Egypt Study Circle Auction 64
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AUCTION 64 - APRIL 2022 - LISTING OF LOTS
Lot
Description
Reserve
AIRMAILS
001
 1926 Abu Suwer Fouad special aviation flight Cairo to Khartoum very scarce around 60 known   
£120.00
ROYAL INTEREST
002
 1912 official cover addressed to then 'Prince Ahmed Fouad' who later became king of Egypt with control block of 5 OHHS 1m issue very rare and unusual   
£300.00
BISECTS
003
 1895 3 fragments with 4 bisected De La Rue stamps very unusual   
£75.00
TAX & REVENUES
004
 1920-47 Cigarettes and tobacco, four used letters   
£40.00
005
 1890-1950 British Consulate revenues on document   
£35.00
006
 Playing Cards tax revenues, unrecorded by Feltus. Royal crown issue, what year?   
£30.00
007
 1954 First issue Playing Cards tax revenue, Feltus page 44, No 381   
£25.00
008
 1966 Electrical Administration £E1 revenue inside electricity company booklet. Feltus p 61, No 527   
£70.00
009
 Egyptian tax revenue 10p unadopted hand-painted essay   
£80.00
010
 Egyptian tax revenue 90p unadopted hand-painted essay   
£80.00
011
 Egyptian tax revenue £E10.30 unadopted hand-painted essay   
£80.00
ESSAY
012
 1969 Suez Canal centenary, issued 20 mills hand-painted stamp essay by Ibrahim el Tahtawy   
£50.00
BOOKLET
013
 Opera House March/April 1971, 16-page programme booklet. The old Opera House was burned down in 1972 and demolished   
£25.00
ARMY
014
 1934 Army greetings card with embossed royal crest   
£20.00
TAX REVENUES - SHEETS
015
 2001 tax revenues in full sheet of 100 stamps, 10 piastres   
£20.00
016
 2003 tax revenues in full sheet of 100 stamps, 10 piastres   
£20.00
017
 2004 tax revenues in full sheet of 100 stamps, 10 piastres   
£20.00
018
 1963 2 mills Medical Syndicate, full sheet of 100 stamps. Feltus page 90 Bo 845 (stethoscope wmk)   
£40.00
019
 1966 Agriculture Syndicates second issue, full sheet of 50 stamps. Feltus page 75 No 616   
£40.00
020
 2020 Musicians Syndicate last issue revenues, full sheet of 30 £E5 stamps   
£70.00
021
 2020 Musicians Syndicate last issue revenues, full sheet of 30 £E30 stamps   
£90.00
022
 2020 Musicians Syndicate last issue revenues, £E5 and £30 stamps   
£18.00
CONSULAR
023
 Consular revenues, £E5 services revenue stamp with security star   
£20.00
SUDAN
024
 British Sudan, 1950 Camel Corps on postcard   
£15.00
AIRGRAPH
025
 1943 Airgraph sealed with official label, and censors   
£15.00
ADVERTISING
026
 1930 Oriental Philatelic House advertising card   
£25.00
AIR LABELS
027
 1930-35 Imperial Airways air labels in full sheet   
£30.00
REVENUE
028
 1970-80 three stamped paper revenue stamps   
£18.00
ADVERTISING CARDS
029
 1954 Soldier postal stationery card series, four cards   
£40.00
030
 1906 Advertising card for J.H.Syret barber shop   
£20.00
031
 1930 Luxor Savoy Hotel advertising card   
£20.00
032
 1930 Luxor Savoy Hotel brochure   
£20.00
POSTAL CARDS
033
 1947 Postal ID card from Dumiat   
£25.00
REVENUES
034
 1944/63 Various syndicates revenues on documents   
£25.00
SALAMA FORGERIES
035
 Second Issue, Salama forgeries 5-para sheet   
£18.00
PALESTINE
036
 Palestinian Authority £5 revenue on document   
£25.00
037
 Palestinian Authority £5 revenue on document   
£25.00
ADVERTISING CARDS
038
 Lot of four advertising cards, circa 1915-50   
£15.00
POSTCARD
039
 1908 embossed Egyptian coins postcard   
£20.00
POSTAL STATIONERY
040
 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   
£8.00
041
 1895 DLR 2 mills postal stationery mini envelope uprated with 2x5mills DLR definitives for postage from Shepheard’s Hotel (Type 1 postmark) to St Cloud in France (clear arrival mark behind)   
£10.00
042
 1929, DLR 5 mills pink postal stationer letter sheet (NP SLS9), uprated with pair of 5m Fuads for registration from Bab el Khalq (Cairo) to HH Samira Hanem el Bahroudy in Zamalek   
£20.00
043
 1929, DLR 5 mills pink postal stationer letter sheet (NP SLS9), uprated with 10m Fuad for registration from Bab el Khalq (Cairo) to HH Samira Hanem el Bahroudy in Zamalek   
£20.00
044
 1930, much-travelled Fuad 5 mills postal stationer letter sheet (NP SLS 10, with wmk el-barid el-masry), uprated with pair of 5m Fuads for registration and sent first from Cairo to Ibrahim Rashid Bey en ville, redirected to Alexandria, to Shatby and cancelled with arrival cds of Ibrahimia Ramleh   
£25.00
045
 1939, Fuad 5 mills postal stationer letter sheet (NP SLS 10), uprated with Boy King 20 mills for registration and AR en ville in Cairo to HH Samira Hanem el Baroudy in Zamalek   
£20.00
046
 1941 5m Boy King letter sheet (NP SLS11, $100 used) uprated with 10+6m Boy King for registration from Azhar to Ahmed Bey Mustafa in Dokki/Giza   
£28.00
047
 1946, three mint examples of Farouk Marechal 4 mills mini-envelope (NP SEN 37-39) showing types, including brown filigree design printed inside (rare)   
£30.00
048
 1956, Farouk Air Letter of 1949 (wmk al-barid al-masry, NP SALS4), used after fall of monarchy. Thousands of mint examples discovered in nation’s post offices, portrait cut out and sheet used as a postal letter form for official use from Matai   
£40.00
049
 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 on UAR   
£14.00
050
 1935, Fuad 5 mills postal stationer letter sheet (NP SLS 10), sent from Sidi Gabr to HH Galila Hanem Moheb in Falaky Street, Cairo   
£18.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS
051
 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   
£22.00
052
 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   
£22.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS – RURAL SERVICE
053
 1907-1917, four covers locally used with Rural markings including Wasta arrival from Tammuh, Nabaroh II (cartouche Behout), Tanta arrival from Santa   
£22.00
054
 1917-40, group of four Rural Service covers from Hehya-Kafr el Nassara and Basyun-Kafr el Dawar   
£25.00
055
 1918-1938, ten covers locally used with Rural markings including Basyun-Kafr el-Dawar, Faraskur-Ghoneimia, Qanatir Khairia-Izbit Awkaf Malakiya (blue), Tod-Talaa   
£28.00
056
 1918-1938, three Rural Service covers, one of them a 2m Fuad embossed stationery cover   
£15.00
057
 1929-1940, five covers used locally, all with Rural markings, including Bani Mazar-Hilmia, Zagazig-Hihya,   
£20.00
058
 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.   
£8.00
POSTAL HISTORY GROUPS – BOOKLET STAMPS
059
 1924-1953, group of six 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   
£22.00
POSTAL HISTORY
060
 1900,1905, two black and white postcards, addressed to Constantinople (1900) and Yorkshire (1905), franked respectively with1pi rose DLR and vertical pair of 1pi blue DLR. Why these unusual amounts?   
£10.00
061
 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   
£12.00
062
 1958, registered cover used En Ville in Cairo between two lawyers, franked with three UAR stamps with rare late use of early-century straight-line Avis De Reception cachet   
£20.00
063
 1970, neat Arabic cover addressed Poste Restante from Cairo to Shoubra, with the poste restante10 mills fee (?) paid by a pair of 5 mils general revenues.   
£10.00
UNUSUAL POSTMARKS
064
 1960s, group of three covers posted within Egypt and provided with out-of-the-ordinary postal markings – 1962 Mansourah Moliv(?) Group, 1962 Aswan Qissariya (with Reg cachet), 1972 Masif el Mamurah   
£15.00
METERS AND MECHANICAL FRANKING
065
 1959-63, group of ten Republican machine CDSs, all different types on cheques and covers. Most unusual;   
£20.00
ROYAL POSTAL HISTORY
066
 4 JU 25, printed envelope of King Fuad’s private photographer, franked 5m to Zeitoun and containing a receipt for 1,000 piastres tarif received from His Excellency Mohamed Pacha el-Cheres.   
£15.00
EGYPTIAN ARMY
067
 1912-20, Group of three good conduct certificates awarded to soldiers in the Egyptian Army in Egypt and Sudan - clear markings of Recruiting Department, Staff Officer Department of St… and Berber Province / Accounts. Remarkable survival   
£10.00
EGYPT AND SUDAN WAR OFFICE
The following six lots comprise official War Office correspondence, with several rare markings
068
 17 Sept 1895, foolscap letter in English to Public Works Department from Head Quarters, Egyptian Army, War Office, Cairo   
£8.00
069
 20 Oct 1901, English typed and handwritten correspondence dealing with transfer of employment of a staff member, continues over page. Nice strikes of Director of Stores / Egyptian Army and Adjutant General / Egyptian Army   
£8.00
070
 30 June 1903, all-Arabic correspondence to and from Recruiting Department signed by E.S (?)Herbert, deputy to General Argonaut(?). Continues over page   
£8.00
071
 21 July 1904, all-Arabic letter to the Egyptian War Office from the Khedivial Guard (wonderful handstamp) seeking a list of properties for General Argonaut(?)   
£8.00
072
 15 Jan 1906, typed letter in English from India to Under Secretary of State for Public Works in Cairo   
£8.00
073
 6 Aug 1908, letter typed in English – continuing correspondence about a free pass for the Cairo Tramways, written by Kamaikam Assistant Adjutant General, Egyptian Army   
£8.00
2020 COVID EPIDEMIC
074
 15 3 2020, buff cover from Heliopolis to Hamilton, Canada, returned to sender two months later with rectangular boxed instructional cachet reading in Arabic “Return. No Service”   
£10.00
EGYPT STAMPS
075
 1938, Royal Wedding … Farouk 18th Birthday £E1 stamp in right marginal block of four. Pristine perfect condition with original gum, unmounted (SG 272, cat £250 each)   
£490.00
076
 Error: 20 Oct 2020, £E4 commem with mistake in the spelling of Egypt – EYGPT. Later withdrawn from all post offices in the country. Full mint sheet of 50 stamps   
£150.00
077
 Error: Oct 2020 EYGPT error on commem stamp on FDC with same spelling in first-day special cancel   
£30.00
078
 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   
£48.00
NAZI EPHEMERA
079
 1938 typed letter from Kairo branch of Nazi Party withdrawing Egyptian engineer’s guest invitation to attend their meetings, complete with swastika and Heil Hitler   
£50.00
RAS EL BAR
080
 1950s-60s group of items from Ras el-Bar – 1967 cover and letter (in French) written from Hotel Beau Sejour, plus two b/w cards, one labelled 1956, other written in 1961   
£15.00
SECURITY LABEL
081
 January 2022, incoming registered cover from Sofia to Heliopolis resealed with the most recent Postal Authority red and green sticky-tape resealing label reading “Opened for Customs Inspection” in Arabic   
£10.00
BOOKLET STAMPS
082
 30 X11, 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
083
 1922-40, four issues of booklet stamps: three covers with 1922 5 mill, 1928 Fuad 5 mill, 1944 pair of 5m Boy King, and 1936 Cairo University form with tax paid by two strips of 3x5m First Fuad   
£25.00
FIRST FLIGHT COVER
084
 15 SEP 34, Karachi to Egypt, CDS of Delhi and addressed to Damascus. No backstamps   
£10.00
PAQUEBOT TRAVEL
085
 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.   
£8.00
086
 1938, unused postcard of de luxe two-bed cabin on the El Nil   
£8.00
EXPRESS COVERS
087
 1933-69, group of three Express covers with relevant markings   
£15.00
088
 17 SE 34, Fuad 5 mills embossed letter sheet uprated with Fuad 15m from Zagazig to Cairo with unusual black on red “Urgent” label   
£30.00
089
 20 NO 40, Express and registered cover form Tanta to Cairo lawyer franked with Boy King 1mill plus vertical strip of 4x10mill. Handwritten Arabic “mestagel” (Express”) label alongside reg label. Unusual   
£25.00
090
 26 JU 45, small cover Arabic-addressed to Minister of Health Soliman Dasha Azmy in Cairo, franked with 40mills brown Express stamp. Parliament arrival mark same day   
£20.00
JUDAICA
091
 1980, mint colour card of the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria   
£6.00
OFFICIAL STAMPS
092
 1913-15, blocks of Official overprint stamps, three blocks of four and one of eight, all used with good postmarks   
£8.00
POSTAGE DUES
093
 1887-89, group of 15 used Postage Due stamps   
£14.00
094
 Cover and card incoming from UK and another cover used locally with stamp lost, all furnished with Egypt Postage Dues (4m, 10+2m, 12+8m)   
£20.00
1-MILLIEME RATE
095
 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   
£10.00
HOTELS INTEREST
096
 1908 clean stationery envelope letter (NP SLS2) with Semiramis Hotel PO cancel Type 1 to Sutton, Surrey   
£30.00
097
 3 JL 33, typed letter from Henry Goldman, manager of the Majestic Hotel, Alexandria, offering price list for delegates in the forthcoming conference of the International Air Federation. Room prices range 30-130 piastres.   
£20.00
098
 1954 tall booklet (12x21cm) of eight pages titled Helouan, Health at the Gates of Cairo, advertising its cures and visitor accommodation, excellent condition   
£8.00
099
 1955 sepia photo postcard showing Western Desert Resthouse at Wadi Natroun on the Cairo-Alexandria road. Printed in Italy, published by Solly, Cairo   
£6.00
100
 6 VI 77, U.N. Development Programme printed cover sent from Sheraton Hotel, Cairo (unrecorded machine marking) with Hotel’s Type 2 cancel alongside). 80 mills machine franking to Kuwait. Safat arrival five days later   
£25.00
101
 Sizeable accumulation of hotel forms and advertising – accommodation receipts, advertising brochures, menu, postcards – Aswan Cataract, Luxor Savoy, Winter Palace, Post Said Simonini, Helouan Hotel Hayat.   
£20.00
102
 1963-2002, examples of machine cancellations from four Cairo hotels – Shepheards, Semiramis, Semiramis Inter Continental, Meridien   
£25.00
REVENUES / LABELS
103
 ID card – Clean, neat UPU postal identity card issued by Cairo / E (information office) on 2 January 1944 with Farouk stamps paying 56 mills fee and general revenues the 10 mills tax   
£25.00
104
 Tobacco – 1942-2021, jumbo lot of 11 Cigarette Tax revenues, labels and illustrated invoice from Salonica Cigarette Company of Alexandria   
£30.00
105
 Tobacco – 2019-20, three Cigarette Tax revenues   
£12.00
106
 Tobacco – March/April 2021, the latest issue of Cigarette Tax revenues   
£8.00
107
 Consular Service – 1927-1990, collection of 35 Consular Service revenue stamps, many types   
£25.00
108
 Consular Service – 1992 Tutankhamun Mask issue, high value £E192.40, printed without the £E (livre Egyptienne)   
£10.00
109
 Children’s Welfare – 1954-2001, group of 27 colourful labels sold in aid of fund-raising for children’s cancer and tuberculosis charities   
£20.00
110
 Various – group of nine official certificates or receipts, all with government tax paid in various revenue stamps. Mixed lot   
£20.00
111
 Various – enormous lot of 58 general revenues tax stamps   
£25.00
112
 Various – 1948-2000, group of 24 labels sold to raise funds for a number of different charities   
£20.00
113
 VIP propaganda – series of ten advertising labels in larger sizes depicting famous people, nationalists, royal patriotic propaganda   
£20.00
114
 Syndicates – massive group of 57 revenue stamps printed by Egypt’s syndicates (trade union equivalent)   
£30.00
115
 Education – 2001-16, Minya University students services tax revenues, complete initial set of seven stamps   
£25.00
116
 Education – collection of 24 student service fee revenue stamps from a range of Egyptian universities   
£20.00
117
 Education – accumulation of ten university graduation certificates, all taxed with different university student fees revenues (19 revenues?) – South Valley University, Al-Azhar, Tanta, Zagazig, Cairo and Mansura (sample only illustrated)   
£25.00
118
 Ministry of Finance – 1938 complete set of five values (Feltus page 4)   
£10.00
119
 Legal – collection of 11 lawyers’ appeal certificates (A4), all provided with Lawyers’ Syndicate revenue stamps (30 revenues) used during 2009-16 (sample only illustrated)   
£30.00
120
 1970 Banque Misr cover to Moscow with machine cancel and Cotton advertising label; plus 1958-61 printed cover locally addressed with labour fund-raising label   
£10.00
SUDAN REVENUES
121
 Accumulation of 39 Sudan Revenue stamps, unused and mint, most unusual   
£30.00
ILLUSTRATED STATIONERY
122
 1931 small envelope with printed company details franked 5m and addressed to Moustafa Bey Rachid in Helwan, Cover has delightful tiny coloured advertising impression of Colman’s Azure Blue soap   
£15.00
123
 1931 postcard printed both sides for Goodwin’s Sandal Wood toilet soap, charming advertising. 5 mills stamp Tanta to Cairo   
£15.00
124
 1934, buff cover with 15m Fuad for registration from Bulkely / Ramleh to Zaqaziq, with neat little coloured label advertising Savora, the French mustard condiment   
£20.00
JOURNAL OFFICIEL
125
 11 July 1887, complete copy in excellent condition of government publication of notes and decrees, the Journal Officiel. Ten pages in French with several postal notices and long lists of statistics of cholera epidemic   
£15.00
TELEGRAPH OFFICE FORMS
126
 1883-1949, interesting range of 19 official forms used within Egypt’s telegraph offices, including registration, savings bank, telegrams, avis de reception, receipts, wide range of different and unusual postmarks.   
£20.00
127
 1912-19, Four telegraph receipt forms cancelled with datestamps of Mansoura, Assiout, Zagazig railway stations   
£15.00
TPOs / STATIONS
128
 1892-2001, selection of eight covers and two stationery envelopes all cancelled with station postmark: Alex 1893, Suez 1893, Cairo 1918, Banha 1937, Suez 1939, Cairo 1948, Minia 1960, Tanta all-Arabic 2001   
£30.00
129
 3 X 04, romantic postcard used en ville with 1 mill DLR cancelled with TPO line Ramle-Alexandrie (Smith Type 8A7), with 3 of dateline inverted   
£20.00
130
 6 JU 33, 1929 Harrisons 3 mills postal stationery card with “small letters” (NP SPC30), sent from Sanhur el Qubra to Cairo cancelled with clear transit TPO of Wasta-Abuxa line (Smith Type 7A3.7, train 245)   
£30.00
131
 5 SE 34, cover from Agimiyin to Cairo cancelled with unclear TPO line Fayum-Agimin (Smith Type 7A3.4)   
£15.00
132
 Group of four TPO covers and one station: Minia-Sohag 1943, Tanta-Sa el Hagar 1920, Minuf-Banha 1938, Cairo-Port Said 1939, plus Alexandria Station 1939   
£10.00
133
 1963 Unusual registered cover from Shubra to Bahtim cancelled with illegible all-Arabic Rural marking with a very unusual transit marking of Ras el Khalig Mehatta (Station) on reverse.   
£10.00
ALEXANDRIA DOUANE
134
 1920-34, small group of three items bearing two different Alexandria / Douane (Customs) markings on cover and two official entires, one of them with a surcharged No-Value tax stamp   
£10.00
PERFINS ON COVER
135
 1920-32, group of four covers, three of them Credit Lyonnais window envelopes, with three different stamps with perfins   
£20.00
CASSETTE ENVELOPES
136
 2004 printed envelopes, four different values all overprinted “Cancelled” in Arabic after being withdrawn from service for Official use. Mint, used, excellent condition   
£15.00
ZEPPELIN
137
 Zeppelin card to Germany franked 50m overprint cancelled Alexandria 10th April   
£20.00
138
 Zeppelin overprints 50m, 100m (2 stamp shades) mint   
£20.00
EXPRESS LETTER
139
 1929 Express 20m NP Ex2a Royal printing   
£20.00
ESSAYS
140
 1867 Nat.Bank Note N.Y. brown NP E35 - £40   
£40.00
141
 1871 Penasson green NP E51   
£15.00
142
 1922 Harrison NP E219 blue single and pair, NP 237 brown and green   
£120.00
143
 1922 Harrison NP E223 red/brown printed recess.   
£80.00
HOTEL POST
144
 2 PC EGYPT HOTEL P.O. – SHEPHEARD’S 1902 et 1903 HSp5 on Viewcard to Germany and Holland
£15.00
145
 5 items 1901/1908 PC Grand Continental Hotel Cairo HCn2   
£15.00
146
 Ghesireh Palace 1898 HGP1   
£8.00
147
 PC Winter Palace HWP6 to Belgium   
£5.00
148
 Luxor Winter Palace Cover 1937 25 03 to Heliopolis
£5.00
149
 Cover TAD Shepheards Hotel 1892 H Sp1   
£6.00
150
 PC 1908 Shepheards Hotel H Sp6   
£6.00
151
 PC 1914 Shepheards Hotel H Sp7   
£6.00
152
 Meter Mark Shepheards Hotel 1960   
£4.00
153
 PC TAD 1904 Savoy Hotel H SvC2
£5.00
154
 Cover Nile Hilton Hotel T3   
£4.00
155
 PC TAD 1948 Seamens Home T5   
£4.00
EGYPT MAIL
156
 2 Covers 1961
£5.00
157
 Cover 1945 21 12, Cairo to France, TAD Cairo Foreign Traffic   
£5.00
158
 2 Registered Letter 1946 to France
£8.00
159
 3 PC 1902/1911 Cairo and Port Saïd   
£10.00
160
 Cover 1931 22 07, Alexandria to Strasbourg France, censured
£5.00
161
 2 Registered Letter 1954/55 Meter Mark National Bank of Egypt
£10.00
162
 Cover 1955 TAD Paquebot Port Saïd
£8.00
163
 CP TAD Ghesireh 1905   
£5.00
HOTELS INTEREST
164
 Upper Egypt Hotels Company – large (25x40cm) ornate share warrant for ten shares of £E 4 each dated June 1 1922 in company owning Cataract and Winter Palace hotels. Tax paid with block of four 15m Crown overprints (milleimat), embossed on to the page and pen cancelled. Whole document cancelled by large rectangular handstamp dated 13/9/1971. NB, too big for scanner   
£35.00
165
 Upper Egypt Hotels Company - printed envelope for Luxor, registered to France and franked with pair of DLR 1pi blue cancelled Luxor / R 20 IV 09 (Reg cachet alongside). Reverse has Alexandria / R7 transit and Nimes / Gard arrival April 29
£15.00
166
 Nile Hilton – International Reply Coupon produced by the Arab Postal Union, sold at the Hilton on 8 7 59 at original value of 20 mills before it was hand-altered to 30 mills. Hilton CDS is type HN2   
£16.00
167
 Hilton Hotel – Colour card of Sphinx and Pyramids, addressed to Switzerland and franked 85 mills (correct rate), cancelled by scarce HN5 handstamp, with, as usual, top segment illegible. Censor mark alongside
£18.00
168
 Winter Palace – 10 mills blue Colossi of Memnon letter-envelope (NP SEN17), beautifully hand-addressed to the Winter Palace with the hotel handstamp in blue (HW3a) cancelling vignette 4 IV 14 and information strike alongside. No other markings   
£45.00
169
 Continental – colourful “military” Souvenir d’Egypte postcard with long message addressed to New Jersey, franked with1+3mills DLRs and cancelled clear strikes of Grand Continental Hotel / Cairo / Post Office (HC2) of 19 III 03. Thimble New York Paid All of April 5, and Elizabeth arrival
£35.00
170
 Continental – Colossi 1pi postal stationery cover (NP SEN 2), addressed to Switzerland and marked “Charge”, uprated with DLR 1pi blue, both (and information strike) cancelled with Grand Continental Hotel / Cairo / Post Office 16 XII 04 (HC2), with Registration cachet (NB “misr” for “qahira”). DLR 1 millieme cancelled on the flap with Hotel oval handstamp. Caire transit same day, Altnau arrival December 21.
£40.00
171
 Continental - printed hotel stationery addressed to UK, franked 5m Pictorial, cancelled HC4a (blue) of 21 II 16, earliest recorded date
£30.00
172
 Continental – 54(!) IV 31, plain cover addressed to Cairo, franked only with 20m red/black Express stamp (NP EX2), cancelled Continental Savoy / Cairo / Cash (HC10, recorded only January 1931). No backstamp   
£35.00
173
 Luxor Hotel – charming b/w card of Pagnon’s Luxor Hotel – Gardens, addressed to Switzerland and franked with DLR 2m green, cancelled with Hotel postmark (HL2) of 24 II 04. Excellent arrival mark of Wal / Gallen March 1
£24.00
174
 Luxor Hotel – Wandering postcard addressed to Egyptian State Railways engineer. Printed by A di Giorgio of Cairo, the card’s wall-painting procession appears to start with a DLR 1 millieme cancelled with the Luxor Hotel marking (HL2) of 13 I 06, which is repeated behind. But the other backstamps read Mahamid 30 XII 05, Kom Ombo 3 I 06 and Shaghab 8 I 06. Impossible to extricate
£45.00
175
 Luxor Hotel - incoming cover from Kilchberg, Zurich, franked 27c but given large T marking for 26c due. On arrival at Luxor Hotel provided with !pi and 2m Postage Dues, cancelled by blue hotel CDS (HL2a) of 1 II 10. Backstamps of Alexandria, Luqsor and hotel in blue
£65.00
176
 Mena village – a rural sepia postcard of farming life, sent unfranked On Active Service to Middlesex with message “Hope you like this PC. It is a place about three miles from the pyramids.” CDS on 29 FE 16 is Field Post Office WI, accompanied by signature and red triangle censor 3624.   
£20.00
177
 Mena House – beautifully ornate New Year greetings from the hotel for 1893 on the back of this DLR 5 mills card addressed to London. Cancelled by the hotel CDS for 21 XI 1892, it received a Caire / D transit mark the same day   
£45.00
178
 Heliopolis Palace – printed hotel envelope with all three stamps of the 1936 Telecommunications Conference, franked with conference special handstamp of 1 FE 36. Makram cat lists this FDC at $100   
£20.00
179
 Shepheard’s – illustrated printed hotel cover, franked 1pi DLR blue for German hotel cancelled HS1 on 23 NO 93. Alexandrie transit, and German arrival CDS of December 2. Good clean cover   
£35.00
180
 Shepheard’s - long cover addressed from Kansas to hotel guest but franked only with a 3c Washington. Discrepancy picked up in New York, and pre-cancelled Dues of 1+3c added to the face. Shepheard’s arrival (HS8) on 4 II 33 but then an unsuccessful attempt to find the guest lasted for weeks, including 2x8 mills Dues with HS9 CDS, and finally Returned to Sender. Exhausting   
£45.00
181
 Ghesireh Palace – 5m DLR stationery postcard addressed to French hotel and cancelled with excellent strike of hotel CDS HG1 of 12 I 94. Cairo transit CDS same day, followed by Marseille and Grasse/Alpes Maritimes both January 19. Excellent markings   
£40.00
182
 Ghesireh Palace – long cover addressed to guest, franked 2 1/2d QV cancelled Lombard St / (London) E.C. 11 JA 02. Amb Alexandrie-Caire and Ghesireh arrival cds 19 01, but then redirected to Louxor, and new hotel marking of Jan 20 indicated another journey. Cairo departure mark followed by Louxor arrival of January 21   
£45.00
EXPRESS
183
 Control block of four of UMM 40m brown and grey Express stamp showing control A/46 and variety dot on first letter of Arabic inscription posn 50 (NP EX4a)   
£24.00
BRITISH LEVANT
184
 Victoria 1887 Jubilee issue surcharges – 40 paras on 2 1/2d, 50 paras on 5d, both clean used   
£8.00
RURAL POST COVERS
185
 10 OC 94, reply half of Government postal stationery 3m double postcard cancelled by faint but undoubted Rural Post “x-mark” cancel of Faraskour (only six recorded), repeated alongside. Next is perfect Faraskour parent office strike, with star and crescent (recorded Sept 87 to Aug 99), followed by another star/crescent for Damiette arrival (recorded Jul 84 to Mar 97). Striking!   
£65.00
186
 21 X 13, Service Rural 1 Roda (recorded 5 V 06 to 14 VI 16) on small cover franked 5m DLR from Nawai village cartouche and addressed to Abu Tig. Roda parent office, Cairo-Asyut TPO and Abu Tig arrival on reverse   
£12.00
187
 19 III 16, Service Rural 1 Roda and Nawai village cartouche as last, franked with 5 mills Pictorial to Cairo. Roda, Cairo-Asyut TPO and Qubba Bridge / Cairo arrival on reverse   
£12.00
POSTAL HISTORY
188
 31 JA 33, clean cover addressed to England with full set of Cotton Congress cancelled with clean Abbassia Barracks, five days too late for first day. Reg cachet struck awry, Cairo R.D. transit and Northampton violet oval registered arrival   
£6.00
189
 1936, Esperanto mystery cover seems to have bee returned at some stage for a further 1mill Fuad with different cds, but all difficult to read in multiple redirectings. Cairo 3 and 7 June, Alex and Fayum 7 June, eventually seems to be part-strike of boxed Return to Sender   
£4.00
190
 1980? remarkable case of an envelope being turned inside out for re-use, addressed in Arabic from Alex to Cairo, with R at lower left but no adhesives. Odd   
£4.00
191
 25 II 01, vertical b/w postcard of Hans Zatzka’s Verschlossene Pfeife, sent from Berlin with impossibly long message in tiny writing, addressed c/o captain of the SS Ava in Port Said – part of message says the Ava address is confusing postal authorities. Arrived with a clear Port Said 25 II 01   
£6.00
192
 Dec 3 (year?) - b/w postcard of Ministry of Sea Transport’s Empire Brent, addressed to France with KG VI 2 1/2d stamp cancelled with a retta. Censor has taken out the year in message, but little else, leaving that writer sailed from Glasgow   
£4.00
193
 5 FEB 1947, ornate card folded in three (invitation? funeral?), furnished with Farouk Marechal 4 mills and sent across town with very colourful royal arms on the back. Striking   
£8.00
194
 23 OC 48, thin envelope with bilingual Air France label addressed to Paris and franked with Marechal 40m plus 12x2 mills for total of 48 mills to cover registration from Qantara / R.&P. Aeroport Farouk CDS on reverse, with Paris XVIII arrival Oct 15   
£6.00
195
 (date?), Air Mail envelope Arabic addressed to Alexandria, sent from military Unit 43 (barid harby) with triangular violet military censor 2532. Contents remain   
£4.00
196
 14 VII 91, small cover franked DLR 1pi blue from Port Said to UK, L.V. No.1 La Reunion-Marseille transit mark of July 15. No backstamps   
£5.00
197
 11 OCT 1912, VERY scruffy certificate of character for Ahmed Kamel after two years training at the Bulac Model Workshops of the Dept of Agriculture and Technical Education. Folded and originally sealed with ornate intaglio and three black on white Egyptian State Railways labels   
£4.00
198
 14 X 14, clean printed envelope of French electricity company franked with a pair of 5 mills Pictorials for postage to Switzerland. Clean arrival mark of Luzern on reverse   
£6.00
199
 14 DE 29, printed envelope of Red Sea Oyster Farming Society to its Cairo HQ, franked Fuad 15m blue for postage and registration from Gebel el Tor (Sinai) with Reg cachet alongside. Backstamps of Port Taufiq / E, Cairo R.P. and finally Gizira / (Cairo) on Dec 16. Arabic letter remains   
£16.00
200
 24 NOV 34, clean Robert Hughes company (flap) envelope addressed to UK, franked Fuad 15m blue, with Arabic-slogan machine cancel of Alexandria   
£6.00
201
 3 JA 39, neat pre-addressed envelope to England franked 4x5 mills Boy King and sent from Zifta / Traffic. Part of Cairo machine mark behind.   
£6.00
202
 22 MR 48, plain cover endorsed Via Air Mail to Philadelphia, franked with colourful group of Marechal definitives for 47 mills and posted from Cairo / Z. No backstamps   
£10.00
203
 17 JL 49, small Orient Line (flap) envelope with bilingual Air sticker, furnished with colourful group of Farouk Marechal definitives totalling 127 mills for Australia but cancelled Paquebot / Port Said. No backstamps
£6.00
204
 23 May 59, printed receipt of Behna Films company for hire of a film by a cinema. Government tax paid by 10m General Revenue, with Amusement Tax 10m blue (Feltus 513, page 60) alongside   
£6.00
205
 17 JU 59, visiting-card plain envelope addressed to Port Said and supplied with UAR Egypt 4m definitive (printed/unsealed rate). Posted from Gabal /El Tor (Sinai), with accompanying censor stamp. No backstamps   
£8.00
206
 10 JL 59, folded newsletter with label addressed in Cairo, franked 2x2m UAR Egypt definitives, making correct 4m rate, and cancelled equally correctly with Cairo / Imprimes cancel. No backstamps   
£6.00
207
 28 10 79, long Arabic-printed commercial envelope, typed address in Cairo, franked with 70m definitive for postage and registration. Clear strike of rare Azbakeya / Post / R.D.   
£4.00
208
 31 3 80, folded holiday brochure, post-free within France but redirected to Alexandria. Pen T-mark 1,80 on face, and on arrivl 10m and 20m definitives affixed to rear, presumably paying the deficit. Unusual   
£4.00
209
 14 9 87, long printed cover of a vet, Arabic addressed to Cairo and franked with 5m flower definitive, cancelled with clear strike of Port-Said / Douane. Backstamp Mohamed Bey Farid   
£4.00
INSTRUCTIONAL MARKING
210
 Date? horizontal pair of DLR 1pi rose with obscured Cairo cds and clear and almost complete Dopo la Partenza handstamp   
£12.00
MISCELLANY
211
 Bargain accumulation – well over 450 miscellaneous covers, now surplus to requirements, covering virtually the whole of the 20th century – envelopes, cards, registered, paquebot, air mails, TPOs, AR, a mass of mixed material, condition varies, but priced to go at   
£25.00
212
 Second group, more recent, covering probably last 20-30 years: mass of more than 80 covers, some of them giant and mainly posted from Egypt to ESC or its secretary, including similar colleagues’ material. Covers with postage selected to make a spectacular show as well as pay for the trip - commems, mini sheets, plentiful and colourful   
£30.00
POSTAL STATIONERY
213
 28 II 96, 1890 5 mills letter envelope, addressed to Germany and uprated with 5m DLR cancelled Caire. Neat arrival mark of Boppard 6 3 98 back and front
£6.00
214
 17 XI 09, 1890 5 mills stationery envelope neatly addressed to Alexandria and cancelled with perfect strike of Aswan / Station. Backstamps of Shallal Luqsor TPO and Alexandria next day
£8.00
215
 21 I 16, clean surcharged DLR postcard 3mills on 2 mills (NP SPC24), adress and message (both sides) all in red ink, sent from Dessounes to Cairo. Neat, clean   
£22.00
216
 3 MR 26, 1921 5 mills pink envelope-letter (NP SEN 22), Arabic addressed and sent within Alexandria. Message remains, but no backstamps   
£5.00
217
 18 OC 46, Boy King 6 mills letter sheet (as NP SEN 36, but with recent discovery of stamp vignette reading Kingdom of Egypt instead of Government of Egypt; see QC 259, pp. 274-76). Uprated with Marechal 4m+4x10m for registration and AR from Hadaiq el Qubba to Suez. Cairo and Port Taufiq backstamp on reverse
£18.00
218
 12 12 57, Government-printed Education Day envelope, with 10m Egypt definitive and Education Day special handstamp. CTO   
£3.00
POSTAGE DUES
219
 25 AU 30, spectacular US cover to nurse working at American Mission Hospital, Tanta, underfranked and charged 30c (12 mills) in Dues on arrival. Readdressed to English Hospital, Port Said, and 6m more in Dues added to pay postage. Charles Minett notes behind
£35.00
220
 13 JA 56, plain buff cover franked 40f for air carriage from France to Cairo, but noted T 0,17 short before leaving. After arrival at Cairo Delivery machine cancel, passed on to Cairo West (truly scarce marking), where Dues of 12 and 8 mills were cancelled   
£18.00
221
 1960s, four “military” covers (barid harby) sent unfranked to Cairo or Alexandria, and all received 20 mill Postage Dues, double the deficiency   
£14.00
AIR MAIL
222
 24 MA 30, small cover, handwritten address in London, endorsed By Air Mail, franked 27 mills brown Air stamp and cancelled Cairo / I. No backstamps   
£4.00
223
 15 8 31, clean Turf Club (flap) envelope with bilingual Air Mail label, franked 27 mills brown air stamp and cancelled Cairo / (K). No backstamps   
£4.00
224
 16 MR 32, small clean Bibby Line (flap) cover addressed to London, franked 27 mills air stamp plus 1m Fuad, cancelled in Port-Said / F. Transit mark Alexandria / B same day   
£5.00
225
 5 JA 37, clean plain cover endorsed Air Mail for Bridgnorth, given a colourful franking of seven Fuad definitives totalling 28 mills and cancelled at Shibin el Qanater P & R. No backstamps   
£6.00
SUDAN-EGYPT
226
 2 SEP (year?), visiting-card envelope franked 2 mills “small camel” and addressed to Egypt, cancelled in Khartoum, with scarce TPO – Fayum-Cairo / & V.V. (Type 7A2 with stars in upper segment, indicating substitute for lost version?) – and El Hawamdiyah on reverse   
£6.00
OVERSIZE COVERS
227
 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   
£4.00
228
 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
229
 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 Cairo.   
£5.00
230
 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
231
 7- II 17, neat white envelope, 23x14cm, addressed En Ville in Cairo to Mixed Tribunal and franked 10m Colossi for postage and registration (Cairo label)   
£4.00
232
 -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
233
 Date? (handstamps illegible). Company (Furness Egypt) printed long buff envelope (28x12.5cm), addressed reg by air to London from Alexandria with red wax seal, censor 50 and myriad Boy King stamps on face for total franking of 436 mills   
£10.00
234
 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 company-name wax seals and two handstamps. Franked 351 milliemes (modern notes justify, down to the 1m Boy King). High-value Farouk stamps, remarkable survival, wonderful condition   
£20.00
235
 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   
£5.00
236
 1977-79, four enormous parcel cards covered in very many Official stamps: 30+30x10m red, 46+36x55m violet, and many more. Markings sadly virtually illegible   
£8.00
POSTAGE DUE /POSTAGE
237
 Postage due SG D66 pm CHALLAL-WADIHALFA 24 IV 89 acc/ to Stagg first date!   
£3.00
238
 Postage due D111 wmk sideways (some toning cf Smith p.432)   
£10.00
239
 Postage 1 pi mint inverted wmk NPD43b   
£5.00
AIRMAIL
240
 Air SG 193* ‘dot on wing’ NPA3b   
£2.00
241
 Air SG193* broken E NP A3c   
£2.00
242
 Air SG197* broken letter N NPA7a   
£2.00
POSTAL HISTORY
243
 SG83 on ppc tot Rotterdam   
£15.00
244
 Royal Birth Day formular printed and used by Government Press   
£15.00
245
 PPC sent from AGENCE POSTALE EL GHARDAQA TOURIST HOTEL to Germany   
£15.00
246
 “December mail” R-cover with extra 1 mill (cf. Smith p. 544)   
£5.00
AIRMAIL
247
 Airmail labels – pioneer/survey flight 1928 Amsterdam to Kenya   
£25.00
248
 1935 Imperial Airways Africa-India label   
£35.00
249
 1930 Imperial Airways Egypt-Iraq-India label   
£35.00
250
 ca 1930-35 Imperial Airways Europe-Africa-India & East (not recorded Europe-African in John Sears book)   
£40.00
251
 1930-35 Imperial Airways Paris-India by Africa India and East (not recorded in John Sears book)   
£35.00
252
 1925 Cairo to Kano, Egypt-Nigeria label   
£20.00
CIGARETTE LABELS
253
 Cigarettes advertising labels, 1932, Simon Arzt, 5x4cm   
£15.00
254
 Cigarettes advertising labels, 1938, Soussa Freres, 10x6cm   
£18.00
255
 Cigarettes advertising labels, 1932, 1938 Soussa Freres 11x7cm   
£12.00
256
 Cigarettes tax revenues, 1910 N.Gianaclis   
£12.00
ESSAYS
257
 Printing essays, 1970, “Mosaic face” by postal authorities, inscribed “experimental only” without value, block of four UNM   
£45.00
258
 1960/70 Children’s education, unissued stamp, essay inscribed “without value” UNM   
£20.00
LABELS
259
 The British Navy advertising label, UNM   
£15.00
260
 Italian Fascist Party in Egypt, 10 piastre membership fund-raising revenue   
£12.00
261
 2015 Palestinian Authority certificate with $5 foreign affairs consular revenue stamp   
£24.00
SUDAN REVENUE
262
 Sudan revenues – 2021 Khartoum state local revenues   
£25.00
263
 Sudan lawyers’ syndicate revenue stamp   
£25.00
264
 Sudan 2021 tax fiscal revenues   
£10.00
OFFICIAL
265
 Official stamps, 1915/15 O.H.H.S. (without hamza), 1 mill in block of 25 with left margin UNM   
£25.00
266
 Official stamps, 1915/15 O.H.H.S. (without hamza), 1 mill in block of 25 with right margin UNM   
£25.00
267
 Official stamps, 1915/15 O.H.H.S. (without hamza), 5 mills in block of 10 with margin UNM   
£20.00
268
 1907 O.H.H.S 1 piastre in block of nine with margin UNM
£20.00
269
 1915 Provisional surcharge 2 mills on 3 mills, block of 25 with margin, UNM   
£35.00
SUDAN TOBACCO TAX
270
 Sudan tobacco tax revenues, complete set of six in perfect condition   
£75.00
BRITISH FORCES
271
 British Forces Postal Seals, used block of six all cancelled black retta, scarce as block.   
£18.00
272
 British Forces Postal Seals, seven sound copies all cancelled black rettas – create your own booklet pane – you’ll need thirteen more.   
£15.00
273
 British Forces Postal Seal on reverse of cover from M.P.O. Cairo with Egypt Postage Prepaid 6 in red, to West Ham, London, clean.   
£5.00
274
 British Forces Postal Seal on reverse of cover from M.P.O. Moascar with Egypt Postage Prepaid 3 in red, sent to London. Crease through envelope. Scarce.   
£7.00
275
 British Forces Letter Seals: an accumulation of fourteen used - create your own booklet pane – you’ll need at least another six. Unchecked for positions. Bargain.   
£7.00
276
 British Forces Letter Seal on reverse of military cover, Oculi Exercitus cancelled black retta to Christchurch, Hants, from M.P.O. Moascar with Egypt Postage Prepaid 8 in red.Neat   
£7.00
277
 British Forces Xmas Seals unused, black on azure, the ‘good one’, some gum disturbance but marginal, and nice appearance from front   
£30.00
278
 British Forces Xmas Seals unused, pair marginal vermilions, unmounted, and two singles both mounted mint.   
£4.00
279
 British Forces Xmas Seals; brown-lake; one mint corner single, other cancelled retta. The two   
£35.00
280
 British Forces Xmas Seals; deep-blue used on piece unusually cancelled Egypt Postage Prepaid in red.   
£20.00
281
 British Forces Letter Stamps, one piastre green, one mint, one used, the two:   
£6.00
AUSTRIAN POST OFFICE IN ALEXANDRIA
282
 2Stamp 15 soldi brown cancelled with the first type cds (23 mm), with serifed letters, on large piece   
£50.00
283
 Six stamps, all different, no defects, cancelled with the 20 mm cds, sans-serif letters, with dates from 1874 to 1879   
£60.00
MARITIME TPO
284
 Special date stamp "ALEXANDRIEN-TRIEST" showing at top a steamship under way, date 11-IX-13 This TPO service began in 1911. It is known with stamps of Austria, Italy and Egypt. Here on a stamp of the French P.O.in Alexandria. Probably by favour. See Smith Chap.VII   
£40.00
GREEK POST OFFICE IN ALEXANDRIA
285
 1871.Cover sent stampless from Alex. to the Greek island of Syros, taxed 40 lepta on arrival (blue crayon) Two days later, postage due collected by use of a 40 lepta stamp, cancelled with local date-stamp. Same cds on back. See P.Smith' book Chapt.VI for same cover.   
£120.00
286
 Three different stamps (5, 10 and 80 lepta) cancelled Alexandria (Tourkia), one with the "97" grid obliterator. "Denominations below 20 lepta are especially scarce" (P. Smith Chap.VI)   
£80.00
ITALIAN POST OFFICE IN ALEXANDRIA
287
 Mixed Registered cover, franked with a strip of three Egypt First Issue 1p stamps (no defects), cancelled by a retta (special use here). During the first four months of 1866 the retta was prescribed as an obliterator and the Vice Reali cds struck alongside. This cover, 1st June 1866, is a late date, for this usage. The large framed RACCOMANDATE is struck in Cairo. Then to Alexandria Italian P.O., where the cover received three handstamps: a small framed RACCOMANDATO , the special "Consegne" cds of 2 GIU 66 (known only from 1870 to 1878) and a faint framed "Piroscafi Postali Italiani". On the back five wax seals and arrival cds of Napoli and Messina. These mixed combinations were possible only during a few months. Signed by French expert L.Miro.   
£200.00
288
 Six Italian stamps. 4 with overprint "Estero". 2 cancelled by large 234. 4 cancelled by small 234.   
£60.00


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