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| Air Mail cover with 50m air stamps (NP A17), addressed to Anvers (Belgium) and cancelled 18 MR 40 1130A / ALEXANDRIA / D; censor marks 73 on front, 32 on back, with Cairo cancel Lot 255 Sold £10 |
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| 1935 cover of Basile M Coumbaros, agent for Greek wines, with two bottles illustrated on front, used from Cairo (15m Second Fuad and Cairo Reg label) to Alex. Excellent condition but for file holes Lot 482 Sold £2 |
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| 1916 “3 MILLIEMES” surcharge on 1914 2 mills green postal card, THE ESSAY/ COLOUR TRIAL OF SURCHARGE IN BLACK (issued card was surcharged in red). ONE OF TWO EXAMPLES POSSIBLE … and the ONLY ONE AVAILABLE TO COLLECTORS … this being from the De La Rue day-book, the other conceivably still hidden in the Egyptian archives). Stunningly fresh and clean-appearing, with a slight wrinkle 2/3-in from left edge and near-imperceptible, isolated peripheral thinning on reverse (as usual, a result of removal from the day-book). With lightly pencilled notation on reverse, “Egypt Vol 14 / 29”. A TREASURE of Egyptian postal stationery! (colour trial of Nile Post SPC24, mentioned on page 678 but grossly under-valued!) Lot 589 Sold £380 |
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| World Refugee Year colour trial 10m and 35 mm in imperf pairs NP PC5a & PC6a cat $400 Lot 517 Sold at £125 |
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| 1914 Pictorials, imperf. proofs on unwatermarked paper 1m to 10m each with plate number, see NP p127 Lot 522 Sold at £40 |
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| 1956, Second Pan-Arab Boy Scout Jamboree Semi-postal Miniature Sheets, perforated and imperforate (NP MS9-MS10; Bal. commemoratives 170-171 at £1203.50; SG MS513-14 at £2000; Scott B13-15, footnoted at $1500). Both sheets are mint, never-hinged. The perforated sheet has a hint of a fingerprint on the gummed side, a couple of small paper inclusions and a minor diagonal crease at its SE corner (approximately a mere 6mm in from the apex); the imperforate sheet has a subtle, and really insignificant, gum bend. A much sought-after pair of sheets as only 1037 of each existed! Lot 741 sold for £430 |
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| Complete Post Office form PO No 17 R, ie, Savings Bank Small Savings Form: single sheet of 19x14cm,
folded once, properly furnished with total of 30x Harrison 5-mil pink Sphinx stamps, beautifully placed just so on the form, all cancelled with
Alexandria/C9 CDs of 5 JA 23 and form Arabic-completed. Slightest of spots, but quite remarkable survival in such outstanding condition Lot 171 Reserve price £60 Sold at £110 |
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| 6 IV 06. b-w postcard (Comptoir Philatelique 163 – Alexandrie – Boulevard Ramley) franked 3m DLR to Kent. Unusual clear cancel Tarh, then clear (85%) Rashid-Aboukir TPO cancel (unrecorded: as 8A1, TV at right end), Aboukir-Alexandrie (TPO? as 8a7 if so, but probably not), and finally Alexandrie, all same day. Remarkable cancels, fine card Lot 211 Reserve price £22 Sold at £25 |
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| 1884 De La Rue 1 piastre blue block of four (NP D43e), never-mounted mint, imperf Lot 412 Reserve price £125 Sold at £155 |
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| Royal collection misperfs – Boy King 40m block of 4, mint never hinged. Lot 549 Reserve price £17 Sold at £17 |
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| 1923, “First Fuad” Issue, 100 mills purple, COMPLETELY IMPERFORATE ON GUMMED, WATERMARKED PAPER, a superb, left-hand-marginal vertical pair from pos. 21 over 31 of the unique proof sheet of 100 stamps., Super-fresh, unmounted mint, absolutely perfect in all respects! Because many of the stamps on the sheet were creased and/or torn, substantially fewer than 100 fully sound examples exist! The stamps of this pair are specimens of the very highest quality. RARE! NP D100e pair, Balian 232b pair (valued at $882 for two singles), unlisted var. of SG 120. Detailed C.F.Hass colour photocertificate Lot 592 Reserve price £150 Sold at £170 |
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January 1, 1903. Egypt’s very first stamp booklet, stitched at left, in pink card covers printed in English and French, containing four panes of six
of DLR 5m rose-carmine on chalk-surfaced paper (1902) and sold at a premium of 1m (121 millièmes) over the face value, hence not popular.
Staples remain firm and solid, and despite some slight surface staining back and front, a remarkable and rare example, unpriced in both Balian and Nile
Post catalogues
Lot 85 Reserve price £3000 Sold at £3600 |
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1976, Centenary of Al-Ahram newspaper: vertical hand-painted design in blue and brown, signed behind by Lotfy el-Sawaf, with all elements of issued stamp
(SG1291, NP 772). Unissued, on clean card 175x185mm Lot 311 Reserve price £25 Sold at £25 |
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| 1954, 6m soldier-vignette Tourist view set (HG42, NP 43), “Exposition” 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 rect boxed “First Flight Cairo-Vienna Dec 2 1959”; then Vienna arrival next day
alongside elegant boxed Austrian Airlines Kairo-Athen-Wien 01-03.12.1959. Egyptian censor mark alongside, no message of any sort. All marks and card in VF condition
Lot 311 Reserve price £22 Sold at £28.50 |
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1934 Xmas seal, deep blue (SG A5), complete NAAFI booklet pane of 20 (5x4) with complete all-round selvedge. UMM, sl gum disturbance only in selvedge above
top centre stamp, all stamps clear. SG cat £140 as singles, rare and desirable [See Photo] Lot 641 Reserve price £75 Sold at £135 |
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| 1922 Kingdom overprint 1 mill, type I litho overprint, 2nd setting/3rd transfer, positions #181-183, 191-193 of the sheet,
in an A.23 control number block of six (no bottom selvage, as always), showing the major Crushed Crown variety of position #193 & three of the
adjacent distortion vars. (#183, 191-192), per NP & Balian cats., MNH except for top-centre stamp (LH). Gum hue slightly darker on lower 3 stamps, vert.
crease thru selvage, between control no. & stamps (not hugely obvious). NP D78 Ie (+ vars.), Balian 168d (+ vars.), SG 98 vars. Scarce, seldom seen!
Lot 750 Reserve price £140 Sold at £170 |
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| 1922 Kingdom overprint 20 mills, type I litho overprint, 1st setting, error of double overprint. Super-fresh, fine-centred, unused,
with VLH OG. Only one pane (100 stamps) existed. NP D86 Ic, Balian 176a, SG 106b. With a detailed 2005 C. F. Hass color photocertificate, giving pane position,
matrix subtype, etc. Lot 758 Reserve price £35 Sold at £115 |
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1923 Kingdom overprint 2 mills type III typo overprint, from the stereotyped setting in groups of twelve subtypes, error, double overprint. Super-fresh,
VLH, VF-centred. Only 200 examples existed. NP D79 IIIi, Balian 193e, SG 99a (sorely undervalued!). With detailed 2005 C. F. Hass color photocertificate,
giving pane pos., matrix subtype, etc. Lot 765 Reserve price £80 Sold at £80 |
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| No Value Official, watermark facing rightward, 1915, chalk-surfaced paper, imperforate archival proof block of four, super-fresh, MNH,
right-hand-marginal (w/Jubilee bars). NP O1h, Balian 104df, SG O64 var.
Lot 773 Reserve price £100 Sold at £100 |
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1913, monolingual (the letters O.H.H.S. without inverted commas / quotation marks) on 4th Issue 5m, error of inverted overprint. Fully sound, VF, postally used
(known only thus), with neat, Arabic (Tura) cds. Fakes abound, but approx only 40 genuine examples survive from the error sheet of 240 stamps used on Egyptian
Prison Administration correspondence at Tura (additionally, several examples are known used at Tanta, but very rare thus). NP O9g (realistically valued at $200);
Balian 14e, SG O80b (undervalued in Balian & SG). Very scarce, a truly underrated error stamp! With C. F. Hass color photocertificate.
Lot 779 Reserve price £75 Sold at £91 |
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| Postal Stationery 1954, 6 mills Soldier definitive-imprinted Republican Tourist Views postal cards, the complete set of 100 cards, 25 views,
each printed in a series of 25 cards, in blue, brown, green & violet, each set still enclosed in its original, Arabic-imprinted, cloth webbing-lined band,
exactly as sold at post offices. Every card is pristine, mint, absolutely Post Office-fresh! Even as single views, these cards are quite scarce (and normally sell
in the £ 11-15 range, a good deal more than their inexplicably understated Balian catalogue valuations). As a full series, they are virtually unobtainable,
especially with their original bands. Very few complete sets still exist! Presented here as a complete series, and not offered thus for many years, this is one
of the true crown jewels of Egyptian postal stationery! NP SPC43-SPC46 (full series), Balian 44a-44d (full series), Higgins & Gage 42a-45a
Lot 780 Reserve price £850 Sold at £955 |
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| 1929, 3 mills orange Harrison card with small inscriptions (NP SPC30, Balian 26, H&G unlisted), mint and Post Office-fresh, but for (truly!)
near-unseen, tiny wrinkle. Beautiful example of a rare & much sought-after postal stationery item!
Lot 789 Reserve price £75 Sold at £35.50 |
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| 1890, Arabic handwritten document on Government star/crescent wmk paper (213x170mm) from a small village near Korosko (Nubia),
certifying to the suitability of the person named to act as a midwife. "Signed" by the seals of four different signet rings in black, and countersigned by a fifth.
Three-piastre tax for such a document paid by block of 3x2 5m DLR (SG63) at top right,
each individually and neatly pen-marked “Cancelled” in Arabic. Remarkable document, most unusual. Lot 364 Reserve price £40.00 Sold at £40.00 |
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| 1985, 50th Anniv Tourism Organisation (Bal 1078, Nile Post 1040), complete pane of 50 stamps (part illustrated) with variety
gold colour completely omitted (Tourism Authority logo). Striking flaw remains unrecorded by catalogues.
MNH, pristine, with normal sheet for comparison. Lot 59 Reserve price £100.00 Sold at £235.00 |
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| 1929, Printed company mourning cover (Maison Lemonia Freres) with two second Fuad 5m stamps addressed to Mohamed Bey Abdin, Consul General
d’Egypte, c/o Hotel Allenby, Jerusalem; Cairo machine cancel 16 May. Pencil T and handwritten 800, then Palestinian boxed
To Pay handstamp with 8 added; and 8mils Due cancelled Jerusalem 18 MY. Neat and all on the face. Lot 137 Reserve price £35.00 Sold at £35.00 |
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1916, two beautiful and colourful Correspondance des Armées de la Republique postcards, cancelled Corr des Armees/Alexandrie Fr of 7 and 12 Feb respectively.
Both have three-line Corps Expéditionnaire/d’Orient/Place d’Alexandrie and circular Le Medecin-Chef/C.E.O. Centre d’Hospitalisation handstamps in purple,
while former carries oval Hopital Pasteur/Station Clepatra and latter large circular Le Medecin Chef/Hopital Mansour Pasha/Hadra, Alexandrie in black.
Both to same address, without expediteur or message details.
Spectacular. Lot 132 Reserve price £45.00 Sold at £62.00 |
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1938, lawyer’s Reg letter (strip of 3x5m Boy King) Arabic-addressed to Dikirnis from Gizira/(Caire) (poor strike, ditto Reg cachet alongside).
Refused and returned via seven CDs on back, inc unusual Mansura-Mataria/& V.V. (TPO Type 7A3.5), and on face a fine example of the elusive bilingual
Rebut a Remettre/A l’Envoyeur/Mansura town marking.
Very lightly cut down at left and address scribbled through, but rare marking. Lot 154 Reserve price £15.00 Sold at £15.00 |