m, Fuad 5m, Boy King 5 and 6m, Republican Soldier 10m   
£30.00
POSTAL HISTORY
026
 1900,1905, two black and white postcards, addressed to Constantinople (1900) and Yorkshire (1905), franked respectively with1pi rose DLR and vertical pair if 1pi blue DLR. Why these unusual amounts?   
£12.00
027
 24 X 13, commercial cover addressed En Ville from Alex to Armenian lawyer Boghos Bey Agopian in San Stefano. Stamp apparently lost en route and taxed on arrival with 2 mills green Postage Due   
£18.00
028
 5 SE 32, Arabic-addressed cover franked with 5m Fuad and 1926 15m Agriculture Exhibition commem to make full registration rate Cairo to Bulkely. But commem valid only to April 1926 and so received pencil “O” for obsolete notice.. Nonetheless arrived in Bulkely four hours later   
£15.00
029
 19 JU 37, neatly addressed cover sent post-restante from Heliopolis (fine Lausanne cds behind), franked block of four Fuad Postes 5m, redirected from Lausanne to Dijon and received 30c Due on arrival in France   
£15.00
PAQUEBOAT TRAVEL
030
 23 I 41, Postcard of the Lloyd Triestino mailboat Vienna produced by Edgardo Canarutto of Trieste, franked with Italian 60c adhesive perfinned by rare LT marking (for Lloyd Triestino). From Brindisi, Arabic addressed to Cairo. Clean and unusual   
£12.00
031
 1938, unused postcard of the interior of a two-bed first-class cabin with sofa aboard the paquebot SS El Nil. Photograph by Dores of Alexandria.   
£12.00
032
 1938, unused postcard of de luxe two-bed cabin on the El Nil   
£12.00
TELEGRAPH FORMS
033
 1913/1924, Egyptian State Telegraphs telegram form with Arabic message and receipt of Zagazig Station (16 AUG 13); receipt from Tor Telegraph Office (Sinai) for cost of telegram (15 DEC 24)   
£14.00
HOTEL MACHINE MARKING
034
 24 XII 60, Shepheard’s Hotel machine marking for 60 milliemes franking a hotel stationery cover to Wageningen, Holland. Mistakenly sent first to Helwan, misreading for Holland   
£8.00
JUDAICA
035
 1980, mint colour card of the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria   
£8.00
T.P.O. MARKINGS
036
 13 FE 34, unrecorded CDS. Cover from Heliopolis to Cairo with 5m Fuad, with clear strikes of Abu-Kibir-Diarb Nigm & VV (Type 7A3.5, recorded only Apr 1939), but CDS with clearly flattened curves top and bottom, most unusual. Reverse has three clear cancels, including & VV / Zaqaziq-Aga (Type 7A3.7, recorded JA 34 to AU 37)   
£15.00
037
 19 FE 11, Arabic -addressed cover from Damanhur to Armenian lawyer in Gianaclis, Alexandria, franked with 5m DLR and cancelled with scarce Damanhur / TPO / Kafr el Dawwar (Type 5A2.2, recorded only 1907-08). Reverse has Kafr el Dawwar and Sidi Gaber transit, San Stefano arrival   
£18.00
038
 12 JU 36, Small cover printed for Daira of Khedive Abbas franked with 3x5m Fuad and cancelled with Tanta-El Mahalla / el Kobra / & VV (Type 7A3.5, recorded only Dec 47), addressed to London via Tanta and Alex   
£12.00
POSTAL STATIONERY - USED
039
 12 IX 13, 5 mills DLR letter sheet (wmk DLR London, so NP SLS4, 1911), addressed to His Excellency Ibrahim Bey Rachid in Cairo, full message in French   
£12.00
040
 12 XII 20, 5 mills DLR letter sheet (no watermark so NP SLS6a, 1916), Arabic addressed from Zaqaziq to Beni Suef with transit marks Cairo-Asyut / & VV and Cairo Station   
£12.00
041
 10 OC 21, 5 mills DLR letter sheet (wmk Egyptian Postage, so NP SLS8, 1921), Arabic addressed from Asyut to Tewfikiya School in Shubra   
£12.00
042
 22 JU 23, 5 mills DLR pink stationery letter sheet (Egyptian Postage wmk, NP SLS9, 1923), sent from Mansura to Abdin in Cairo, cancelled Mansura-Mit Ghamr / & VV (Type 7A3)   
£14.00
043
 -6 MA 35, 5 mills Fuad embossed letter sheet (NP SLS10, 1935) uprated with 3x5m Fuad for Express from Fayum to Beni Suef, cancelled with Fayum-Cairo / & VV (Type 7A3, recorded only 1939-40))   
£14.00
FAROUK BARRED OUT
044
 1954-55, group of five interesting covers all franked with adhesives from the series with King Farouk’s portrait defaced with three bars   
£12.00
SUDAN INTEREST
045
 1929-1989, group of six colourful covers from Sudan to Egypt including surcharges, air mails, registered and postal stationery   
£20.00
BOOKLET STAMP
046
 30 x 11, cover from Beni Suef to Cairo franked with DLR 5 mills booklet stamp (see guillotined perfs at left), reverse has arrival cds of Faggala   
£25.00
PARCEL CARDS
047
 1987-2006, group of three large parcel cards, all furnished with high-value stamps, including 200m/500m definitives and 2005 psychiatry conference 150pt   
£10.00
SOLDIER STAMP
048
 1971 “soldier stamp” (SG 1097) in clean unmounted mint block of four, and with five copies properly used in 1973 on a Cairo Express cover to a soldier on the front line   
£10.00
EXPRESS STAMPS
049
 1926, the first Express stamp, 20 mills (SG E138), vertical pair perfect condition unmounted mint   
£20.00
050
 1944 Express stamp (NPEX4), single UMM with unrecorded flaw: thin line rising from postman’s back   
£10.00
OFFICIAL STAMPS
051
 1913-15, blocks of Official overprint stamps, three blocks of four and one of eight, all used with good postmarks   
£10.00
POSTAGE DUES
052
 1887-89, group of 15 used Postage Due stamps   
£20.00
053
 1962, 2 mills Postage Due, full sheet of 100 stamps with A/62 control, UAR watermark and full selvedge (NP PD56). Perfect condition, unmounted mint (part illustrated only)   
£30.00
1-MILLIÈME RATE
054
 1928, large envelope (24x17cm) bilingually printed for Al-Hilal magazine and addressed to the director of the El-Zahra magazine in Dawawin, franked at periodical printed matter rate with Fuad 1 millième stamp and cancelled by Cairo / F. No backstamp   
£20.00
HOTELS INTEREST
055
 1954 tall booklet (12x21cm) of eight pages titled Helouan, Health at the Gates of Cairo, advertising its cures and visitor accommodation, excellent condition   
£14.00
056
 1955 sepia photo postcard showing Western Desert Resthouse at Wadi Natroun on the Cairo-Alexandria Road. Printed in Italy, published by Solly, Cairo   
£8.00
BOMB SECURITY NOTICE
057
 May 2012, incoming registered Air Mail cover from Naseej in Saudi Arabia addressed to Mehalla Kobra. Received on arrival an instructional cachet reading “Parcels Department Bomb Inspection No 1”. The cover was opened and went on its way resealed by new Egypt Post red and green sealing tape   
£12.00
REVENUES
058
 Greek - 1940 certificate issued by Greek Chamber of Commerce in Alexandria, with duty paid by square Greek 5-drachma revenue and Egyptian 50 mills general revenue   
£15.00
059
 Kerosene – group of ten patrol ration labels   
£25.00
060
 Tobacco – 2019-20, three Cigarette Tax revenues   
£15.00
061
 Tobacco – March/April 2021, the last issue of Cigarette Tax revenues   
£10.00
062
 Child Health – group of 20 different labels raising funds to fight children’s tuberculosis   
£20.00
063
 Consular Service – 37 revenue stamps of all designs and values for the Consular Service   
£30.00
064
 Universities – group of 37 revenues for paying student taxes   
£30.00
PERFINS
065
 1948-61, group of four Shell Co Egypt service station receipts, duty paid with revenues all punched with the company’s shell-shaped perfin   
£15.00
066
 1919-33, group of four printed Credit Lyonnais covers (Cairo Branch), all franked with adhesives carrying the company’s “CLC” perfins   
£18.00
EGYPT STAMPS
067
 1867-75 issues. Striking accumulation of 108 stamps on stock cards from these early issues, virtually all used, mainly with hinge remains behind. Compiled when? Not examined by present seller   
£60.00
068
 27 JA 27, Full set of three for Cotton Congress with special Congress handstamp on Semiramis Hotel printed envelope. Clearly never travelled, and two days late for FDC   
£6.00
069
 27 JA 55, Air cover addressed to Canada and franked with all three commemoratives of the Arab Postal Union issue (Nile Post C153-55). Cancelled with Cairo / Foreign Traffic CDS without Arabic, with faint transit/arrival mark behind   
£4.00
070
 1946, Boy King 30m olive, mint block of 15 (3x5) showing broken figure “3” in stamp 32 of the sheet (NP D148b). Hinge remains on selvage only   
£12.00
071
 1922 2pi Postage Due with Crown overprint inverted (Bal 222b, Magdi 20d), mint, hinge trace, 8,000 printed   
£20.00
072
 1927 Postage Due, 2 mills royal misperf (Bal 317b, Magdi 31e1), UMM, 1,600 printed   
£4.00
073
 1938 Official series (Bal 388 etc, Magdi 51 etc), group of six values with royal misperfs, UMM, one 15m with small rust spots behind   
£14.00
074
 1986, Sudan Drought Relief (Bal 1098a), 15+5m semipostal with yellow colour shifted to bleed off stamp at right, UMM   
£6.00
075
 1941, Air set, 25 mills reddish purple with cloud below value tablet (Bal 399b, Magdi 28a), left marginal block of four, UMM   
£7.00
076
 1959, Nefertiti 100mills with 55m surcharge (Balian 586d, Magdi 274a). UAP for UAR plus opt flaws (broken 5, Arabic 5 filled etc), two control blocks of four, both UMM   
£12.00
077
 1989, Nehru Centenary (Bal 1188a, Magdi 1074a) with correcting overprint misplaced, example “used” but not cancelled on fragment, together with UMM marginal example as corrected   
£8.00
BOOKLET STAMPS
078
 1890, complete booklet pane of DLR 5 mills individually hand-cancelled and paying 3pi duty on all-Arabic document signed by four witnesses and authenticated with their signet handstamps. Excellent condition 21x17cm   
£30.00
079
 25 8 25, complete booklet pane of First Fuad 5 mills hand-cancelled with the name Selim Eff. Scander and paying 3pi duty on all-Arabic document (A4) authenticated by red circular handstamp   
£24.00
080
 5 FE 30, Full booklet pane of six 5 mills 1927 Fuad definitives used to pay 3-piastre duty on elegant A4 note from Professor of French J.Zagger at Tanta Secondary School asking the head’s permission to give extracurricular lessons to Ismail Ibrahim el Chahafi on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Letter pinned to completed form detailing Zagger’s school responsibilities. Stamps vigorously hand-cancelled   
£18.00
081
 4 OC 34, small envelope addressed Alexandria En Ville, endorsed "Express" with handstamp and in manuscript, franked properly for 20m rate with 4x5m Fuad adhesives. Stamps are in two pairs, all from a booklet (trimmed perforations at top or bottom). Cancelled at 8am, and receiver on reverse, Alexandria / Delivery, is timed at 8-10AM. Express.   
£7.00
082
 23 JL 36, Local cover within Cairo, franked with strip of three Fuad 5 mills taken from a booklet (shaved perfs at base) for registration from clear Choubra Gardens CDS (Reg cachet alongside) to Heliopolis. Reverse has Cairo transit and Heliopolis arrival registration CDS   
£7.00
POSTAL HISTORY
083
 1 I 06, plain cover addressed to Cairo from Chibin-el-Kom and franked with 5m DLR, with scarce TPO transit mark behind: ALEXANDRIE-CAIRE / AMBULANT (Type 2A4), recorded only Sept 1893 to February 1906   
£5.00
084
 07 SE 42, small cover franked Boy King 6m with Cairo A roller cancel and bilingually addressed. Receiving mark rare ROSETTE PLAGE (ie, Rosetta Beach). Transit mark behind of Rashid. Letter remains   
£4.00
085
 7 V 12, Attractive multicolour cover registered from Akhmim to Cairo and cancelled with 1,2,2x5m De La Rue   
£3.00
086
 16 MA 34, to Nyasaland. Small cover with Avion label, franked with 5+10m Airs and Fuad 50m. Reverse has clear strikes of Cairo machine, Blantyre transit and Limbe arrival   
£4.00
087
 7 JU 42, folded printed notice, 12x6.5cm, addressed to Bacos, with 2m and 1m Boy King adhesives in opposite corners cancelled D (6) / Alexandria. Charming   
£3.00
088
 14 FEB 1952, Clean Barclays Bank printed cover franked 17 mills Farouk Marechal with "King of Egypt and Sudan" overprint in red just months before his overthrow. Machine cancelled for UK with circular civil censor mark on the face together with instructions if undeliverable. Blank reverse   
£3.00
089
 2 OC 52, Printed commercial cover Arabic-addressed within Cairo and - though Farouk had been deposed three months before - franked with a pair of Farouk 32 mills and 2x10 mills, all overprinted with "King of Egypt and the Sudan". Total 80 mills to cover postage, registration and Avis de Reception. Reverse has two different CDS of Maadi   
£4.00
090
 28 7 59, Bilingual printed cover of Egyptian Rice Mills, Alexandria, Arabic-addressed within Alex and franked for postage and registration with UAR Nefertiti 100 mills stamp surcharged 55 mills. Pink mute registration label alongside, and illegible backstamp   
£4.00
091
 10 IV 61, Air cover to Milan franked with 10+2 1/2 Syria UAR adhesives, machine cancelled. Returned as undeliverable, and received clean Aeroport International / de Beyrouth handstamps on back and front as returned. Neat cover, mysteries...   
£3.00
092
 December 1967, Personalised Christmas card message signed by Charles W Minett, long-time official of the Study Circle, embellished with holly and sketch of Upper Egypt / T P 03 of 29 AP 19. Thin card folded to present as 9 x 13.5cm   
£8.00
POSTAL MARKINGS
093
 Piroscafi Postali dell’ Egitto, faint but undoubted marking on fragment of 1879 20-para postal stationery card. Not perfect, but a very rare marking   
£20.00
094
 B01, British PO Alexandria, on GB 3d (trimmed) and 4d stamps   
£7.00
095
 31 DE 35, printed cover of Boulad and Ackaouy, lawyers, franked 3x5m Fuad for registration to Damanhour. Returned as undeliverable, but Gabriel Boulad has written on the face: “See cancellation behind – blue Damanhour – rare”. Backstamps include two Alex R.A. for return journey   
£6.00
096
 4 AP 38, clean registered cover franked 15m Boy King for Cairo. Clean cancel of Kafr el Battikh (plus Reg cartouche), two illegible transit marks and clear Cairo Delivery   
£4.00
097
 1940s? Lightweight cover addressed to England and franked 10+17 mills Farouk Marechal stamps for correct 27 milliemes foreign Air Mail rate. Cancelled only with large retta, with circular censor mark on the face. No markings behind   
£4.00
098
 March 1943, unfranked cover addressed to Ceysens family in Zamalek, sent from French Foreign Legion (Poste aux Armes / FFL / B.P.M.5) on 12 Mar, via similar of 15 Mar and 17 Mar (B.C.M.4), with Egypt Prepaid 81 of 17 Mar, a Field Censor and two-line notice: TO BE DELIVERED BY / CIVIL POST OFFICE. Finally Cairo roller arrival of 19 Mar. Remarkable   
£35.00
POSTCARDS
099
 22 XII 95, Colourful “Souvenir de…” card, Le Caire, Kafr pres de les Pyramides de Sakkarah, printed by Hagelberg of Berlin, franked 5m DLR for UK from Cairo. Lower right corner folded   
£4.00
100
 1900? Excellent condition single-back postcard of Musicians of the Khedivial Guard posing for the camera. Mint card, photograph by Lekegian, published by Kardiache   
£12.00
101
 1900? Very early version of a postcard that has been reproduced hundreds of times as Port Said changed and grew… Note only horse-drawn vehicles; today this street teems with traffic. Neat card, excellent mint, with single back, no publisher’s name. Historic view of a familiar scene   
£8.00
102
 8 III 02, Stunning singe-back colour card of Kait Bey, Le Caire (No 558), franked 5m DLR for UK and cancelled Caire   
£6.00
103
 4 I 03, colour card “Rue Arabe” by P Dittrich, photographer to the Court, Cairo, and printed by J Jaronek of Prague. Franked 2x2m DLR for UK with message praising Ghezireh Palace Hotel, cancelled Gezireh with Cairo transit   
£6.00
104
 18 III 04, Single-back card labelled only “Dahabieh”, published by Carlo Mieli, Alexandria, manuscript “Imprimes”, franked 2x1m DLR for London and redirected to Sidcup   
£6.00
105
 12 XII 04, Souvenir coloured single-back postcard showing Gizeh Pyramids and camels, addressed to Surrey, franked with 2x2mills De La Rue green and cancelled Cairo. Christmas/New Year greetings message on the face; card published by Hagelberg of Berlin   
£4.00
106
 Cairo Citadel, fully embossed upright card of Fix & David of Cairo, mint condition but for message on reverse: Wishing you a right jolly Christmas, & a prosperous New Year 1904-1905   
£4.00
107
 1910? Colour postcard Boulevard de Ramleh, Alexandria, remarkably showing no motor vehicles, but two trolley buses side by side amid sparse pedestrian traffic. Divided back, good condition   
£6.00
108
 24 VI 14, colour card (LC 100) of a group of five Egyptian policemen, smartly dressed in their white summer uniform (with tarbush), posing for the photographer outside their headquarters. Card franked DLR 4 mills adhesive for Aldershot, and cancelled with Abbasia cds   
£6.00
109
 Military uniform – b/w upright, single back, Under-Brigadier of the Egyptian Police. CDS on face (but stamp lost) of French PO in Port Said 1914?   
£4.00
110
 27 MA 23, Colour card of the Cairo Postcard Trust (No 165, 5), based on a painting, of village basket makers using palm fronds. Used, with a long message in English, from Cairo to Manchester franked 3+5m Crown opts   
£4.00
111
 1 JA 52(?), colourful Lehnert and Landrock postcard of Pyramids and camels, with 1914 DLR 4 mills affixed to make a fine maxicard, but then spoiled by using questionable cancel of Alexandria / Egypt with flat bottom typical of “touristic” fabrications. Reverse unsullied.   
£4.00
112
 Military uniform – b/w upright photo card, young man with swagger stick and puttees, marked on reverse: Remembrance from Mohamed el Hassan Mohamed to the sergeant Neeil(?). No postal markings   
£3.00
113
 Two b/w horizontal photocards of what appear to be same Egyptian warship, The Ramadan 564, one of them dated July 1981, where it is described as a vedette, ie, a vessel of the maritime police intended for sea surveillance   
£6.00
TRANSPORT – AIR, SEA, LAND
114
 4 APR 1932, printed Air Mail cover of Imperial Airways (flap), addressed to Khartoum but franked only with 1m+4m Fuads, so received clear straight-line POSTAGE INSUFFICIENT FOR AIR MAIL handstamp. Travelled on land, with unusual Shellal-Halfa TPO (as Type 5E1.1) of 9 April   
£24.00
115
 6 MAY 33, Excellent clean cover with Air Mail label endorsed “By Air-in-India Karachi-Egypt” and addressed to a ;passenger on “homeward bound” SS Oxfordshire at Port Said. Franked on reverse with block of four of Geo V 2 annas cancelled Mudis. Received bold capital T, then 10/8, then 1d tax markings, transit of rare CAIRE / PAR AVION, and finally a 4m Due on arrival at Port Said Traffic on 13 MA. Remarkable   
£35.00
116
 17 FEB 1938, Neat small envelope addressed to Alexandria and franked with Geo VI 1d and 2d from Birmingham CDS, representing the second stage of the All-up Imperial air service (first day? Envelope contains a slip seeking return to Francis Field, noted air mail collectors, if undelivered). Furnished with regular Air Mail sticker and red/white/blue winged version for Africa and India, the cover was given a Recu / Par Avon / Alexandrie arrival mark on February 21.   
£8.00
117
 DEC 14 1959, CAIRO AIRPORT roller transit with unrecorded Arabic slogan on reverse of colourful printed First Flight cover Rotterdam-Colorado of KLM’s Lockheed prop-Jet Electra. Franked with two KLM anniversary adhesives cancelled unclear 8 XII 59. Colorado arrival Dec 16, and redirected   
£14.00
118
 1 SE 58, Air Mail envelope franked 40m Republican definitive plus 1958 Cotton and addressed to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, from Masg Misr / Kafr el Dawwar (ie Egyptian rayon factory). Reverse has Cairo slogan roller transit and clear Bratislava double-ring arrival. Unusual destination   
£6.00
119
 1938, black and white photocard of open-sided railway carriage with passengers boarding(?), notification on reverse (Train Delta Railway Egypt Mar 1938)   
£12.00
120
 1940/50s? Stunning print on tracing paper of Hungarian baggage and mail car apparently destined for Egyptian State Railways. Wonderfully detailed design from railway carriage works in Gyor (Raab), Hungary, of the coach that sorted Egypt's TPOs. Astonishing.   
£30.00
121
 17 7 89, Clean registered letter addressed to Khedivial Paquebots, Alexandrie, from Saluzzo, Italy, franked 50c Humbert IX with neat Registered label. Reverse has three wax seals, Torino and Brindisi transit marks, and finally Alexandrie Recommandes of 23 July   
£16.00
122
 10 5 97, letter written aboard SS Britannia “nearing Suez” and addressed to the Bahadur of Sikar (contents remain). Franked with 1887 QV 2 1/2d, cancelled with manuscript “Stamped” together with straight-line PLEINE MER with Suez arched CDS and small “G” strike alongside. Reverse has SEA POST OFFICE / C cds of May 17 and SIKAR arrival of May 26. Remarkable. Handwritten letter remains   
£40.00
123
 22 III 00, single-back multiview coloured card “Souvenir d’Egypt” (Fix & David, Port Said), franked 2x2m DLR for Germany, cancelled Port Said. Transit octagon of La Reunion-Marseille, and finally Coblenz arrival   
£6.00
124
 17 IX 07, German 10pf postal stationery card written on board Der Roon at Suez, addressed to Berlin, and cancelled with Deutsche Seepost / Ost-Asiatische Line CDS, followed by clear marks of Suez star/bridge, Cairo-Alexandria TPO (Type 7A3 but month in Roman, one day earlier than recorded), Berlin SO 24 9 07 8-9AM 33 and 10-11 AM 36. Clean, neat   
£18.00
125
 1 10 48, Orient Line’s Orontes, sepia photocard, with message “We arrive at Port Said today”, addressed to Berkshire and franked KGVI 2d with retta cancel and censor marking both in same (?) blue   
£6.00
126
 Oct 1953, flimsy envelope of Khedivial Mail Line (flap), franked 17+2x10m for 37 mills rates to UK, cancelled /Alexandria, further resealed with censor tape and two censor markings   
£5.00
127
 1960s(?), Pristine black and white photocard of Khedivial Mail Line vessel Egyptian Republic. Bilingual caption on reverse has this name barred out and replaced with “Gomhuryat Misr” (direct translation) as well as mention of sister ship Mecca, 12,000 tons.   
£10.00
POSTAL PAPERS
128
 1919, Post Office enquiry form (1917 issue, form No 13Q), sent from Faggala (Cairo) registration section on 4 Feb to query delivery of a registered item in Chebin el Kom. Addressee signed for receipt of the item, and Chebin registration section returned the form on Feb 5. No postage paid because official business, with non-registration Faggala and Chebin postmarks on the reverse. Slightly battered, but fascinating.   
£5.00
129
 Mint sheet of eight (4x2, 25x19cm) bilingual Post Office labels for postman to record reason for non-delivery, roughly rouletted. Mint and excellent condition   
£8.00
POST-WAR MILITARY
130
 31 3 47, Unfranked plain envelope with typed details of German PoW still held in German prisoner working company in early 1947. Endorsed "Prisoner of Wat Mail", cancelled in Frankfurt (US zone) and addressed via PoW Postal Section Egypt to Karl Hild Gefreiter   
£6.00
RURAL POSTMARKS
131
 1910-1930, collection of close to 100 clear and legible Rural Service postmark cutouts, culled from mails collected by one of our foremost Rural experts, now retired. All different, all authentic
£24.00
PAQUEBOT
132
 Paquebot cover from Port-Said 2.SEP.55 with Dutch stamps   
£5.00
133
 Paquebot cover from Port-Said 23.9.78   
£5.00
134
 Paquebot cover from Suez date 15.12.75      
£7.00
AIRMAIL
135
 Airmail cover to Holland 17.JA.33 from Port-Said F   
£5.00
136
 FFC London-Singapore; insufficiently franked with 12 c. postage due   
£15.00
137
 FFC Cairo to Larnaca backstamps Nicosia and Limassol 23 AUG 33   
£5.00
FUAD
138
 1929, Registered postal stationery embossed 5m letter sheet (NP SLS8), with wmk Egyptian Postage, uprated with Fouad 20m adhesive, sent from Cairo to Abbassia with black on white Reg label Four millièmes made up of two x 2 m paying the ‘printed paper rate to Leipzig neatly cancelled with Alexandria roller dated 23rd December 1936. No backstamps but clean and neat   
£6.00
139
 Immaculate cover from Alexandria F to Switzerland franked no less than 9 two milliemes on 24th March 1932. The envelope is a pre-printed one from Comptoir Nationale de Paris and there are no back-stamps   
£6.00
140
 A page from the late Michael Goodman’s collection, with three covers: top is a first day cover cancelled MPO Cairo in black, middle a 1939 cover with same postmark but in blue, while the bottom has smaller letters in “Cairo” but also cachet in purple, “Command Pay Office, 25 Feb 1939, Cairo, Egypt”.
£15.00
MODERN HOTEL POST
141
 Pre-printed airmail cover with tri-lingual Flugpost/By Airmail/Par Avion from Aswan in 1992, franked 295 millièmes including a pair of NP 327 55m yellow-olive of 1978, and an airmail NP A98 of 185m issued 1985, can,t tell of which gum as it is stuck to a neat envelope, plus a Belgian nine franc stamp with a criss-cross cancel. The latter seems to be the equivalent of a boxed ‘O’ marking of Egypt as someone has written in pencil ANNULE next to it. An enigma to me and posted from Hotel Mövenpick, Cairo to Charleroi, Belgium.
£6.00
BOY KING FIRST DAY COVER
142
 Issued 29th July 1937, this registered airmail cover with the complete low values of the Boy King Issue, was sent to a well-known London address on the first day from Abu Qir. Address now demolished, and sent by RAF member at nearby RAF base. Interesting! Backstamped Alex R.2   
£6.00
143
 Boy King airmail franked 47 millièmes this time to Yorkshire with military censorship and Cairo roller on back and front, dated 9th June 1942.   
£4.00
144
 Two examples of pre-printed envelopes with censors and sent Cairo to London at 27 millièmes airmail rate; no back-stamps.   
£6.00
145
 Two more examples of 27 millièmes airmail rate to the same address as above, also with censors, one from Cairo with cancelled airmail stamps, the other from Alexandria cancelled in blue   
£6.00
BRITISH FORCES
146
 Another Boy King airmail cover with 15m and 30 millièmes stamps cancelled with military M.P.O. E.603 at Moascar on the Suez Canal dated 20 DE 39 to Exmouth, Devon; opened and re-sealed by the censor evidenced by tape; roughly opened but good from front.   
£6.00
147
 Also from Moascar, Fuad Army post 10 mills cancelled M.P.O. Moascar dated 6th MR 38 on clean cover to Salisbury, Wilts. no backstamps but good strike.   
£6.00
148
 M.P.O. Alexandria dated 5 MR 36 with Egypt Postage Prepaid 18 and letter seal SG A9 (perf 14x14) pale carmine cancelled retta on reverse of cover to Netheravon, Wilts. Very neat and clean   
£15.00
LITERATURE
149
 Sudan – The Postal Markings 1967 – 1970 by E.C.W. Stagg, an immaculate hard-back copy formerly Robin Bertram’s, but no dust cover (if there ever was one?).   
£8.00
150
 Sudan – The Postal Markings 1967 – 1970; as above but a ring-bound photo-copy in good condition.   
£3.00
151
 Sudan – The Postal Markings of the Travelling Post Offices 1887 – 1989; Supplement by J.F. Dight, a slim ten-page pamphlet.   
£2.00
152
 Stamps and Posts of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Gisburn, H. and Thompson, G.S. publ. by Stanley Gibbons Ltd. 1947. A slim hard-back volume in very Good condition. No dust cover.   
£5.00
HOTEL POST
153
 PC EGYPT HOTEL P.O. – SHEPHEARD’S 1902 et 1903 HSp5 on Viewcard to Germany and Holland
£15.00
154
 5 items 1901/1908 PC Grand Continental Hotel Cairo HCn2
£15.00
155
 Ghesireh Palace 1898 HGP1
£8.00
156
 PC Winter Palace HWP6 to Belgium   
£5.00
157
 Luxor Winter Palace Cover 1937 25 03 to Heliopolis   
£5.00
EGYPT MAIL
158
 2 Covers 1961   
£5.00
159
 Cover 1945 21 12, Cairo to France, TAD Cairo Foreign Traffic   
£5.00
160
 2 Registered Letter 1946 to France   
£8.00
161
 3 PC 1902/1911 Cairo and Port Saïd   
£10.00
162
 Cover 1931 22 07, Alexandria to Strasbourg France, censured   
£5.00
163
 2 Registered Letter 1954/55 Meter Mark National Bank of Egypt   
£10.00
164
 Cover 1955 TAD Paquebot Port Saïd   
£8.00
165
 Meter Mark Derkade Commerce Registred Letter 1956 Port Said   
£8.00
166
 Meter Mark Port Said 1956 on PC   
£3.00
167
 CP 1909 pour St Petersburg Russia
£5.00
168
 CP TAD Ghesireh 1905   
£5.00
RICHTER OF NAPOLI POSTCARDS
169
 Stunning collection, 1898-1908 but mainly nineteenth century, of chromolitho postcards of Egypt by Richter & Co of Napoli, one of the foremost producers of the golden age of travel. Neatly housed on plain pages in stout plastic mounts, there are 28 cards with scenes of Egypt, 15 of Egyptian hotels, and three luggage labels. About two-thirds neatly used and mainly mounted to show the card with a scan of the back or address/postage detail. Slight duplication, mainly excellent condition. Colourful reminders of a bygone age   
£250.00
REVENUES AND LABELS
170
 1948 S.A.I.D.E. Airmail full sheet 16 labels   
£30.00
171
 1924 Overland Motor Mail 54 labels   
£35.00
172
 1920 2nd Obelisk issue Cigarettes revenue Stamp UNM   
£15.00
173
 1920 2nd Obelisk issue Cigarettes revenue Pair Stamps UNM   
£25.00
174
 1985 $2 Save Nubia Consular Revenue Stamp UNM   
£20.00
175
 British Forces in Egypt 1932/33 Block of 9 letter stamps   
£25.00
176
 1948-49 3 used commemorative label stamp   
£15.00
177
 1938 Ministere des Finances Issue block 12 200 Mills High Value Block Stamps   
£30.00
178
 Egypt State Railways 2 unused reseal label stamps   
£10.00
179
 British Forces block 4 x 3 Millièmes label stamps   
£10.00
180
 1887 1st revenue Issue De La Rue Block 4 x ½ Qirsh Revenue Stamps   
£30.00
181
 1972 new Cairo Sheraton Hotel opening label sheet   
£20.00
POSTCARDS and POSTAL STATIONERY
182
 1922 Postcard Intl. Boy Scout Jamboree with Jewish Boy Scouts During the parade + 1922 Letter issued in Alexandria   
£45.00
183
 1961 Letter Cassimis Cigarettes & Tobacco   
£10.00
184
 1935 Letter Coutarelli Frères Cigarettes & Tobacco   
£15.00
185
 1947 Letter Coutarelli Frères Cigarettes & Tobacco   
£15.00
186
 1947 Letter George Kyriacou Cigarettes & Tobacco   
£15.00
187
 1942 Cover + Letter from Jos A Cattaui Pacha First Jewish Parliament member with signature   
£40.00
188
 1939 Certificate from Greek Consulate in Alexandria with private Consular Revenue Stamp   
£20.00
189
 1939 Certificate from Greek Consulate in Alexandria with private Consular Revenue Stamp   
£20.00
190
 1903 used postcard Official arrival of Khedive Abbas II to Alexandria   
£20.00
191
 1918 Unused postcard Hotel Voyager in Ismailia   
£10.00
192
 1919 Embossed comic postcard Edit. Max H Rudmann, Cairo   
£10.00
193
 1919 Embossed comic postcard Edit. Max H Rudmann, Cairo   
£10.00
194
 1947 First Day Cover Evacuation of British Troops   
£10.00
195
 Sudan/Egypt 1900 15 Pt. stationery cover from Berber to Cairo with arrical T.P.O. Beni Suef - Caire via Halfa   
£40.00
OVER-SIZE COVERS
196
 23 AO 05, long blue envelope (28.5x2cm) franked with attractive colourful series of 1pi+3x5 +2x2+1m DLRs for total 30 mills to Cheltenham from Qena via Kena transit. Small wax seal and Cheltenham thimble AU 31 behind
£6.00
197
 29 III 11, long unsealed wrapper (? folded in four, but no contents), 27x12cm, franked 2m+5m DLR For En Ville postage and registration, Cairo / R.D. to Tribunal Mixte   
£5.00
198
 12 I 12, large buff env (26.5x20.5cm) from Credit Foncier Paris to Credit Foncier Cairo. Franked 1fr, 50+2x10c, Reg label, five wax seals behind   
£8.00
199
 1915 and 1917, two large buff covers, each franked DLR 5m+10m Colossi for postage and registration to Mixed Tribunal. One from Minya (Reg cachet) to Cairo 26x21cm, one from Cairo (torn Reg label) to Caro.   
£6.00
200
 3 IX 16, large buff envelope (26.5x21.5cm), franked 10m Colossi from Cairo to Bulkeley and redirected to Mariette Pacha St, Cairo. Clean Bulkeley and Bacos CDS on reverse   
£6.00
201
 7- 11 17, neat white envelope, 23x14cm, addressed En Ville in Cairo to Mixed Tribunal and franked 10m Colossi for postage and registration (Cairo label)
£5.00
202
 -5 MA 32, large buff envelope (28x21cm), franked 20m Fuad for postage and registration (mute label) from Sayida Zeinab to Cairo. Roughly opened
£2.00
203
 Date? (handstamps illegible). Company (Furness Egypt) printed long buff envelope (28x12.5cm), addressed reg by air to London from Alexandria with red wax seal and myriad Boy King stamps on face for total franking of 436 mills   
£10.00
204
 11 MA 43, large linen-backed envelope (31x23.5cm), sent insured (cachet on face) for £E400 to Mahmoudieh from Alexandria (Societe Anonyme de Behera), with 14 wax seals and two handstamps with company name. Franked 351 milliemes (modern notes justify, down to the 1m Boy King). High-value Farouk stamps, remarkable survival, wonderful condition   
£70.00
205
 23 JA 56, large envelope (36x23cm), sent from Philatelic Society of Egypt (Control Committee handstamps) in Cairo to George L Lee, philatelist, in New York. Six wax seals but not obviously insured, high-value Nefertiti definitives on reverse and 43 copies of Arab Postal Union overprint commems on face. Total franking 2645 mills   
£28.00
206
 2005-06, two massive envelopes (32.5x22.5cm) registered from Heliopolis to UK, each franked with a mass of current definitives (35x20p Nofret inc shades, 16x80p Tutankhamun) on face only   
£6.00
207
 1977-79, four enormous parcel cards covered in very many Official stamps: 30+30x10m red, 46+36x55m violet, and many more. Markings virtually illegible   
£10.00
208
 2005-06, Group of 37 Egyptian Post Office printed window envelopes, all with typewritten contents, sent all over the country via NET courier. And returned unopened   
£10.00
PRINTED PORTRAITS
209
 Date? Splendid sepia portrait print of Arabi Pacha 13x17.5cm, generously mounted in thick card of 25x31cm overall (larger than appears on scan). Perfect pristine condition   
£20.00
210
 As last, printed in black, Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt   
£20.00
PRINTED PAPER
211
 26 MR 41, 12-page all-Arabic magazine Al-Muntazah, 20x28cm, apparently posted from Asyut with franking of 18 mills (2m postage + 16m Reg?) Royal star/crescent and many Arabic notations on cover. Intriguing
£8.00
PHILATELIC SUPPLIES
212
 Large Gibbons blue ring-clip album, four rings, complete with 14 plastic holders of 28x31cm. No code number obvious. Excellent condition *Not illustrated   
£8.00
213
 Gibbons Devon Plus (code 3840) refill leaves – five pristine packs each of 50, plus opened pack of say 150 sheets   
£55.00
214
 Gibbons Devon album (3834), almost new   
£6.00
215
 Hawid black pochette mounts, 160x120mm, Six packets of ten, plus one opened
£20.00
216
 Hawid black pochette mounts, 210x170mm, six packets of ten
£14.00
LITERATURE – EGYPT AND PHILATELY
217
 Egypt: Stamps and Postal History, Peter A.S. Smith 1999
£90.00
218
 The Nile Post: Handbook and Catalogue of Egyptian Stamps. Joseph H. Chalhoub 2003
£100.00
219
 Egypt Stamps Handbook, Vols 1 and 2, hardback, Magdi Moukhtar Abdel-Hadi 2010
£65.00
220
 The Stamps of Egypt, Leon Balian, Vol 1, NB, no dj, some wear   
£20.00
221
 The Stamp Booklets of Egypt. A. John Revell March 1997   
£25.00
222
 The Airmails of Egypt. John Sears, hardback+dustjacket, A4, 183 pp + update, 1st edn 1990 ps   
£12.00
223
 The Royal Air Force Cairo-Baghdad Air Mail Service 1921-27. William C. Andrews 2000   
£12.00
224
 Airmail Directional Handstamps {A Study), Vols 1 and 2. A4, spiral bound, two fat volumes, lan McQueen 2003
£12.00
225
 Egyptian Postal Markings of 1865-1879. The Egypt Study Circle - Study VI (part 1) , A5, 60pp, showing its age but indispensable reference, 1983   
£12.00
226
 British Empire Campaigns and Occupations in the near East 1914-1924: A Postal History. Hardback +dust jacket, 450pp, 1250 markings illustrated, John Firebrace 1991   
£45.00
227
 Heliopolis, Grand Semaine d’Aviation. Pierre Grech, 2010   
£14.00
228
 Postal History of Egypt to 1900, Samir Fikry, 1996   
£10.00
229
 The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps Volume 2 - The Empire in Africa, hardback, 440pp, 50 on Egypt/Sudan. Robson Lowe 1948   
£8.00
230
 Catalogue of Egyptian Aerophilately, softback, 168pp, Khetcho Hagopian 1992   
£5.00
231
 Egyptian Stamp Exhibition. Bulletin 3 – Palmares, Cairo Oct 1991   
£2.00
232
 Perfins on Egyptian Stamps. Vahe Varjabedian, softback, A5, 32pp + update, 1999   
£4.00
233
 Egypt, Fred J Melville, 1915, paperback, classic early catalogue and commentary, some spotting, staining, but VG considering its age   
£6.00
234
 Egyptian Topics, A4 magazine (copy) filed in folder, Vols 1-3 1968-???, complete   
£10.00
235
 150-year Anniv of Egyptian stamps: leatherette folder 26x32cm with brochure, commems and FDC   
£3.00
236
 Gibbons Middle East Part 19, 5th edn 1996   
£3.00
237
 Fundamentals of Philately. L.N.Williams, 862pp, revised edition 1990
£14.00
238
 Billig's Philatelic Handbook Volume 21. Fritz Billig 1954
£3.00
239
 Collectors Guide to Postal Stationery, Peter J. Van Gelder, softback, b/w, 88pp, 1997
£8.00
240
 Sanabria’s Air Post Catalogue, hardback, 568pp, b/w illustrated, 1957
£12.00
SALE CATALOGUES
241
 Cihangir Collection of Worldwide Postal History (part 1), with prices realised. Hardback with dustjacket, Corinphila, 29 Apr-1 May 2000   
£7.00
242
 Corinphila Dec 2007, Romania, Constantinople, Turkey. Hardback+dj   
£4.00
243
 Corinphila Dec 2007-08, Schweiz, Constantinople (2 vols inc good Egypt) Hardback+dj   
£4.00
244
 Corinphila, Kaiserliche Osterreichische catalogue, Oct 2009 (good Egypt) Hardback+dj   
£5.00
245
 Peter A.S. Smith Collections. 198th Corinphila Auction, May 2015, Hardback+ dj+ prices realised   
£26.00
246
 Feldman. May 2011, Egypt inc Samir Fikry Suez Canal , softback
£8.00
247
 Feldman May 2013, Middle East with much Egypt (Keith Pogson), softback
£8.00
248
 Feldman, Overseas, Europe, (whose booklets?), Dec 2016, softback   
£6.00


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