XII-The First Issue
Egypt: Stamps & Postal History

pages 136-137

Fig.8 10 Piaster. The Nine Types

Type 1 Design upright.
(a) Break in coloured oval frame line, causing white spot beneath the foot of "P" in right lower corner.
(b) Wide breach in centre of upper outer frame line.








Type 2. Design upright.
Circular white flaw to right of white line enclosing "10" in left lower corner











Type 3. Design inverted.
Outward bulge of left outer frame line level with lower part of white line enclosing "10" in left lower corner.









Type 4 Design inverted.
(a) horizontal bar of colour below centre of lower border, extending slightly to right.
(b) Minute break in outer white triangle around " P.E." in right lower corner level with angle of inner triangle by foot of "E."
(c) Deformed opening of "0" in left lower corner.







Type 5. Design upright.
(a) Minute break in white oval frame line opposite centre of upright limb of damaged "E."
(b) Small comma-shaped coloured fragment outside the design level with upper portion of "0" in right upper corner (this flaw is not seen on poor impressions).









Type 6 Design inverted.
Small detached coloured fragment just outside left lateral frame line a short distance above lowest point of left upper outer triangle.













Type 7 Design upright.
"0" of "10" in left corner is flattened along the aspect facing the lower border of the stamp.











Type 8 Design upright.
Three minute coloured specks on white oval frame line opposite point midway between upper inner angles of the two, white triangle enclosing "10" in right upper corner of design










Type 9. Design inverted. Break in lower inner coloured frame line directly below right extremity of "P"










Type 10
Unknown, as all twenty impressions have been removed from the printing stone (see text on p. 128).