Egypt Study Circle Auction 65
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AUCTION 64 - NOVEMBER 2022 - LISTING OF LOTS
Lot
Description
Reserve
TOBACCO INTEREST
001
 1904 Letter Gabriel Mantzaris Cigarettes & Tobacco Co.   
£40.00
002
 1950 Letter George Kyriacou Cigarettes & Tobacco Co.   
£25.00
003
 1947 Letter Coutarelli Freres Cigarettes & Tobacco Co.   
£25.00
004
 1951 Letter George Kyriacou Cigarettes & Tobacco Co.   
£25.00
005
 1942 Invoice Salonica Cigarettes & Tobacco Co.   
£30.00
006
 1919 Invoice Nestor Gianaclis Cigarettes Company   
£30.00
REVENUE STAMPS
007
 1973 Comm. Prof. syndicates 10 m. full sheet revenue stamps unm   
£65.00
008
 2021 National Projects Development 10 pounds full sheet revenue stamps with protection star   
£90.00
009
 1962 Arab Socialist Party membership 20 mills full sheet revenue stamps unm. (President Nasser Party).   
£20.00
010
 1962 Arab Socialist Party membership 240 Mills full sheet revenue stamps unm. (President Nasser Party).   
£20.00
ESSAYS / SHEETS / REVENUE
011
 1927 500 Mills consular service hand painted revenue stamp essay   
£90.00
012
 1939 30 Mills revenue stamp hand painted stamp essay   
£80.00
013
 1961 UAR Navy Day unadopted hand painted stamp essay   
£90.00
014
 1983 Egyptian first lady Gihan El Sadat raising fund to approve education Cairo univ. 500 m. full sheet stamps   
£60.00
HOTELS
015
 1938 Metzger Hotels employment certificate   
£30.00
016
 1941 Medical congress in Cataract Hotel Menu   
£30.00
REVENUE
017
 1972 Medical syndicates 30 mills revenue stamped paper issued in Banha   
£28.00
018
 1974 Medical syndicates 50 mills revenue stamped paper issued in Cairo   
£28.00
POSTCARDS
019
 1938 Oriental philatelic store in Cairo adv. postcard   
£30.00
020
 1944 Orig. print photo postcard cancelled on backside Mena house 17 Dec. 44   
£60.00
BRITISH P.O. s
021
 1862 British post offices in Egypt used entire from Alex to London (Peter Smith book Type D-2 page 59)   
£48.00
POSTCARD
022
 1924 Heliopolis house hotel postcard terrace view   
£28.00
U.P.U. REPONSE
023
 1957 40 mills UPU coupon Réponse Intl. Cairo cds   
£30.00
024
 1968 75 mills UPU coupon Réponse Intl Cairo cds   
£20.00
025
 2006 4 L.E Pound UPU coupon Réponse Intl. Cairo cds   
£20.00
COVERS
026
 1927 Mauri stores in Cairo ill. cover + invoice   
£38.00
027
 1900s 5 advertising illustrated covers lot   
£38.00
REVENUE
028
 2022 police dept. car engine check-up used certificate with 5 L. E police revenue stamp   
£38.00
029
 2022 fire dept. extinguisher safety receipt with 15 L. E police dept. revenue stamp   
£38.00
OFFICIALS
030
 Kingdom officials 3 mills pair stamps (sg. 0113) unm signed w/ break in Arabic “Malakeya “(Nile Post no. O24 position 44-49-94-99)   
£30.00
031
 1014/15 officials O.H.H.S Ovp. 3 mills blk 4 unm misplaced right side   
£40.00
REVENUE
032
 1989 Synd of engineering 50 p.t blk 6 unm w. plate no.   
£30.00
033
 1989 Synd of engineering 1-pound blk 6 unm w. plate no   
£30.00
034
 1975 Synd of applied arts 50 mills blk unm revenue stamps   
£30.00
035
 1975 Synd of applied arts 100 mills blk unm revenue stamps   
£30.00
036
 1975 Synd of applied arts 250 mills blk unm revenue stamps   
£30.00
037
 1975 Synd of applied arts 500 mills blk unm revenue stamps   
£30.00
038
 1975 Synd of applied arts 1-pound blk unm revenue stamps   
£30.00
039
 1975 Synd of engineering A.R.E issues (wm UAR) 50 mills blk unm. revenue stamps Feltus page 85 – no. 777   
£30.00
040
 1975-77 Synd of engineering 2nd A.R.E issue (no wmk) 100 mills blk unm revenue stamps Feltus page 85 no. 783.   
£30.00
041
 1975-77 Synd of engineering 2nd A.R.E issue (no wmk) 200 mills blk unm revenue stamps Feltus page 85 no. 783.   
£30.00
042
 1958 first U.A.R. amusement tax revenue 80 mills blk unm   
£45.00
PALESTINE - GAZA
043
 1962 Palestine Gaza second Arabic issue 10 mills blk 4 unm with plate number Feltus page 12 no.133   
£30.00
044
 1962 Palestine Gaza second Arabic issue 30 mills blk 4 unm Feltus page 12 no.135   
£40.00
045
 1962 Palestine Gaza second Arabic issue 200 mills blk 4 unm with plate number Feltus page 12 no.139   
£70.00
046
 1966/67 Palestine Gaza fourth Arabic issue 50 mills blk 4 unm with plate number   
£30.00
MONTREUX CONFERENCE
047
 1937 Montreux conf. original photo of the event by Rod Schlemmer postcard size   
£35.00
CIGARETTE INTEREST
048
 1930 Ed Laurens cigarettes & tobacco label. size: 8 x 6 cm   
£25.00
049
 1935 Soussa Saladin cigarettes & tobacco label 8 x 6 cm   
£20.00
050
 1919 Dimitrinos cigarettes company red seal label   
£30.00
HOTELS
051
 1965 Winter Palace Hotel luggage label   
£12.00
REVENUE
052
 1970-90 10 Islamic charity society raising fund labels   
£30.00
053
 1988 Synd. of journalists 100 mills revenue unmounted   
£40.00
GAZA/PALESTINE AUTHORITY
054
 1917-20 complete set Gaza municipality revenue stamps (mint no gum)   
£50.00
055
 1970 Palestine Resistance P.P.S.F. 5 fils fund raising label   
£30.00
056
 1996 Palestine authority mopic 2 $ revenue stamp   
£25.00
057
 2020 Israel Gaza issued entrance fee revenue stamp   
£20.00
CHARITY
058
 1970-90 10 Hospital & national societies fund raising labels   
£40.00
059
 1944 Judaica Israelites society charity lottery ticket   
£80.00
SUDAN REVENUES
060
 Sudan revenues lot 12 different stamps in unm condition   
£40.00
061
 1998 Sudan revenues civil war victims blk 8 w/ gutter unm   
£40.00
062
 1995 Sudan revenues new currency 10,20 & 50 d stamps unm   
£25.00
063
 1994 Sudan revenues 20 & 50 L. S blk 4 stamps with plate number.   
£30.00
FORGERIES
064
 1930s 4 mills postage due forgery full sheet 60 stamps   
£20.00
065
 1930s 8 mills postage due forgery full sheet 60 stamps   
£20.00
066
 1930s 20 mills postage due forgery full sheet 60 stamps   
£20.00
067
 Salama forgeries full sheet 50 crown ovp. stamps   
£15.00
ADVERTISING LABELS
068
 1930 crown brewery Alexandria advertising beer label   
£20.00
069
 1930 Bomonti beer label Alexandria advertising label   
£20.00
NILE VALLEY SOCIETY
070
 1948 Nile valley society to save Palestine raising fund ticket printing essays double sided   
£30.00
071
 1948 Nile valley society to save Palestine raising fund ticket printing essays double sided   
£30.00
072
 1948 Nile valley society to save Palestine raising fund ticket printing essays double sided   
£30.00
073
 1948 Nile valley society to save Palestine raising fund ticket printing essays double sided   
£30.00
ESSAYS
074
 1985 3 p. pharaonic issue definitive 3 p.t Ramses ii statue adopted hand painted issued stamp approved by the postal authorities 16 x 18 cm   
£80.00
075
 1985 3 p.t but was issued 35 p.t adopted hand painted essay 16 x 18 cm   
£80.00
076
 1985 airmail 18 p.t but was issued 18.5 p.t Akhenaton statue hand painted stamp essay 18 x 24 cm   
£80.00
077
 1985 airmail 30 p.t Giza pyramids hand painted stamp essay 19 x 28 cm   
£80.00
078
 1963 35 m. UNESCO campaign to save Nubia mon. Hand painted stamp essay 24 x 30 cm   
£80.00
079
 1980 20th Anniv. Nubian mon. preservation 4 x 70 mills hand painted stamp essays approved by postal authorities 28 x 30 x 2   
£160.00
080
 1980 post day 20,45,70 & 140 mills hand painted stamp essays 28 x 30 cm   
£100.00
081
 1972 Philae temple 55 mills hand painted stamp essay 28 x 32 cm   
£80.00
082
 1994 Verdi’s aida performance at Deir El Bahari 80 p.t airmail souvenir sheet hand painted stamp essay 30 x 35 cm   
£100.00
CIGARETTE ADVERTISING LABELS
083
 1930 Simon Arzt cigarette company illustrated label. 8 x 10 cm   
£20.00
084
 1933 Alex Livanos cigarettes company ill. label 9 x 13 cm   
£25.00
SUDAN – POSTAL ORDERS
085
 1993 Sudan postal order 100 mills Abuharaz office.   
£15.00
086
 1993 Sudan postal order 500 mills integrated m.o   
£15.00
087
 1993 Sudan postal order 1 L. E Khartoum office   
£15.00
CIGARETTE INTEREST
088
 1939 Kostas Kadelis cigarettes company ill. label 11 x 9 cm   
£20.00
REVENUE
089
 1990 Acting profession syndicates full sheet 40 revenue stamps mng   
£100.00
AIRMAIL LABEL
090
 1930-35 imperial airways Europe-Africa-India & East unrecorded airmail label.   
£40.00
INTERPOSTALS
091
 1868 poste vice Reali Egiziane Teh-El-Barud type iii 65a seal   
£20.00
092
 1870 used interpostal seal Kehr type. ivc. Allesandria   
£20.00
PALESTINE – PROPAGANDA
093
 1970 Palestine resistance propaganda 10 postcard booklet   
£100.00
POSTCARDS
094
 1925 incoming postcard taxed 10 & 2 mills p. due stamps   
£25.00
095
 1906 postcard Suez Canal garage w/ cigarettes advertising   
£25.00
096
 1903 postcard arrival H. M. Khedive Abbas Alexandria   
£40.00
1973 WAR
097
 1973 Egypt Israel war 6th oct. victory propaganda card.   
£20.00
098
 1973 Egypt Israel war fund raising for victory 2 labels   
£30.00
AIR MAIL LABELS
099
 1929 Air mail labels block of 35 stamps unmounted   
£30.00
100
 1928 Air mail labels block of 26 stamps unmounted   
£30.00
KOUBBEH PALACE SALE OVERPRINT COLOUR TRIALS
101
 200m Scott 314 1952 colour trial overprint in black   
£10.00
102
 200m Scott 314 1952 colour trial overprint in green   
£10.00
103
 100m Scott 313 1952 colour trial overprint in brown instead of carmine   
£10.00
104
 15m Scott 306 1952 colour trial overprint in black, MNH   
£10.00
105
 15m Scott 306 1952 colour trial overprint in blue, marginal MNH   
£10.00
106
 2m Scott 300 1952 colour trial overprint in blue, MNH   
£10.00
107
 2m Scott 300 1952 colour trial overprint in green, MNH   
£10.00
108
 4m Due O63, overprint brown instead of blue   
£10.00
109
 4m Due O63, overprint red violet instead of blue   
£10.00
CONSULAR / OFFICIAL MAIL
110
 18 MAR 14, perfect small envelope printed bilingual O.H.H.S. and addressed to ESC stalwart Mackenzie Low at the Heliopolis Palace Hotel. Circular handstamp in blue at top left reads Direction General des Postes around Crescent and three Stars of Egypt. Unfranked, cancelled at Attarine / Alexandria and at first given a boxed T but crossed through in pencil with handwritten “Free” alongside. Clear arrival mark of Heliopolis same day. Fascinating   
£24.00
111
 30 JU 19, blue envelope, excellent condition, addressed to UK, handstamp O.H.M.S. and large circular stamp British Vice Consulate / Suez. Unfranked but sent from Port Taufiq with Port Said (same day) and Army Post Office / A / SZ 23(?) next day. Clean, neat   
£20.00
112
 10 DE 23, small complete envelope with Arabic wording of bilingual O.H.H.S. printing crossed through and replaced with Hukumi… Addressed to Suez Canal Co in Ismailia from Official oval of Public Health and Irrigation Department and sent from Dawawin to Cairo. Cairo machine transit and Ismailia arrival behind   
£20.00
113
 27 OC 26, small envelope with embossed coat of arms behind, addressed to Manchester, provided with 2xFirst Fuad 5 mills plus two strikes of large circular British Consulate-General / Alexandria. Posted from Alex, with Alex slogan-machine transit behind   
£18.00
114
 9 FE 37, neat small envelope with large circular British Embassy / Cairo handstamp in blue, sent unfranked from Cairo with good Heliopolis cds behind next day. Striking   
£16.00
115
 (wartime), commercial envelope printed in Arabic addressed to military engineer at GHQ Fayed, unfranked but with large violet circular cachet H.B.M. Embassy / Military Attaché, Cairo. Roughly opened behind, no date or other markings   
£15.00
POSTMARKS
116
 Second Issue, card with six copies of 1867 20-para, all with Cassa postmark part strikes – Alessandria (2), Mansura, Ismailia, plus two difficult to read   
£10.00
117
 Third Issue, card with three 20-para blue stamps all used with Alessandria / Cassa part strikes of 1872, 1876 and 1876 (damaged)   
£10.00
118
 Third Issue, card with two 20-para grey stamps used with part strike Mansura / Cassa 1876 and Cairo / Stazione 1874(?)   
£12.00
119
 1870s, half sheet from Peter Smith exhibition collection showing dateless postal service cancellations on early pyramids issues: two stamps showing part strikes of ABE (Aba el Waqf) / Post Kedivie Egiziane / Star and crescent, plus three stamps showing Poste K.E. Direzione Locale / Star and crescent, for Alexandria or Cairo   
£55.00
120
 17 AU 58, Faint but undoubted marking of scarce Camp d’Almaza (airfield near Heliopolis) on Barid Harby unfranked cover (opened for display) to Birket el Sab. Received boxed T on face, then 20m Due affixed on arrival, delivery attempted but refused at Rural Service Birket el Sab – Ezbet Abdel Gawad Lashin, finally Refused trilingual handstamp. Contents remain   
£12.00
SHIPPING / PAQUEBOAT INTEREST
121
 1906-91 appx, accumulation of international cards (12) and covers (13), mainly showing ships or written aboard, all carrying shipping line or Paquebot markings of many lands, and several with collector’s notes on vessel’s date and place of building, and demise. Interesting group, part illustrated   
£18.00
122
 1894-1980s appx, old-time collection of coloured and black and white postcards showing international ships, mint (33) and used (24) from many nations. As last, many provided with notes on vessel’s building and breaking up, but larger group lacking Paquebot markings. Some cases of Egyptian stationery used from ships   
£60.00
123
 4 JY 47, b/w postcard of “Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt” of Dutch Stoomvaart Maarschappii line, described on an Active Service message to serviceman’s mother in London as “the old tub we are on”. CDS is Field Post Office 461, Port Said.   
£6.00
124
 1953, remarkable flimsy bilingual Egyptian Customs form confirming that a vessel’s formalities have been completed and that she may leave the Suez Canal at Port Tawfik. Filled out for the “London Enterprise” with typed version to clarify where form detail is covered with 4x5m General Revenues. Most unusual   
£12.00
125
 4 X 11, coloured card of P&O liner “India” with message apologising for lack of a card of Port Said – “unable to go ashore”. Addressed to UK, franked GB 1d with mute cancel, boxed T, perfect strike of Port Said star/bridge and 1d due on arrival   
£6.00
126
 JUL 26, 1927, coloured White Star Line card of the RMS “Olympic”, addressed to Paris, message entirely in Arabic, GB 1 1/2d stamp cancelled with machine roller New York / Paquebot   
£4.00
127
 17 II 29, small cover with P&O multiflag logo on flap, addressed Ibrahimieh, franked GB 1 1/2d and cancelled with machine roller Marseille – Gare / Bches de Rhone / Paquebot. Backstamps Alexandria and Ibrahimia   
£4.00
128
 19 MA 33, Paquebot / Port Said, small cover addressed to Ipswich, franked 1d+1/2d GB, no backstamp   
£4.00
129
 5 MR 39, Port Taufiq / Paquebot, small P&O cover (flap torn) franked George VI 1 ½d, addressed to Kent, faint Alex slogan machine mark behind   
£4.00
130
 12 SE 50, Port Taufiq / Paquebot, cover addressed to New Zealand, philatelic franking with colourful selection of barred Farouk plus Republican 30m totalling 153 mills. Air label; attempt to remove 50m stamp   
£6.00
131
 10 JU 51, Port Tawfiq / Paquebot, coloured card Sphinx & Pyramid, franked 22+1m Marechal and sent from Suez to Cairo. Interesting   
£6.00
132
 ? AU 51, Port Tawfiq, envelope with cartouche of MV “Tarantia”, franked with GB QEII 1+1/2d, addressed to New York. No backstamp   
£4.00
133
 15 JL 53, Paquebot / Port Said, small cover addressed to New Zealand, franked with 3x30m Farouk Air barred, plus 2m+10m for total 102 mills, no backstamp   
£4.00
134
 14 AU 54, Paquebot / Alexandria, small cover with cachet of SS “Canberra”, franked with beautiful block of six QEII ½d and addressed to Scotland. No backstamps   
£5.00
135
 14 SE 54, Paquebot / Alexandrie, small cover with cachet of SS “Canberra”, franked with QEII 2 ½d + ½d and addressed to Scotland. No backstamps   
£5.00
136
 2 9 57, Port Tawfiq / Paquebot, printed air letter form addressed to New Zealand, franked with Nefertiti 100 mills. Message headed “MV Governor, Gulf of Suez”   
£6.00
137
 20 5 78, Paquebot / Port Said, ornate decorated cover of Chief Steward of the SS “Penny” (NY), franked 2+3c and addressed to Alexandria Virginia. No backstamp   
£6.00
138
 1920s-30s, stock card with a dozen examples of pieces with French stamps and P.0. marks and Paquebot cancels, including several from Alexandrie   
£6.00
AIR INTEREST
139
 13 DE 26, Mittelholzer first north-south Africa flight. Pale blue cover franked 120 Swiss centimes cancelled Zurich / Flugpost 28 XI 26 with Zurich 3 Bahnhof reg label and special Afrikaflug cachet alongside. Flying a Dornier Merkur seaplane named Switzerland, Mittelholzer, a flight pioneer and founder of Swissair, left on December 6 for Cape Town via Naples, Athens, Alexandria (this cover CDS 13 DE) and Cairo carrying 160kg of mails. These were unloaded in Naples and carried onward by the SS “Esperia.” Addressed Zurich, this cover has clear arrival CDS of Höngg suburb Dec 21   
£45.00
140
 2 JL 35, commercial printed envelope trimmed on opening, addressed to our former member E F Hurt in England and franked 27m Air plus 1m cancelled Cairo / M. Sears trilingual label 12   
£6.00
141
 5 NO 35, small envelope with bilingual Par Avion label (Sears 8), addressed to Kent and endorsed in red crayon “KLM – Cairo to Amsterdam”. Franked 40 mills 1933 Air cancelled (4) / Alexandria. No backstamp   
£7.00
142
 3 JA 36, early use of Caire / Par Avion / (2) cds as arrival mark on Air cover from Belfast (GB 3d+1 ½d adhesives) addressed to Cairo. Sears dates 14 MR 36-17 MA 37   
£7.00
143
 16 JA 36, printed commercial envelope trimmed on opening, addressed to England and franked with 27m Air stamp pus 21 mills to cover registration and cancelled Cairo R.D. 16. Bilingual label Sears 1. Remains of three wax seals behind   
£6.00
144
 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   
£5.00
145
 13 SE 37, perfect strike of Port Said / Par Avion (equals Sears’ latest date) on reverse of letter from Shepton Mallet with 1 ½d Jubilee issue to passenger aboard “Llandaff Castle”. Underpaid, taxed and strip of 3x4m Dues on reverse cancelled Port Said / Traffic. Striking cover.   
£10.00
146
 30 JA 38 printed Cecil Hotel Alexandria envelope (flap) with bilingual Par Avion rubber stamp cachet on face, addressed to Germany from Alexandria / G, franked 2x1+13+15 Boy King plus 3m Fuad   
£4.00
147
 9 JU 42, cover with Sears 8 label, addressed to Leeds, franked Boy King 2+15+30 mills and cancelled Port Said / Traffic. Cairo / A machine transit behind   
£4.00
148
 8 SE 42, commercial printed cover with bilingual Air label (Sears 8) addressed to London, franked 2+5+40mills Farouk for postage (17) and registration (30). Machine censor, no backstamp   
£4.00
149
 12(?) FE 44, unusual Cairo / Air Mail CDS cancelling pair of 5m Boy King on cover Arabic-addressed in town and bearing 50m General Revenue (Post Restante fee?). Sears says only one example of this marking, as arrival mark. Commercial cachet unclear   
£14.00
150
 27 OC 44, Cecil Hotel Alexandria printed air envelope addressed to London, franked 2x30+100m Farouk plus 5m Air for registration from Alexandria / R 5 (Alex label), circular censor 71   
£4.00
151
 26 JA 51, unusual CDS R1(?) / Aeroport Farouk (as Sears RA1, page 170), very faint strike on reverse of commercial cover from Port Sudan to Alex franked 2pi (damaged). Stuck to reverse is a rare strike of S / Aeroport Farouke (with final “E”), Sears p.169   
£5.00
152
 6 MA 52, b/w postcard of Ramleh Square Alexandria, addressed to Johannesburg, franked 17m Marechal, 10m KES opt plus pair of Ahmed Fuad birth commems. Censored   
£5.00
153
 10 SE 52, scarce sighting of CDS Aero Drome / 1. du Caire (Sears 8 SE 52 to 14 OC 52) on commercial cover franked 30m plus 40+2m KES for postage and registration to London. Censored   
£5.00
154
 “1953”, small cover addressed to Scotland with large B.O.A.C. label (Sears 16) franked 3+4+10+30 Marechal barred cancelled with wavy machine roller, date unclear. Civil censor and no clear backstamp   
£4.00
155
 18 4 58, unrecorded CDS Alexandrie / Arrive / Par Avion (part strike) as arrival on censored letter from Athens addressed to Cairo and transferred to slogan machine cancel for onward journey. Contents remain   
£6.00
156
 17 4 61, long Philatelic Bureau envelope addressed to Beirut provided with 5+2x10+2x20 mills Officials stamps on face, plus two pairs of Tower of Cairo 1961 10m on reverse. Cairo Air Port transit, Chargements Beirut arrival cds   
£4.00
157
 2 2 75, unrecorded CDS T D / Cairo Air Port as arrival mark on reverse of neat clean registered air letter from Germany addressed to Cairo Philatelic Bureau   
£6.00
158
 2 2 76 Unrecorded CDS Cairo Air Port / R.A.3 as arrival mark on commercial printed letter from Yucatan, Mexico, addressed to Cairo Philatelic Bureau   
£6.00
159
 (1980? date not clear), unusual CDS E (2) / Cairo Air Port (Sears p.174) cancelling Official stamps on registered letter to Cairo franked 35m in Officials. Face and reverse both have narrow Cairo Air Port oval cachet in violet   
£5.00
160
 Collection of mint photographs (13) and cards (11), mainly black and white, mainly identified, showing types of aircraft used for carrying mails between about 1930 and 1960 (including five cards advertising Imperial Airways). Fascinating range, all in excellent condition   
£35.00
161
 Mint Air Mail labels – bilingual Par Avion (Sears 3, 1934), marginal strip of three, bilingual Par Avion (Sears 2, 1931), marginal block of four, Ala Littoria bilingual, marginal pair (Sears 17), TWA trilingual (Sears 18, 1947), two copies   
£4.00
EGYPT STAMPS
162
 1884, 20 para surcharge on 5 piastres DLR, two fine used copies   
£6.00
163
 1890s, three Salt Tax stamps fine used with part-strikes of Aswan, Bir Chams and Tantah/Caisse   
£2.00
164
 1926, Navigation Congress set of three fine used (NP C14-16)   
£2.00
165
 1926, full set of three surcharges on 1926 Agriculture set, fine used (NP D103-5)   
£2.00
166
 1933, 3m Air Mail, top left corner block of four UMM (NP A6), unrecorded variety tail to left of “E” in Egypte   
£4.00
167
 1934, UPU set, low values complete to 200m all fine used in good condition   
£6.00
168
 1937-46, Boy King 13m in UMM block of four with control A/37 (NP D145)   
£3.00
169
 1952, 2m definitive with KES overprint, horizontal UMM pair with overprint completely set off on reverse   
£4.00
170
 Palace Collection: 1952, Dues with KES overprint. 8m value UMM with dark blue overprint inverted and Saray el Qubba square handstamp in black on reverse. Thus, colour trial (see NP p.625)   
£35.00
171
 1953, full UMM booklet pane of 10m Defense Republican issue (NP D197)   
£4.00
172
 1953, 10m Defense Republican definitive, UMM lower marginal block of four with wmk inverted (NP D197b) and perforation shifted vertically and horizontally   
£6.00
173
 1953, 15m Defense Republican definitive in UMM block of four (NP D198) with design completely offset on reverse   
£5.00
174
 1953-54, Farouk KES barred, 40 mills sepia in lower marginal block of four with control A/49 A/50 A/52. NP D234   
£8.00
175
 1954-55, 3m “fellah” definitive (NP D238) in UMM block of four with design completely set off on the reverse   
£4.00
176
 1957, 5m sepia Industries definitive (NP D244), lower marginal block of six, UMM, with ghostly impression of darker brown set off on the reverse   
£4.00
177
 1959-60, 60m Republican Air Mail, right upper corner block of four, UMM, showing var “perforation shifted downwards across UAR” (NP A77b)   
£5.00
178
    1986, Sudan Drought Relief, 15+5m UMM, single with lemon colour shifted significantly to right and bleeds off the stamp. NP C1060a, only 50 recorded. With normal for comparison   
£8.00
179
 1988, African Unity commem, 15+5m UMM, single with magenta colour (Egypt, value and date) shifted 2.5mm to right. NP C1124b. Only 100 recorded   
£8.00
180
 1988, African Unity commem, 15+5m UMM, single with silver colour (silhouette of Africa) significantly shifted 1.5mm to right. NP C1124a. Only 100 recorded   
£8.00
181
 1988, African Unity commem, 15+5m UMM, lower left corner block of four with wide selvage but without apparent flaws (NP C112)s   
£3.00
182
 1992, Centenary of writer Ali Moubarak, 15pi value (NP 1270). Two UMM, distinct shades   
£4.00
183
 1993, Air Mail definitives. 80pi value, upper marginal block of four UMM, with printing number in selvage and variety gold colour badly misplaced, giving the Tutankhamun mask two beards. NP A118a   
£12.00
184
 1995, Esna Dam opens, 15p value, UMM, showing black colour misplaced significantly upwards. MP C1334a, only 50 known. With normal for comparison   
£6.00
185
 2004, Treasures of Egypt booklet, the initial page showing all three high-value stamps, including the £E10 Tutankhamun mask in gold. Mint, pristine   
£8.00
186
 2020, £E3 definitive with star-shaped security puncture – lower left block of four UMM   
£3.00
187
 2020, £E3 definitive with star-shaped security puncture – upper left block of four UMM   
£3.00
EGYPT AIR MAIL UMM CONTROL BLOCKS OF FOUR
188
 1933, 2m red-orange and black (NP A5), control A/37   
£2.00
189
 1933, 3m sepia and black (A6), control A/37   
£2.00
190
 1933, 5m chocolate and black (A8), control B/39, three copies   
£3.00
191
 1933, 8m violet and black (A11), control A/37, three copies   
£3.00
192
 1933, 10m violet and sepia (A13), control A/39   
£2.00
193
 1933, 90m orange and blue-green (A21), control A/32   
£3.00
194
 1941, 5m brown-lake (NP A24), control A/40, two different type styles   
£6.00
195
 1941, 5m brown-lake (NP A24), control /A40 A/45, two different type styles   
£5.00
196
 1941, 10m deep violet (NP A25), control A/40, two different type styles   
£5.00
197
 1941, 10m deep violet (NP A25), control A/40 A/45   
£2.00
198
 1941, 25m reddish purple (NP A26), control A/40, two different type styles   
£5.00
199
 1941, 25m reddish-purple (NP A26), control A/40 A/41 A/44, two different type styles. One block shows perforation shift   
£6.00
200
 1941, 25m slate-purple (NP A26d), A/40 A/41 A/44 A/46, two different type styles   
£5.00
201
 1941, 30m deep green (NP A27), control A/39 A/40, two different type styles   
£5.00
202
 1953-54, 5m Farouk barred (NP A56), control Arabic A/46 A/47   
£3.00
203
 1953-54, 5m Farouk barred (NP A56), control Arabic A./46 A./47   
£3.00
204
 1953-54, 7m Farouk barred (NP A57), control Arabic A/52   
£3.00
205
 1953-54, 8m Farouk barred (NP A58), control Arabic A/46 A/47   
£3.00
206
 1961, 50m Tower of Cairo (NP A79), control A/61   
£2.00
207
 1963, 20m sepia (2) and 30m carmine (NP A80-81), control A/62   
£3.00
EGYPT DEFINITIVES UMM CONTROL BLOCKS OF FOUR
208
 1937-46, Boy King 1m (NP D136), control B/41 A/42   
£2.00
209
 1944-51, Marechal 10m (NP D160), control A/44   
£2.00
210
 1944-51, Marechal 22m (NP D165), control A/43   
£2.00
211
 1958, UAR 3m Nofret red-brown (NP D247), control A/58   
£2.00
212
 1958, UAR 4m glass lamp green (NP D248), Control A/58, two different type styles   
£5.00
213
 1959, 55 mills UAR surcharge on 100 mills Nefertiti (NP D252), control A/55, variety surcharge slightly a cheval, cut by perforation   
£5.00
EGYPT UMM CONTROL BLOCKS OF FOUR
214
 1929, Farouk birthday, all four values (NP C29-32) in pristine mint UMM blocks   
£9.00
215
 1957, Evacuation of Port Said (NP C185), top left corner block of four   
£2.00
216
 1957, Anniversary of poets’ deaths (NP C187-88), lower marginal block of four   
£3.00
217
 1957, Air Force/Misrair anniversary (NP C189-190), lower left corner block of four with unrecorded flaws on both figures “1” of corner 10m stamps   
£4.00
218
 As last, vertical pair with unrecorded white spot between P and T of Egyptian   
£2.00
219
 As last left marginal block of four   
£3.00
220
 1957, Afro-Asian conference (NP C191-93), marginal blocks of four of all three stamps, 5,10 and 15m   
£4.00
221
 1958, Cycle Racing (NP C194), lower marginal block of four   
£2.00
222
 1958, Human Rights anniversary (NP C211-2), right marginal block of four of 35m, with lower left corner pair and left marginal pair of 10m, all with flaws(?) marked in pencil   
£5.00
223
 As last, with bilingual Palestine overprint (NP PC3-4): 35m in right marginal block of four, plus lower left corner pair and marginal pair of 10m value, all with flaws (?) marked in pencil   
£5.00
224
 1959, Afro-Asian Youth (NP C215), lower left corner block of four with two flaws indicated by marginal pencil marks   
£3.00
EGYPT COMMEMORATIVES UMM CONTROL BLOCKS OF FOUR
225
 1946, Visit of Saudi monarch (NP C97), control A/45. First-day CTO 10 JA 46   
£3.00
226
 1946, British troops withdrawal (NP C102), control A/46   
£2.00
227
 1948, Ibrahim Pasha centenary (NP C121), control A/48   
£2.00
228
 1949, Abolition of Mixed Courts (NP C131), control A/49   
£2.00
229
 1957, Railways centenary (NP C170), control A/57   
£2.00
230
 1958, Proclamation of UAR, 10m+15m (NP C197a-198a), control A/58, both wmk sideways   
£8.00
231
 1958, Qassim Amin anniversary (NP C200a), control A/58, var wmk sideways   
£7.00
232
 1958, Republic of Iraq (NP C208), control A/58   
£2.00
233
 1959, Post Day (NP C214), control A/59   
£2.00
234
 1959, Afro-Asian Youth (NP 215), control A/59   
£2.00
235
 1959, UAR First Anniversary (NP C217), control A/58   
£2.00
236
 1959, Arab Telecommunications (NP C218), control A/59   
£2.00
237
 1959, United Arab States Anniversary (NP C219), control A/59   
£2.00
238
 1959, Arab Petroleum Congress (NP C220), control A/59   
£2.00
EGYPT UMM MINIATURE SHEET
239
 1958, 6th Anniversary of the Revolution (NP MS11a) with var flag misplaced 1mm downwards   
£7.00
240
 As last, flag slightly misplaced to the left   
£5.00
INSURED MAIL
241
 20 JA 92, linen-reinforced bank envelope sent from Alex to Cairo, franked £E5.60 on the reverse to cover postage and insurance (faint bilingual oval ASSUREE on face). Sealed with staples and wax seals, roughly cut open with a knife   
£4.00
POSTCARD
242
 Mint excellent colour card of The Holy Carpet in procession with police guards and spectators on hilltops. Printed Au Cato-Sport, Max H Rudmann, Le Caire (59758). Water stain on reverse   
£6.00
EPHEMERA
243
 23 2 53, Philatelic Society of Egypt membership receipt for P.A.S. Smith, member No 819 (paying $103, on behalf of North Americans?), complete with tax stamp and PSE handstamp. Very neat souvenir   
£12.00
244
 7 MR 55, UPU postal identity card in the name of Rakia Salem Abou-Manshia, delivered at Alexandrie / Renseignements with the fee paid by 2x40m Republican mosques and tax by 30 mills General Revenue. Pristine condition, never even folded   
£24.00
FIRST DAY COVERS
245
 1957, seven commems first-day covers, good condition   
£3.00
246
 7 OC 91, “Cairo 91”, the stamp exhibition organised by the late Samir Fikry. Three copies of the FDC envelope, all with the special cancel, one with added 10m commem issue (NP C1217), one with added miniature sheet (NP MS54). All pristine   
£10.00
247
 18 1 2010, 30th anniversary of PAPU, two Egypt Post covers each with single stamp and special first-day cancel, envelopes rinted with old and new post office logos at top right. Pristine condition   
£5.00
BRITISH MILITARY
248
 (Date?), small envelope addressed to UK, with 1pi Postal Seal cancelled with retta on reverse, and EPP4 with part-strike MPO… on face. Neat and clean   
£3.00
249
 17 OCT 41, printed Air Mail envelope “On Active Service”, franked 4d+6d South Africa, cancelled A.P.O. -? – M.P.O. / 30, addressed to Transvaal with censor signature and cartouche. Written note: APO 30 was captured by enemy. No backstamp   
£3.00
INTERPOSTALS
250
 1867, Gedda, Type III, Die B, Kehr 51, perfect   
£10.00
251
 1868, Alessandria, Type IV, Kehr 78a on grey-white, mis-cut with trace of another IP at left, full gum   
£6.00
252
 1868, Metelino, Type IVa, Kehr 138, perfect, traces of gum   
£8.00
253
 1871, Ismailia, Type V, Kehr 163, perfect   
£6.00
254
 1872, Alessandria, Type VI, own gum but mounted mark   
£4.00
255
 1872-74, Magaga, Type Va, Kehr 203d on brown, fragile   
£6.00
256
 1878-79, Dongola, Type Vd, Kehr 338, off-centre, traces of gum   
£10.00
257
 (Date?), French Port Said P.O. CDS on Economat (1884, pale blue)   
£3.00
258
 4 FE 91, Senoris CDS on Type IX Economat (1884, bright blue), part strike   
£3.00
259
 28 X 89, Bagour CDS on Type X (1887), excellent strike upside down, bite out of IP side   
£4.00
260
 31 OC 89, Aba-el-Wakf on Type X (1887), full strike   
£5.00
261
 3 XII 89, Nechila on Type X (1887), full spot-on strike upside down   
£5.00
TPO CANCELLATIONS
262
 26 VII 06, Abou el Matamir-Damanhour (as type 8A1), addressed to Cairo and remarkably franked with 2m Due. Excellent strike on Lichtenstein/Harari postcard Fille Bedouine, with cartoon added, posted from unusual source El Rico. Caire / A arrival   
£8.00
263
 14 VIII 08, Helouan-Cairo (Type 8A7, six bars, latest date), franking 5m postal stationery envelope addressed to Shoukry Khouri, Cashier of the Eastern Delta Light Railways. Cairo and Alex backstamps   
£8.00
264
 29 X 15, Mansura-Mit Ghamr / & VV (Type 7A3), transit mark on folded entire franked with 1x2+2m Pictorials from Nawasa el Ghet. Mansura arrival same day   
£5.00
265
 25 SE 19, Abu Kibir-Salhia / & VV (Type 7A3), cancelling 5m Pictorial on printed envelope Arabic-addressed to Cairo with faint Mansura-Cairo tpo on reverse   
£4.00
266
 30 NO 22, Cairo-Asyut & VV / TPO (Type??), as transit on clean Arabic addressed cover from Nag Hamadi to Alex, franked 5m pink Pictorial   
£5.00
267
 4 DE 42, & VV / Asyut-Luqsor (Type 7A3.7) cancelling 20 mills franking for letter to Kadhiman, Iraq, resealed with censor label, circular censor 8 and large Egyptian censor oval, but “Not Examined” by Iraqi censor. Remarkable   
£10.00
RURAL SERVICE MARKINGS
268
 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!   
£30.00
269
 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   
£8.00
270
 3 XI 15, Rural service / Chibin el Kom cancelling 5m Pictorial on Arabic-printed and addressed cover from Minshat el Charikein cartouche via Alex-Cairo TPO to Cairo   
£6.00
271
 19 III 16, Service Rural 1 Roda and Nawai village cartouche, franked with 5 mills Pictorial to Cairo. Roda, Cairo-Asyut TPO and Qubba Bridge / Cairo arrival on reverse   
£8.00
272
 12 OC 18, Rural Service / Giza-Konaiyesa-Z. Abu-Mesallem on small and incomplete folded note secured only by National Bank of Egypt, Cairo, white on green label   
£5.00
273
 12 SE 23, Rural Service / Birket el Sab-Al Ghuri as transit mark on a striking red-stripe postal enquiry card sent from Tanta. Query resolved, authenticated with personal negative seals, and returned from Birket el Sab same day   
£6.00
274
 11 OC 23, Rural Service / Mit Ghamr-Miska as transit mark on neat cover from Mit Ghamr to Cairo franked with strip of 3x5m pink Pictorial Crown overprints (booklet stamps?) for registration. Readdressed on arrival, and postmarks indicate arrival back on Mit Ghamr only on December 3. Unopened.   
£8.00
275
 23 AP 25, Rural Service / Kafr el-Zayat-Zuaiyara with Abu el-Gharr cartouche cancelling 2m First Fuad Arabic-addressed to Qallin on face of a neat small envelope containing a beautifully printed business card of one Ali Yusef Gazia Bey   
£8.00
276
 10 AU 34, Service Rural / Minshat el Ahaywa Sharq parent office marking on colourfully franked cover (15 mills) with Minshat el Ahaywa cartouche to Seattle. Wax seal and Minsha transit on reverse, flap lost   
£8.00
277
 19 SE 39, part-strike in blue of Rural Service / Maadi-Tura as receiver on registered cover from US with handstamp “Avis de reception / fee paid” (25c postage) from Elizabeth, New Jersey. Red censor on face, New York and Cairo transits behind, finally Maadi cds   
£8.00
HOTELS INTEREST
278
 21 XI 92, beautifully ornate New Year greetings from Mena House for 1893 on the back of DLR 5 mills card addressed to London. Cancelled by the hotel CDS, it received a Caire / D transit mark the same day   
£28.00
279
 7 V 97, superb sepia card from Simon Arzt Egyptian Cigarette Manufactory with Khedive’s arms, store in Port Said, and portrait of Arzt himself, with message in German to Austria, franked with 1+2x2m De La Rues. Port Said cancel, then Alexandria / A transit and Wien arrival. Card published by Moullot of Marseille   
£65.00
280
 19 III 03, colourful “military” Souvenir d’Egypte postcard with long message addressed to New Jersey, franked with 1+3mills DLRs and cancelled clear strikes of Grand Continental Hotel / Cairo / Post Office (HC2). Thimble New York Paid All of April 5, and Elizabeth arrival.   
£20.00
281
 24 II 04, charming b/w card of Pagnon’s Luxor Hotel – Gardens, addressed to Switzerland and franked with DLR 2m green, cancelled with hotel postmark (HL2). Excellent arrival mark of Wal / Gallen March 1   
£16.00
282
 13 III 05, 5 mills postal stationery letter-sheet colourfully updated with 2+3m De La Rues for postage to Austria from Shepheard’s Hotel Type 5 CDS. Cairo CDS behind. Neat and clean.   
£24.00
283
 13 I 06, wandering postcard addressed to Egyptian State Railways engineer in Luxor. Printed by A di Giorgio of Cairo, the card’s wall-painting procession appears to start with a DLR 1 millieme cancelled 13 I 06 with the Luxor Hotel marking (HL2), 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   
£30.00
284
 Soldiers and Sailors Institute, Alexandria. part strikes on DLR 5pi (Oct 1915) and 4m Pictorial of this elusive marking   
£12.00
285
 21 II 16, printed Continental hotel stationery addressed to UK, franked 5m Pictorial, cancelled HC4a (blue), earliest recorded date.   
£20.00
286
 29 FE 16, 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 is Field Post Office WI, accompanied by signature and red triangle censor 3624.   
£10.00
287
 14 NO 18, 5 mills stationery envelope (SEN16) uprated with 10m Pictorial for Registration from Maadi, clean markings including Reg cachet alongside, Addressed to Continental, and more clean markings, Cairo /R and Continental / Cairo (HC4) behind   
£12.00
288
 15 5 74, 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   
£10.00
PRINTING EXPERIMENTS / ESSAYS
289
 1959, single-colour experiment for United Arab States proclamation. No-value deep rose-red single, UMM, perforated, inscribed “Printing Experiment". See NP note with C219   
£3.00
290
 1970s? mint perforated no-value single inscribed UAR / The Arab TV, showing Television Building in central Cairo. Feltus mentions pp. 199-200   
£6.00
291
 1970s, experimental printing for Kima Factory at Aswan. No-value, inscribed UAR, deep sepia-violet, imperforate with full gum   
£5.00
292
 1970s, as last, badly misperforated and showing parts of four stamps   
£5.00
293
 1970s, as last, right marginal strip of four, perforated, showing faults with nearly full stamp at left, part missing second left, and then traces only. Striking   
£7.00
294
 1980s, essay for President Mubarak (never issued), NP E540. Four mint stamps: one close to complete, yellow only (imperf), blue and black, and multicolour   
£8.00
295
 1980s, as last, card with seven single stamps, perf and imperf, multicolour   
£10.00
296
 1980s, as last, card with single yellow imperf, plus five pairs, variously multi-coloured and perf or imperf   
£15.00
POSTAL HISTORY
297
 9 DE 81, bilingual company envelope printed on strong paper franked 1pi DLR rose from Ghourieh / Caire with Caire / Depart behind and Manchester arrival 19 DE. Hand-notated “Subs (subscriptions?) November 1881”. Interesting   
£10.00
298
 19 FE 84, small cover addressed to Ambleside, franked 1pi DLR rose and cancelled Port-Said / Depart. Flap torn, part strike [Amble]side behind   
£6.00
299
 1898-1900, two envelopes printed for furs/leather manufacturers, both franked horiz pair of DLR 5mills and addressed to France. Neat single arrival marks behind   
£6.00
300
 12 JU 00, small cover franked horizontal pair of DLR 5m for Turkey from Minia. Alex transit behind, with excellent Smyrne in blue and Chio arrival marking.    >
£10.00
301
 8 IX 06, printed company cover addressed to Germany, franked horizontal pair DLR 1pi blue and cancelled Alexandria / D. Perfect arrival behind of Hildburghausen 13.09   
£8.00
302
 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   
£500
303
 24 I 20, engineer’s printed envelope (flap) addressed to Athens, franked strip of 5x4m Pictorial plus one to cover registration, cancelled Ibrahimia Ramleh with Reg box alongside. Four wax seals, with Alex transit and clear Athens arrival behind   
£6.00
304
 10 MR 23, printed cover (flap) addressed to Manchester cancelled Alexandria / D, franked with 5x2mills Crown overprints, centre copy of which has “dots dropped” in upper frame (NP D79c)   
£12.00
305
 14 JUN 23, printed cover addressed to Geneva, franked 3x5m Harrison Crown overprint cancelled by Cairo roller machine. No backstamps   
£10.00
306
 21 FE 24, plain brown cover addressed to Switzerland franked by 10+5m Crown overprints and cancelled by Cairo roller machine. No backstamps   
£8.00
307
 27 XII 24, remarkable flimsy single sheet, pencil-addressed and folded, original address label removed and apparently travelled with cds Citadel / (Cairo) and Egyptian Government sealing label   
£4.00
308
 16 10 30, doctor’s printed postcard franked 2m Fuad from Cairo to Alex seeking medical samples. No arrival mark   
£6.00
309
 24 NOV 34, clean Robert Hughes company (flap) envelope addressed to UK, franked Fuad 15m blue, with Arabic-slogan machine cancel of Alexandria   
£5.00
310
 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.   
£5.00
311
 6 MA 40, remarkable plain cover prepared to mark centenary of the Penny Black and universal post in UK. Addressed to a sergeant in Aboukir and franked with 1m Air Mail and 1m Boy King with clear Cairo-Marg / & V.V. / B (unrecorded, as Type 7B1.2) cancels. Pristine   
£6.00
312
 13 MR 43, Banque Misr printed cover franked 4x5m+2m Boy King for carriage from Cairo / V to Tehran. Opened and resealed with Egypt censor 87 and re-examined by Russian and Anglo-Soviet-Persian censors. Eventually arrived Tehran April 10   
£8.00
313
 5 OC 43, small cover Arabic addressed to Cairo, registered with mute label, franked 5x6m Boy King and cancelled Heliopolis Bahari. Cairo transit and near R.A./ Cairo Delivery behind   
£6.00
314
 25 MA 44, cover addressed to Ohio franked 2x10m Boy King, received boxed T followed by censor resealing and markings in Egypt and U.S. Due 2 cents in New York   
£8.00
315
 5 FE 47, registered Air Mail cover from Blackpool to postal authorities in Cairo franked with GVI 1+5d and Blackpool 1 Reg label. Backstamps Cairo and Cairo / Delivery   
£5.00
316
 29 MAY 1947, clean printed cover of Cairo Chamber of Commerce, franked (printed rate) with 4m Marechal for Germany, cancelled Cairo machine. On arrival censored by US Civil Censorship /” B” / FFM   
£5.00
317
 30 JU 47, small cover Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked 2x5 Boy King plus 5m Ferial for registration from El Malek el Saleh / (Cairo) / Cash with Reg cachet alongside. Clear strike behind Cairo Delivery / R.A.2 an hour later   
£6.00
318
 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   
£7.00
319
 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   
£5.00
320
 (Date?), flimsy bilingual company air mail envelope with details redacted, franked with 20+2m Boy King and addressed to Naval Intelligence, Washington. Opened and resealed by O.N.I. Naval Censor with blue handstamp. No backstamps   
£5.00
321
 19 10 2020, cover to UK with barcode registration from Heliopolis, franked with block of 4x2 of £E5 current definitives plus pair and single of £E3 definitive newly printed with perforated star security hole in top left corner. Clean, neat   
£9.00
POSTAL STATIONERY
322
 20 X 89, 2 piastre postal stationery (SEN3, wmk upright, 1888), used for registration to Cairo from excellent strike of Chibin el Kanater. Backstamps not easy to read   
£7.00
323
 21 DE 90, 1m mini-stationery (SEN4), uprated with 1m DLR from Suez / Depart to Alex, good appearance   
£4.00
324
 10 FE 94, 5m stationery (SEN6), beautifully uprated with 2x1m+3m DLRs to cover postage to Belgium from perfectly struck cds of Ramle / Schutz. Alex transit and fine Anvers arrival mark behind   
£10.00
325
 27 OC 94, 3m stationery postcard (SPC7), perfectly cancelled by clear strike of Ramle / Schutz with interesting agricultural message to resident of The Blue House, Schutz. Fascinating   
£10.00
326
 12?? 96, 2m mini-stationery (SEN5), Suez to Helwan   
£3.00
327
 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   
£4.00
328
 12 I 96 and 10 I 99, two copies 2m stationery (SEN5) with inverted watermarks, used to Cairo and Athens respectively   
£4.00
329
 1 I 98, 1m mini-stationery (SEN4), cancelled Port Said, addressed in town, ornate “seal” behind   
£3.00
330
 9 X 01, 5m carmine on buff letter-envelope (SLS2, 1890), used from excellent strike of Challal via transit marking damaged on opening to Trieste. Pencil message remains   
£7.00
331
 4 JL 02, 5m stationery (SEN6), uprated with 5m DLR for postage to Germany, with good strike of Alexandrie / Station and fine strike of Esslingen / Bahnhof (i.e., Station) behind   
£4.00
332
 25 IV 07, 1m stationery (SEN 4) with clean handwritten En Ville address, beautifully cancelled with clean strike of rare cds Bacos / Ramleh / Alexandria   
£8.00
333
 22 IV 08, three-colour cover, 1pi stationery (SEN2), uprated with 3+4m DLRs, addressed to London with beautifully clear cancel of Port Said star and bridge. No backstamp   
£4.00
334
 4 NO 21, 5m carmine stationery env (SEN16, wmk diagonal, 1914), uprated with 5m Pictorial (damaged) and addressed to London from rare source, Salloum. Alex transit behind   
£7.00
335
 11 APR 23, 5m pink embossed envelope (SEN22, wmk inverted, 1921), addressed to London and received boxed T with Cairo straight-line machine cancel. No sign of Due raised, no backstamp   
£7.00
336
 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 backstamps   
£9.00
337
 -9 OC 51, Survey Department Farouk Marechal 6m postcard (SPC41) on clean white card (see NP note), cancelled to order with excellent strike of Rafah / C   
£5.00
338
 13 2 53, Farouk 25m Air Letter Sheet (SALS3, with Made in Norway wmk), uprated with a horizontal pair of 10m Defence definitives for postage to US and cancelled by scarce Alexandria / Traffic / Egypt / Philatelic Soc of Egypt CDS. No sign of a message   
£8.00
339
 22 5 2005, Ministry of Interior / Egypt Post all-Arabic printed folded envelope, Arabic addressed, and registered within Cairo, no postage paid so clearly “official”. Three datestamps and apparent redirecting   
£6.00
TURKISH INCURSION 1915
340
 Card with four UMM stamps said to be associated with Turkish adventure across Sinai to the Suez Canal: 1916 Sultan Mohamed V 50pi red (SG767), 1917 charity stamp 10pa purple (SG771), 1917 2pa violet Artillery (SG 916), 1919 5pi brown/blue with pyramids and opt (SG 953)   
£5.00
ROYAL YACHT MAHROUSSA
341
 Folder containing collection of scans of eight black and white photographs and five pieces of philatelic material, Farouk on board, with officers, FDCs etc, intended as basis for Mahroussa study   
£8.00
CIGARETTE INTEREST
342
 Folder containing large and small advertisements/labels for Dimitrino & Co cigarette manufacturers of Cairo, together with charming and pristine 16-page bilingual price list for 1938. Excellent condition   
£6.00
SUEZ CANAL COMPANY
343
 Superb examples of the 1c and 10c company stamps. 40c has a scraped surface. Sold as is   
£8.00
SUDAN POSTAL STATIONERY
344
 11 XII 00, one-piastre postal stationery with bilingual Soudan overprint (NP SSEN4), very neatly used from El Obeid via Omdurman eight days later and Beni Suef-Caire / Ambt a further eight days after that. Addressed to Ronald Peake of Epsom and may have been from his father, Malcolm (b. 1867, killed at Loos 1917 but meanwhile in service with the Egyptian Army from 1884)   
£35.00
345
 1pi stationery envelope as last (SSEN4), mint, F/VF   
£12.00
FRENCH AFRICA
346
 1902-13, fascinating small collection of ten mint b/w cards from Martinique (mainly street scenes, with stranded ships, a long snake and a pretty girl), plus five colourful used cards with stamps from Gabon, Togo, Dahomey, Somali Coast, and card and mint stationery cover from Senegal   
£6.00
MISCELLANY – COVERS
347
 Bargain accumulation, covering last 20-30 years: mass of more than 80 covers, some of them large, posted from Egypt mainly to ESC or its secretary, including similar colleagues’ material. Postage selected to make a spectacular show as well as pay for the journey - commems, mini sheets, definitives, plentiful and colourful   
£20.00
HAWID ACCESSORIES
348
 Assortment of Hawid and similar mounts, courtesy of a retired member: Hawid paper wrapped 36 and 48, Hawid in plastic 27.5, Gibbons Hawid 55,70 and 76, Prinz in plastic 24 and 41, Crystal Mount 1 5/32 and 1 5/8. Bulging packet of used and dismounted mounts. Not all packets full, but a sizeable group   
£8.00
MEDITERRANEAN TPO MARKING
349
 8 VI 1912, very scarce sea TPO marking ALEXANDRIEN-TRIEST of rarely attested Egypt-Austria shipping route, steamship silhouette in upper segment, cancelling Austrian 20 heller adhesive on bilingual printed commercial cover of Egyptian import-export company and addressed to Heilbronn, Germany. Beautiful, neat, clean   
£80.00
PALESTINE STATIONERY
350
 Date? Front only of large (28x13.5cm) Palestine Registered letter stationery envelope, with Dome of the Rock 15 mills imprint, uprated with 8m, 2x20m, 50m definitives and addressed to Holland with Tel Aviv 5 blue on white Registration label. On arrival in Amsterdam given large black on orange “Tax free / no customs clearance fee” label. Most unusual   
£12.00
TERRITORIAL OFFICES IN SUDAN (Smith types)
351
 SUAKIM type IV-1 on 2 pi (SG32b; wmk inverted!)   
£5.00
352
 SUAKIM type IV-1.1 on 2 pi (SG 39c; wmk inverted!)   
£3.00
353
 SAWAKIN type IX-5.1 on three different stamps   
£2.00
354
 SAWAKIN type IX-1.1 on 5 pi (SG 56; not recorded by Smith!)   
£5.00
355
 SAWAKIN type IX-1.1 on block of 10x 1 piastre   
£10.00
356
 SUAKIN Interpostal type IV A   
£4.00
357
 SAOUAKIN Interpostal type VIIA   
£3.00
358
 SAWAKIN Interpostal type VIII   
£2.00
359
 DONGOLA type X1 on Postage Due D57   
£2.00
360
 HARTUM (Khartoum) type V-4   
£2.00
361
 WADI HALFA CAMP on 5 pi (not recorded by Smith!)   
£4.00
POSTAL HISTORY
362
 5 mills postal stationery card Port Said 12 VIII 04 to Soerabaja (Dutch Indies)   
£2.00
363
 5 mills Crown overprint (O 115) on Official cover Alexandria to Switzerland   
£2.00
364
 Mixed franking (Crown opt plus First Fuad) on cover from Alex 1923 to Germany   
£2.00
365
 2x SG 137 (15 mills on 200m Agriculture) on registered cover to Hampshire   
£2.00
366
 Nice registered cover (pair of 15 mills First Fuad) to Switzerland   
£2.00
367
 Four colour franking on postcard to Germany   
£2.00
368
 Air cover 40 mills from SHEPHEARD’S Hotel to London via KLM   
£2.00
369
 Correct franking (50 mills of Exhibition commems) on air cover Alex to Rotterdam with KLM crossed out on Air Mail label   
£2.00
370
 Cover with RETTA cancellation and Nefertiti surcharge to Germany   
£2.00
371
 December Tax on registered air cover Cairo to Holland (see Smith p 544)   
£8.00
EGYPT STAMPS – Second Issue
372
 1867, Second Issue, 5 para orange-yellow (NP D8), four neat used examples illustrating the four different types   
£10.00
373
 1867, Second Issue, 10 para lilac/mauve (NP D9), two sets of four neat used examples illustrating shades and the four different types   
£18.00
374
 1867, Second Issue, 20 paras green (NP D10), four used examples, one of them showing clearly what is described as an unrecorded “candle variety” with an apparent “wick” curling left from the top of the obelisk. Not immediately apparent on three more examples   
£30.00
375
 1867, Second Issue, 1 piastre (NP D 11 a-b). Two examples: Type II used at Tanta with nearly complete extra letter in lower label; and a Type I used stamp with merely a trace of the extra letter remaining. Fascinating pair   
£85.00
376
 1867, Second Issue 1 piastre (NP D11), three used examples with accompanying notation “1 piastre candle variety”. See particularly centre stamp   
£12.00
377
 1867, Second Issue, 2 piastre bright blue (NP D12), Type IV, unrecorded flaw across lower right corner (posn 76), fine used   
£16.00
378
 1869, Second Issue, 10 para bright mauve (NP D9l), used with clean Alex CDS of 1 GEN 1871, and watermark impressed on face. ESC Certificate 347 (May 1979, signed MacArthur) accompanies   
£65.00
379
 1869, Second Issue, 10 paras bright or pale mauve (NP D9f), misplaced perf with portion of lower stamp below, used, fine   
£8.00
THIRD ISSUE COVERS
380
 8 DIC 75, envelope franked 1p + 20pa, despatched from Constantinople, Arabic- addressed to Mirza Abd el-Gawad in Cairo, flap lost and wax seal on reverse. Alexandria transit and Cairo arrival behind, both dated 14 DIC. On face, “Cairo” in red pencil. Contents remain. Striking   
£65.00
381
 11 MAR 79, envelope, franked 2pi with long oval RACCOMANDATO alongside, sent from Cairo and Arabic-addressed to Mirza Abd el-Gawad. Three wax seals behind, flap lost, contents remain. Cairo arrival mark 12 MAR. Striking registered usage   
£60.00
THIRD ISSUE
382
 31 DIC 73(?), 5 para, perf 12 ½ according to pencil mark on back, slight thin, used at Suez with most unusual blue CDS, ESC Type III-5, ex John Gilbert   
£30.00
1879 PROVISIONAL SURCHARGES
383
 1879, Third Issue provisional surcharges. Well written up study (several pages labelled “ex Byam”) on SEVEN SHEETS of the 10 para on 2 ½ pi (NP D31) showing printing guidelines, printing varieties, double and varied perfs, inverted wmk, misplaced and inverted surcharge. Over 50 stamps   
£200.00
384
 1879 Provisionals, 10pa on 2 ½ pi, IMPERF with surcharge à cheval. Impossible to be 100 per cent certain that this is not a slightly oversize stamp with perfs trimmed to almost nothing, but stamp and cancel almost certainly genuine, identified from printing guidelines as position 191, and said to have been authenticated by A. Eid (NP D31p, $400)   
£80.00
FORGERIES
385
 1867, 5pi in vertical UMM pair – but too good to be true: the forger ignored the four types and produced two identical images   
£38.00
386
 1867, 1pi with clearly forged cancellation, sewing-machine perforated all round   
£12.00
387
 Neat sheetlet of 5x5 Spiro forgeries of Third Issue 1 piastre in red, roughly perforated and cancelled with horizontal bars and rettas of dots. Neatly written up   
£24.00
FUAD STAMP ISSUES
388
 1927-27” Second Fuad” issue, envelope described as containing hundreds of five-mills Second Fuad, unsorted, ideal for scholarship (“research”)   
£10.00
389
 1927-37 Second Fuad much as last, a card covered in five-mills stamps including a pane of six, together with many slips of paper describing Type and Die numbers (not necessarily in original positions). Apparently subject to damp at some stage, so this is a gamble: what can be recovered?   
£3.00
390
 1927-37 “Second Fuad”, 15 mills A/26 (NP D116, ultramarine, Type I) control block of four, LMM   
£8.00
391
 1927-37 15 mills A/31 (NP D116c, deep blue, Type II) control block of four, LMM   
£3.00
392
 1927-37 200 mills in vertical pair with oblique perforations, pale centre UMM (NP D124e)   
£40.00
393
 1927-37 stock card with 25 stamps from 1m to 100m, used or LMM, all showing unrecorded variety of white dot on Fuad’s collar   
£15.00
394
 1936-37 40 mills A/37 (NP D121, Type II) control block of four, LMM (two copies)   
£8.00
395
 1936-37 50 mills A/29 (NP D122, Type II). control block of four, LMM   
£8.00
396
 1936-37 50 mills A/30 (NP D122, Type II), control block of four, LMM   
£8.00
397
 1936-37 “Fuad Postes”, 4 mills A/37 (NP D131), control block of four, LMM   
£4.00
398
 1936-37 20 mills A/35 A/36 (NP D135) control block of four, UMM   
£8.00
FUAD BOOKLET STAMPS
399
 1930, booklet printing, die negative Type III with inverted wmk (NP 10/11): full UMM pane of six 5 mills with margin (sewn left), plus L-shaped block of three LMM, plus 23 used 5m examples and a single 15m from the only composite booklet. All neatly written up on three sheets.   
£12.00
CROWN OVERPRINT ON DUES
400
 1922, 2pi Postage Due with Crown overprint unusually upright (NP PD30b). Small study of four unused stamps showing variations in placing of the overprint   
£20.00
PICTORIALS
401
 1914 De La Rue, 1-200 mills basic stamps plus 2/3 mills surcharge beautifully mounted on card (23 stamps); plus 1921-22 Harrisons, 1-200 mills plus 3x£E1 all similarly displayed (38 stamps). Total 11 pages plus one of Crown overprints. Examples only illustrated   
£6.00
O.H.E.M.S. OVERPRINT
402
 1922-23, pictorial definitives overprinted for Official use. 2mills vermilion with opt showing variety “trace of dot after M” (NP O23t). LMM, excellent appearance   
£8.00
403
 1922-23, used block of six of 5m value with clear variety “trace of stop after M” (NP O26z) on stamp six   
£22.00
FUAD POSTAL STATIONERY CARDS
404
 3 mills Fuad 1932-36 green on light brown card (NP SC34), internal rate, pristine mint   
£5.00
405
 3 mills green on light brown card (NP SC34), internal rate, used 13 APR 35 from Suez to Port Said, readdressed to Cairo   
£4.00
406
 3 mills brown on buff card (NP SC36), internal rate, mint, pristine   
£5.00
407
 3 mills brown on light brown card (NP SC36), internal rate, uprated with Second Fuad 10m to cover foreign rate to Ohio from Asyut 21 FE 37   
£5.00
408
 13 mills red on buff card (NP SC35, see footnote), mint, excellent   
£5.00
409
 13 mills redon buff card (NP SC35, see footnote), mint but mount adhesion behind   
£4.00
410
 13 mills red on buff card (NP SPC35), over-franked to UK from Alexandria 19 DE 35. After 1931 the Empire rate was 10 mills   
£4.00
411
 13 mills red on buff card (NP SPC35), used to Germany from Alexandria 3 MR 39, correct rate outside British Empire.   
£4.00
412
 13 mills red on buff card (NP SPC35), used to France, correct rate, from Alexandria lawyer 7 MA 40. Censor mark and one line of message obliterated   
£4.00
FUAD POSTAL STATIONERY ENVELOPES
413
 2 mills Fuad 1928 dark grey embossed vignette visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN27), Arabic-addressed from Douane / Alexandria (date?) to Port Said   
£4.00
414
 2 mills dark grey embossed visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN27), Arabic-addressed from Alexandria (date?) to Port Said   
£4.00
415
 2 mills dark grey embossed visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN27), uprated with Second Fuad 2m for foreign matter printed rate from October 29, 1931. Posted from Alexandria 12 DE 32 to London   
£5.00
416
 2 mills 1928 dark grey embossed visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN27), uprated and over-franked with Second Fuad 5m for foreign matter printed rate. Posted from Cairo Station 10(?) JA 35 to France   
£5.00
417
 2 mills Fuad 1937 orange embossed visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN29). Two examples, properly used internally, en ville or to Cairo from Alexandria, showing variance in angle at which vignette is placed. One cover leans slightly towards the left   
£7.00
418
 2 mills orange embossed visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN29), addressed within Cairo from machine cancel 9 JAN 39. Vf neat   
£5.00
419
 2 mills orange embossed visiting card envelope, vertical watermark (NP SEN29), addressed to Greece from Cairo 23 DE 37 and uprated with Second Fuad 2m to make foreign matter printed rate   
£5.00
420
 15 mills registered envelope (NP SRE7), uprated with 20+5 Second Fuad for use from Banha 19 JU 37 to Geneva. Clean and neat   
£11.00
SECOND FUAD MAIL – ILLUSTRATING POSTAGE RATES
421
 2 mills black on printed card used within Cairo. Pmk Shubra / (Cairo) 14 MR 31. VF   
£7.00
422
 2 mills black, folded inland letter, Arabic-addressed from Cairo 1930   
£5.00
423
 3 mills (2+1), internal postcard from Manfalut 26 JA 28 via Qusia to Nazali Ganoub. VF   
£7.00
424
 3 mills blue-green internal postcard rate from Suez 25 FE 36 to Cairo   
£6.00
425
 5 mills (Type III booklet stamp) from Alexandria 12 NO 36, internal letter rate   
£6.00
426
 15 mills blue, internal registered letter (Azhar pmk 2 NO 31 and cachet). Qubba Palace arrival   
£8.00
427
 2 mills black, Cairo 13 NOV 27 to Sweden, foreign printed rate to October 1931. No backstamps   
£6.00
428
 4 mills, Alexandria to England, foreign printed rate from November 1931   
£6.00
429
 4 mills dark green, foreign printed rate to USA, Port Said 22 JA 36   
£8.00
430
 4 mills brown foreign printed rate to UK, addressed London from Port Said Traffic   
£10.00
431
 4 mills (4x1mill) Sidi Gaber to France 28 JL 34, foreign printed rate from Nov 1931   
£7.00
432
 15 mills (1,2,3,4,5m), letter from Cairo pharmacy to Germany 10 APR 28   
£6.00
433
 8 mills (3+5m), postcard rate to UK before 1 Nov 31, posted Cairo 21 DE 28   
£6.00
434
 13 mills (pink), postcard Simon Arzt to Illinois 13 OC 35, overseas rate after 1 11 31   
£7.00
435
 5 mills (understamped), postcard from Port Said 18 X 29 to UK, 1d Due on arrival   
£7.00
436
 10 mills (understamped), card Port Said 25 FE 34 to Morris Plains, NJ, 2c Due on arrival   
£7.00
437
 15 mills blue, letter rate to UK after Nov 1, 1931, posted Port Said Traffic 19 FE 32. VF   
£9.00
438
 15 mils violet, letter to UK from Alexandria, received 15 Mar 1937, after 1934 colour change   
£7.00
439
 28 mils (20+2x4), Airmail letter rate from Alexandria 1 FE 36 to UK after 1 11 1931   
£9.00
440
 20 mills (large olive), Airmail to UK from Cairo 27 Mar 31. Reduced rate to promote service   
£9.00
441
 40 mills Airmail to UK from Alexandria 8 JU 36. Via KLM, which added 12 mills for faster service   
£11.00
442
 15 mills (1pi letter sheet + 2+3m) used by Cairo philatelist to Seymour Thompson 1934, rare late use of postal stationery printed before 1888 currency change. Long philatelic message inside (illegally), in French   
£12.00
443
 20 mills (large blue), special airmail rate to Denmark for short period in 1934. Alexandria 3 AU 34. Note Par Avion label cancelled   
£9.00
444
 40 mills (large brown), Airmail to Colombo from Cairo 18 JA 33, but stopped at Karachi because no onward service   
£11.00
445
 70 mills (3x20+2x5m) from Cairo 5 MA 33 to Singapore, but Airmail service started only nine months later. Journey completed by sea   
£15.00
446
 23 mills (20m large olive + 3m), First Flight Luxor to London (and on to Wales), 13 MR 31. VF   
£15.00
447
 40 mills (2x20m) printed First Flight cover Assiout to London (Wales in fact) by Imperial Airways 14 MR 31. Backstamps Recu par Avion / Alexandrie and Anglesey   
£15.00
448
 27 mills (15+10+2m), from Port Said Traffic to Basrah 15 AP 30, special Airmail rate to Iraq of 12 mills   
£13.00
FUAD GENERAL POSTAL HISTORY
449
 16 II 28, cover of Anglo-American Hospital, Ghezireh (flap), franked 25 mills (5m with diagonal screen, vertical pair of 10m with upright screen) for Registration from Qasr el Dubara (Reg cachet) to London   
£5.00
450
 28 JA 31, business cover franked 24 mills from Alexandria to Basra, endorsed By Air Mail in red ink at top left as required. Basra arrival 30 JAN   
£8.00
451
 28 FE 32, Credit Lyonnais printed envelope to Switzerland, franked at 40 mills (2x20m large blue) with Cairo pink Reg label. Rapperswill arrival behind with large bilingual “Return in 8 days” cachet   
£7.00
452
 May 1932, lightweight Turf Club (flap) envelope franked 4 mills (2x2m), unsealed and cancelled by Cairo machine. Addressed to RAF Balloon Centre, Salisbury. Neat, clean   
£8.00
453
 3 MA 32, small cover from ESC member Victor Anhoury to ESC member Glynn Grylls franked colourfully with 35 mills (2x13+2,3,4m) for registration from Port Said (b/w mute label with “Port Said” hand-added)   
£8.00
454
 25 JA 33, cut-down and opened-out cover from Ismailia to France franked 20m (large olive)   
£4.00
455
 27 AP 33, mourning cover franked 20 mills (large blue) cancelled Cairo machine for Belgium. Clean, neat   
£6.00
456
 21 SE 34, Company window envelope franked 35 mills (20m large blue + 15m) for registration from Alexandria (black on red label) but destination unknown. No backstamps   
£4.00
457
 6 FE 35, large buff envelope Cairo to Scotland, franked 28 mills (5x5+3x1m) with black on white Cairo Reg label. Newton Stewart arrival CDS behind   
£5.00
458
 23 FE 35, mourning cover franked 20 mills from Continental Savoy / Cairo to Germany. No other markings   
£4.00
459
 1 II 36, small cover addressed to USA, franked 20 mills (4x5m), but one stamp patently reused and given a boxed T. No backstamps and no apparent Due raised   
£6.00
460
 17 VII 36, printed cover (flap) addressed to Kent from Alexandria, endorsed Air Mail in red pencil and franked 28 mills (5x5+3m). No other markings   
£5.00
FAROUK BIRTHDAY
461
 1929, mint and used sets (NP C29-32), all mounted on one sheet for display (8 stamps)   
£4.00
(ALMOST) COMPLETE SHEETS – ALL INVERTED WATERMARK, ALL PART ILLUSTRATED
462
 1936-47, Boy King definitives, 1m in mint 10x10 sheet but with control block of 4x3 removed. Pencil mark A40 in selvage, inv watermark (NP D 136a)   
£8.00
463
 1936-47 Boy King 3m in mint 10x10 sheet but with two lower corner blocks of four removed. Handwritten A41 in selvage. Wmk inverted (NP D138a)   
£5.00
464
 1937-46 Boy King 10m, mint 10x10 sheet missing control block of 4x3, with handwritten A39 A40 A41 in selvage. Wmk inverted (NP D 142a)   
£8.00
465
 1937-46 Boy King 15m, complete mint sheet of 10x10 with control A/39 A/40 and full selvedge. Wmk inverted (NP D 144a)   
£12.00
466
 1937-46 Boy King 15m, mint sheet of 10x10 missing control block of 4x3. Handwritten A39 A40 in selvage. Wmk inverted (NP D 144a)   
£8.00
467
 1944-51 Farouk Marechal 4m green (NP D 158), mint 10x10 sheet but control block of four removed   
£5.00
468
 As last, but control block missing, and sheet torn across perfs in the centre   
£3.00
469
 1942-43 Air Mails, 5m in full mint sheet of 5x10 with selvage and inverted watermark (NP A24a), control A/40   
£12.00
470
 1942-43 Air Mails, 5m in full mint sheet of 5x10 with selvage and inverted watermark (NP A24a), control A/40 A/45   
£10.00
BAR OVERPRINTS
471
 1953-54, Farouk definitives with portrait barred out. Basic full set to £E1 apart from 40m, all used with three bars   
£5.00
FIRST DAY COVERS
472
 10 FE 45, flimsy envelope FDC marking 25th birthday of Farouk, cancelled at Cairo / 2 with 10m commem. Addressed but not posted   
£5.00
473
 25 JU 56, FDC marking Arab Scouts Jamboree at Aboukir. Full set of three commems (NP C161-3) uprated with Defense 17m for postage/registration to UK (cachet on face). Striking appearance, censored and with Coca-Cola event sponsorship on reverse   
£8.00
474
 1956-57, nine FDCs including both Port Said aggression, Al-Azhar on first-day sheet, one for Palestine   
£4.00
475
 1958, 18 FDCs, including min sheet, Industries se-tenant, two Palestine   
£3.00
476
 1959, 19 FDCs, including min sheet, transport set, Hilton, two definitives   
£3.00
EGYPT STAMPS – MISCELLANY
477
 Definitives – mass of stamps roughly chronologically positioned, ranging from Fourth issue through to First Fuad, mixed mint and used, some better noted, condition varied. All illustrated, total 146 stamps   
£10.00
478
 Commems – mass of mint stamps inc control blocks, mainly commems immediately post-Revolution but including Republican definitives, a few Palestine opts and two miniature sheets. Mixed lot but interesting. Over 150 stamps   
£10.00
LITERATURE – BE AWARE OF ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS.
479
 1948, four successive copies of The London Philatelist (Nos. 666-669), all complete and each containing a section of the research of Dr Gordon Ward (ESC 59) on the 1927-36 issue. No 669 also contains a detailed report of am ESC display to the Royal   
£10.00
480
 John Revell, The Stamp Booklets of Egypt, handwritten, photocopied and self-published for ESC members in 1997. A4, spiral bound, soft covers, stupendous   
£30.00
481
 Leon Balian, Catalogue: The Stamps of Egypt, 536pp, 18x25cm, hard back with dust jacket, stamps in colour, 1998, good condition   
£20.00
482
 Joseph Chalhoub, The Nile Post, 784pp, A4, hard back with dust jacket, 2003, VG condition   
£60.00
483
 Magdi Abdel-hadi, Egypt Stamps Handbook, 2 vols, 18x25cm, hard back with dust jacket, total 1350 pp, stamps and varieties in colour, 2010, VG condition   
£45.00
484
 Mike Dorsey, Maritime Mail Cancellations of Great Britain, A4, soft cover, 144pp, published by TPO and Seapost Society 2015. Scuffed but complete and neat   
£10.00
485
 NC Baldwin, 50 Years of British Air Mails 1911-1961 (Aero Field Handbook 17), A5, soft back, 48pp, pristine condition   
£5.00
486
 Stanley Gibbons Colour Guide, three pages of colours with spyhole for comparing two of them. Plus Cascade Colour Kit, which allows colours to be filtered out, leaving only black CDS   
£6.00
487
 Three slim A5 guidebooks – Cox and Kings’ Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Syria (1920s?); American Express Egypt, Sudan, Syria and Palestine (1928, complete but cover repaired); Sitmar Plan and Guide to Cairo, 1930, with excellent review of Ausonia and Esperia and fine fold-out sketch map of central Cairo   
£8.00
488
 Map of the Middle East (1933) by master map-maker Edward Stanford of London. Hard back, hand coloured, linen backed, near-pristine, map folds into 32 sections and extends to 28x40in, from Turkey to Deirut, Western Desert to Persian Gulf, indicating all airfields. A little masterpiece. Abe Books price: $119 to £154.   
£30.00
SUDAN OVERPRINTS
489
 1897, Egyptian stamps overprinted bilingual SOUDAN, Fourth Issue De La Rue definitives plus postage due stamps, total 17 stamps with examples of all overprint types. Plus 1m and 2m strips of six showing all types   
£20.00
POSTAL HISTORY
490
 21 AV 62, cover franked with 1pi rose (NP D37) cancelled BENI MAZAR to CAIRO   
£10.00
COMMEMORATIVES
491
 The Winter Festival Foundation 3 milliemes orange, unissued (NP C13), mint block of six stamps with marginal control number 1 in circle. Gum may not be original   
£100.00
REVENUES
492
 Cigarette Tax stamp, Kyriazi Freres ¼ millième 100 cigarettes (Feltus 227) imperforate in block of four, with variety prominent paper fold   
£20.00
493
 Cigarettes Tax stamps, accumulation of 49 varied stamps, good condition   
£10.00
494
 Accumulation of 100 varied Salt Tax stamps, used, opportunity for postmark-spotting   
£5.00
EGYPT STAMPS AND VARIETIES
495
 1866, First Issue, 5pi used with watermark (SG No 6, cat £190)   
£120.00
496
 1866, 1pi stamp (SG 4) with missing point between letters P and E   
£30.00
497
 1879, provisional surcharge issue. 10 para on 2 1/2pi, imperforate (NP D31p), used with faint CDS. With RPS London certificate issued to Jean Boulad d’Humières in 1964. Cat $400 in 2003   
£380.00
498
 1879,1884, De La Rue high values, 2x5pi stamps (SG 49,56, cat £86 each), hinged mint   
£40.00
499
 1882, De La Rue 10para bluish-grey (SG 51) with inverted watermark, used at Zaka….   
£15.00
500
 1888, De La Rue 5 mills stamp (SG 63) from booklet pane (issued 1903/1911) in fine used block of four with perfect centred cancel of Salah el Din / Alexandria / * dated 26 JU 12   
£40.00
501
 1893, De La Rue Sphinx/Pyramids 3 mills yellow (NP D48), horizontal mint pair with colour variety, yellow shading into maroon. Unrecorded   
£30.00
502
 1898, Provisional surcharge 3 mills on 2pi Postage Due (SG D75), two mint stamps, one UMM, other with adhesion on reverse, both with surcharge very much à cheval   
£40.00
503
 1914-15 Officials, No-value stamp, right marginal block of 16 with plate number 1 in circle, wmk sideways (star to left, SG 64cw, NP O1e), unmounted   
£30.00
504
 1923-24, King Fouad First Portrait issue, seven values unmounted mint (NP D91 etc), 1-50m, each stamp marked with retouches and flaws unrecorded by NP) on enlarged diagrams. Most unusual   
£30.00
505
 1937, King Fouad £E1, single stamp, fresh unmounted mint (SG 170, cat £160)   
£95.00
506
 1944, Anniversary of death of King Fouad, 10 mills (NP C92), block of four pristine UNM with unrecorded flaw of white box on king’s nose, stamp 2   
£20.00
507
 1949, King Farouk Marechal, £E1, single stamp, fresh unmounted mint (SG 346, cat £42)   
£28.00
508
 1949, King Farouk Marechal, £E1, top right corner pair with full margins in perfect UNM condition (SG 346, £42 each)   
£75.00
509
 1952, Farouk Marechal 1m definitive, overprinted KES (SG 373) with variety, blob of extra black ink over Arabic. UMM, unrecorded   
£10.00
510
 1958, Egyptian Industries lower marginal se-tenant strip of five UMM with control A/58 and wmk inverted. NP 202a-206a, cat $15 each in 2003   
£38.00
511
 1993, 15pi Sphinx definitive (modified design, UMM block of four, NP 357), plus imperf essay block of four of original design with missing colour   
£30.00
512
 2002, Snefru Pyramid £E1 definitive (SG 2237a), single UMM stamp plus three more with various printing flaws   
£25.00
513
 2004, Small Arabic-addressed cover used en ville in Cairo from Zeitoun to Gezira, franked with 30pt stamp marking Egypt’s 2010 World Cup football bid with remarkable misperforation across stamp centre. Most unusual   
£30.00
514
 2015, £E3 Amenhotep son of Hapu definitive, two UMM stamps showing colour shades, plus five more with printing varieties   
£25.00
515
 Oct 2020, major design flaw on World Statistics Day £E5 commemorative, with EGYPT spelled as EYGPT. Error repeated on printed FDC as well as on FDC special cancel   
£30.00
516
 As last, lower left corner strip of three stamps with full selvedge, UMM &  
£20.00
517
 3 Apr 2021, Golden Parade of the Pharaohs. Spectacular commemorative presentation pack (25x33cm) including all 22 £E5 stamps on first-day cover plus miniature sheet and strip of three on FDC. Plus brochure. Only 1500 printed, and sold out at Egyptian post offices in ten days.   
£45.00
PAINTED ESSAYS FOR STAMPS AND REVENUES
518
 1967, unadopted painted essay for UAR of 4 mills showing Mohamed Ali Mosque, 18x21cm. Very similar design released with 100 mills face value as part of AR Egypt definitive set in October 1972 (Magdy 333)   
£70.00
519
 1970 President Nasser memorial issue 20m in green, water colour on light card with Arabic notes, 13x16cm, together with cover bearing blue 5m issued stamp (NP 594) used Alexandria 1971   
£60.00
520
 1978, pharaonic definitive series, hand painted design for 3pt value, carved head (15x19cm), but unadopted at that value. Issued instead as 11pt stamp (Magdy 374)   
£70.00
521
 1978, Egypt air mail series, hand painted essay for Sakkara Pyramid and temple which was adopted at essay’s 115m value (Magdy 137) and then reprinted 15 months later with 185m face value. Painting 18 x 25cm   
£80.00
522
 Nasser Bank savings stamps, 1985-1990 issue, remarkable submitted series of four colourful stamps hand painted by Ibrahim el-Tahtawy in water colour. See below Lot 579   
£120.00
523
 1988 20p general tax stamp in green, water colour on light card, 18x25cm with Postal Authority notes in Arabic including “Cancelled” (laghi) and changing design to 15p. With issued stamp   
£70.00
524
 2000, National Council for Childhood and Motherhood revenue, £E1 revenue tax-raiser for newborn babies research, water colour on light card. Postal Authority notes on reverse, stamp not adopted; issued stamp attached   
£70.00
FAROUK SIX BARS
525
 Farouk Marechal definitives with six bars. All UMM, 1m pair, 4m, 6m pair; Palestine opt 3m,4m,22m   
£30.00
FORGERIES
526
 Second and Third Issue stamps, various, lot of 12 replica stamps   
£35.00
527
 Postage Dues: First and second series of stamps, various, 12 replica stamps   
£35.00
HOTELS INTEREST
528
 1912(?), Colourful Heliopolis Palace Hotel luggage label, 10x15cm   
£35.00
529
 1924(?), Colourful Mena House Hotel luggage label, 10x10cm, mint condition   
£20.00
530
 1930, forged version of Winter Palace postmark (see QC 277, June 2021, p.146) addressed to France but full of errors with CDS a combination of two genuine marks   
£30.00
531
 1958, incoming air letter from Boyertown, Pennsylvania, addressed to Cité Continental Oriental Philatelic House (on Continental premises). Received on reverse an unrecorded Hotel Continental Savoy / Cairo registration? handstamp of 24?? 1958, thoroughly obliterated in red pencil   
£40.00
532
 1977, registered cover from Sheraton Hotel to Tuku in Finland, cancelled with scare Hotel post office Type 2 cds and all-Arabic registration label “Shiraton”. Finland arrival behind   
£70.00
533
 1995, 25th anniversary of opening of the Sheraton Hotel issue with 15p stamp and advertising label on illustrated FDC addressed to officer in Alexandria Customs   
£15.00
534
 1994 and 2009, two long printed covers for the Meridien Hotel and Semiramis Continental in Cairo, both with hotel machine cancels within Cairo (Meridien 15pt, Semiramis 110pt)   
£20.00
BOOKLET STAMPS
535
 1921 to 1948, a range of booklet stamps on six covers used within Egypt, from DLR Pictorial to Farouk Marechal   
£40.00
POSTAL STATIONERY
536
 1879, First Egyptian postal stationery card (De La Rue, NP SPC1), 20para. One card in unused condition, and another overprinted SPECIMEN for UPU use. Totally clean behind   
£150.00
537
 1941, Farouk Boy King 6 mills letter sheet with Al-Mamlaka al-Masriya heading (unrecorded under Nile Post SLS12 but see QC 259, pp.274-76) instead of Al-Dawla al Masriya. Mint, in perfect condition   
£180.00
538
 28 JU 68, UAR international reply coupon value 65 mills, issued in Cairo not redeemed   
£18.00
539
 1969 to 1974, four used Eagle of Saladin postal stationery 10 mills envelopes (SEN44), all without filigree, all uprated with various colourful definitives back and front   
£35.00
SEA POST
540
 26 11 02, 20para stationary card of Austrian Post Office, with Austrian PO Smyrna cancel, addressed to Delhi via Alexandria by clear Sea Post Office strike. Arrival Delhi 14 12 02   
£28.00
POSTAL HISTORY
541
 21 IV 00, mother and baby postcard from Alexandria to Jewish lady in Cairo, franked 5m DLR, redirected to Toura, here arrival CDS very much distorted with squashed right side   
£15.00
542
 1909, Lichtenstern & Harari postcard (Camels feeding in countryside), neatly addressed from Alexandria to Mit Berah but posted without a stamp. Boxed-T markings and 4m Due (SG D72) applied on arrival   
£28.00
543
 29 JL 37, registered cover from Abbassia Barracks (Reg cachet alongside) addressed to British Barracks Abbassia, and franked with nine Boy King stamps with first-day cancel (Makram cat p.26, $60)   
£28.00
544
 1936-37-62, three Postage Paid covers from Cairo and Alexandria   
£10.00
545
 1939, Photo postcard of Australia/New Zealand war memorial in Port Said franked 3m Boy King and sent from Port Said to Cairo   
£10.00
546
 1954, Printed Matter. 14x20cm bilingual pamphlet/catalogue printed to advertise sale of surplus British forces stores, vehicles etc at NAAFI depot, Fanara. Franked 2x2m fellah. Neat   
£10.00
547
 1957, Express cover Ismailia-Cairo franked at correct 50mills rate with bilingual black on pink label and stamps cancelled with commemorative Suez Canal Nationalization special CDS for Ismailia. Cairo Express Delivery arrival cds behind   
£30.00
548
 1958, Poste Restante tax: incoming censored cover from California to Alexandria with 4x1m General tax stamps plus single 1 fellah definitive paying tax due on reverse. Most unusual   
£15.00
549
 1970, Poste Restante: registered cover from Moharram Bey in Alexandria to Shubra, franked at 55 mills for postage (correct rate), taxed on reverse with 10m General revenue instead of postage dues   
£15.00
550
 1976, December tax: registered cover from Chibin el Kom to the Prime Minister’s office, franked correctly at 55m, with 1 mill Step Pyramid as tuberculosis fund tax   
£12.00
ADVERTISING LABELS
551
 1924 printed registered cover from Cairo to Plauen in Germany, franked with 8x5m First Fuad stamps. Reverse has large German label for Uhu glue attached   
£24.00
552
 1930, neat registered cover from Cairo to Abnub, franked with Fuad 15m blue, redirected back to the sender. Tiny Colman’s Azure advertising label attached to face   
£20.00
553
 1935 cover from Heliopolis to Portland, USA, franked Fuad 4x5mills, with By Air Mail label comprehensively cancelled by pencil. Neat little Colman’s Mustard label attached to face   
£24.00
AIR INTEREST
554
 1947, flimsy air envelope franked 97 mills of Farouk Marechal, addressed to New York, and supplied with British authorities’ red boxed O.A.T. cachet signifying onward air transmission   
£15.00
555
 23 8 48, first SAIDE flight. Two covers from Cairo to Athens and Rome, each franked with two surcharged stamps plus Farouk air 20m   
£40.00
556
 Air France trilingual labels (Sears 13), printed 1935. Block of 3x7 unmounted, plus small cover with label franked 52 mills from Cairo to Germany   
£20.00
557
 SAIDE bilingual Air Mail labels in block of 2x8, unmounted mint perfect condition. Sears 19, 1948   
£25.00
558
 2014, postcard (Italian cemetery) from El Alamein with very odd CDS date – 30 2023??, addressed to Italy but returned to sender with Italian PO label attached   
£12.00
POSTAL MARKINGS
559
 1888-1933, accumulation of 14 various receipts – telegraph, registration, sick report, caisse d’epargne certificates, foreign postal money order, requisition of payment. Interesting group of different cancellations   
£20.00
560
 1936-1998, large group of 13 covers and a telegraph form all sent at express rate with CDS and/or delivery markings. Interesting variation   
£40.00
561
 1961-1984, group of six covers all sent with different markings from Alexandria Ramleh tramway station, interesting lot for Ramleh collectors including one with all-Arabic registration label   
£25.00
562
 1961-1986, group of ten covers all with unusual cancels: 1961 Wadi el Natrun, 1962 Mansourah Molev Group, 1963 Berket Ghatas, 1964 Aswan Qissariya, 1972 Masif el Mamurah, 1974 Tourist Fair Luqsor, 1977 Tanta Postal Touring Exhibition, 1980 Karnak Loxor, 1980 El Luqsor Air Port, 1986 Abu Senbel   
£30.00
SINAI / CANAL ZONE CANCELS
563
 Jumbo lot of 13 covers, five receipts and one postcard with various cancels – Abu Suwer, Port Taufiq, Suez, Port Said, Ismailia, Ras Ghareb, El-Salam (North Sinai), Hay el Arbayin Talet (Suez), Rafa (North Sinai), Atef Sadat (Port Said), Barid Rafa. Interesting lot   
£25.00
TPO MARKINGS
564
 1897, Austrian 5 kreuzer postal stationery card from Podgorze to Cairo with scarce Amb Alexandrie-Cairo tpo (Smith 3B1) of 21 XI 97 II as transit marking   
£20.00
565
 1939-48, group of ten covers all showing TPO postal markings: 1929, 1934 Cairo-Alex, 1931 Damanhur-Idfina, 1936 Mina el Qamh-Sahragt, 1935 Cairo-Mansura, 1936 Luxor-Shellal, 1939 Abu Kibir-Salhia, 1944 Mansura-Mit Ghamr, 1946 Port Taufiq-Ismailia, 1948 Alex-Abu Qir   
£40.00
RURAL POST CANCELS
566
 1918-1956, Group of seven covers used in the Rural Service   
£30.00
INSTRUCTIONAL MARKINGS
567
 1936-1962, group of four covers all with instructional markings of one sort of another -1938 boxed Rebut a Remettre, 1958 straight-line Avis de Reception, 1962 trilingual En Voyage, 1962 boxed Unclaimed   
£20.00
REVENUES
568
 1946 page from Cyprus passport authorised for single journey to Egypt with tax paid with three KG VI high-value stamps instead of consular revenues   
£25.00
569
 1 1 1954, Egyptian passport page with visa tax paid by Royal Crest £E1 revenue stamp (Feltus page 47, No 426), cancelled with crowned circle. One of the most rare revenue stamps   
£80.00
570
 28 7 56, Egyptian passport page with visa tax paid by £E1 Republican Eagle issue (Feltus p.49, No 443), neatly pen-cancelled   
£40.00
571
 1958, Syndicate for Theatrical, Cinematic and Musical Professions – the Musicians issue, complete set of four, from 10m to 500m, all used (Feltus p.96, 926-929)   
£28.00
572
 1965-2000, group of five covers all successfully franked with revenue stamps instead of postage issues.   
£20.00
573
 UAR period, 1959-70? Feltus’ Fourth Issue Medical Syndicate, crudely perforated and with stethoscope wmk, four UMM blocks of four overprinted by private pharmacy Matouk Frères of Damascus and surcharged 14.5, 15, 25.5 and 27pt with opt flaws     
£30.00
574
 1985, Syndicate of the Scientific Professions – single marginal 25m mint stamp with perforation shift (not recorded by Feltus)   
£30.00
575
 1988-2010, group of eight various Consular Service used revenue stamps   
£28.00
576
 1 10 2003, printing date on selvage of Medical Syndicate 10pt revenue in full sheet of 10x10 stamps, UMM   
£28.00
577
 29 8 1920 good conduct all-Arabic certificate issued by Egyptian Army from the Citadel, with tax paid by 3pt surcharge on No-Value stamp. Colourful Staff Officer cachet   
£10.00
578
 2007-2021, Educational Improvement raising fund revenue – three unmounted mint corner pairs with various printing details on selvage   
£20.00
579
 1990-2000 Nasser Bank revenues – three unmounted stamps of two issues. See Lot 522   
£20.00
UAR SYRIA
580
 1958, International Children’s Day, three values from 1947 overprinted with Arabic and RAU after union of Egypt and Syria. Perfect UMM condition, SG 670a-c, cat £200 in 2003   
£180.00
PRINTING ESSAYS
581
 1959, essays for UAR-Yemen union on gummed paper with “Printing Experiment” replacing dates, no value, no watermark, first production of Postal Printing House press. Left marginal block of four, purple with printing date 29 vi 59 in margin. See NPC219   
£30.00
582
 As last, lower marginal block of four, with watermark, rose-red   
£40.00
583
 1970, essays for Aswan Kima Factory, various colours, five perforated and two imperf on gummed paper, no watermark, unmounted mint   
£60.00
584
 1980s, Postal Authority Press essay portrait of President Hosni Mubarak, rejected by Mubarak. Ten multicolour examples, perf/imperf (NP E549 priced at $20 each)   
£90.00
CASSETTE ENVELOPES
585
 2004 envelopes for cassette despatch, six values all overprinted “Cancelled” in Arabic and withdrawn from service for official use. All mint, excellent condition   
£22.00
POST OFFICE LABELS
586
 1935, bilingual Post Office pink Express labels (second type), marginal block of 2x5   
£25.00
INTERPOSTALS
587
 1890, Type XI. Three unmounted seals, two of them showing different shades and another misplaced in printing showing parts of two seals   
£25.00
UPU POSTAL ID CARD
588
 Issued by Cairo / E information office on January 2, 1944, with Farouk 6+50m stamps paying the fee and 2x5m general revenues the tax   
£30.00
STATION MARKINGS
589
 1912-1981, group of 15 station markings on three telegraph forms and seven covers, including Zagazig 1912, Mansura 1916, Assiut 1918, Tanta 1943, Minia 1945, Sohag 1948, Suez 1950, Cairo 1953, Asyut 1962, Banha 1967, Sidi Bishr 1978, Banha all-Arabic 1985, Aba el Waqf 1990, Qaliub 1993   
£40.00
590
 1920-1947, four covers and a telegraph receipt, all cancelled with station postmarks – Assiut (telegraph, blue) 1920, Sohag (2 covers) 1940, Alexandria (registered) 1944, Cairo (registered/AR) 1957   
£25.00
HISTORIC MAPS
591
 1798, Naval Action at Aboukir, printed in one colour (19.5x14.7cm on sheet 27.8x21.8) showing the positions of the French and British vessels at the battle of Aboukir Bay. Engraved by Sid. Hall, of Bury St, Bloomsbury, and published 1823 by Henry Coulburn & Co and M. Bossange & Co   
£60.00
592
 Date 18th century? colour map of Lower Egypt, vertical fold otherwise excellent, drawn by J. Assherton, engraved by J. Shury and published by Thomas Tegg of Cheapside, 25x30cm   
£40.00
PHOTOGRAPHS
593
 1929, series of three small snapshot photographs of the flag procession and opening ceremony of the first Pan African Games, held in Alexandria. Plus white on green advertising label   
£28.00
594
 1957, small snapshot photograph of Bab el Luq to Helwan electric train. The service was cancelled and closed in 1980   
£10.00
JEWISH COMMUNITY
595
 1885, certificate issued in Alexandria on behalf of the Communita Israeliatica and authenticated with the ornate seal of the Consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire   
£45.00
PALESTINE
596
 1951, taxed cover from Cairo to Gaza franked 10m Marechal and cancelled with Alex Mediterranean Games slogan machine, given large T in pencil, all-Arabic censor label and handstamps, and suppled on arrival with strip of four 6 mills 1927-32 Dues with bilingual Palestine overprint (NP PPD3)   
£25.00
SUDAN
597
 1938, clean sepia postcard, Gordon College Khartoum, used to Alexandria without any sort of franking, written in Armenian   
£15.00
598
 Lot of 20 stamps all showing surcharges owing to currency change, used and unmounted. Many varieties including inverted and à cheval etc   
£25.00
GREECE
599
 1940, certificate issued by Greek consul in Alexandria and provided with three consular revenue stamps, one of which has value altered by hand. Unusual   
£250
ANTIQUITIES INTEREST
600
 30 6 1903, Antiquities Department certificate in Arabic confirming that a farmer is allowed to build a house on land that has no antiquities interest. Signed by Gaston Maspero   
£35.00
EGYPT CONTROL BLOCKS
601
 1951 two corner control blocks of four, unmounted mint, SG 369 and 371, Controls A/51.   
£8.00
EGYPT MINIATURE SHEETS
602
 SG MS 368, Royal Wedding, 1951 unmounted mint   
£12.00
603
 SG MS 601, Transport & Communication, 1959 unmounted mint   
£10.00
604
 SG MS 570, 6th Anniv. of Revolution, 1958 unmounted mint, plus horizontal strip of five, SG 565-569, unmounted mint   
£15.00
605
 SG MS 665, 9th Anniv. of Revolution, 1961 unmounted mint   
£3.50
606
 SG MS 647, Olympic Games, 1960, unmounted mint   
£3.00
607
 SG MS 802, Aswan Dam Projects, 1964, unmounted mint   
£3.50
608
 SG MS 1092, UAR High Dam with two portraits of Pres. Nasser, 1971, unmounted mint   
£15.00
609
 SG MS 1320, 25th Anniv. of Revolution, 1977, Nasser and Sadat with Flag, airmail, unmounted Mint   
£2.50
EGYPT COMMEMORATIVES
610
 United Nations Day, Egyptian Art, 1967, marginal set of three, SG 933-935, unmounted mint   
£2.50
611
 14th Anniv. of Revolution, 1966, set of four values, three unmounted mint, one has hinge remains, SG 886-889   
£1.50
FIRST DAY COVERS
612
 1962 Post Day, SG 681 duly cancelled 2 1 62 in Cairo but not posted. Very clean!   
£1.50
613
 Ramadan Festival 1964, SG 791 duly cancelled in Cairo but not posted   
£1.00
POSTAL HISTORY
614
 Credit Foncier Egyptien Le Caire pre-printed cover franked 35 millièmes commemorative of 1961, Ninth Anniv. of the Revolution SG 663, sent Cairo R.D. Special 1 (registered) addressed in Arabic but with four receivers au verso, including two of Fayum 20th and 26th Nov. and one of Midimin? 21st November so probably returned to sender   
£10.00
615
 Pressly Memorial Institute pre-printed cover franked 82 millièmes Farmer SG 415 plus SG 423 and SG 428 posted Asyut by air to Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A. with civil censor and, on reverse, Cairo transit 8th Sept   
£6.00
616
 Parcel Card franked 5 mills Farmer, plus pair of 30 mills SG 423 Sultan Hassan Mosque, and 3 mills fiscals all cancelled at Kushtamir? with Arabic destination. Folded down the middle, hence price   
£5.00
617
 First Day Cover SG 306 Visit of King of Saudi Arabia in 1946, cover of Wm. Stapledon & Sons at Port Tewfik to the captain of S.S. Empire Drum also at Port Tewfik   
£2.00
618
 Large part of envelope franked with complete set of 1933 airmail issue (missing SG 195 not yet issued) all cancelled Cairo R.D.17, so registered, but address not there. Very odd!   
£20.00
619
 4 mills DLR SG 62 franking 1909 postcard, of Temple of Debod in Nubia sent from Cataract Hotel, Aswan, with blue hotel postmark, nice strike to Allerton, Liverpool. Also unused L.L. pc of the hotel.   
£9.00
620
 4 mills (2 x 2) DLR SG 59 franking pc to Petersfield, Hants, cancelled Luxor Hotel, Luxor 15th December 1895 in black. Picture side is the Rest House at Thebes in black and white   
£8.00
UNO FORCES
621
 EGYPT UNO Polish Forces (Blue Helmets) 1976 - Collection of 56 different covers, all with EGYPTOLOGY cancels   
£180.00
DLR SPECIALISED
622
 EGYPT Small specialised collection De La Rue 1914 on 26 cards - 2/3 colour frankings, hotel cancels, tax due   
£180.00
EGYPT TPOs
623
 DUMIAT-TANTA line TPO / AMBULANT – five items 1891/1911, various cancels   
£45.00
624
 SUEZ CANAL TPO / AMBULANT - 16 items 1895/1913, various TPOs from ISMAILIA or PORT SAID   
£65.00
625
 SUEZ CANAL TPO / AMBULANT – eight items 1891/1912, various TPOs on De La Rue   
£65.00
626
 LUQSOR-ASYUT line TPO / AMBULANT - six items 1907/1928, various cancels   
£40.00
627
 BENI-SUWEF-CAIRO line TPO / AMBULANT - five items 1901/1906, various cancels   
£40.00
628
 ASYUT-CAIRO line TPO / AMBULANT – five items 1907/1926, various cancels   
£55.00
629
 GREAT SOUTH TPO / AMBULANT - eight items 1904/1928, various TPO cancels of the SHALLAL-LUQSOR line   
£90.00
EGYPT SHIP MAIL
630
 Small group of seven De La Rue stationary/view cards, with French Ligne N cancels, various ships, 1890/1904   
£50.00
EGYPT REVENUES
631
 Seven printed fiscal papers, 1900/1911, values 3pi, 5pi, 10pi, six of them cancelled with ANNULE red bars overprint. Quite uncommon   
£60.00
EGYPT HOTELS
632
 CONTINENTAL HOTEL - Collection mounted on 22 album pages 1892/1920 - 35 Hotel viewcards, cancels on cards or covers, and 37 loose stamps with hotel cancels   
£170.00
633
 SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL - Collection mounted on 20 album pages 1893/1946 - 43 Hotel viewcards, cancels on cards or covers, and 47 loose stamps with hotel cancels   
£200.00
SUDAN CAMPAIGN SOLDIER'S LETTERS. NAHMAN FAKES.
634
 Often sold as true covers, these were exposed by Peter Smith and Dr Byam in QC 50 (in English, 1957) and L’OP 100 (in French, 1959) – both available on our website – as forgeries using a genuine 3m on 2p Due surcharge from troops serving in Sudan. The classic error was mis-spelling of “Feild” in “Field Service”. Addressed to Victor or Henry Nahman, brothers who were genuine collectors taken in by a postal employee, many bear a monogram of V/N indicating their source in the Victor Nahman collection.
Halfa 4 AV 98 to Alex, Halfa and boxed-T fake, Alex arrival and stamp genuine   
£40.00
635
 Darmali 3 VIII 98 to Alex, Darmali and boxed-T fake, Alex arrival and stamp genuine   
£40.00
636
 As last, Atbara 30 VII 98 to Alex, Atbara and boxed-T fake, stamp and Alex arrival (and backstamp) genuine   
£40.00
STAR AND CRESCENT CANCELS
637
 A small group with one cover (poor condition), two postcards and six stamps with striking cancels: Caire/Ghouria JL 85 and MR 89. Chibin el Kom DE 89. Faraskour DE 93. Birket el Sab SE 9? Nekla FE 91, Damiette? 96, Gafaria JA 12 and Alexandria/Minet el Bassal with a new early date of 3 MA 85   
£25.00
SALT TAX
638
 1890 Salt Tax – Feltus 201-205, 1892 Salt Tax – Feltus 208-210 all fine used   
£20.00
DEFINITIVES
639
 1914 – 1m – 10m. Imperf on Watermarked paper blocks of 4. Some gum toning   
£150.00
640
 1914 – 1m unmounted mint left hand marginal block of 20. Narrow watermark. NP D53.   
£40.00
COMMEMORATIVES
641
 1943 Princess Ferial birthday. Lower Right hand corner block of 15. Margins removed. Stamp 98 ‘1493’ error   
£50.00
642
 1925 Geographic Congress Set unmounted Mint. NP C4-C6.   
£25.00
COVER
643
 1925 Geographic Congress. Lovely cover slightly cut down at left used 6th May. Congress cancel. Cancelled at back Cairo F-6. AP.25. IIA.   
£75.00


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