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| Egypt Study Circle Live Auction No 4. Closed February 22, 2014 |
| Air covers | ||
| 1 | Printed commercial Reg. air mail cover Alex. - Baghdad 10 MR 26 franked 3 x 15 mills (SG 160). Returned to sender as insufficiently addressed with many Baghdad pmks of March 26 and large Baghdad Dead Letter label | £15.00 |
| 2 | FDC reg. franked 27 mills air mail stamp (SG 132 + add. SG 125). CAIRO 10 MR 26. Perfect Baghdad arrival 13 MR | £45.00 |
| 3 | SAS first Jet flight Copenhagen-Cairo with special pmk 15-5-59 and Cairo arrival (machine) 16.5.59. Danish air letter | £3.00 |
| TPO markings | ||
| 4 | PC (H&G 7) Alex - Caire 29 XII 06 w. transit: AMB. ALEXANDRIE - CAIRE (Smith 3B1) | £4.00 |
| 5 | 1905 GB-Cairo postage ½ d transit: ALEXANDRIE - CAIRE (Smith 8A1a). Postage due 4 mills (SG D72) in Cairo | £8.00 |
| 6 | 7.Ap 1956 Stampless FPO cover to El Arish w. V.V / Cairo Alexandria ( not in Smith, as 7A3.7 but without & and with vertical bars). Arr. pmk. (blurred): barid al harby 7. (fileholes to the left not touching text) | £8.00 |
| 7 | JU 04 PC GB-Caire w. transit ISMAILIA-CAIRE 8 JU 04 (Smith 8A7) | £6.00 |
| 8 | PC GB-Cairo w. transit PORT SAID-CAIRE 26 AV 05(Smith 8A1a) | £6.00 |
| 9 | PC Italy-Cairo w transit PORT SAID-CAIRO/ T.P.O FOREIGN MAILS 23 VIII 11 T 94 (Smith 5D1) | £6.00 |
| 10 | PC Dec 1904 GB-Suez w. arr. rare SUEZ AMB. (Smith 2A1.3a). 40 % of Suez mark overlies British pmk | £5.00 |
| Postal stationery | ||
| 11 | 1953, Reg Env stationery with 35m violet mosque stamp affixed over 1945 Reg Env and 30m Farouk vignette obliterated with handstamp "X". Fine mint condition bar slight sun staining behind. NP (SRE 14) and Magdy (R14) report only a few examples. Cat $300 | £200.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 12 | De La Rue First group 5 pa pale brown with upright watermark mint (NP D32d) | £2.00 |
| 13 | De La Rue First group 20 pa cobalt blue with upright watermark mint (NP D36a) | £40.00 |
| 14 | First meeting of National Assembly with wmk sideways to the right mint NH (NP C180a) | £3.00 |
| 15 | 50th anniversary of Qassim Amin death with wmk sideways to the left mint NH (NP C200a) | £8.00 |
| Hotels interest | ||
| 16 | Cover of CONTINENTAL-SAVOY hotel Cairo with Airmail stamps NP A28, A31, A32, A33, A35, A38 and CAIRO / CASH / CONTINENTAL-SAVOY CDS of 25 May 1947 | £5.00 |
| 17 | Cover printed on reverse "HOTEL CECIL/ALEXANDRIA" from CAIRO to ZURICH with airmail with stamps NP D193, D198, D202, D214, A68, A72, C149 and T/CAIRE CDS of 14 Feb 1951 | £8.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 18 | French Offices: Four French stamps all cancelled lozenge of dots and 5080 for Alexandria, comprising 40 centimes laureated Napoleon, 80 centimes x 2 Napoleon 111 and 80 centimes Bordeaux? | £15.00 |
| 19 | British Offices: Twopence halfpenny rosy mauve plate 6 SG Z9 and 4d vermilion plate 12 SG Z17 both cancelled neat horizontal oval BO2 cat. from £27 and £29 respectively | £20.00 |
| 20 | Gaza opts: 1948 air stamps overprinted for use in Palestine, unmounted mint set less three lowest values. SG 23-31 | £7.50 |
| 21 | 1995-56 pictorial definitives overprinted for use in Palestine fine used. Set less 100m and 500m but including Nefertiti 200m and £E1. SG 69-86 less 83, 85 | £28.00 |
| 22 | Farouk Maréchal: Seven (of ten) values imperforate on card and with "cancelled´´ on reverse in either English or Arabic. Cat. $120 in Nile Post | £40.00 |
| 23 | Second Arab League Heads of State Council: 1964 complete set of 13 mounted mint, SG 805-17 | £2.50 |
| 24 | 1958-59. Complete set of 7 SG D573 D579 lightly mounted mint, cat. £31 | £12.00 |
| 25 | Box with about 150 (mostly long) covers almost all with stamps from 1920s to about 2005. Must be something of interest! | £18.00 |
| Hotel interest | ||
| 26 | Savoy Hotel Cairo; 2m printed matter postcard (polychrome of Pyramids, Giza) sent Cairo to South Kensington cancelled at hotel by HSA2 14-1-05 and SK receiver | £8.00 |
| 27 | Cataract Hotel Aswan: real photo monochrome postcard (pyramids at Giza) franked SG 424 and 41 9 (Defense) making up 42m airmail rate to Sweden cancelled type 3 in l 974; civilian censor and cartouche with Par Avion in French and Arabic. Neat and clean | £10.00 |
| 28 | Winter Palace Luxor: hotel stationery air env with logo on reverse in English and Arabic. On front an ancient Egyptian official. Franked 31cents in US stamps, it was sent from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Shoreham, Sussex, in 1978! | £3.00 |
| Special flights | ||
| 29 | Two 1949 pre-printed airmail covers: to CITEX in Paris with block of 4 special stamps on reverse, civil censors and 2m+30m airs; and BEPITEC in Brussels, also with block of 4 special stamps, censors and 2m+30m airs. One has minor cover tear | £12.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 30 | 1874/75 Third Issue (second printing), marginal used vertical tête-bêche pair, perf 12 ½ (NP D26 a2), cancelled with three strikes of Egyptian Post Office in Gedda 30 DIC 74 | £380.00 |
| 31 | 1960, £E1 Nefertiti head with red overprint U.A.R. (NP D270), unmounted mint block of four with control A/53 A/54 | £48.00 |
| 32 | 2010, £E1 Mobinil ´unissued´ commercial stamp, mint NH. See QC Sept 2013 (No 246), pp 258-9) for context | £20.00 |
| 33 | 2013, £E3 Tourism & Water issue, upper marginal stamp with selvage, misperf horizontally and vertically. Only two sheets of 100 stamps said to exist with this flaw. Mint, UM with pen marking. Plus normal for comparison | £25.00 |
| 34 | As last, misperforated showing areas of four stamps in single stamp, mint UM.. With normal for comparison | £25.00 |
| Railways | ||
| 35 | Colour postcard of Port Said railway station (C.Andreopolos, Port Said), franked in face with 4m for Switzerland and cancelled Port Said / B of 2 VIII 20 | £8.00 |
| 36 | Thos Cook / Port Said printed envelope addressed to Germany, franked 2m+20m Boy King and 8m Air with bilingual Par Avion sticker, and cancelled with unusual (Station) / Port Said CDS of 21 JA 39.Good information strike | £9.00 |
| Commemorative covers | ||
| 37 | 1 July 1949, Printed cover of Bepitec Bruxelles/Le Caire first flight, franked 2m + 30m of Farouk Air Mail set (SG 322, 329) cancelled with flight cachet, censored, to Belgium. Reverse sealed with block of four Bepitec advertising label | £7.00 |
| 38 | 1987, Air France Concorde First Flight Luxor-Paris to coincide with Opera Aida performance. Unaddressed, franked with 5p definitive, special Luxor postmark and commemorative cachet | £8.00 |
| Postal history | ||
| 39 | 1923, Arabic-printed envelope sent En Ville in Cairo, franked 5m+20m Crown opts for Registration and Avis de Reception. Found to be undeliverable and returned to sender after three days with AR card still attached as per regulation | £28.00 |
| 40 | 1926, Registered cover from Ghuria to Heliopolis, franked 5m+10m First Fuad with Ghuria violet Reg label, enclosed with two resealing labels at Heliopolis and eventually returned to sender. Contents remain | £38.00 |
| 41 | Italian vessel. 1929, Sepia postcard of Ismailia - The Captain´s House, not written or addressed but franked 5m Fuad cancelled with ornate Piroscafo Postale CDS of the Giuseppe Mazzini 13 3 29. Good strike behind | £14.00 |
| 42 | 1949-58, mini-collection of four colourful covers all printed with advertising slogans - Firestone Tyres, The Sudan Directory, Aly el-Sayed Motors and Elite Soap | £30.00 |
| 43 | 1953-54, three covers with Farouk barred stamps of different values, sent to Khartoum, Tehran and London | £10.00 |
| Zeppelin covers | ||
| 44 | 11 April 1931, plain card minimally addressed to Friedrichshafen franked 50m Fuad (SG 166) and cancelled with clear (information strike) CDS of Caire / Graf Zeppelin. Bodensee arrival mark also on face 13 4 31 | £40.00 |
| 45 | 10 AP 31 Zeppelin flight cover with 100m on 27m stamp (SG186) with Zeppelin Cairo cancellation and (amended) Luftschiff LZ-27 oval handstamp. Beautifully hand-addressed to Basel, Switzerland, with Friedrichshafen arrival CDS behind 13 4 31 | £45.00 |
| Bottle mail | ||
| 46 | 1955, Khedivial Mail Line printed envelope addressed to Mazarita, Alexandria, apparently thrown overboard off Sicily with stamps added and cancelled at Catona, Reggio Calabria. Egypt censor, and five markings notifying "Posted by bottle / SS El Malek Fouad. Remarkable | £60.00 |
| Hotel interest | ||
| 47 | 1893, 2pi postal stationery printed envelope (NP SEN 3, wmk inverted) addressed to Trieste and cancelled with Shepheard´s Hotel Type I CDS of 13 MR 93 TIV with - remarkably - 13 MR alone inverted. Arrival marks behind 18/3 | £150.00 |
| 48 | 1930, small plain envelope addressed to Lucerne and franked with 20m Express stamp (SG E139) cancelled with Cataract Hotel Type 2 CDS of 18 MR 30. Cairo transit machine mark behind | £30.00 |
| 49 | 1905, Eden Palace Hotel, Cairo, printed env, franked 1pi blue DLR (SG 54) and addressed to Paris, four-page letter on hotel paper remains. Arrival CDS behind | £8.00 |
| 50 | 1908, Original print photocard showing Tewfik Place Hotel, Helouan. Mint, but reverse used for writing practice | £4.00 |
| 51 | 1928 Colour advertising postcard of Windsor Hotel, Alexandria, franked with 10 mills Medical Congress commemorative (SG 177) and addressed to Athens. Message in Greek, censored (on face) on arrival | £6.00 |
| Diplomatic mail | ||
| 52 | 1931, small plain envelope addressed to Director, Zoological Gardens, with rubber stamp "Residency" at lower left and "franking" covered by large UK coats of arms High Commissioner / Egypt handstamp. Cairo machine transit mark | £10.00 |
| Pre-stamp mail | ||
| 53 | 1852, entire folded letter from Alexandria French Post Office 7 JUIL 52 (Grech FA-2 Type 15) to Marseille (arrival 16 JUIL). 10 fee | £10.00 |
| 54 | 1852 entire sent from N Matatia & Figli /Cairo (handstamp) to Marseilles. Written in Italian., No other markings | £10.00 |
| Postage Dues | ||
| 55 | 1903, cover addressed En Ville but franked only with vertical pair of 1m DLR (SG 58). Boxed T applied, and 2 mills Postage Due stamp (SG D71) affixed. Oddly, all four Cairo CDS seem to be the same, 3 IV 03 V | £12.00 |
| 56 | 1907, colour card from Messina, franked with Italian stamp folded over from face, large unboxed T applied in Messina, and 4m Due (SG D72) applied on arrival in Alexandria / A 16 VI 07 | £9.00 |
| Rural Post | ||
| 57 | 3 XI 07, Official form concerning Avis de Reception item, sent from Cairo / R and returned with authentication of Service Rural / 1 / Batanoun (Murphy/Shoukry p.54) ´numeral´ CDS. In transit (behind), CDS of Ashmun-Tanta and Alexandria-Cairo TPOs (Smith 5A3) | £14.00 |
| 58 | 15 VI 15, 2 mills Cleopatra p.s. card (NP SPC 20) sent from Nawai (cartouche) via Service Rural / Roda to Qubba Bridge (Cairo Station behind, CDS on face), and redirected to Godaieda (arrival 17/VI). Clean and neat | £17.00 |
| 59 | 12 NO 15, 2 mills Cleopatra p.s. postcard (NP SPC 20) sent from unrecorded cartouche Niqrash via Service Rural / Saft el Melouk to Cairo, two different Alex-Cairo TPO CDS on reverse. Two filing holes and poorly repaired corner tear | £10.00 |
| 60 | 5 IX 17, 2m DLR newspaper wrapper addressed to Santa from Alexandria / J. Transit of Santa, followed by Rural Services Santa-Minshat el Gidida in arrival. Addressee not found, returned to sender | £15.00 |
| 61 | 9 SE 21, small cover franked 3x5m DLR (SG 77) for postage and registration and sent from Samalai (cartouche) and cancelled with Rural Service Sintiris-Q.Nanaia-Faraonia (Murphy p.108) for Tanta | £9.00 |
| 62 | 5 OCT 21, government form franked with DLR 2m pictorial and addressed to Mansura, sent from Izbit el Haga (faint cartouche) via Rural Service Faraskour-Ghoneima with Tanta-Dumiat TPO CDS alongside and Eg Govt sealing labels | £15.00 |
| 63 | 30 DE 26, govt form sent from Mansura to Fariskur via Mansura-Dumiat & V.V. TPO (Type 6A2) and Fariskur to Rural Service Dumiat-Izbit el Borg (Murphy p.89). Sealed with Government label and Ministry of Education official oval | £10.00 |
| 64 | 18 AP 27, folded Official note from Mit Ghamr to Kafr el Meqdam (cartouche) via Rural Service Mit Ghamr-Miska (Murphy p.100) and TPO line Mit Ghamr- El Zagazig (Type 7A3) | £6.00 |
| 65 | 10 OCT 1932, registered cover sent by Dekhela (Alexandria) Youth Football Club to Alexandria Municipality. Franked by 3x5m Fuad booklet stamps, source is Dekhela village (cartouche), followed by Rural Service Mex-Dekhela & V. V. (Murphy p.98), Alex and Salah el Din/Traffic marks behind.. Neat and clean cover | £12.00 |
| 66 | 13 7 48, 4mills Farouk Marechal postal stationery visiting card envelope (NP SEN 39) with filigree design inside and faint blue cds of Rural Service / Bilqas-El Shutout (Murphy/Shoukry p86, type X600.206). Arabic addressed to Cairo | £6.00 |
| Advertising labels | ||
| 67 | 1956-63, mini-collection of three mixed covers sent within Egypt, all with advertising labels of Bayer chemical company | £5.00 |
| Sudan stationery | ||
| 68 | 3 V 904, Sudan Camel Post 5 mills postal stationery envelope, uprated with 2x5m Camel Post stamps for registration from fine Kodok CDS to Cairo. Khartoum and Cairo markings on reverse | £20.00 |
| 69 | AUG 13, 2 mills Sudan postal stationery envelope addressed to Military School, Abbassia, and cancelled with Khartoum CDS. Abbassia arrival 30 VIII 13. Visiting card of El Sayed Rahmi remains | £12.00 |
| Official cover | ||
| 70 | 6 VIII 07, large plain buff env (18x26cm), franked horizontal pair of 1907 bilingual OHHS overprints on De La Rue 3 mill stamps (SG O75), used En Ville from Cairo CDS with Arabic red wax seal behind. Fold passes through both stamps | £15.00 |
| Postal stationery | ||
| 71 | 1892, provisional envelope with bilingual 5 milliémes surcharge (23mm) on 2pi stationery (Magdy E10, $50). Mint, unusual, in perfect condition, and with mirror offset of vignette on envelope´s interior | £15.00 |
| 72 | 1893, 1 mill DLR postal stationery newspaper wrapper (Magdy W1), uprated with 1mill DLR stamp (SG 58) and cancelled with neat Ramleh / Schutz CDS of 9 MA 93. Sent to Munich from clear oval handstamp on reverse: Farmacia Schutz / Statione Schutz Ramleh | £6.00 |
| 73 | 1941, 2mills Boy King mini-postal stationery envelope (Magdy E38, no frame around image), uprated with 1m Boy King and used to Cairo. Cancelled with Cairo-Mansura / & V.V. (Smith type 7A3.4) tpo cancel 20 OC 41 | £4.00 |
| 74 | 1979, 100mills postal stationery Air Letter (Magdy A16, uprated with 20 mills definitive stamp and used from Fayoum (slogan -machine cancel 11 12 79) to Toulouse. Message in Arabic | £8.00 |
| 75 | 1984, 55 mills postal stationery Reg Letter sheet (1971) uprated not only with 5m definitive as in Magdy catalogue (A21) for Air Mail use (with bilingual boxed handstamp) but also two more 10m definitives. Air Mail indicator crossed out, and used locally - as a registered letter sheet. Most unusual | £20.00 |
| 76 | 1985, mint essay by Postal Authority Press for festival postal stationery envelope "El Moulid Doll". Trial not adopted, and boxed handstamp reads in Arabic: Trial without value. Nile Post page 71 (E550, $100) | £12.00 |
| Revenues etc | ||
| 77 | January 1942, unrecorded 50 milliéme stamped paper for verdict of a court, with enthusiastically hand-cancelled top right corner marginal 50m revenue stamp of the Syndicate of Islamic Law Court Attorneys 1936(?) issue (Feltus, p. 78) | £10.00 |
| Postcards | ||
| 78 | 1908 colour card, Khedive of Egypt, Abbas Hilmi II, ruler 1892-1914. Printer´s logo appears as L&MM. Mint. sl corner wear | £4.00 |
| 79 | 1919, Revolution in Egypt. B/w German-printed postcard showing students carrying the blood-soaked clothing of a fallen colleague through the streets of Alexandria after a demonstration | £10.00 |
| 80 | 1930, Original print photo postcard showing Prince Farouk in Boy Scout uniform. Discolouring on reverse does not detract | £7.00 |
| Forgeries | ||
| 81 | 1930/40 reprints of all sorts of postal stationery by B Socrates Pandelis. Lot of six envelopes (including embossed), two postcards and two vignettes. Unusual | £12.00 |
| Bir Hooker postmarks | ||
| 82 | 1899, Austrian-printed postcard of Cairo mosques, franked DLR2m+3m for Trieste, cancelled with unusual Bir Hooker / Wadi Natroun CDS 5 V 99. Khatatba and Alexandria /A transit marks, excellent double-ring Trieste arrival June 11 | £20.00 |
| 83 | 1911, colour card ("Children of the Soil"), franked with 2x1m DLR stamps (one lost) to Scotland, cancelled Bir Hooker type 2 CDS 17 AV 11, via Khatatba and Alexandria / H | £10.00 |
| Unusual TPO marking | ||
| 84 | 1940, somewhat battered registered cover with excellent information marking of rare "saayra" CDS for Ityai el Baroud-Shabrakhit & VV of 27 NO 40 T-72 (as Smith Type 5A2.5, recorded for only three years). Also three strikes cancelling 4x5m and 1m Boy King. Most unusual | £45.00 |
| Rural Post | ||
| 85* | Egypt: The Rural Postal Service An Introduction by Mike Murphy & Ibrahim Shoukry, 2010, 191pp, hardback, new | £15.00 |
| 86* | As last, soft back | £10.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 87 | 1867 20pa sewing machine perf vertically both sides (SG 13var, NP D10j var, MB 10var), superb used | £50.00 |
| 88 | 1872 20pa, perf 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, one eyed sphinx flaw (SG 30var, D16h, MB 16var), fine used | £28.00 |
| 89 | 1872 20pa, perf12 1/2 x 13 1/3, top right frame broken (SG 30var, D16var, MB 16var), very fine used | £28.00 |
| 90 | 1872 20pa LITHO, 13 1/3 x 13 1/3, hole in front of PARA (SG 26var, NP D21v var, MB 21var), VFU | £85.00 |
| 91 | 1872 1pi LITHO, perf12 1/2 x 13 1/3 (SG 27, NP D22, MB 22), very fine used | £14.00 |
| 92 | 1884 20pa on 5pi, inverted surcharge (SG 57a, NP 40a, MB 40b), very fine used | £18.00 |
| 93 | 1884 20pa on 5pi, hole in "20" (SG 57var, NP 40var, MB 40var), very fine used | £20.00 |
| 94 | 1884 1pi, narrow Crescent and Star watermark, (SG 54 var, NP D43a, MB 43b), very fine used | £25.00 |
| 95 | 1906 5m pair, top stamp with white hole of "P" of POSTES (SG 63var, NP D50b, MB 50var), VFU | £30.00 |
| 96 | 1914 5m, watermark inverted (SG 77var, NP D57a, MB 57b), very fine used | £10.00 |
| 97 | 1922 5m crown opt Type I, extra dot over Arabic "hamsa" posn 114 (SG 102var, NP D82 Ia, MB 82 1a), very fine used | £11.00 |
| 98 | 1922 100m crown overprint, reversed watermark, (SG 108var, NP D89 I c, MB 89 I b), VFU | £10.00 |
| 99 | 1923 100m Fouad, reversed watermark, (SG 120 var, NP 100a, MB 100a), fine used | £10.00 |
| 100 | 1926 15m on 100m block of four inv wmk (SG 136 var, NP D104b, MB 104b), unmounted mint | £38.00 |
| 101 | 1926 15m on 200m block of 4 inc broken "M" and "S" posn 24 (SG 137var, NP D105ee, MB 105c) UM | £18.00 |
| 102 | 1926 15m on 200m block of 4 inc dot after "S" at top right (SG 137var, NP D105 var, MB 105 var) UM | £14.00 |
| 103 | 1937, 6m Farouk Boy control booklet pane of 12 (SG 253, NP D141, MB 148), mint / unmounted mint | £24.00 |
| 104 | 1937 30m, Farouk oblique perforation (SG 277var, NP D148d, MB 155r1), unmounted mint | £28.00 |
| 105 | 1953 4m perfs shifted down, "EGYPTE" at bottom, block of four (SG 498 var, NP 239a, MB 260a) UM | £100.00 |
| 106 | 1957 Anniversary of Revolution, two values in blocks of four, inv wmk (SG 533 var, 534 var, NP182a-183a, MB 170a-171a), unmounted mint | £16.00 |
| 107 | 1957 block of four, inverted watermark, (SG 545-6a var, NP C189b-190b, MB 177-8b), UM | £11.00 |
| 108 | 1957 block of 4, green spot on plane nose, inv wmk (SG 545-6a var, NP C189b-190a-190b, MB 177-178a-178b), unmounted mint | £19.00 |
| 109 | 1958 10m, corner block of four, watermark sideways to left (SG 560 var, NP C197a, MB 185a), UM | £28.00 |
| 110 | 1959 Nefertiti 55m on 100m, misplaced opt, "U" missing, (SG 588var, NP D252b, MB 274b), marginal corner copy UM | £13.00 |
| 111 | 1959 Flag, red, unwatermarked printing experiment, block of four (MB 207b), UM | £48.00 |
| 112 | 1959 500m Nefertiti, red badly misplaced leftward, (SG 619 var, NP D269b, MB 291a), UM | £11.00 |
| 113 | 1959 10m flag eagle, pair with red slightly misplaced (SG 635 var, NP C238b, MB 226c), UM | £14.00 |
| 114 | 1971 200m & 500m Nasser complete sheets of 14 (SG 1045-1046, NP D298-299, MB 321-322), very rare, UM | £170.00 |
| Miniature sheet | ||
| 115 | 1952, Mediterranean Games, extra dot at right of Arabic 9 (NP MS6f, MB 6a), unmounted mint | £14.00 |
| Air Mail | ||
| 116 | 1953, 15m, block of four, inverted watermark (SG 434 var, NP A53a, MB 58a), unmounted mint | £24.00 |
| 117 | 1953, 40m, block of four, inverted watermark (SG 463 var, NP A62a, MB 67a), unmounted mint | £38.00 |
| 118 | 1958 15m, corner block of 4, wmk sideways to left (SG 561 var, NP C198a, MB 186a), UM | £28.00 |
| Officials | ||
| 119 | 1993 25pi UM strip of 10 stamps showing 2 normal, 1 with colour missing at bottom eliminating value and inscription, 7 completely blank stamps (NP O121var) | £65.00 |
| Postage Dues | ||
| 120 | 1921 10m lake with wmk pointing down and second "M" connected to frame, posn12 (SG D103var, NP PD26j, MB 26m), very fine used | £15.00 |
| Palestine (Gaza Strip) | ||
| 121 | 1958, 4m block of nine inc white dot at right of Arabic "4" (NP P64c, MB 64c), unmounted mint | £14.00 |
| 122 | 1960, 1m block of six inc "flying bee" variety (NP P69a, MB 69a), unmounted mint | £14.00 |
| Postal History and FDCs | ||
| 123 | 1843 Stampless letter from Cairo to Alessandria. Interesting item | £17.00 |
| 124 | 1904 Shepheard´s Hotel "Femmes Arabes" UPU postcard from Cairo to USA, franked 2m DLR pair | £25.00 |
| 125 | 1932 Taxed cover from France to Cairo, 8m tax stamp plus arrival Cairo postmarks on back | £24.00 |
| 126 | 1936 PAQUEBOT PORT SAID franked British stamps to England | £13.00 |
| 127 | 1937 PAQUEBOT PORT TAUFIQ franked British stamps cancelled "PAQUEBOT" to England. Alex cds on reverse | £17.00 |
| 128 | 1938 Cotton Congress set on Reg cover to Greece, opened, stamped and taped by currency control. On reverse in Greek: "mint stamp of Farouk wedding was found enclosed". Very interesting item | £32.00 |
| 129 | 1938 Royal wedding of King Farouk FDC | £13.00 |
| 130 | 1949 "BEPITEC" stamp exhibition special flight cover to Bruxelles, Belgium. Vignettes block on back. Nice Hagopian cover | £17.00 |
| 131 | 1954 Shepheard´s Hotel "Goddess ISIS" Eastern Publishing Company censored postcard Cairo to USA, franked 33m Farouk stamps | £20.00 |
| 132 | 1972 Definitives set 1m to £E1 complete on seven FDCs (NP D304-320), very rare | £200.00 |
| 133 | 1972 Officials 1m to 55m on FDC (NP O93,94,95,98,99), rare | £60.00 |
| Military | ||
| 134 | 1940 Active Service censored Military cover to Australia, franked 10m strip of four | £13.00 |
| 135 | 1942 BRITISH FORCES airmail cover, British stamp and cancelled "EGYPT" to London. RAF Censor | £13.00 |
| 136 | 1943 Active Service censored cover to Middle East, arrival "FIELD POST OFFICE 124" | £13.00 |
| Hotel meter mark | ||
| 137 | Meter mark Shepheard´s Hotel in red 19.VII.61 | £5.00 |
| Mint postal stationery | ||
| 138 | 1914 Double PC 2 mills (NP SPC22) VF unused | £4.00 |
| 139 | 1914 Double PC 4 mills (NP SPC23) VF unused | £6.00 |
| 140 | 1922 Letter sheet 5 mills (NP SLS9) VF unused. NP Cat $100 | £10.00 |
| First-Day Covers - Year groups | ||
| 141 | 2009: 5 FDCs, five stamps: Political economy society, FOCAS conference, Internet governance, NAM summit, Al-Quds | £10.00 |
| 142 | 2009: Fifa U-20 World Cup football - four FDCs each with 4 se-tenant stamps showing flags of participating countries | £12.00 |
| 143 | 2010: 18 FDCs, 19 stamps, 2 min sheets: Edfu Son et Lumiere, Shanghai Expo, Environment Day, Arab League HQ, Aswan Dam, Literacy for All, Luxor Road, Philatelic Conference, Women´s Council, Orphans Day, Africa Cup, Egypt Winners, University Sports, Statistics Day, Olympic Centenary, Council of Ministers, Cairo Stadium, Alexandria | £30.00 |
| 144 | 2011: 8 FDCs, 22 stamps: Nile/Singapore (6 Egypt stamps, 2 Singapore); Military Academy, UNEP, Postal Museum (2FDC), Cairo Tower | £26.00 |
| 145 | 2012: 10 FDCs, 17 stamps, 3 min sheets: 23 July Revolution, London Games, Environment Day, 25 Jan Revolution, Azerbaijan-Egypt treaty, Post Day, Arab Posta Day, Pope Shenouda, Lawyers Society, Festival stamps | £30.00 |
| 146 | 2013: 7 FDCs, 11 stamps, 1 min sheet: Post Day, Nile Inundation, Environment Day, 25 Jan Revolution, Sinai Liberation, African Youth football, 23 July Revolution | £30.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 147 | 1923, Fouad First Portrait Issue, imperf horizontal pair of 5m brown, pristine condition | £30.00 |
| 148 | 1944, Farouk Marechal, 5 stamps with oblique perfs - 1,2,4,5 and 10m - in pristine condition | £40.00 |
| 149 | 1950, Farouk Marechal, four separate examples of 13m definitive, pristine condition | £20.00 |
| 150 | 2002, definitives - complete set of ten stamps from 10pi to £E5, pristine condition | £10.00 |
| 151 | 2004, Egypt´s latest booklet, Discover the Treasures of Egypt in Stamps. Pristine | £20.00 |
| 152 | 2009, limited edn sheetlet marking 4th Extraordinary session of PAPU conference, 16 tamps showing African personalities. Pristine | £12.00 |
| 153 | 2009, limited edn sheetlet celebrating Fifa Under-20 World Cup football, 16 stamps showing flags of participating nations. Pristine | £12.00 |
| 154 | 2013, Egypt Post official VIP folder containing all the stamps and Min sheets issued in 2012. Pristine | £25.00 |
| Suez Canal | ||
| 155 | 1944, remarkable discovery: front half of a long linen-strengthened envelope printed with Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez and addressed to Jean Boulad in Ismailia. Franked vert marginal pair of 100m Boy King and 5m Air (damaged) with Ismailia / (R) CDS of 28 AU 44 and mute salmon Registration label. Unique item, never before seen | £100.00 |
| Suez Canal Co stamps | ||
| 156 | 1868, 20c blue superb mint right marginal block of four with good margins (positions 59-60 and 71-72). Never hinged, with original gum. Rarely offered in this condition. With Ceremuga (Australia) certificate 2003 | £170.00 |
| Egypt stamps | ||
| 157 | Two stock sheets with mix of commems, UPU selection to 200m, 1947 Airs to 200m and high-value barred pair. Mint and used; all mint are lightly mounted (53 stamps, one MS) | £15.00 |
| 158 | Three pages with mix of stamps, virtually all pre-republic, virtually all used. (88 stamps) | £3.00 |
| 159 | Small bag with mixture of used stamps (quantity). Priced to go at | £2.00 |
| Autograph letters | ||
| 160 | 19 VI 99. Folded letter 113x180mm signed (General) Wolseley on notepaper printed for Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces/ Madras, but headed in manuscript "Mysore Jungles". Addressed to "Dear General Taylor", and mentions "have had two shots at wild tuskers". Excellent condition | £10.00 |
| 161 | 3 April 1902, Folded letter 127x204mm signed (General Sir) Reginald Wingate on notepaper printed for The Palace, Khartoum and addressed to "My dear Taylor". Thanks him for kindness in "giving us the services of Euson(?)" and says he hopes to get home sometime in June. Excellent condition | £10.00 |
| Miscellany | ||
| 162 | Cover for inaugural S.A.I.D.E. flight 23.9.1948. 200mil stamp o/p 22mil SAIDE addressed to Italy | £2.00 |
| 163 | Two covers 4x5mil 2nd Fouad, internal express. Both have express cachet and POSTMEN CAIRO backstamp | £1.00 |
| 164 | Two covers: one 2x5mil to UK with cachet BRITISH CONSULATE PORT SAID, the other ´free´ postage internal with cachet BRITISH EMBASSY | £1.00 |
| 165 | Six illustrated covers 1959-1987 for first flight. Four types of airport handstamps | £1.00 |
| 166 | Two covers 2x5mil DLR to France one with fine strike ISMALIA Star and Bridge | £1.00 |
| 167 | Incoming card from Belgium cancelled EXPOSITON LIEGE 18-19 JUL. 05. Fine ALEXANDRIA - CAIRE TPO (8A1) | £1.00 |
| 168 | Cover 3x5mil. 2nd Fouad with excellent strike CAIRO-MARG & V.V. TPO type 7A3.4 | £2.00 |
| 169 | Postal stationary with fair/good strike KAFR EL CHEIH - KALLIN TPO type 8A1b | £3.00 |
| 170 | Postal Stationary with excellent strike RAMLE - SCHUTZ | £1.00 |
| 171 | PC to UK 2mil DLR cancelled with fine strike DOUANE (ALEXANDRIE) | £2.00 |
| 172 | PC incoming from UK with excellent strike ALEXANDRIA DOUANE 21.VI.09 | £2.00 |
| 173 | Postal stationary UNE PIASTRE with superb strike FAYOUM 3.V.89 | £2.00 |
| 174 | Cover with fair SIWA R.P. cancel 23.1.87 | £1.00 |
| 175 | Postal stationary cover to Suisse with excellent strike of ALEXANDRIA STATION 23.II.99 | £2.00 |
| 176 | FDC Farouk wedding cancelled SALE of STAMPS PORT-SAIID. Unrecorded date stamp? | £1.00 |
| 177 | Cover Cairo A endorsed EXPRESS with 40mil air stamp | £1.00 |
| 178 | Unfranked envelope with 10mills & 15mills with EL-Arish cancel 2NO.56 (last day) | £1.00 |
| 179 | Cover 25 mills airs tamps with good MEHET EL RAML (station postmark) 4.FE.64 | £1.00 |
| 180 | Unaddressed cover with good ALEXANDRIA EXPOSITION 6.V.94 cancel on 3mil DLR maroon | £1.00 |
| 181 | Cover 1.AP.53 to UK with 17mil 23 JUILLET 1952 stamp (concession rate to UK) plus 30 mil unbarred Farouk 30mil (air surcharge). Interesting juxtaposition of pre/post revolution stamps | £1.00 |
| 182 | Egyptian postal order 50 milliémes with Gaza 10 stamp and postal mark GAZA C 1.1.61 | £1.00 |
| 183 | Cover 1mil pink 1 piastre to UK cancelled PORT-SAID DEPART 21.FE.84 endorsed ´per P&O SS Sinat(?) via Brindisi´ | £1.00 |
| 184 | Cover 20mil to Switzerland. With fair strike CONTINENTAL SAVOY CAIRO 3.FE.35 | £1.00 |
| 185 | Cover to UK with 30mil Farouk air with good strike SHEPHEARD´S HOTEL (CAIRO) 29.SE.48 | £3.00 |
| 186 | Rural stampless cover with SERVICE RURAL / MINYA-DAMSHIR 16.III.36 alongside dark green DAMSHIR cartouche rural marking | £5.00 |
| 187 | Rural stampless cover 1940 with RURAL SERVICE / MANSAFIS-EZBET EL NAKHL alongside BANI MOHAMED SHARWI cartouche rural marking | £5.00 |
| 188 | Rural on postal stationary with additional DLR stamps (to pay for registration) WASTA RURAL 24.IX.95 with SOL cartouche rural marking. Do you see many registered Rurals? | £5.00 |
| 189 | Cover with GB 1d Queen Victoria stamp cancelled PORT SAID 18.XI.01 with fine boxed PAQUEBOT. Endorsed P&O SS Malacca | £5.00 |
| 190 | Cover 3x5mil First Fouad to Switz. Cancelled by Italian shipping line | £2.00 |
| 191 | Cover with 5 German stamps with PAQUEBOT PORT SAID 12.8.83 addressed to Philatelic Stamp Exhibition Hamburg. Handstamp thought to be philatelic produced, possibly in Germany | £1.00 |
| 192 | PC with 1d King Edward cancelled boxed PAQUEBOT with PORT SAID 28.X.10 date stamp | £1.00 |
| 193 | Paquebot Alexandria11.AU.51 to USA with USA stamp. Was this cancel the longest lived? | £3.00 |
| 194 | PAQUEBOT PORT SAID 3.1.73 with French stamp to UK. Ship´s cachet. Late use of elusive date stamp | £2.00 |
| 195 | PAQUEBOT PORT TAUFIQ 25.MR.39. King George 1d stamp to UK. British India printed cover | £2.00 |
| 196 | Khedival mail S/S Rashid on 2&3mil 2nd Fuad stamps with poor machine cancel of Alexandria. Backstamped BULKELEY 24.MR.36 and machine cancel STANBUL 18.?.?. This is a rare example of the KM markings on a non Hendrey cover with markings of the route used | £10.00 |
| Pre-stamp Hotel interest | ||
| 197 | 12 NOV (18)59, tiny folded letter from French PO Alex (Grech FA-4 Type 15) to Roggnyl, Bern. Minuscule German handwriting on notepaper of Ph.Zech, Peninsulaire & Oriental Hotel, Alexandrie (embossed). Multiple transit marks | £15.00 |
| Instructional markings (many with Boulad and Minett date annotations) | ||
| 198 | 20 SE 26, plain cover franked 15m for Reg (mute label) within Alexandria, readdressed in red and finally Refused. Returned with two red oval Returned handstamps (RET-8 Letter Office 22 SE, RET-7 Sender 25 SE). Alex Delivery CDS. Most unusual | £8.00 |
| 199 | 10? DE 26, Lawyers´ cover franked 4x5m Fuad for Express Cairo-Alex, but provided with rare trilingual Found in Letter Box handstamp (FOU-1) to explain delivery delay. Flap lost | £10.00 |
| 200 | 12 V 27, Lawyers´ cover franked 15m for Registration in town, but multiply readdressed in attempt to deliver. Returned with bilingual Alex Rebut handstamp (REB-4), with Alexandria / Delivery CDS behind | £4.00 |
| 201 | 1 AP 32, plain cover with 15m for Reg (pink Alex label) within Alexandria but undelivered, returned with bilingual stamp Unclaimed (UNC-2) in red and black (NB damage at upper right) and Alex Rebut a Remettre (REB-4) 1 AP 32 | £6.00 |
| 202 | 10 AUG 1958, unfranked cover with Cairo slogan machine cancel, tiny boxed T on face, and 20m Due applied on arrival at Choubra Branch. Refused, boxed Unclaimed handstamp on reverse, and returned. Contents remain | £4.00 |
| Resealing label | ||
| 203 | 1992, incoming cover from Oman (stamps cancelled Madina Qabos) resealed at top and left with red resealing label in French (Type 13) cancelled Cairo 23 2 92, earliest date recorded | £12.00 |
| Military pay slip | ||
| 204 | 2 JL 41. Astonishingly complete pay slip as sent from Command Paymaster Middle East to Capt L H Kent (RE), at the No 2 Anti Gas Lab, announcing his pay and allowances for June 1941 as £7 4 shillings., paid to Barclays Ismailia. Folded originally for passage through post with CDS Egypt PP 4 | £8.00 |
| Official paper | ||
| 205 | 1910-1921, Collection of 13 different printings of Acknowledgement of Delivery / Avis de Reception forms (Egyptian Post Office Form 13 C), trilingual English/French/Arabic, used for enquiring about allegedly missing items, so bearing CDS of inquiring and responding offices. Includes enquiries replied to from Beyrouth and Gallen, Switzerland. Mixed condition, naturally, but impossible today to reproduce such a group | £75.00 |