| | Postal history | |
| 1 | Early Missionary letter dated 7 Dec 1830, Alexandria to Beyroot | £59 |
| 2 | French Consular Mail – Entire Alex to Marseilles with 40 centimes cancelled 5080 (diamond) via Paquebots de la Mediterrane (in red) and PD (in red). Reduced rate from 1866 | £44 |
| | Second Issue, 1867-69 (Nile Post numbers) | |
| 3 | 5-para (D8), Types 104 unused, with photograph | £24 |
| 4 | 10-para (D91), used with watermark on face. ESC certificate | £45 |
| 5 | 3 x 10-para (D9a, 9b, 9c), used in excellent condition with photograph | £85 |
| 6 | 10-para (D9, Types 1-4), unused, includes Stone A Type 2 (D9A) | £83 |
| 7 | 10-para (D9f, Types 1-4), unused, includes Stone B Type 2 unbroken O, with photograph | £63 |
| 8 | 10-para (D9 Types 1-4), unused and used including Stone A 3rd State Type 2 with photograph | £111 |
| 9 | 20-para (D10 Types 1-4), unused Stone A (2 dots) with photograph | £72 |
| 10 | 20-para (D10i Types 1-4), unused Stone B (3 dots) with photograph | £65 |
| 11 | 1-piastre (D11), 37 copies unused and used, all types. Worthy of research by a student of this issue | £49 |
| 12 | 5-piastre (D 13 Types 1-4), unused, fine condition | £390 |
| 13 | 5-piastre (D13 Types 1-4), used, fine condition | £240 |
| 14 | 5-para (D8k) used, misplaced perforation | £43 |
| 15 | 5-para (D8), yellow green, mint, very fine | £19 |
| 16 | 10-para (D9j), unused, “white hole in wig” variety | £29 |
| 17 | 1-piastre (D11v), unused, “inverted watermark” | £19 |
| 18 | 1-piastre (D11m), unused, imperforate | £22 |
| | Postage Due issue 1922 (Nile Post numbers) | |
| 19 | PD30a, mint block of 12, overprint à cheval | £186 |
| 20 | PD30a, three mint singles, opt à cheval, illustrating three different positions of overprint | £42 |
| 21 | PD30b, four mint singles with upright overprint illustrating four different positions of overprint | £41 |
| | Official stamps (Nile Post numbers) | |
| 22 | O26k, used block of 6x5mills including one with only a trace of dot after M | £31 |
| 23 | O23g, mint single 2mills, part dot after M | £14 |
| 24 | O30, used single, 15 mills, only one dot (Figure 10 Printing B position 840 | £20 |
| | De La Rue 1879-82 and 1884 Provisionals | |
| 25 | Used collection (inc 3 x D32, 3 x D32d, 2 x D33, 2xD34, 3xD35, 1xD35a, 4xD36, 2xD37, 1xD37a, 3xD38, 2xD39, 4xD40. Stamps sound | £19 |
| | 1884 Colour Change | |
| 26 | Used collection (inc 3xD41, 3xD421, 5xD43, 5xD44), stamps sound | £4.00 |
| | 1888-1906 new currency issue | |
| 27 | Mainly used collection with occasional mint (inc 11xD45, 9xD46, 2xD47, 7xD48, 11xD50, 4xD43, 1xD51, 3xD52, 3xD49), stamps sound | £7.60 |
| | Second Fuad | |
| 28 | 79 mint control blocks of the Second Fuad issue (Nile Post D106-D118), many with both panes and very little duplication. Includes both Panes of D107 Type 1. Ideal for the collector wishing to study this issue | £160 |
| 29 | 500 used copies of the Second Fuad 5 mills, ideal for anyone studying the second Fuad experimentation stamp | £9.00 |
| | Second Fuad - Single proofs with Cancelled on reverse | |
| 30 | 2 mills Type 2 (D107d) | £6.00 |
| 31 | 5 mills Type 2 (D110e) | £6.00 |
| 32 | 40 mills (D121a) | £25 |
| 33 | As last, but from Palace collection | £26 |
| 34 | 100m (D1323a) from Palace colln | £39 |
| | First Issue | |
| 35 | 20pa horizontal pair (Bal 3, NP 3), imperf top and bottom, wmk upright, used, cancelled with spot-on retta between the two stamps, F-VF condition  | £80 |
| 36 | 20pa horizontal pair, wmk upright (Bal 3, NP 3), perf misplaced so centred right and high, used with ¾ 1866 CDS missing place name, F-VF | £30 |
| 37 | 20pa single, perf 13x13, wmk inverted (Bal 3e, NP 3x), all perfs sound, mint, no gum, sl hinge traces, VG condition | £140 |
| 38 | 20pa single (Bal 3, NP 3), wmk upright, centred low left, used from COSTA(tinopoli), fine condition | £30 |
| 39 | 1pi single (Bal 4, NP 4), centred high left, used, good condition | £4.00 |
| | 1884 Provisional | |
| 40 | 20m on 5pi, vert pair, surcharge à cheval bleeding almost off left-hand edge (Bal 57b, NP 40d), NH mint, fine | £22 |
| 41 | 20m on 5pi, wmk upright, surcharge inverted (Bal 57c, NP 40a), excellent mint, sl hinge trace | £22 |
| 42 | 20m on 5pi, wmk and surcharge both inverted (Bal 57d, NP 40c), prominent circular flaw on 0 of surcharge. Fine mint but sl stain on reverse | £32 |
| 43 | 20m on 5pi, four used examples of flaws on surcharge – circular holes or bites out of 2 or 0 (Bal 57i). Fine cond | £12 |
| | 1879 De La Rue | |
| 44 | 1pi rose, selection of eight examples (in Nasser Memorial stock folder): two mint, three with rettas, one Alex-A duplex, one Recommandes, one full Tanta strike 7 NOV 79 on piece | £12 |
| | 1922 Dues | |
| 45 | 2m scarlet, essay with Crown overprint upright (Bal 219b, NP E253), excellent mint example, no gum | £45 |
| 46 | 2pi orange, Crown overprint upright (Bal 222b, NP 30b), fine NH mint example | £8.00 |
| | Postmarks | |
| 47 | Vertical pair of 1pi rose DLR with good CDS of Alexandrie/Recommandes 25 AO 84. Unusual | £8.00 |
| 48 | Single 5m DLR on small piece with virtually complete strike of rare Qostantinia 6 IX 06 CDS | £5.00 |
| | Heliopolis Aerodrome | |
| 49 | Black and white PC (Cairo – Tomb of the Caliphs), with biplane flying above, franked with correct-rate 3m DLR (wrapped round card) and addressed in pencil to Metelino. Cancelled with rare Heliopolis Aerodrome CDS of 13 II 10, but no arrival mark, unusual for Mytilene | £60 |
| | Air interest | |
| 50 | 12 MAR 25, Baghdad-Cairo Air Mail cover sent registered/AR from Hamadan, Persia, to Paris with 3x1kr blue on reverse and fine boxed AR and Post Aerienne/Bagdad-Caire handstamps in black on face. Via Baghdad March 18, Cairo March 20. Slightly cut down at right but stunning | £64 |
| 51 | 5 APR 27 plain cover with typed indication First Cairo-Karachi Air Service, Air Mail label and addressed to Karachi, franked 15m+10m First Fuads (ie, underfranked) and cancelled Cairo machine. Karachi arrival on reverse. Flown only to Basra; first flight to India was 1929 | £16 |
| 52 | 4 MR 31 printed cover to A P Riffis, franked 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2). G / Port Said Traffic, endorsed By 1st Air Mail, to Khartoum. Cairo/Arrival transit and Khartoum arrival behind. Excellent | £16 |
| 53 | 4 MR 31 printed Imperial Airways First Air Mail England-Africa Africa-silhouette cover to Kisumu, franked 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) plus vert pair 10m Agric Exhibition, cds Cairo / D. Kisumu / Kenya behind | £12 |
| 54 | 10 JL 31 private letter hand-addressed to Austria, franked 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) with Air Mail label alongside, and cancelled B / Port Said Traffic (return address Eastern Exchange Hotel). Alex transit, and three Vienna markings on reverse, including Telegraph office and another marked Rohrpost! | £30 |
| 55 | 10 DE 31 printed Imperial Airways Air Mail Springbok cover to Cape Town, franked vert pair 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) plus 1m, 10m Fuads cancelled Asyut. Cairo cds 23 JA 32 on 4m Fuad (added?), handstamp Premier Vol/Assiout-Cape Town. Reverse Cape Town arrival, and Arabic mentioning 8 Jan 32. | £12 |
| 56 | 23 JA 32 plain cover (Anhoury) franked three copies of 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) plus 13m and pair of 3m Fuads, Par Avion label, addressed to Bloemfontein and cancelled Port Said / R (mute Reg label behind). Reverse has Victoria West and Bloemfontein CDSs | £20 |
| 57 | 23 JA 32 plain cover with typed indication First Airmail to Cape Town, franked vert pair of 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) plus 5m/50m surcharge and 1m+20m Fuads, cancelled F/Alexandria. Reverse has Cape Town arrival | £16 |
| 58 | 23 JA 32 plain cover with handstamp First Flight, addressed to F Hendrey, Cape Town, franked vert pair of 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) plus two copies 5m/50m surcharge (one scuffed) and 15m/200m surcharge, cancelled Alexandria / J. Reverse has Cape Town and Cape Town Poste Restante CDSs. Believed total mail 210 from all of Egypt. | £16 |
| 59 | 24 JA 32 Imperial Airways Air Mail Springbok cover to Cape Town, franked vert pair 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2) plus 5m 1931 Agric Exhibition, 1m and 5m Fuads. Aswan CDS, Par Avion label, handstamp Premier Vol/Assouan-Cape Town. Reverse has Cape Town arrival, two strips x6 Fuad 1m and two singles! | £20 |
| 60 | 2 FE 32 plain cover (Triandafillou) with handwritten Air Mail, addressed to Cape Town, franked single and vertical pair of 27m chestnut Air (SG 133, Bal 252, NP 2), cancelled Zagazig. Boxed Unknown/Onbekend on face, Returned/Cape Town and Alex arrival on reverse on return. Not FFC, probably second! | £16 |
| | Wreck cover | |
| 61 | 17 Aug 1936, printed Air Mail envelope from Calcutta to Liverpool via Alexandria, where mailed on flying boat Scipio, which crash-landed in Mirabella Bay, Crete, on August 22, with two passengers killed. Handstamped (reverse) Damaged by Immersion /in Sea Water I.S. in black | £60 |
| | Watermark inverted | |
| 62 | 1957, 5th Anniversary of the Revolution, 10m bronze-green, block of four with inv wmk and control A/57, NH mint, pristine | £4.00 |
| 63 | 1957, as last, 10m bronze, single, inv wmk, mint NH | £1.00 |
| 64 | 1957, Revolution as last, 10m Prussian blue, block of four with inv wmk and control A/57, NH mint, pristine | £4.00 |
| 65 | 1957. Revolution as last, 10m yellow-brown, block of four with inv wmk and control A/57, NH mint, pristine | £4.00 |
| 66 | 1957, Arabi Pasha anniv, top right marginal corner block of 2, wmk inv (Bal 194a, NP 186a). NH mint, pristine | £2.00 |
| 67 | 1957, Arabi Pasha anniversary, single, wmk inverted (Bal 194a, NP 186a). NH mint, pristine | £1.00 |
| 68 | 1957, Arabi Pasha anniversary, single, wmk inverted (Bal 194a, NP 186a). NH mint, pristine | £1.00 |
| 69 | 1957, Two Poets anniversary, se-tenant set of two, top marginal block of six, with eagles and Republic of Egypt wmk inverted (Bal 195a-196a, NP 187a-188a). NH mint, pristine | £3.80 |
| 70 | 1957, Air Force anniversary, se-tenant set of two, lower right control block of four (A/57), with eagles and Republic of Egypt wmk inverted (Bal 197a-198a, NP 189a-10a). NH mint, pristine | £3.20 |
| 72 | 1957, Air Force anniversary, se-tenant set of two, right marginal block of four, wmk inv (Bal 197a-198a, NP 189a-190a). NH mint, pristine | £2.50 |
| 73 | 1957, Air Force anniv, se-tenant set of two, left marginal block of six (3x2), wmk inv (Bal 197a-198a, NP 189a-190a), left-hand blue stamp shows sign of “machine gun” variety (not the catalogued version). NH mint, pristine | £3.80 |
| 74 | 1957, Air Force anniv, se-tenant set of two, vert pair wmk inv (Bal 197a-198a, NP 189a-190a). NH mint, pristine | £1.50 |
| 75 | 957, Air Force anniv, se-tenant set of two, vert pair wmk inv (Bal 197a-198a, NP 189a-190a). NH mint, pristine | £1.50 |
| 76 | 1957, Afro-Asian People’s Conference, full set of three in marginal top left corner blocks of six, all with eagles and Republic of Egypt wmk inverted (Bal 199a-201a, NP 191a-193a. 18 stamps, all NH mint, pristine | £11 |
| 77 | 1957, as last, top right marginal corner blocks of four, wmk inv, NH mint, pristine | £7.20 |
| 78 | 1958, International Cycle Race, lower right corner block of four with control A/57 and with eagles and Republic of Egypt wmk inverted (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £8.00 |
| 79 | 1958, Cycle Race as last, top left marginal corner block of 9, wmk inv (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £16 |
| 80 | 1958, Cycle Race as last, bottom marginal corner block of 9, wmk inv (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £15 |
| 81 | 1958, Cycle Race as last, bottom left marginal corner block of 6, wmk inv (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £8.00 |
| 82 | 1958, Cycle Race as last, top left marginal corner block of 4, wmk inv (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £6.00 |
| 83 | 1958, Cycle Race as last, single with wmk inverted (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £1.50 |
| 84 | 1958, Cycle Race as last, single with wmk inverted (Bal 202a, NP 194a), NH mint, pristine | £1.50 |
| 85 | 1958, Egypt-Syria Proclamation, single, NH mint, pristine | £1.00 |
| 86 | 1958, Qassim Amin, horiz pair, lower left marginal corner block of four, with eagles and Egypt wmk sideways to the left (Bal 208a, NP 200a), NH mint, pristine | £12 |
| 87 | 1958, Egyptian Industries, top two rows of 5x5 sheet with margins left, top and right, with eagles and Egypt wmk inverted (Bal 210a-214a, NP 202a-206a). NH mint, pristine | £32 |
| 88 | 1958, Cairo University, rt marg block of 6 (2x3), eagles & Egypt wmk inv (Bal 222a, NP 213a). NH mint, pristine | £32 |
| 89 | 1958 Postage Due, 2m orange, block of six (3x2) with eagles and Republic of Egypt watermark inverted (Bal 572a, NP 49a). NH mint, pristine | £12 |
| 90 | 1958 2m orange Due, as last, block of four, wmk inv, NH mint, pristine | £8.00 |
| 91 | 1958 2m orange Due, as last, single, wmk inv, NH mint, pristine | £2.00 |
| | Boy King | |
| 92 | Bar overprints: 8 sheets showing basic bar overprints in mint examples, including high values, viz, definitives to £E1, Airs to 200m, KES Airs to 200m, plus two 6m six-bar fakes and a block of four of the same stamp with Hass certificate. Total 505 stamps, Cat over £250 | £60 |
| 93 | Palestine overprints: 11 sheets, neatly written up, with all mint stamps – inc Airs, Express and Dues - showing virtually all the Palestine overprints (and stretching well beyond Boy King) to £E1. Complete all but Air 200m and KES, bars and Palestine. 64 stamps, excellent basis for expansion, cat £300+ | £60 |
| 94 | Glory box: collection of unsold Lots from Auction 42, viz, 99, 102, 104, 125, 130-135, 141-144 (including 16 “Royal” printings). Reserve in Auction 42 £56. Sold now for ESC funds | £5.00 |
| | Postal stationery essay | |
| 95 | 1985 unadopted Postal Authority Press essay for Ramadan festival envelope. 5pi red, green and blue “Moulid doll” vignette on envelope 177x125mm. Boxed rubber stamp cancelling vignette reads in Arabic “Trial without value”. Mint, clean. NP E550 | £60 |
| | Postal stationery | |
| 96 | 1884, 20 paras reply card (NP2), outgoing half used from excellent Keneh 28 AV 87 CDS to Cairo postal bureau announcing change of address | £24 |
| 97 | 1899 provisional 4m on 5m postcard with two varieties – accent missing over E, and second E broken (NP9a,b). Mint, perfect condition | £18.80 |
| 98 | 1907 2m postcard (NP14), two examples in fine mint condition, both of them with real photo-postcards (ancient ruins) printed on the reverse. Most unusual | £34 |
| 99 | 1914 2m postal stationery card (NP20), uprated with 3x1m DLR felucca, cancelled Alexandria / H 12 III 14 and addressed to Ortakeuy, Turquie (two Turkish CDS on face) | £8.80 |
| 100 | 1916 3m postal stationery card (NP25), uprated with vert pair of 1m Crown opts and 4m Harrison pictorial (pencil mark), cancelled Cairo 12 AP 23, sent to Gouvy, Belgium. Message only on reverse | £8.80 |
| 101 | 1923 10m colossi postal stationery card (NP27), uprated with 3m green Second Fuad and cancelled Cairo 24 FE 32, addressed to Basel. Message on both faces | £8.80 |
| 102 | 1935, 30m Farouk yellow-green Registered envelope (NP12), uprated with 5x2m Marechal and used from Dirut 20 OC 46. Faint Cairo Delivery arrival hs, cover in less than wonderful condition as usual | £28 |
| 103 | 1937, Fuad 4m wrapper (NP9), mint, slightest of disturbance low left of the vignette | £24 |
| 104 | 1938, 1930-issue letter sheet (NP10), uprated with 10m Boy King for Registration (mute black-on-white label) and used from Moharrem Bey / Parcels of 30 JL 38. Delivery unsuccessful, so marked with red boxed bilingual Unclaimed, and returned, ending with ornate A (Alexandria) version of the Rebut a Remettre a l’Envoyeur boxed cachet of 1 SE 38. Much redirection, but fascinating | £28 |
| 105 | 1946, Farouk Marechal 4m small env with brown filigree design inside (NP 39). Mint, pristine | £48 |
| 106 | 1952, Farouk 25m Air Letter (NP 2, no wmk), uprated with 2m KES opt and 15m Marechal sent to Geneva (arrival 2 VIII 52 on face, overlying Egyptian censor mark) | £18 |
| 107 | 1954, 6m soldier-vignette Tourist view set (HG42, NP 43), “Hotel Cataracte - Assouan” in brown, uprated with 20m Soldier stamp and used to mark Cairo-Vienna first flight. Cancelled at rare Poste / Aeroport du Caire / Succursale 2.12.59 with rectangular boxed “First Flight Cairo-Vienna Dec 2 1959”; then Vienna arrival next day alongside elegant boxed Austrian Airlines Kairo-Athen-Wien 101- 3.12.1959. Egyptian censor mark alongside, no message of any sort. All marks and card in VF condition | £28 |
| 108 | 1972, 80m 1966 aerogramme (NP8, with List of Countries on reverse), uprated with 20m Egypt definitive, Heliopolis machine cancel of 22 7 72 with Arabic “Victory for Palestine” patriotic slogan. Addressed to London | £18 |
| 108b | 1973, 55m Registered Letter Sheet uprated with 1973 Post Day 30m mosque and used from Bab el Luk within Cairo 26.2.73. Neat | £6.60 |
| 109 | 1978, 100m 1971 aerogramme (NP15, UAR in vignette), neatly addressed to Germany, par machine cancel and censor mark | £8.80 |
| 110 | 1990?, 1975 10m Ramadan Festival envelope (NP56, belmabgoknis flower), uprated not only with 1pi and 3pi definitives, but also with 1989-92 10pi definitive, and 13m price crossed out behind. All cancelled Kafr Shibin / T (date unclear). Arabic-addressed to Cairo, with Postcode-box on reverse, never opened. Clean | £8.80 |
| 111 | 2006, complete issue of new postal stationery – six different envelopes, all in mint condition | £12.60 |
| | TPO cancels | |
| 112 | 1893 cover used to Chio, Turquie, franked (lower left) with vertical pair of 1mill DLR stamps and cancelled with Alexandrie-Caire / Ambulant 8 JA 93 (Smith Type TPO 2A1A). Faint arrival CDS behind | £14 |
| 113 | 1941, plain cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked Boy King 6m and cancelled with Zaqaziq-Aga / & V.V. of 9 OC 41 – T 177 (Smith Type 7A3.4, but unrecorded there). Cairo machine arrival behind | £14.80 |
| 114 | 1941, plain cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked Boy King 1m and 5m and cancel as last 27 SE 41, same train number. Cairo machine arrival behind | £14.80 |
| | Postal history | |
| 115 | 1882 cover, tatty and cut down at left, franked with vertical strip of four 10-para grey (one faulty), cancelled in Alexandria 7 AO 82 for Ryde, Isle of Wight. | £44 |
| 116 | 1890, 1m postal stationery envelope (NP4) uprated with DLR 5m stamp and sent from CAIRE / D 2 XII 90 to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brindisi transit and Brazilian arrival behind 1 JAN 91 | £18 |
| 117 | 1906, 2m postal stationery envelope (NP5) sent uncancelled to Railway official in Karnak (ie Luxor). Clear and most unusual Karnak cds 25 XII 06 behind. | £9.60 |
| 118 | 1916, incoming French Correspondance des Armees de la Republique postcard (addressed to Shubra, Cairo), unfranked, large blue starred circular handstamp at top right: 145 Regiment Terr. D’Infanterie / Detachment d’Arles, with Arles-S-Rhone-Gare-Du-Rhone double-ring CDS 14 * / 8-1 / 16 and Eg censor mark. Fragile | £6.80 |
| 119 | 1922, buff Avis de Reception card (1921 Govt Press printing with red diagonal stripe) sent from Matai on 4 DE 22 and returned from Cairo on 6 DE | £5.60 |
| 120 | 1923, Arabic-printed commercial cover, franked with vertical strip of 3 5m pink Crown opts for registration (mute b/w label) and cancelled Bab el Khalq / Cairo 30 VII 23, Arabic-addressed to /Beni Suef (arrival same day). Delivery attempted but eventually returned, with two Non Reclame bilingual boxes, and three CDs behind. Beni Suef 1 SE on face, and Bab el Khalq arrival next day | £24 |
| 121 | 1936, 5m Anglo-Egyptian Treaty stamp used on (slightly cut down) commercial Arabic-addressed cover from Dawawin / (Cairo) 29 DE 36 (in green) to Damietta. Stamp overlaps cover edge | £3.50 |
| 122 | 1937, incoming cover from Aden Camp, bilingual printed cover franked (behind) with 2x1a and 1/2a Aden felucca stamps, cancelled 19 MA 37. Addressed to Alex, clear Port Taufiq transit 30 MA 37 behind | £6.80 |
| 123 | 1937, incoming cover to C/o Simon Arzt” from Holland, franked with five stamps of child charity set, Port Said slogan machine cancel and neat Recu Par / Avion / Alexandria 26 DE 37 behind | £5.40 |
| 124 | 1944, Imperial Patriots Fund Board OAS envelope, from MPO KW 14 6 DE 44 to Zamalek, two censors on face, NZ Army PO CDs and Cairo machine behind | £6.60 |
| 125 | 1940, 1956. Two company-printed window envelopes with red machine cancellations: Banca Commerciale / Italiana per l’Egitto / Cairo 15m and The Shell Co of Egypt Ltd 4m. Contents remain | £5.60 |
| 126 | 1945, two red Motor Mail labels (torn on opening), used to seal Airgraph sent to Cairo from UK, cancelled with Cairo / Airgraph CDs of 24 MR 45. M / number? double-ring censor mark alongside | £28 |
| 127 | 1947, incoming to Cairo from Trinidad (9 MAY 47), franked 5c KG VI GPO stamp. Cairo machine arrival behind, Arabic crossed out on face | £5.40 |
| 128 | 1947-48, Two small covers showing different CDS of Ghazl Misr Mahalla Kobra (factory), one with Reg cachet alongside. Franked pair of 15m Marechal and single + pair of 10m Marechal. All pmks faint but undoubted. | £5.80 |
| 129 | 1954, Natibaine Nativelle advertising booklet (13x18cm), still contained in flimsy outer cover franked with three-bars 4m Marechal (printed matter rate), sent within Cairo. Complete | £4.50 |
| 130 | 1954-55? Clean cover with commercial red Imprime! handstamp, addressed to Germany and franked with 15m Defense and vertical marginal air of KG VI 2d stamps. Latter bordered and cancelled with pencil scribble as invalid; Defense stamp has indistinct Alex CDS. Return address (on flap) is Dr Oskar Schmid, Kafr el-Dawar. | £8.60 |
| 131 | 1956, colourful green printed envelope of Coutarelli Freres, cigarette manufacturers (Ancient Egyptian vignette on flap), registered (Alex black on red label) to Cairo using two passes of company’s slogan machine cancel 21 VI 56. R1 / Alex on face and Cairo Delivery CDs behind | £6.80 |
| 132 | 1959, Arabic-printed commercial envelope, franked UAR Egypt 35m definitive and Reg to Cairo. CDS is 65% unusual Suq Khodar / (P) / Rod el Farag – ie, Vegetable Market (now demolished). Pinhole in stamp | £4.80 |
| 133 | Heliopolis: Five reg env with various Heliopolis CDSs – R&P Heliopolis Bahari (Reg cachet) Boy King 5m+10m 1938; Heliopolis Liberty R.P. (AR and Reg cachet), 55m UAR definitive 1961; Heliopolis West red machine cancel on AR censored cover (Heliop Bahari reg cachet) to Beirut 1967; Heliopolis Bahari C (stamp lost) on AR-uprated 20m green ps cover HG 45 1972; Heliopolis R.A on window env with 20m+35m AR Egypt 1972 | £9.60 |
| | Stamps | |
| 134 | Horizontal pair of DLR 1m cancelled with 70 % strike of San Stefano / Hotel 28 VI 06 (HSS2) | £8.80 |
| 135 | Three DLR stamps used in Egyptian foreign offices – part-strikes of two types of Suakin on DLR 5m; Massawa on 1pi rose | £20 |
| 136 | 1969 Mahatma Gandhi 80m Air stamp, top right corner pair with cloud variety behind neck on left-hand stamp, mint NH (NP555 var) | £6.60 |
| 137 | 2005 Rotary International issue, marginal 30pi stamps grossly mis-cut so that vertical pair (with printing guides in top margin) shows four mis-matched halves of the two stamps, cut down the middle instead of between the stamps. Imperf modern variety | £18.80 |
| | Booklet stamps – station CDS | |
| 138 | 1912, DLR 5m booklet stamp (left guillotined) used on neat small Arabic-addressed cover from Cairo Station (5 JU 12) to Louxor (next-day arrival behind). Part of flap lost but face clear | £80 |
| 139 | 1937, plain cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked 5m Fuad Postes booklet stamp (pale shade, bottom guillotined), cancelled Minya / Station 9 10 37. Cairo machine arrival behind. Neat and clean | £8.80 |
| 140 | 1938, plain cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked 5m Fuad Postes booklet stamp (dark shade, long perfs at top), cancelled Mansura / Station 3 AP 38. Cairo machine arrival behind. Pinhole but neat | £8.80 |
| 141 | 1948, printed lawyer’s envelope (Morcos, Assiout, cut down at left), typed Arabic address (Cairo), franked horiz pair of 5m Boy King booklet stamps (long marginal perfs at bottom), cancelled Asyut / Station 4 NO 38 in blue | £8.80 |
| | Booklet stamps | |
| 142 | A Lot of three items (two envelopes, one folded letter), all franked Boy King 5m booklet stamps used between 1939 and 1944 – Fayum, Abu Matamir and Qus. Folded letter has two stamps from different booklet panes | £8.80 |
| 143 | Two small covers, used from Cairo 1938 and Fayoum 1946, each franked with a booklet 5m Boy King (Cairo trimmed at top, Fayoum trimmed at bottom, with another 5m alongside) | £8.80 |
| | Stamps used as revenues | |
| 144 | 1907, control marginal block of six of DLR 5m with control 2 in circle in left-hand margin, used to defray 3pi taz on official all-Arabic document dated 18 March 1907. Cancelled with oblique pencil strokes. Fragile and cut down at left, but remarkable document | £25 |
| 145 | 1928, certificate (19.5x28.5cm, crescent/stars wmk) issued from Ministry of Education (clear Dar el Ulum College official oval handstamp), tax paid with 2x15m Second Fuad pen cancelled. One has pinhole but otherwise clean neat document | £5.60 |
| | Rural post | |
| 146 | 1938 cover addressed to Bern in Switzerland and franked with 20m International Leprosy Congress commem, which received Rural Service / Nabro-Izbit Qattawi CDS of 8 AP 38 alongside Bihut village marking cartouche. Nabruh and Alex machine transit marks behind. Very clean | £38 |
| 147 | Two rural markings – 1938 Akhmim-Siflaq 20 AP 38 (65%) on Arabic-addressed cover franked (behind) with 5m Boy King; and Sheikh Fadl-Sharuna on folded printed agricultural report franked horiz pair of Marechal 2m for printed matter rate | £7.60 |
| | Commemorative cancels | |
| 148 | 1894 Alexandria / Exposition CDS on 3 mills on 5mills surcharged postal stationery card (NP5), properly used II V 94 with message in Greek and sent to company En Ville. Early usage of this, the first commem CDS | £18 |
| 149 | 1933 Arabic-printed small business card, with 5m, 13m and 15m stamps of International Railway Congress on plain side and 20m on printed side, all neatly cancelled with single strikes of the Congress first-day CDS 19 JA 33 in blue | £34 |
| | Express covers | |
| 150 | 1931, large OHEMS bilingual-printed cover, 26.5x21cm, franked with 4x5m Second Fuad (two of them mis-centred, sent from Shibin el Kom / I 14 OC 31 to Alexandria / R.A. (magenta strike behind) | £5.60 |
| 151 | 1934, blue cover Arabic addressed to Cairo, franked marginal vertical pair of Second Fuad 15m cancelled San Stefano / R&P 7 FE 34 with Reg cachet and red Express label alongside | £9.60 |
| 152 | 1938, Arabic-printed commercial cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked vertical pair of Boy King 15m and cancelled Abu Qurqas / R&P 7 AP 38 with Reg cachet (faint) and red bilingual Express label alongside | £9.60 |
| 153 | 1938, large Arabic-printed commercial brown cover (287x187mm), franked with vertical pairs of 5m and 15m Boy King, Arabic-addressed to Cairo. CDS Beni Suef 18 JL 38, with mute b/w Reg label and bilingual red Express label alongside. Cairo Postmen / Express Section cds behind | £9.60 |
| 154 | 1946, Arabic-printed commercial cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked 40m Farouk stamp cancelled at Biba / (R&P) 25 OC 36. Clean | £8.80 |
| 155 | 1953, Arabic-printed commercial cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked 22m Republic issue, horiz pair of Marechal 4m KES and single Marechal 10m KES, all cancelled Fayoum 8 JA 53 | £9.60 |
| 156 | 1955, Lawyers’ printed envelope franked with two blocks of four of 5m fellah definitives, bilingual red Express label alongside, sent from Mansura Station 21 MA 55 to Cairo. Faint Cairo Delivery / Express behind. Nice | £14.80 |
| 157 | 1955, lawyer’s letter (large oval rubber stamp), Arabic-addressed to Cairo and cut down at left, franked 40 mills Express stamp with KES opt, cancelled Bab el Khalq 29 JL 55. AR boxed cachet and ms Reg indication alongside | £9.60 |
| | Instructional markings | |
| 158 | A Lot of seven used items (three covers, three postcards, one folded letter, dated 1934-2001), all bearing instructional markings – Non Reclame, Return to Sender, Retour a l’Envoyeur, Unclaimed etc, three in Arabic only. Interesting Lot, and good 65% CDS Beni Mohammadiyat | £18.80 |
| | Gamal Abd El-Nasser | |
| 159 | 1954, Most unusual greetings card with bells/ribbon outside and Republican eagle and crescent/stars logo inside over idealised scene of river, city and pyramids. Sent from Prime Minister’s office to Suhag (envelope included) | £5.60 |
| 160 | 1970 maximum card – left-facing portrait of Nasser (as on 1969 500m) with 1970 5m memorial stamp (NP594) and two strikes of stamp’s FD cancel 6 11 70 (another behind) Clean, neat | £9.60 |
| 161 | 1970, Nasser mourning special illustrated FDC with 5m stamp and FD cancel as last 6 11 70 | £8.80 |
| 162 | 1970, cover as last, with 5m and 20m commem stamps and FD cancel | £8.80 |
| | Postcards | |
| 163 | Caire – Place de l’Ancienne Poste – b/w, excellent mint condition, showing Bristol Hotel and shady courtyard | £6.80 |
| 164 | Soldats de la Marine – Max Rudmann colour, stars/crescent divided back, soldiers at attention, F-VF | £8.80 |
| 165 | Semiramis Hotel, Cairo – upright black and white advertising card, early Semiramis “Under the same management as Shepheard’s and Ghezireh Palace Hotels”). Excellent fresh condition | £8.80 |
| 166 | Remarkable coloured upright souvenir card – Max Rudmann produced – with entwined flags of Egypt and Britain topped by stars and crescent crowned shield. At base is a small leatherette “briefcase” containing concertina foldout of ten Egyptian mini-scenes. DLR 4m stamp at top right, and this glorious piece was sent from a neat Asyut-Cairo / TPO 18 II 09 to Newmarket. Excellent condition, a stunner | £24 |
| 167 | Les Khedives d’Egypte – wonderful upright colourful card with Egyptian statues and columns surrounding portraits of seven rulers of Egypt, culminating in Abbas II (khedive 1892-1914). Single back has messages and face a 1m DLR with illegible TPO cancel of 1910. Travelled? Doesn’t matter – it’s very nice | £8.80 |
| 168 | 1917, Collection of three bilingual real photo-postcards issued in Suez 1917: Ismailieh Canal near Suez; Chelsea Bath –Suez; Red Sea (Colzum) Fortress Suez. Striking, excellent condition | £9.60 |
| 169 | 1927, Phylae Kiosk (colour, Wanderer series), neatly franked on face with 1m and 4m First Fuad, cancelled Cairo 16 FE 27, addressed to Vienna. No message | £6.80 |
| | Resealing labels | |
| 170 | 1982, incoming cover from Portugal to Cairo, resealed with two “Trouvee Ouverte” labels (RAU, type 8), left | £7.80 |
| 171 | 1982, incoming cover, Sweden to Cairo, resealed with pair “Trouvee Ouverte” labels (RAU, type 8), right, part-cancelled | £7.80 |
| 172 | 1983, incoming cover, Germany to Cairo, resealed with pair Trouvee Ouverte” labels (RAU, type 8), behind, part-cancelled | £7.80 |
| 173 | 1998, incoming cover, Spain to Cairo, resealed on two sides with “Trouvee Ouverte” labels (RAE, red), properly cancelled. Cairo machine cancel date 2.1.98 | £6.60 |
| | FDC | |
| 174 | 1955 Rotary International, colourful illustrated FDC addressed (damp-spattered) to Mehanny Bey Eid in Cairo, black on red Le Caire Reg label behind, with two other CDS. 2 / Cairo of 28 FE 55 on face | £6.60 |
| | Parcel cards | |
| 175 | 1902, Egyptian parcel card accompanying goods to Ragusa, Dalmatia, Austria. DLR 1pi blue and 5pi grey stamps cancelled Ismailia, 24 I 02 (clear CDS); then Trieste transit 29/1, and 3-heller Kingdom of Austria tax stamp applied in Dubrovnik/Ragusa on 4/2, where recipient signed the reverse. Wonderful history item | £68 |
| 176 | 1970s, two buff parcel cards (El Mahalla el Kobra to Aswan 1970, Shubra-Cairo to Edfu 1974), good condition with a variety of stamps, including tax stamps and UAR high-value definitives | £6.60 |
| 177 | 1984, two parcel cards (one yellow one green) used with Shubra Gardens CDS and utilising high-value stamps including 500m horse and £E1 flying duck | £8.80 |
| | Photographs | |
| 178 | 1939, two genuine original thin photo-paper prints (18x13cm) showing King Farouk laying the foundation stone of the Egyptian military barracks in Mersa Matrouh | £8.80 |
| | Officials | |
| 179 | 1903, No-value Official stamp used (at lower right) on small brown cover (flap lost, ink address smudged) from Caire / G.S. 16 IX 03. CDs at top right, where stamp would normally go, covers blue-black-ink fingerprint. On purpose? Authentication? Most odd | £4.80 |
| 180 | 1907, No-value Official stamp used on long brown Ministere des Travaux Publics bilingual printed envelope, cancelled Cairo 12 I 07 to Poste Restante / Cairo. Cairo crossed through and blue pencil “Pack for Smyrne” added. Fascinating | £14.80 |
| 181 | 1907, Small Minister des Travaux Publics headed notepaper sheet (Govt star and crescent watermark), detailing exam success of recipient of long brown envelope in previous Lot. Beautifully annotated with large violet delicate star/crescent departmental stamp | £18 |
| 182 | 1938, two large bilingual printed OHEMS brown envelopes of different sizes, showing two different OHEMS Registration labels – blue on green and black on red – during 1938. Cairo Delivery CDS behind | £6.80 |
| 183 | 1943, Bilingual OHMS long brown envelope, franked with five Official stamps totalling 32m, cancelled Orman 27 OC 43, with blue on green OHEMS Reg label, Official oval cachet and censor stamp on front Sent to Palestine, and Jerusalem arrival mark (faint) on reverse | £14.80 |
| 184 | 1957, Official high-value stamps on reverse of Air Mail registered official window envelope – 1938 20m plus 3x50m Officials, and 2x15m Defense, 2x50m mosque and 5m young fellah stamps. Good grouping | £6.60 |
| | Advertising material | |
| 185 | Mini-collection of seven covers and cards, all with colourful advertising designs (Galal Films, Al-Zamane factory, Norwich Union Societe l’Art Graphique etc), used 1940s, mainly with Farouk stamps | £28 |
| 186 | Pristine multicoloured advertising card (shop at left, camel and pyramids right) for “The Famous Onnig’s Jewelry in Khan Khalili”. Printed in Chicago! | £8.00 |
| 187 | 1912-1954, mini-collection of eight letters/receipts bearing beautifully engraved letterheads – Au Bon Marche, Oriental Carpets, School of the Missionary Franciscan Sisters, C.Raybaud, Fonderie Metallurgique, Jean Sallt Succ, E.Friedmann, J.Goldenberg. Striking | £9.60 |
| | Sea-related | |
| 188 | 1920, Postcard of Paquebot Lotus (M.M.) arriving at Alexandria. Message written in Marseille, sent from there 1 9 20. Interesting scene, though card has seen better days | £5.80 |
| 189 | 1934, piece of cover with four Second Fuad stamps (5m, 20mx2, 50m) and UPU 3m, all cancelled with Piroscafi Postale Italiano Ausonia | £8.80 |
| | Telegram forms | |
| 190 | Two different printings (1945, 1947) of colourful red/brown Camels and mosque” telegram form, both used in Shubra/Cairo, on 17 April and 20 July 1948 respectively | £6.80 |
| | Hotels | |
| 191 | 1895, Shepheard’s Hotel Type 1 (75%) on good clean 1pi postal stationery envelope (NP2) 6 MR 93 TIV addressed to Les Bois, Switzerland (arrival CDS behind 12 III 95) | £24 |
| 192 | 1905, incoming cover from Hull, franked 2 1/2d cancelled 383 duplex of FE 27 05, addressed to Grand Hotel Continental. Transit Caire and 90% Hotel CDS (Type 2) of 6 III 05 on reverse | £16 |
| 193 | 1905, 1889 2m postal stationery wrapper (NP2) addressed to Prussia Orientale with a near=perfect strike of Cooks office (Type 1) CDS of 15 V 05 T3 | £16 |
| 194 | 1910, 1889 1m postal stationery wrapper (NP1) addressed to Alexandria and furnished with an excellent Savoy Aswan (Type 1) CDS of 27 II 10. Very nice | £16 |
| 195 | 1912, incoming postcard (Roma – S.Pietro) from Italy to Thos Cook, Cairo, and redirected to Colombo. Two good strikes of Cooks Type 3 (incoming 1 V 12, outgoing next day), also Port Said, Cairo and Colombo. Card has horizontal fold ¾ of the way down | £24 |
| 196 | 1922, incoming cover from Paris (50c Sower, cancelled Paris 3 5 22), addressed to Works Director, Antiquities Service, at the Continental. Reverse hs Cairo machine transit and 65% Continental Type 5 of 10 V 22 | £12 |
| 197 | 1931, plain cover franked 20m Second Fuad, cancelled Winter Palace (Type 4) 24 XI 31 – 98% example alongside. Addressed to Lucerne, no backstamps | £16 |
| 198 | 1938, Continental-Savoy Cairo printed cover, franked Fuad Postes 15m and addressed (typed) to Canada. Cancelled with good clear Type 7 Hotel CDS (95% alongside) | £14 |
| 199 | 1938, Anglo-Egyptian Treaty set of three stamps on printed cover for Victoria Stamps of London, each neatly cancelled with (Cairo) / Cash / Continental Savoy Type12 cds of 22 DE 36 (First Day). Clean | £12 |
| 200 | 1942, Hotel Metropole, Alexandria, single-=page letter (two sides) on Hotel headed notepaper, dated 31 Oct 1942 and addressed “Mon cher Tony”… | £4.80 |
| 201 | 1944, plain cover franked 2m, 20m grey Boy King, cancelled Shepheard’s Type 8 of 27 JL 44 and addressed to Istanbul. Egyptian 54 censor mark and resealing label at right | £18 |
| 202 | 1956, First Day cover of Arab Scout Jamboree set, addressed to Mehanna Eid in Zamalek and sent from the Heliopolis Hotel with clear HR 2 CDS of 25.7.56 and Registration cachet alongside (No 88, one of only nine recorded). Apparently delivery difficult; several attempts recorded behind, proving that it travelled! | £120 |
| 203 | 1910-1955, two letters and two accounts all printed for the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, both accounts furnished with “Paid” receipts. Interesting | £8.60 |
| | Literature (buyer to pay postage costs) | |
| 204 | Zeheri Catalogue, 9th edition, 1972 (the last one!), good condition | £18 |
| | Revenues | |
| 205 | Mini-collection of 16 revenue stamped papers with albino (uncoloured) embossed image “waraka masriya”. Many different values represented – 2 qirsh, 3 qirsh (2), 38 (5), 42, 60, 80 200, 800, 4 groush, 8 groush, 10 groush. Five of the papers have watermarks – 1887, 1890, 1987, 1897 eagle crown, 1899. All these earlier than Feltus catalogue – a gem for the early stamped paper collector. | £48 |
| 206 | 1979-90, a Lot of 7 documents and receipts, all franked with different stamps of the Union of Syndicates for Theatrical and Cinematic Professions (Feltus pp 60, 95-97) including blocks of four and six and several pairs | £6.60 |
| | Military usage | |
| 207 | 1963, military cover (ms-endorsed bareed harby) sent unfranked from a soldier at El Arish camp to Helwan Hammamat (arrival CDS 5.6.63 behind). Face has red triangular and black octagonal military markings, both faint but undoubtedly there | £6.60 |
| | Suez stamps | |
| 208 | Four Suez Canal Co marginal blocks of four, unmounted mint, excellent appearance. Forgeries | £18 |
| | Revenues for Palestine (all documents all-Arabic) | |
| 209 | 1958, birth certificate issued in Rafah. Tax paid by 10m of Feltus’s Third Bilingual Issue (113, page 11, opt in black). Certificate (25x19cm) in poor condition but stamp and cancel fine | £9.00 |
| 210 | 1962, birth certificate issued in Gaza. Tax paid by 10m 1959 First Arabic Issue (Feltus 128, page 12, opt all Arabic in black). Two filing holes at top, otherwise clean document | £9.00 |
| 211 | 1967 certificate issued in Gaza, with three revenues – 20m (opt black) and 30m (opt red) of the 1962 Second Arabic Issue (Feltus 136-7, page 12) and 50m (opt red) of the Fourth Arabic Issue (Feltus 148, page 13). Document has suffered over the years, but still striking | £9.00 |
| 212 | 1967 certificate issued in Gaza, with 50m (opt red) of the Second Arabic Issue (Feltus 138, faulty), and 50m (opt red) of the Fourth Arabic Issue (Feltus 148). Handstamps include that of the Mukhtar of Jaffa City | £9.00 |
| 213 | 1967 Certificate issued in Gaza. Horiz strip of 3 and horiz pair of 10m (opt red) of Fourth Arabic Issue (Feltus 147, page 13). Document water-damaged, but stamps fine apart from minor fold | £9.00 |
| 214 | 1973, printed document used in Damietta. Array of 25 revenue stamps includes 5m (opt red) of Palestine First Arabic Issue (Feltus 127), together with Egyptian General Revenues: 5x20m (1964-72, Feltus 58) and 19x100m (Feltus 61). | £9.00 |
| | Palestine Resistance | |
| 215 | Three different Palestinian Resistance Al-Fatah labels, issued in 1968 | £6.60 |
| | Consular interest | |
| 216 | 1869, two black-border letters (one in mourning, the other seeking a job for a relative) written in French on paper headed Agence Consulaire de Belgique a Tanta but both written from Samanud. Dated 3 Feb and 26 April by Jean Kher and addressed to Count Zizinia, Consul, in Alex. Fascinating | £9.60 |
| | Air mail | |
| 217 | 1946, commercial registered cover franked horiz strip of 3x10m for Registration, cancelled Cairo / (R) / Par Avion 26 DE 46 (Sears page 167, nine years later than recorded). Itsa (Fayoum) and Fayum / R marks behind, undelivered, and returned to Cairo Delivery (on face) 17 JA 47 | £5.60 |
| | Stamps and FDCs | |
| 218 | 1884 Postage Dues – 2pi and 5pi rose-red fine used (SG 60-62, cat £52) | £25 |
| 219 | 1886 Postage Dues – 10pa and 2pi rose-red fine used (SG62,64, cat £15) | £6.00 |
| 220 | 1888 Postage Due – 2mills green and 1pi blue, fine used (SG66,68, cat £55) | £25 |
| 221 | 1946, Complete issue celebrating 80th anniversary of the first Egyptian stamp and Philatelic Exhibition – comprising four mint NH stamps and the two M/S, both perforated and imperforate, in mint condition (SG307-312, cat £171) | £75 |
| 222 | 1953, fine used complete first post-revolution definitive issue from 1m to £Ea, including the five redrawn agriculture stamps. Total 24 stamps (SG414-432) | £5.00 |
| 223 | 1959, fine used complete first UAR definitive issue from 1m to 500m. Total 17 stamps (SG603-619) | £4.00 |
| 224 | 1964, the last Palestine definitive issue, complete from 1m to 100m, mint NH. Thirteen stamps (SG 140-152) | £6.00 |
| 225 | 2002, attractive official year stamp folder containing 41 definitive and commemorative stamps and five M/S. Pristine condition | £13 |
| 226 | 2003, attractive official year stamp folder containing 43 definitive and commemorative stamps and two M/S in pristine condition | £13 |
| 227 | 2003, a collection of 15 different official First Day Covers in mint condition, bargain at 75p each | £11 |
| 228 | 2004, complete sets of the year’s commemorative issues, comprising 40 stamps and 5 M/S in pristine condition. Many high value | £11 |
| 229 | 2004, collection of 24 different First Day Covers of commemorative issues and miniature sheets. Bargain at 75p each | £18 |
| 230 | 2004, the latest stamp booklet, “Discover the Treasures of Egypt”, containing 30 stamps. Pristine condition | £14 |
| 231 | 2005, complete sets of all stamps and M/S issued in 2005, carefully mounted and exhibited by the official Philatelic Office in six very attractive and decorative display sheets. Scarce | £50 |
| 232 | 2005, collection of 30 different First Day Covers of commem and M/S issues. Pristine, bargain at 75p each | £22 |
| 233 | 2006, collection of ten different First Day Covers in pristine condition. Bargain at about 75p each | £7.60 |
| | TPO cancellations (in the following 36 Lots, the CDS is almost invariably more important than the cover as a whole, which may be of indifferent quality). | |
| 234 | 1895, Amb. Alexandrie-Caire 29 V 95 X (excellent strike of Type 3B1) as transit mark on 3m postal stationery card from Minet el Bassal (70%) via Alexandrie / A to Postal HQ in Cairo. | £5.00 |
| 235 | 1902, Ismailia-Caire, 22 X 02 (Type 8A7, seven bars; four months after Smith) as incoming strike on face of German postal stationery card addressed to German School in Cairo and beautifully cancelled Esslingen Bahnhof (ie Station) | £5.00 |
| 236 | 1905, Tamia-Edwa, 17 I 05 (Type 8A1, 60%, matching earliest recorded). Cancelling stamp (on face: Comptoir card: Fellahine et sa cruche) and info mark behind, with part-strike of a Beni Suef TPO and French arrival | £4.50 |
| 237 | 1906, Port-Said-Alexandria / T.P.O. 9 V 06 T1 (Type 5A1: Smith records only VI 06). 99% strike of this elusive marking on incoming card from France (5c stamps uncancelled). Excellent, elusive | £6.00 |
| 238 | 1910, Port Taufiq / T.P.O. 29 VI 10 (Type 5A2.1, Smith records no date though illustrates 1925). Excellent example incoming on French postcard (stamp lost) of Marseille complete with what looks remarkably like two feluccas off Fort Saint-Jean. Elusive | £5.00 |
| 239 | 1912, Mansura-Cairo / T.P.O. of 7 V 12 T.154 (Type 5A3; Smith gives no dates), beautiful strike cancelling 2m 1907 postal stationery card. Cairo arrival, filing holes | £5.00 |
| 240 | 1908, Port-Taufiq-Ismailia / T.P.O. 23 VII 08 T104 (Type 5A3), excellent if faint strike cancelling 2m DLR on face of Aroughetti Freres postcard (The Ophir passing through the Canal) addressed to France. Fine Port Said star and bridge transit mark behind | £5.00 |
| 241 | 1913, Maht Inshaq-Mansura 19 IX 13 T 12 (90%, 18 months later than Smith), just the more unusual of three Type 5A3 strikes on the reverse of a neat Arabic-addressed cover from Mit Fares (5m DLR) to Cairo. Others are Dumiat-Tanta (90%) and Alexandria-Cairo (small type, 85%) | £5.00 |
| 242 | 1914, Port Said-Alexandria / T.P.O. double-ring Type 5A3 dated 8 IV 14 T-4 (mini size, only 23mm, and five years later than Smith) as transit mark on incoming card (Buona Pasqua) from Ferrovia to Sporting Club, Alex. | £5.00 |
| 243 | 1916, Damanhur-Tanta / & V.V. double-ring 5 III 16 T.56 (Type 7A4, 12 months earlier than Smith). Excellent strike with some ink smudge outside the circle, on cut-down cover from Qutur to Tanta. 5m Sphinx and Qutur CDS remain | £5.00 |
| 244 | 1916, Qallin-Sherbin / & V.V. 23 OC 16 T-136 (Type 7A3, compare next for spelling and month indicator), 65% strike in grey-black on 5m Sphinx. Info strike over stained pinhole on Arabic-addressed cover (flap gone) to Cairo | £4.50 |
| 245 | 1918, Qallin-Shirbin / & V.V. 20 XII 18 T-136, 80% strike (Type 7A3), over 5m stamp and part of address, on cut-down letter franked 5m DLR to Tanta: arrival on reverse next day, overlying Damanhur-Tanta / TPO (Type 5A3, five years later than Smith) | £4.50 |
| 246 | 1919, Mina el Qamh-Sahraght / & V.V. 2 NO 19 T-57 (Type 7A3, Smith records only Dec ’20), 70% strike but some Arabic lost off edge of 3m ps card Arabic-addressed to Alex. Three good strikes on reverse include Mina el Qamh and Ismailia-Banha / & V.V. (recorded 1915-18, 70% strike) | £5.00 |
| 247 | 1920, Mansura-Dumiat / & V.V. / T.P.O. 4 JU 20 T-13 (Type 6A2, recorded only 1916), cancelling vignette on 3m postal stationery card. Fariskur and Alex/X markings also on face | £5.00 |
| 248 | 1920, Mansura-Mataria / & V.V. 13 VIII 20 T2 (Type 7A3 unrecorded by Smith, though return journey is! See 1928 below). Near-perfect strike cancelling 3m 1917 postal stationery card Arabic-addressed to Alex (arrival mark). Filing holes | £6.00 |
| 249 | 1920, Tanta / T.P.O. 13 XII 20 T.54 (unrecorded type, most like 5A1, but single town name above and sayaara in brackets below date-line). Clear 100% transit strike on reverse of 3m postal stationery card from Bilqas to Alex. Filing holes well clear. | £6.00 |
| 250 | 1923, Abu Kibir-Salhia & V.V. /T.P.O. 11 AP 23 T-194 (Type 6A1, clear 98% strike on vignette of 3m postal stationery card Arabic-addressed to Alex ( Cairo-Mansura TPO behind. Filing holes touches card vignette | £4.50 |
| 251 | 1923, Cairo-Asyut & V.V. / T.P.O. 1 JU 23 T-89 (Type 6A1, six months later than Smith). Fine strike just overlaid by Alex transit on 3m postal stationery card from Farshut (filing hole through F. | £5.00 |
| 252 | 1925, near-perfect strike of T.P.O. 24 / Cairo / E (Type 5C1.1) dated 20 JU 25 (clearly 30mm dm, larger of Smith’s two types), on folded letter in French from Mixed Courts, a blank part of which must have disappeared | £5.00 |
| 253 | 1926, Shirbin-Qallin & V.V. / T.P.O. 12 MR 26 T-215 (Type 6A1, recorded only JL ’24) as transit mark (55%) on 3m postal stationery card from clear Biala to Mansura via part-strike Dumiat-Tanta TPO | £?? |
| 254 | 1926, Fayum-Wasta-Abuksa / & V.V. 11 AP 26 T-147 (see next), info strike 65% (another on 5m First Fouad), Type 7A3.4, unrecorded by Smith. Arabic-addressed cover to Minya (poor arrival behind) | £6.00 |
| 255 | 1928, Fayum / Wasta-Abuksa / & V.V. 25 SE 28 T-147, 85% and a type unrecorded by Smith, though similar to 7A3.6. Transit mark on Arabic-addressed cover from Abuksa (excellent info mark) to Cairo | £6.00 |
| 256 | 1929, Samanud-Birket el Sab / & V.V. (type 7A3, unrecorded), cancelling 5m Second Fuad on Arabic-addressed cover to Azhar. Info strike alongside is 70%; three muddled strikes behind | £6.00 |
| 257 | 1928, Mataria-Mansura / & V.V. 28 NO 28 T-10 (see 1920 above), Type 7A3.4, unrecorded by Smith, 90% transit mark on folded letter (franked 2m) from Abu Hummus to Cairo | £6.00 |
| 258 | 1930, Kafr el Sheikh-Basyun Regulator / & V. V. 14 OC 30 T-76, 70% strike. Type 7A3, but seven years after Smith records. Most unusual marking, twice on folded letter, inc cancelling 2x1m Second Fuad which sealed the letter. Arrival marking of Shin (60%) same day | £4.50 |
| 259 | 1933, Fayum / T.P.O. 6 FE 33 T-141 (Type 5A2.4, recorded only XII ’34), beautiful 100% strike as transit on Arabic-addressed cover from Sanhur el Qiblia (rare village marking, 80%) to Azhar | £6.00 |
| 260 | 1934, Bani Suef-Lahun / & V.V. / T.P.O. dated 8 JU 34 (Type 6A1.2, unrecorded by Smith except in index). Rare marking, here 60% on front of clean brown OHEMS env Arabic-addressed Cairo. 5m Second Fuad and Cairo machine mark on reverse | £6.00 |
| 261 | 1934, Caire-Minya / & V.V. of 13 NO 34 T-167 (Type 7A3.4, unrecorded, and surprisingly late use of “French” Caire). Excellent 90% info strike in blue-green (another cancels 5m Second Fuad) in Arabic-addressed covert to Cairo | £6.00 |
| 262 | 1935, T.P.O. / Shabrakhit-Damanhur / & V.V. (unrecorded, Type 6A1.4), 85% transit strike on folded report sheet from Shabrakhit (franked 2m Second Fuad) ) via Damanhur to Cairo | £6.00 |
| 263 | 1936, & V.V. / Tanta-Zaqaziq 15 NO 36 T-226, Type 7A3.7, unrecorded by Smith. Info strike (75%) and canceller on Arabic-addressed cover (re-addressed? and poor strikes behind | £6.00 |
| 264 | 1937, Abu Kibir-Salhia / T.P.O. / No 2 of 22 MR 37 (Type 5E1.1, 30 months later than Smith), 75% info strike on Arabic-addressed cover. Reverse has two more TPOs, Cairo-Alex / & V.V. (7A3.4) and Kafr el Dawar / Abu el Matamir / & V.V. (7A3.5, unrecorded, but not very clear) | £6.00 |
| 265 | 1939, Damanhur / Abu el Matamir / & V.V. 8 MA 31 T-91 (unrecorded by Smith, but most like Type 7A3.5), three strikes (best 75%) on folded printed sheet sealed by 2x1m Boy King, never opened. | £6.00 |
| 266 | 1941, Mansura / Mit Ghamr / & V.V. 24 MR 41 T.17 (99%, as Type 7A3.5, but Arabic all in one straight line in upper half), as transit on folded sheet “franked” with Official oval from Mansura | £6.00 |
| 267 | 1946, & V.V. / Alexandria-Abu Qir 5 NO 46 T-239 (unrecorded by Smith, most like Type 7A3.7). Strikes on 10m and alongside (65%) on Arabic-addressed to Kasfareet(?) | £6.00 |
| 268 | 1947, & V.V. / Tanta-Dumiat of 7 DE 47 T-58 (unrecorded by Smith, though he has Damiat-Tanta for 1932-34. Cancelling 10m and info strike (60%) on Arabic-addressed cover to Cairo | £6.00 |
| 269 | 1952/53?, Tanta / T.P.O. 25 FE year unclear (Type 5A2.4, 1938-1952 but elusive): 60% cancel on 10m and info strike of neat cover Arabic-addressed to Cairo | £4.50 |
| | TPO cancels - accumulations | |
| 270 | Group of 25 Egyptian postal stationery postcards, all used internally, date range 1897-1942, many written in Arabic, many file-holed, but all with Egypt TPO markings. Mixed bag, mixed condition | £25 |
| 271 | Group of 25 mainly picture postcards, about one third of them incoming, date range 1892-1940, all with Egyptian TPO markings. Mixed bag, mixed condition | £20 |
| 272 | Group of 25 folded letters, many using stamps to seal, all used internally, date range 1919-1942, many written in Arabic, but all with Egyptian TPO markings. Mixed bag, mixed condition | £20 |
| 273 | Group of 24 items, mainly covers but a couple of cards and ps items, all used internally, mainly 1940s, all with TPO markings. Mixed bag, mixed condition | £20 |
| 274 | Another group as last | £20 |
| | Officials | |
| 275 | 1912, OHHS bilingual envelope, cut down at right, Arabic-addressed to Cairo and franked with 1907 5m DLR OHHS opt (SG O76) and No-Value Official, cancelled Zagazig / G of 16 XII 12. Indistinct Cairo backstamp next day | £18 |
| 276 | 1955, long Official brown envelope franked with 4x10m + 2m Service de l’Etat plus vertical pair of 10m Defense to cover registered postage to Stockholm – franked with unclear Ministry of Education pmk 9 MA 55 with Aerodrome Du Caire behind. Letter in French/English copies thanking Swedes for taking part in Egyptian Education exhibition, but covered with Swedish Retour and Address Insufficient handstamps. File holes | £12 |
| | Interpostal resealing | |
| 277 | 1881. Letter from clear duplex London SE, 4 MR 81, sealed with wax seal of Albion Ironworks and addressed Via Brindisi to Administration of Khedivial Paquebots in Alexandria, franked 2 ½ d Victoria (SG 157). Unclear Alex / Arrivee behind of 17 March, but cover apparently opened in error and resealed with three copies of small embossed blue on white Gabinetto del Direttore Generale Interpostal (Kehr 378B. Type VIA). Not tied, but astonishingly endorsed alongside: ”Opened and resealed by ..? (initials) / 17/3”. Very very rare. | £225 |
| | British Occupation of Turkey | |
| 278 | 1921, small buff envelope, roughly opened at left, Arabic-addressed to Cairo. Franked at bottom left with internal marginal 7 ½ piastres on 5d George V British Levant surcharge (SG 62), CDS of British PO, Constantinople, 25 OC 21. Much scribbled reverse carries smudged Qubba Bridge / Cairo arrival of 5 XI 21. Unusual | £10 |
| | Postal history | |
| 279 | 1880, neat grey envelope Arabic-addressed with bduh to Cairo and franked 1pi rose, cancelled with first Alexandria duplex (Smith Type VII-1, heavily struck but clear of TIII / Sep 5 / 80. Cairo / Arrivee behind same day | £30 |
| 280 | 1881, neat fawn envelope, fragile and card-strengthened, Arabic-addressed with bduh and franked 2pi orange DLR. Clear strike of Alexandrie / Recommandes 21 AV 81 (Reg-8), flap and any arrival lost | £14 |
| 281 | 1882, neat small brown-orange envelope, franked 1pi rose and cancelled with clear Alexandrie / Depart cds of 11 JA 82 (V.Ferares company oval on front). Alex-Cai TPO backstamp damaged with loss of part-flap. Clean | £12 |
| 282 | 1882, neat small grey envelope, franked 1pi rose and cancelled with 85% rare Alexandria / Station / A duplex (Sta-8) of 31 DE 82. Clear Caire / Arrivee CDS behind same day | £18 |
| 283 | 1886, white envelope franked vertical pair of 1pi blue to cover Registration (upright handstamp) from Fayoum (excellent double-ring CDS of 5 XII 86 T1) to Cairo (neat Caire.A / Recommandes Arrivee same day behind) | £10 |
| 284 | 1894, neat small grey cover, Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked behind with 5m DLR and posted from Kena 28 VIII 94 (strikes back and front). Caire / A strike alongside two days later! | £12 |
| 285 | 1899, front only of cover from Helouan 3 II 99, franked 5m DLR for Surrey. Boxed T alongside and 12 ½ in blue pencil. Handstamp 2 ½ d F.B. struck on arrival | £6.00 |
| 286 | 1900, small white cover franked horiz pair of 5m DLR from Minia 12 JU 00 for Chio, Turquie. Faint Alex transit behind, then Turkish Smyrne CDS in green (17 June) and faint Chio arrival. Interesting | £12 |
| 287 | 1904, clean white printed cover of Societe Cooperative du Personnel du Canal de Suez / a Port-Tewfick, franked (bottom left) with horiz pair of 5m DLR for Emmenthal, Switzerland. Good Port-Tewfik strike 27 VII 04, part Alex and excellent Stalden-Station / Emmenthal double-ring of 3 VIII 04 behind. Neat cover | £14 |
| 288 | 1910, Blue Credit Foncier printed envelope, franked (bottom left) with 1pi blue for Registration (Red on white Cairo label). CDS Cairo / R 23 XII 10, perfect Qina / R/ P on Christmas Day behind. Undelivered, boxed Unclaimed behind and neat and most unusual boxed Rebut a Remettre / A l’Envoyeur / Qena on face. | £16 |
| 289 | 1911, white printed envelope of Pressley Memorial Institute / American Mission / Assiut, franked 1m DLR and posted, presumably unsealed, within Assiut. Unclear CDS 28 XII 11 | £5.00 |
| 290 | 1912, buff envelope colourfully franked with 1m, 2x2m and 5m DLR for Registration. Arabic-addressed and roughly opened at top. Akhmim (faint Reg cachet) 7 VI 12 to Cairo (arrival behind) | £5.00 |
| | Dues on cover | |
| 291 | 1896, small fawn cover, roughly opened at left, apparently posted unfranked (from overseas?) and Arabic-addressed. Port Said double-ring CDs 16 XII 96 X; and Caire / A same day T VII on reverse. Face has a large T in circle handstamp, overlaid by Caire / A cancelling 2pi orange Due and dated 26 XII 96 TX. Unusual | £12 |
| 292 | 1902, off-white envelope, bilingually addressed with bduh to Alex, Cairo 26 IX 02 CDS on face. No definitives, but all of the reverse covered by block of 30 2m Dues, with a further 16 copies overlapping the top three sides. What is it? Contents remain, impossible to remove, stuck inside cover. | £10 |
| 293 | 1926, incoming letter from France franked 1fr, Alex machine arrival behind 10 FEB 26, no deficiency markings, but 2m scarlet and 4m green (creased) 1921 Dues cancelled Alex/ Foreign Traffic 11.2.26 | £6.00 |
| 294 | 1928, Arabic-addressed cover, unfranked, posted from Cairo / M 23 AU 28, attracted boxed T and 10m 1927 due, cancelled by Cairo / H perhaps same day (indistinct cancel). All on face | £5.00 |
| 295 | 1932, incoming small printed commercial envelope from Kutch, India, flap and Indian stamps lost. Addressed Credit Foncier, Cairo, hexagonal T / Cts / 5 at top right, 8m 1927 Due affixed on face and cancelled 5 MR 32 | £5.00 |
| 296 | 1954? small cover posted unfranked in Mahalla to Cairo. 2x10m 1927-56 Dues behind. CDSs unclear | £4.00 |
| 297 | 1954, postcard from Greece to Alex unfranked, Greek handstamp and Arabic working-out of 45m due. 30m KES opt, 8m KES opt and 6m Dues (ie 44m) applied in Alex 26 AU 54. Good looking | £8.00 |
| | Mixed bag | |
| 298 | 40 Egypt-UK covers, letter size to A4, mid-Nineties virtually up to date, all franked with machine franks | £5.00 |
| 299 | 225 Egypt-UK covers, mid-Nineties virtually up to date, all sizes, all with stamps, a vast and colourful mixture of then-current definitives, commems, miniature sheets: in singles, pairs, blocks, just as received | £25 |
| 300 | 70 Egypt-UK covers once containing A4 newspaper by Air Mail, appx 1997-2000, all with stamps, a vast and colourful array of mainly definitives, up to £E2, occasional commem, occasional miniature sheet: stamps curiously often uncancelled | £12 |
| 301 | 425 UK-UK covers, mainly addressed over the last 3-4 years to one of the world’s greatest newspapers, mainly stamped, mainly selected for commem or Machin or postmark interest. Something to sift…. | £7.00 |
| 302 | Just short of 600 worldwide covers, mainly addressed over the last 3-4 years to ESC officers or one of the world’s greatest newspapers, virtually all with stamps and selected on the basis of colourful interest. No Egypt except by accident. Much to sift…. | £14 |
| 303 | Mass of stamps on piece, about half and half GB and worldwide, collected over the past four years or so. Weight about 1 3/4 lb (850gm) | £5.00 |
| | 1959, Printing experiment. First use of Postal Printing House’s new press. As United Arab States issue (SG593, NP219) but with “Printing Experiment” scroll at base. Perforated and watermarked | |
| 304 | Vermilion | £4.00 |
| 305 | Purple | £4.00 |
| 306 | Blue | £4.00 |
| 307 | Steel Blue | £4.00 |
| 308 | Rose red | £4.00 |
| | Perforated, no wmk | |
| 309 | Olive | £4.00 |
| 310 | Rose red | £4.00 |
| 311 | Bright blue | £4.00 |
| | Experimental essays | |
| 312 | 1960/1970? Experimental essay by Postal Authority Press: horizontal pair of vertical design showing face in mosaic in blue, with Arabic inscription “experiment without value” reversed at base, unwatermarked. Mint NH | £16 |
| 313 | Single, as last | £8.00 |
| | Mubarak Essays. 1980s series of essays prepared by the Postal Authority Press for a portrait stamp of President Hosni
Mubarak, printed by photogravure on gummed paper and perf 11x11 ½. No value, no inscription, never issued. NP 549 (p 71).
illustrated as a group | |
| 314 | Multicolour horiz pair, all colours present | £10 |
| 315 | As last, horizontal pair, imperf all round | £10 |
| 316 | As first, red and perf shifted 1mm to left | £10 |
| 317 | Horiz pair in blue only, perf shifted 2mm right | £10 |
| 318 | Horiz pair in orange, perf shifted 5mm left | £10 |
| 319 | Imperf single, printed in yellow only | £5.00 |
| 320 | Another as last | £5.00 |
| | Recent booklet | |
| 321 | 2004 (Jan 22), Egypt’s latest booklet – colourful “Treasures of Egypt” booklet with 30 stamps over four pages, including £E5 (Sphinx), £E5 (Nefertiti) and £E10 gold stamp (Tutankhamun). Mint, pristine | £11 |
| 322 | Another, as last | £11 |
| | Variety | |
| 323 | 1993 80p Air Mail stamp (SG1874, NP118), left marginal horiz pair with selvage, UMM, with gold badly misplaced 3mm to left, leaving Tutankhamun funerary mask with two beards. Striking error | £10 |
| | Paquebot | |
| 324 | 11.3.91, cover with Dutch 75c stamp, addressed to California, cancelled with two strikes of recent Paquebot/boxed date/Port Said CDS. Cairo APT/RCT2 CDs alongside, with handstamps of M/V Conti Finlandia and Capt J J Haanstra. Clean, neat | £3.00 |
| 325 | (date unclear) cover with GB Machin 10 1/2p, addressed to California with two strikes of Paquebot (date bridge) Port-Said (Type O-4.5). Handstamps alongside are Posted at sea aboard / P&O SS Canberra and S.S. Canberra / Paquebot / Mail, together with details of ship’s tonnage | £3.00 |
| | Maritime Postcards | |
| 326 | Spanish colour card showing Egyptian Coastguard vessel El Amir Farouq steaming to left with green/white stars and crescent flag at stern and enlarged above. Vessel details printed on reverse. Mint | £3.00 |
| 327 | Chinese colour card showing Egyptian Navy Ramadan-class missile boat, strikingly steaming head-on, pictured from above. Apparently built in UK early 1980s, armed with Otomat SSMs. Mint, pristine clean | £3.00 |
| | Israel reply coupon - Gaza | |
| 328 | International reply coupon for Israel, surcharge increasing value from 45 to 300 pruta, perfect clean strike of Israeli Gaza 3 dated 1.1.57. Excellent condition | £3.00 |
| | Crown opts used as fiscals | |
| 329 | Neat letter in English on Eg Govt wmk paper (1915-1917) from a teacher, A D D Bonner, seeking permission from Headmaster of Mansura Secondary School to give private extra lessons. 3pt tax paid by horizontal pair of 15m Crown opts (milliemat), neatly cancelled with indelible pencil X | £8.00 |
| | Municipal tax | |
| 330 | 10m black on pink Alexandria Municipal tax stamp on fragment, cancelled by part-strike of an oval hs. Unusual | £3.00 |
| | Mazar (Sinai) | |
| 331 | Unaddressed envelope bearing tabbed 5pr and 20pr Israeli coin stamps of 1950-54 issue, both cancelled with apparent Registration cachet of Mazar (Sinai) – see QC 213,217 – dated 4-11-56. A curiosity | £4.00 |
| 332 | Fragment bearing embossed 20para vignette and 10para Turkish stamp, apparently cancelled with CDS of Bir ul-Mazar dated 4 7 1333 AH (ie, May 19, 1915). See QC 217. A curiosity | £4.00 |
| | Sinai in the First World War | |
| 333 | How Egypt was defended from the Turco-German Menace, Part 97 of H H Wilson’s partwork, The Great War, published as a 10in x 13in booklet, pages 453-476 with cover photo of General Sir George Younghusband, commander of Indian and British Forces in Egypt.. Comprehensive detail, packed with maps and many many unusual photographs. Fascinating | £4.00 |
| | Banknote catalogues | |
| 334 | Encyclopaedia and Catalogue of Egyptian Money: The Egyptian Banknote, by Magdy Hanafy, 2004. Beautifully published and comprehensive first volume detailing all Egyptian banknotes between 25pi and £E100. 350pp, coloured illustrations throughout, bilingual Arabic and perfect English, a MUST for all note collectors. Mint | £18 |
| 335 | Companion volume to the last, published in 2005, detailing the 5pi and 10pi notes. 160pp, a staggering work of scholarship, beautifully executed | £9.00 |
| | Postage Dues | |
| 336 | 25 XI 01, b-w postcard (Phylae), unfranked Alex/D to Zagazig. Boxed T, but no due – because addressed to “Mr Camel Mansur, Agent Postal, Zagazig”? Purple handstamps EGYPTE and ALEXANDRIE: why? | £3.00 |
| 337 | 30 IV 13, coloured card (Alexandrie – Jardin public) sent to London franked strip of 3x1m DLR from Alex. Two strikes of small boxed T,5.C. (which country?), but no due raised in UK | £3.00 |
| 338 | 25 X 13, coloured card (Suez – Palmier a la Fontaine de Moise), franked 2m DLR for UK, cancelled Suez with Alexandria / A alongside and boxed T / 10.C., but no due raised in England. Neat | £3.00 |
| 339 | 28 MR 19, coloured card (Port Said – Jardin de Lesseps), franked 2m DLR pictorial for UK, boxed T/05 alongside, but no due raised in UK | £3.00 |
| 340 | 5 JL 23, b-w card (Egyptian Types – Native Girl), franked 5m First Fuad for London, from Abu Qir. Boxed T alongside, no due raised in UK | £3.00 |
| 341 | 11 SE 23, cover to US franked 15m in six Second Fuad stamps from Maadi, boxed T in Egypt, two NY strikes indicating Due 6c, but no due apparently raised. Interesting | £5.00 |
| 342 | 2 AP 34, colour card (Cairo – Merchants of grass), franked 5m Boy King for Brighton, boxed T and 1 1/2d I.S./ I alongside; and 1d and 1/2d Dues cancelled Brighton at top centre, avoiding message | £7.00 |
| 343 | 23 AP 38, blue incoming envelope, franked KG VI 1 1/2d from Glasgow. Cairo machine cancel, plus double-sided machine putting a hexagonal T marking on face, and message on reverse: Please advise sender that / letters should be prepaid / 1 1/2d for each HALF ounce. Black “30” mark on face, but no due raised | £5.00 |
| 344 | 22 V 38, commercial env (flag logo on flap) addressed to Hull, cancelled 20m Leprosy Congress and sent from Alexandria / Dep. 3. Validity of the commem had ceased two days before, so boxed T alongside uncancelled stamp. No due raised in UK | £7.00 |
| 345 | 15 DE 39, Printed commercial cover for Manchester, 30m Air + 5m Boy King, Air Mail label, from Alex, with pencilled T and large rough cork(?) obliteration. Beautiful double-ring M1 censor hs in purple (Andrews 4.d.1) | £6.00 |
| 346 | 13 10 61, UK 3d QEII letter-sheet misused from Port-Said / T (2) to Scotland. Boxed T alongside, and green boxed “9d To Pay/ Posted / Unpaid” handstamp on arrival. 4d and 5d UK Dues neatly affixed top centre and cancelled Greenock 16 JA 62. Neat, striking | £9.00 |
| | Definitives used as fiscals | |
| 347 | 1901, Arabic handwritten document on lined paper with stars/crescent Govt watermark (21x19cm), from a small village near Korosko (Nubia), certifying to the suitability of a woman to act as a midwife. Signed and authenticated with five intaglio seals, tax paid by 3x2 block 5m DLR at top left, all pen-Cancelled. Top left stamp has pinholes from filing, remarkable | £20 |
| | Definitives used as fiscals – booklet panes | |
| 348 | 21 Oct 1931, Arabic handwritten letter 1929 Govt wmk (Arabic; star/crescent) paper (212x170mm) from teacher seeking permission to give extra English lessons out of school hours. Tax paid with booklet pane of Second Fuad 5m, neatly obliterated by oval school handstamp in violet. File holes, fine usage | £8.00 |
| 349 | As last, letter (lined paper, 19x21.5cm) written in English October 6 (1927?), seeking permission to give extra lessons at another school in the Asyut area. Tax paid with Second Fuad 5m booklet pane, cancelled with school oval stamp and comprehensively with pencil X. File holes again | £8.00 |
| 350 | 29 Nov 1930, as last, letter in French (Govt crescent and star wmk paper, 21x30cm) with tax-paying Second Fuad 5m booklet pane cancelled with red pencil Xs: seeking permission to give extra lessons at a nearby school. Single word in bottom left corner: Approved. | £8.00 |
| | Postal stationery | |
| 351 | 1946, 4m Marechal business card envelope (NP 37). Absolutely post-office fresh (sl pencil marks behind) | £6.00 |
| 352 | 1946, 4m Marechal envelope as last, but with filigree design inside (NP 39, wmk, diagonal, inverted and reversed), Arabic-addressed and used from Qina to Qus. Scarcest of all Eg envelopes, the only PS item with the Crown and Arabic F wmk. Extremely fresh | £22 |
| | Recent correspondence | |
| 353 | Accumulation of 36 modern covers, 1997-2002, mainly long, some window, split between stamped and machine-cancelled, all arriving in Cairo. Something to search… | £6.00 |
| | Illustrated London News graphics | |
| 354 | The Nile Expedition: General Lord Wolseley trying his camel on the Shoubrah Road, Cairo. Half of front page, Oct 11 1884 (Kassala, Soudan is lower third) | £2.50 |
| 355 | En Route to Souakim: Sketches by our Special Artist. Full front page, Jan 10 1884. Half-column on Egypt behind | £2.50 |
| 356 | Pyramids of Meroe (General Gordon’s Route) with portraits of Captain Forester Walker, Admiral Sir W Hewett and Dr Armand Leslie and obituary of Leslie, killed in Sudan. Full page, Feb 23 1884 | £2.50 |
| 357 | Sketches by an Officer of the Nile Expedition: At the Second Cataract. Full front page, No 1 1884 | £2.50 |
| 358 | City of Pigeons, near Cairo; Island of Elephantine; Inside the Enemy’s Batter, El Teb – three illustrations forming full page. Mar 29 1884 | £2.50 |
| 359 | The Excavations – Pithom-Succoth, a Buried City of the Exodus (ie Tell el Mashkutah) – three illustrations forming a full page. Aug 4 1883 | £2.00 |
| 360 | New Lighthouse on the Brothers Rocks, Red Sea – 1/3 of a page, with paragraph of explanation behind. Sept 22 1883 | £2.00 |
| 361 | Khedive and Duke of Connaught salute the Holy Carpet; and scene of chaos as it reaches the railway station. Text between the two. Oct 28 1882 | £2.00 |
| 362 | The Suez Canal – three-page supplement to issue of July 21 1883: maps (inc Port Said and Suez), De Lesseps, Lake Menzaleh, Pelusium, and a page of text. Slight damage | £3.00 |
| 363 | The Nile Expedition: Shellal, and (much larger), General View of Korosko – together 2/3 of a page Nov 22 1884 | £2.50 |
| 364 | Double-page spread on General View of Wady Halfa, from the Hospital Buildings – striking. Lower half is two (damaged) illustrations of the road to Dongola. Dec 27 1884 | £2.50 |
| | Other graphics | |
| 365 | Eleven double-sided pages from Voyage Illustre dans le Cinq Parties du Monde dealing in French with Egypt and the Middle East, including 38 drawings of Egypt ancient and contemporary (ie 1880s?). These include Mohamed Ali, Ibrahim Pacha and (full length) Soliman Pacha (Colonel Selves). Interesting | £7.00 |
| 366 | The Graphic: full page with four drawings of “Sport in Egypt – a Ladies’ paper chase on Donkeys”. May 9 1891 | £2.00 |
| 367 | The Sphere March 8 1908 – glorious double-page spread of flooded Philae temple, crammed with tourist boats. Striking scene. One of outer pages has two photographs: “How the Indian Soldier Travels” | £2.00 |
| | American University in Cairo | |
| 368 | Various student publications – one bound copy of The Bore (May 1937), two of the AUC Review (Feb and Apr 1937), and 12 copies of bilingual Campus Caravan (incorporating The Bore and AUC Review), dated between October 1937 and May 1938). Fascinating glimpse into the minutiae of university life between the wars | £8.00 |
| | American Mission College for Girls | |
| 369 | 25 copies of The Cartouche, student publication of the Cairo college, dated between January 1930 and June 1934. full of local goings-on and reflections on wider Egyptian affairs of the day. Fascinating | £8.00 |
| | Palestine | |
| 370 | Palestine 1947 registered envelope, Jerusalem to London | £2.00 |
| | Army stamps | |
| 371 | Corner pair with selvedges, mint (no gum) of SG A3 Christmas seal. Very nice looking | £10 |
| | Perfins | |
| 372 | (17) 4 different and 1 Post Card with 3 proclamation 1m and 5m perfins (VC and G) | £3.00 |
| | Sudan | |
| 373 | December 1931 First Flight Khartoum to Cape Town. Johannesburg transit mark/receiver. First Flight cachet. 4 + 1/2 piastre stamp. Vertical crease does not detract (well, slightly). | £20 |
| | Official | |
| 374 | 1944 OHMS brown envelope to Belfast with 17 mills Official stamps (2x1m, 5m, 10m). Not immaculate, but OK | £3.00 |
| | Postal stationery | |
| 375 | 14 mint nineteenth-century postal stationery items | £3.00 |
| 376 | Stationery cover from F C Baines, Alexandria, 1907, to Rue Pillot, Roubaix, France, via Naples and SS Schleswig with Roubaix receiver | £3.00 |
| | Davis….. | |
| 377 | Envelope, 5m reddish-brown, H&G 28, unused, pristine | £30 |
| 378 | Envelope H&G6 uprated 5m (SG 63d) to pay registration fee, cachet R327 applied at Ausim 8 Oct 1910 to Giza Succursal with next-day receiver on back. Very clear postmarks and cachet. Unusual village registration mark | £6.00 |
| | Boy King – Royal perfs | |
| 379 | Misperforations – one of each of the original values, 1m,2m,3m,5m,15m and 20m, six values in all | £20 |
| | Airmails | |
| 380 | 9 JU 1942 air cover to Leeds franked 2m,15m and 30m Boy King cancelled Port Said Traffic with civil censor and air mail etiquette. Cairo roller on reverse. Colourful | £2.00 |
| 381 | Similar to last, to same addressee, franked 1m,6m and 40m Boy King cancelled Port Said Traffic 30 AU 1942 | £1.50 |
| 382 | Incoming to Cairo 24.2.28 air cover from Basra flown Baghdad-Cairo route franked 2x1 anna Iraq. Cairo receiver 26.2.28 on back | £5.00 |
| 383 | Incoming Imperial Airways printed cover registered at Bodmin 26 FE 31 franked 2 x GV 4d green to Alexandria and redirected to Minya with 2 Alex transits and Minya 7 MR 31 receiver on back | £15 |
| 384 | Incoming 1932 Imperial Airways Springbok cover franked South Africa 2d and pair of 4s airmails cancelled Pietersburg to Aswan with Caire Par Avion 12.2.32 and next-day Aswan receiver on back. Creases well away from the stamps | £15 |
| 385 | Incoming Qantas kangaroo air cover Brisbane to Alex franked Australian George V 1d green and 1/6d 2 globes and Mercury cancelled Brisbane 7 DEC 1934. Caire Par Avion cds and Alex receiver on back | £15 |
| | Maritime | |
| 386 | George V 1d Mackennal cancelled boxed PAQUEBOT and Port Said cds 25 X 11 to London. Clean | £5.00 |
| | Meter marks | |
| 387 | Modern registered cover with meter mark 27.4.95 incorporating OUTGOING REGISTRY POST AR EGYPT (the right hand side of the mark is as Type 7 Nile Hilton), franked 155m. Unusual. And another cover with different meter mark franked 260m to UK | £1.50 |
| | British Forces | |
| 388 | Christmas seal (1932), black on azure, SG A3, mounted mint with slight thin not noticeable from front | £12 |
| 389 | Christmas seal (1932), black on azure, SG A3, cancelled black retta on reverse of cover, posted EPP 4 in red with MPO Cairo on front. To London, difficult to find on cover | £85 |
| | Israel | |
| 390 | Accumulation of modern covers and cards, eight in all | £3.00 |
| | Aden | |
| 391 | Three pages of George VI comprising SG16 to 23A including both shades of the 1/2 anna green, the two Victory stamps, all lightly mounted mint, plus six values from the George VI issue, 1/2a, 3/4a, 1a, 2a, 8a and 14a, all fine used, cat. £16 plus, all nicely written up on FG Graduate sheets. | £6.00 |
| | Quaiti State in Hadhramaut | |
| 392 | The complete set of 12, SG 29 to 40 of this state within a state, all lightly mounted mint, currently cat. £17, beautifully written up on FG Graduate sheet. | £6.00 |
| | Egypt | |
| 393 | Medical: a large block of 32 x 5 milliemes ‘charity’ stamps (not too large to mount on a standard page), with five oval purple handstamps on the reverse (in Arabic)1 otherwise unmounted mint. The stamps were used to raise money for an anti-Tuberculosis campaign. | £12 |
| 394 | Postal history: a commercial (ad in Arabic) registered? internal cover posted 13.3.71 at Magheb Pasha, (Alexandria) R.P. franked 20m yellow-olive SG 777 (Mitwalli Gate, Cairo) and 35m SG779 (Nefertari as Isis) to Alexandria. Two backstamps, attractive | £2.50 |
| 395 | Circulated club books: three plus some loose pages, priced to sell at well over £120 net including French Post Offices – must be some good pickings. | £20 |
| 396 | Dopo la Partenza 20 paras blue SG 30 overprinted Dopo la Partenza in red and subsequently cancelled across the corner in black: stamp slightly creased not apparent from the front. Attractive and scarce | £10 |
| | French Post Offices in Egypt | |
| 397 | Alexandrie: 5 Francs ‘Empire Lauré’ with full strike 5080 ‘gros chiffres’. Stamp has some minor faults: 1mm tear and some creasing flattened out, but still remarkable condition (cv Dallay 2007 € 1100!) | £135 |
| 398 | Alexandrie: Postage due NP FPD1-5** UM in gutter pairs with millésimes. Scarce set, cv. Dallay 2007: €670 | £100 |
| 399 | Alexandrie: SG nrs 19, 19a, 20, 22 in UM gutter pairs with millésimes (cv Dallay € 117) | £18 |
| 400 | Alexandrie: SG 28 UM gutter pair with millésime 2 (cv Dallay € 55) | £ 9.00 |
| 401 | Alexandrie: SG 55 in UM gutter pair with millésime 4 (cv Dallay € 275) | £45 |
| 402 | Alexandrie: NP FPO 33 in horiz. pair with 33a SG38 + 38a; £100), VF mint | £30 |
| 403 | Alexandrie: NP FPO45a (SG50a £500) VF mint, signé Brun | £150 |
| 404 | Alexandrie: horiz. pair NP FPO71+71c UM | £15 |
| 405 | Caire: small cover franked 40c Empire dentelé cancelled 5119 gros chiffres + (bit weak) cds LE CAIRE –Bau FRANÇAIS. TPO Marseille-Lyon and arrival Paris on back. Back flap torn and repaired. (cv Dallay € 550) | £75 |
| 406 | Port-Said: SG 107, 109, 112 and 116 on fragments with full postmark PORT-SAID EGYPTE | £ 13.60 |
| 407 | Port-Said: NP 107b inverted overprint VF mint, signé, RR! | £95 |
| 408 | Port-Said: NP 115a (SG 119) VF used, signé Brun | £65 |
| 409 | Port-Said: SG 101 and 102 in gutter pairs with millésime VF mint (cv Dallay € 75) | £10 |
| 410 | Port-Said: SG 126a 2 gutter pairs with millésime 4 and 6 VF mint (cv Dallay € 60) | £ 7.60 |
| 411 | Port-Said: SG 174,175, 176, 178, 179, 180 and 181 in VF mint gutter pairs with millésime (cv Dallay € 230) | £40 |
| 412 | Port-Said: PPC local use unfranked T in triangle + Postage due 10 mills (SG D176) cancelled PORT-SAID EGYPTE 2-12 21 pristine! (cv Dallay € 225) | £40 |
| 413 | Port-Said: double postal card NP SFPOPC 10 VF unused with printing error ‘reserve’ instead of ‘réservé’. Correct on the reply card! | £10 |
| 414 | Port-Said: service cover local bureau with SG 166d and 167c (overprint on Levant stamps) cto. Very fine (cv stamps only £ 145) | £55 |
| 415 | Port-Said: similar envelope with 2x SG138a and 2x140b (cv £164) | £45 |
| 416 | Port-Said: Envelope 15c. NP ENV6 with number 213 sent open to Budapest, arrival on back. Scarce envelope! | £30 |
| 417 | Port-Said: Letter card 15c. NP LC7 sent open to Amsterdam, arrival on back. Pristine condition! | £30 |
| 418 | Alexandrie: wrapper franked 5c (type Sage) VF used to Germany; stamp misses few dents (cv Dallay € 50) | £ 5.00 |
| 419 | Alexandrie: Letter card 10c additionally franked 15c. NP LC6 sent to Lyon and opened but margins conserved. Arrival Lyon on reverse. Very fine! | £45 |
| 420 | Alexandrie: fragment with 80 cent Empire non dentelé cancelled by 3704 petits chiffres with cds ALEXANDRIE EGYPTE 29 SEPT 59 + big cds in red on border France-Germany (cv stamp with postmark Dallay € 150) | £30 |
| | Hotel Stationery Covers (not those with POs) | |
| 421 | Windsor Palace, Alexandria, to UK Aug 1937 | £2.00 |
| 422 | Hotel Cecil Alexandria (the blue Air Mail cachet) to New York, franked 55m (?), 3 MR 38, no arrival, but the rubber stamp of the UK Post Office advertising the All Up Rate | £3.00 |
| 423 | Summer Palace, Ramleh, to India 1918, 4x5m stamps, Censor Tape, Bombay censor mark, a bit tatty but hotel shown | £2.00 |
| 424 | Hotel Beau Rivage, Ramleh, to Sweden with 3x5m (First Fuad), CDS of San Stefano 1 JL 27, transit Alexandria, 1 VII 27 & arrival Stockholm 7.7.27 | £3.00 |
| 425 | Hotel Victoria, Assuan, FDC of Bal 74-76, CDS Aswan 26 JA 38, not addressed | £2.00 |
| 426 | Eden House Hotel, Cairo, 30 + 3m to Paris 20 SE 37, arrival Paris 23 1X 37 | £3.00 |
| 427 | George Calomaris Hotels, National Hotel, Cairo, all on env. flap, Registered Air Mail to Vienna, redirected to Augsburg, franked 66m, CDS Cairo 15 JA 30, and arrival marks. | £3.00 |
| 428 | Hotel Arabia, Zamalek, Cairo, to Calcutta, 72m, CDS Cairo 26.11.55 | £2.00 |
| 429 | Grosvenor Hotel, Cairo, CDS Cairo 15 N0 28, 10m, but with the “5d I.S.E” mark applied - no sign of Dues being collected | £2.00 |
| 430 | Metropolitan Hotel, Cairo, machine cancel Cairo 18 May 1934 to UK - this was during the Cheap” period, but this is franked 20m | £2.00 |
| 431 | Metropolitan Hotel, Cairo (diff design from previous), FDC of Bal 70-72, CDS Opthalmic. 8 DE 37, to UK but addressee details deleted | £2.00 |
| 432 | Metropolitan Hotel, Cairo, a later design, Air Mail envelope to US franked 90m, CDS Cairo 20 FEB 54 | £2.00 |
| 433 | Victoria Hotel, Cairo, to UK, franked 26m(?), CDS Cairo 19 MR 34 | £2.00 |
| 434 | Victoria Hotel & New Khedivial, Cairo, with views of the Hotel, Gardens & Dining Room, franked 15m (First Fuad) to USA (date illegible) the blue & white octagonal luggage label of the Hotels is stuck on back of envelope | £4.00 |
| 435 | Grand Hotel, Helouan Les Bains, to UK with Bal 24 & 25, cds of Medical Congress, 17 DE 29 | £3.00 |
| 436 | Ismailia Palace Hotel with 8x5m & KLM cachet, cds Ismailia 17 AP 37, to UK. | £3.00 |
| 437 | Savoy Hotel, Luxor, with 3 x Bal 74 to UK, CDS Luxor T, 15 FE 38 | £2.00 |
| 438 | Arafa Hotel, Tanta, with Bal 895 to USA, CDS 21.?. 81 | £2.00 |
| | The following 12 Lots are postcards showing the Hotels | |
| 439 | Canton Hotel, Bulkeley, to Athens with 2x5m lake, CDS illegible | £2.00 |
| 440 | Windsor Hotel, Alexandria, to Athens with Bal 25, CDS Alexandria 24.12.28 | £2.00 |
| 441 | Khedivial Hotel, Assouan, unused (in colour) | £2.00 |
| 442 | Hotel des Bains, Helouan, to UK with Bal 89, CDS Hilwan 22.4.09 | £2.00 |
| 443 | Casino Palace Hotel, Port Said, to Zagazig with Bal 80, CDS Port Said 17.VI.13, arrival Zagazig 18.VI.18. (colour card) | £2.00 |
| 444 | Eastern Exchange Hotel, Port Said, unused Gervaert card b & w. | £1.00 |
| 445 | Hotel Continental, Port Said - Boulevard du Port, unused, colour. | £1.00 |
| 446 | Hotel d’Angleterre, Cairo, unused, b & w | £2.00 |
| 447 | Hotel du Nil, Cairo, unused ‘Tucks’ Oilette | £2.00 |
| 448 | Bristol Hotel, Cairo, 3 different pictures, 2 unused, 1 to UK 1905 | £2.00 |
| 449 | Bristol Hotel, Cairo, p/c size colour illustration with description & Tariff on reverse, appears to be early 1920s | £4.00 |
| 451 | Hotel Abbas, Abasseyeh, Cairo, unused p/c showing a chadouf, with Christmas Greetings from the Proprietors | £3.00 |
| | Various | |
| 451 A | Visiting-card size cover with clear cds of Ramle Schutz 18 MR 93, franked 3m to Citta”, arrival Alexandria ??.MR 93 | £10 |
| | Auction catalogues | |
| 452 | 1977, Danson’ s Egypt, 1977 Danson’ s Sudan, 1980 MacArthur’s Egypt, all with Prices Realised | £4.00 |
| | 1993 Air Mails – Varieties in blocks of four, never hinged | |
| 453 | 2m grey, black spot in clouds, Bal 351 (pos 9) | £5.00 |
| 454 | 3m spot in clouds (defect pos 4) | £5.00 |
| 455 | 3m spot in clouds | £8.00 |
| 456 | 9m spot in clouds | £12 |
| 457 | 2m red, bird on wing, Bal 353 (pos 42) | £5.00 |
| 458 | 3m bird on wing | £5.00 |
| 459 | 4m bird on wing | £8.00 |
| 460 | 8m bird on wing | £8.00 |
| 461 | 9m variety mills with serif, Bal 339a (pos 6) in vertical pair | £12 |
| 462 | 9m unlisted variety cracked frame (pos 47, below Arabic 9), in vertical pair | £10 |
| 463 | 3m unlisted variety cracked label top left “Egypte” (pos 34) | £5.00 |
| 464 | 10m variety incomplete perforation, seen on two rows, Bal 340 | £10 |
| 465 | 1m black spot on wing + deformed “E” in three different states – pos 36 (faint spot) + pos 32, block of 10 | £5.00 |
| 466 | 1m black spot on wing + deformed “E” in three different states – pos 36 (darker spot) + pos 32, block of 10 | £8.00 |
| 467 | 1m black spot on wing + deformed “E” in three different states – pos 36 (large spot) + pos 32, block of 10 | £10 |
| 468 | 4m broken letter “N”, Bal 334a (pos 32), block of 12 | £10 |
| | Commemorative control blocks of four, never hinged | |
| 469 | A 59 Bal 230/235, Revolution set of 6 | £3.00 |
| 470 | A 59 Bal 237, Migration | £1.00 |
| 471 | A 59 Bal 238, Army Day | £1.00 |
| 472 | A 59 Bal 241, Museum | £1.00 |
| 473 | A 59 Bal 242, Nubian Monuments (block of 6) | £1.00 |
| 474 | A 60 Bal 253 - 257, Sports (2 blocks of 10, showing both panes) | £1.00 |
| 475 | A 60 Bal 247, Cairo Fair | £1.00 |
| 476 | A 60 Bal 248, Republic Day | £1.00 |
| 477 | A 60 Bal 249 Biennale Alexandria | £1.00 |
illustrated as a group
