| | Consular offices | |
| 1 | Italian - 1 July 1863 - Alex-Tuscany. Italian 40c adhesive (SG 14) of 1863 cancelled with 234 retta obliterator. Italian PO CDS unclear, but Livorno arrival behind  | £25.00 |
| 2 | Italian - 5 MY 74 - Alex-Brindisi. Franked 40c Estero cancelled by 234 in retta with Italian Post Office CDS for 5 May alongside. Brindisi backstamp indicates three days to travel 1450km | £27.00 |
| 3 | Austrian - circa 1858 - pre-stamp letter sheet sent "per Lloyd Austriaco Vapour", the two-line Col Vapore d’ Alessandria applied at port of destination to indicate port of origin. The script 9 is odd - the rate should have been 10 soldi, equivalent of 1 kreuzer | £28.00 |
| 4 | Austria - 5 December 1864 - Alex-Trieste. Austrian 15s adhesive (SG 49) cancelled with clean Alexandrien cancel of 5/12. Reverse carries double-ring sender’ s cachet in blue-green, and rectangular boxed Trieste 10/12 arrival. Top of reverse expertly repaired | £35.00 |
| 5 | British - 8 JA 56 - Alex-Marseilles. Endorsed "per vapore Inglesi" and sent at 90 cent rate (manuscript), Alex double-ring in blue, French packet mark in red for Jan 11. Receiver endorsed letter as arriving Jan 16, eight-day transit | £30.00 |
| 6 | British - 27 JY 59 - Alex-Malta, posted at the British Post Office, unstamped, but single circle datestamp in red indicates pre-paid. Blue oval at top left is sender’ s stamp, Malta arrival behind (four days in transit) | £30.00 |
| 7 | British - 5 OC 65 - Alex-Ireland, franked Victoria 6d lilac, plate 5, white letters, cancelled small B01 oval, with single-ring Alex behind. London thimble and London Paid 15 OC 65, but no receiving mark on arrival in Co Antrim | £30.00 |
| 8 | British - 18 JY 67 - Alex-Malta, endorsed "per P & O.Sh", and franked with Victoria 6d lilac, Plate 6 of 1867. Flap has Malta receiver of July 15, so three-day journey | £26.00 |
| 9 | British - Alex-Malta. Folded letter franked Victoria 6d lilac, plate 6, cancelled by small B01 obliterator with Alex thimble CDS alongside. Malta receiver indicates three days for delivery | £26.00 |
| 10 | British - 9 MY 68, long envelope franked with Victoria 6d lilac (with hyphen), Plate 6, large white letters, endorsed "By French Packet" for Scotland and cancelled by inverted Alexandria 10-bar duplex. London Paid 16 May, and St /Andrews arrival (behind) next day | £26.00 |
| 11 | British - 20 JU 71, franked for London with two Victoria 1870 4m vermilion, Plate 12, cancelled by upright eight-bars B01 and with Alexandria CDS of 20mm alongside. London receiving mark in red 28 June | £25.00 |
| 12 | British - 18 JA 73 - Cairo-New York. Victoria 4d (SG 94) and 6d (SG 123) adhesives on cover to New York, both with rarely seen B01 obliterators of Cairo (see Smith p.66), and 6d also cancelled with A / Cairo thimble cds of JA 18. London Paid mark in red Jan 27, and New York arrival Feb 11 with 2 Cents due mark also applied. Odd and unusual | £45.00 |
| 13 | British - 15 JA 76, small envelope franked 1873 Victoria 2½d mauve (SG 141) for Southampton, endorsed "England via Brindisi" and illustrating use of B02 canceller in Suez | £26.00 |
| 14 | British - 14 JY 77, small envelope franked 1873 Victoria 2½d mauve (SG 141) for Southampton, endorsed "England via Brindisi" and illustrating use of B02 canceller in Suez | £28.00 |
| | Postal history - early Egypt | |
| 15 | 2 OC 1849, folded letter to Alexandria cancelled double-ring Livorno CDS 21 Set 1849 with superb circular Purifie au Lazaret / Malte (Martin Type Laz-C4) and double-ring French office Alexandrie / Egypte arrival on reverse | £45.00 |
| 16 | 11 Jul 1861, folded letter addressed in Arabic and Italian, posted in Alexandria for Cairo with excellent strike in blue of Posta Europea Alexandria Type IV, the first circular Posta Europea cancellation introduced only in January. Red manuscript marking on face, no backstamps | £35.00 |
| 17 | 7 Jul 1864, unfolded letter sheet addressed in Arabic showing Type III Posta Europea cancel of Kafr Zajat with manuscript A for Alexandria alongside - and corrosive effect of the acid ink used at the time | £20.00 |
| 18 | 2 Dec 1868, 1pi of 1867 issue on Arabic-addressed folded letter to Alexandria with Poste Vice Reali Egiziane Mansura CDS. Alex arrival behind the same day | £25.00 |
| 19 | 18 Jun 1869, 1pi of 1867 issue on Arabic-addressed folded letter to Alexandria with Poste Vice Reali Egiziane Mansura CDS. Alex arrival behind the same day | £25.00 |
| 20 | 10 Aug 1868 - First Issue 1pi in good condition Arabic addressed to Alexandria, cancelled with long retta and Poste Vice Reali Egiziane Mansura CDS alongside. Late use of First Issue as 1867 series had been in use over 12 months. Alex arrival behind same day | £65.00 |
| 21 | 20 Sep 69, entire from Tanta to Alexandria, franked 1pi (Type IV) of the 1867 issue cancelled Post Vice Reali Egiziane. By the time, same day, that it arrived in Alex the instruction to remove the "Vice Reali" had been acted upon! | £40.00 |
| 22 | 12 Sept 71, small envelope addressed to Ismailia, franked with 1867 1pi (Type IV) and cancelled V.R. Poste Egiziane of Port Said. Backstamp of Ismailia is same type, same day | £30.00 |
| 23 | 23 Jan 1882 - small cover addressed to Dijon franked with 1pi DLR pale rose of the 1978-82 issue tied with clean Alexandrie / A duplex. Modane a Paris struck in red five days later, and part Dijon arrival behind | £20.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 24 | 25 V 17, neat printed lawyer’ s envelope addressed to Boston and franked pair of DLR 5m pictorials. Alex / D CDS and wavy-line wartime censor mark. Washington machine arrival mark, no backstamps | £6.00 |
| 25 | 21 VI 17, extravagant printed business envelope, addressed to Boston and franked pair of 5m DLR pictorials. Alex / D CDS and wartime wavy-line censor, no backstamps | £6.00 |
| 26 | 8 JL 30, plain cover franked with provisional 5m on 50m Agric Exhibition (SG 135), cancelled with blue circle of Khedivial Mail and Graving Dock Co / SS Boulaq and addressed to Alex (arrival CDS is 8 JL). No other marking: a Hendry cover not addressed to Hendry! | £12.00 |
| 27 | 31 DE 30, plain cover franked pair of Fuad 20m (SG 163) for Registration and AR to Cornwall from Misir (NB Registration cachet spells Mesir). Faint Alex transit behind | £5.00 |
| 28 | 18 FE 35, plain cover Bab el Luq (Cairo) to Alexandria, franked solely Fuad small 20m blue (SG 162) covering postage and registration (mute R label on front and Alex arrival behind is Registered (RA) CDS). Annotated by Gabriel Boulad (addressee) as "first usage of this stamp", though SG and NP say it was issued 1934, and Magdi says Feb 1934!! | £14.00 |
| 29 | 6 AP 37, clean small cover franked Fuad 40m (SG 165) for registration to Seattle from El Amir Farouk (Reg cachet omits the "El"). Excellent markings on face and one Cairo and four American behind. Neat | £9.00 |
| 30 | 11 NO 39, cover with Air sticker franked 15m and 30m Boy King cancelled Port Taufiq for Durham. Attracted square Unit Censor 55 in green and Naval Censor 58 in oval as well as Base Censor resealing label. Interesting | £8.00 |
| 31 | 8 DE 45, long cover to Montréal astonishingly franked with strip of six 100m Farouk stamps as well as 2+10+50 for a total of 662m for Registered Air Mail. New York and Montreal CDS behind, Canadian Revenue Duty Free on face | £10.00 |
| 32 | 24 JAN 48, intriguing piece of card with 1-5m Farouk Marechal for UK cancelled with indistinct double-ring CDS that appears to read Oronsay RMS. Message reads: "I shan’t be able to post these PCs on board ship as they only accept those with 1½d English stamps on, so I’ m posting this..... in Bombay on shore leave" | £6.00 |
| 33 | 24 FE 49, flimsy air envelope printed for Office of the Dean, American University in Cairo, franked 2x20m+2m Marechal for Air Mail to USAS. Egyptian censor and faint Cairo CDS all in blue | £6.00 |
| 34 | 24 NO 49, plain envelope (CU logo on flap) endorsed Air Mail and franked 3x10m Marechal for Belfast, N.Ireland from Alexandria. Egyptian censor, but then sent to New Zealand instead! Belfast NZ arrival 2 Dec, redirected, and manuscript note "Delivered Northern Ireland 13.12.49" Remarkable | £12.00 |
| 35 | 19 AU 52, plain cover endorsed Air Mail, franked pairs of Fuad 13m, Boy King 6m, Marechal 10m plus Marechal 1+4m for total 63m for Australia, all but Fuads with KES overprint. Sent from Cairo / T. Flap lost | £4.00 |
| 36 | 12 JU 53, Air envelope to Switzerland, franked 40m Marechal and 2m Air Mail, both with KES and Bars opts, indistinct Cairo CDS and Censor mark. Clean | £5.00 |
| 37 | 20 10 53, Air env addressed to Switzerland and franked 37m Republic definitive plus 10m Canal nationalism commemorative, cancelled with special Nationalisation handstamp for Port Said. Censor mark, no backstamp | £8.00 |
| 38 | 27 OC 55, Sun Life Assurance envelope registered (Rue Fouad 1er black on red Reg label) to New Zealand with array of stamps, 2x8+30 Air Mail, 2,3,4,13,15,17 Marechal, 3,6m Boy King, all with Farouk barred, and four with KES overprint. Civil censor, no backstamps, neat and colourful. | £10.00 |
| | Star and crescent | |
| 39 | 1888 1pi stationery envelope (NP SEN2a, Magdi E3), used from clear Cairo / D 13 IV 92 X and addressed to Canton, China. Opened for display to show Singapore-Hong Kong transit and Canton arrival marks behind with near-complete and very rare Suez Ambulant star/crescent CDS (TPO Type 2A2) of 14 AV 92. Staggering | £125.00 |
| 40 | 1879 5 para stationery postcard (NP SPC1 $10, Magdi C1 $15), Arabic addresses with spot-on CDS of Chibin el Kom star/crescent 25 JL 87 | £6.00 |
| | Stamps - Definitives | |
| 41 | 1932, £E1 high value of 1927 First Fuad set, surcharged with 100m value and old value barred out (SG 188 £275, NP D128 $175, Magdi 135 $250), pristine mint copy with hinge remains | £40.00 |
| | Stamps - Commemoratives | |
| 42 | 21 December 1926, Port Fouad set - three issues of Navigation Congress and King’ s Birthday stamps all overprinted Port Fouad to mark inauguration of new city (SG 141-44 £1700, NP C17-20 $1100, Magdi 14-17 $1350). All used with first day Port Fouad / Cash cancel, the lower values with pencil authentication behind. 15m control corner stamp shows guide crescent and tiny pinhole for overprinting. Beautiful set | £650.00 |
| 43 | 1 February 1934, complete set of 14 of UPU issue to £E1 (SG 219-232 £275, NP C47-60, Magdi 42-55 $400), mounted mint | £55.00 |
| 44 | 11 February 1938, King’ s Birthday (SG 272 £190, NP C82 $110, Magdi 77 $175), beautiful mint corner pair mounted only on selvage. Unusual | £70.00 |
| | Stamps - Airmails | |
| 45 | 1952, complete Farouk air set of 1947 overprinted with King of Egypt and the Sudan. 12 stamps, all fine mint and mounted on page (SG 392-403, NP A40-51, Magdi 45-56) | £12.00 |
| | Stamps - Palestine | |
| 46 | 1947, Farouk Air Mail issues of 1947 overprinted bilingual Palestine. 2m-200m, full set of 12 (SG 20-31, £29), 12 stamps, all clean mounted mint | £7.00 |
| 47 | 1948, Boy King and Marechal definitive issues overprinted bilingual Palestine. Lower values, 1m-22m inclusive (SG 1-12), 12 stamps all clean mounted mint | £2.50 |
| 48 | 1948, 1927 Postage Due set, 2m-12m complete (SG D32-38 £13.50) with bilingual Palestine overprint, 7 stamps; plus 1957-58 Gaza Strip re-occupation (SG 87) and definitive set of three (SG 88-90), first with new opt style, 11 stamps, all clean mounted mint | £3.00 |
| 49 | 1948, Marechal definitives overprinted bilingual Palestine. Higher values, 30m-£E1 inclusive (SG 13-19, £90), plus two copies of overprint on 1944 40m Express stamp (SG E32), all clean mounted mint, 9 stamps | £18.00 |
| 50 | 1953, Boy King and Marechal definitive issues overprinted bilingual Palestine, full set of 19 (1m-£E1, SG 32-50 £250) with Farouk barred out, all clean mounted mint | £55.00 |
| 51 | 1953-55, definitive issue overprinted bilingual Palestine, first republican issue, 1m-£1 complete, all clean mounted mint. (SG 69-86 £170). 15m shows Magdi’ s 45b ($25), var red dot between L & E; but 10m and 17m show same variety, unrecorded in catalogue | £50.00 |
| | Postal Stationery - mint | |
| 52 | Wrapper. 1889 DLR 1m brown (NP SWR1 $4, Magdi W1 $10). Good mint, two folds | £2.00 |
| 53 | Wrapper. 1889 DLR 1m brown (NP SWR1 $4, Magdi W1 $10). Good mint, two folds | £2.00 |
| 54 | Wrapper. 1889 DLR 2m green (NP SWR2 $4, Magdi W2 $10). Excellent mint, two folds | £2.00 |
| 55 | Wrapper. 1889 DLR 2m green (NP SWR2 $4, Magdi W2 $10). Excellent mint, three folds | £2.00 |
| 56 | Wrapper. 1931 Cleopatra 2m black (NP SWR6 $40, Magdi W6 $80). Excellent mint, single fold, with 1931 printed upright alongside the stamp vignette. Proof? Unusual | £35.00 |
| 57 | Wrapper. 1932 Fuad 2m black (NP SWR8 $35, Magdi W8 $85). Mint, single fold, sl damage top right | £14.00 |
| 58 | Wrapper. 1939 Boy King 1m brown (NP SWR10 $45, Magdi W10 $90). Mint, single fold, corner bends | £20.00 |
| 59 | Wrapper. 1946 Farouk Marechal 2m orge (NP SWR12 $50, Magdi W12 $75). Excellent cond mint, one fold | £20.00 |
| 60 | Let sheet. 1939 Boy King 5m, Ar wmk (NP SLS11 $80, Magdi L11 $140). Pristine mint but faint pencil marks | £40.00 |
| 61 | 1891, 3m on 5m surcharge, with surcharge (Type C) sloping down to right (NP SPC5e $125, Magdi C5f $150). Pristine mint | £50.00 |
| 62 | 1891, 3m/5m surcharge, surcharge (Type C) inverted (NP SPC5b $100, Magdi C5a $150). Pristine mint | £45.00 |
| 63 | Postcard. 1907, 2m on 3m surcharge on reply pair (NP SPC13 $20, Magdi C13 $50). Pristine mint | £7.00 |
| 64 | 1914, 2m Cleopatra (NP SPC20 $15, Magdi C20 $20). Good mint, sl corner bend | £4.00 |
| 65 | 1916, 3m on 2m surcharge (NP SPC24 $125, Magdi C24 $100). VG mint | £30.00 |
| 66 | Envelope. 1889 DLR 5m (NP SEN5a $6, Magdi E9 $20), mint and pristine | £3.00 |
| 67 | 1941, 6m Boy King (NP SEN36 $60, Magdi E43 $150), with Expediteur.on flap. Difficult to find, mint, pristine | £35.00 |
| 68 | 1946, 4m Marechal, diag screen, knife C, wmk 3 vert (NP SEN37a $30, Magdi E44b $50), mint, perfect | £15.00 |
| 69 | 1946, 10m Farouk Marechal, SEN40 $70, Magdi E47 $100), mint, pristine but sl bend at lower right | £28.00 |
| 70 | 1953, 4m Farouk Marechal three bars, vertical screen (NP SEN41b $100, Magdi E48b $100), mint, perfect | £35.00 |
| 71 | Air letter. 1964, 140m Pyramids, brown and yellow (NP SALS7 $15, Magdi A7 $50). Mint, pristine | £8.00 |
| | Postal Stationery - used | |
| 72 | Wrapper. 1889 DLR 2m green (NP SWR2 $6, Magdi W2 $5). Handstamps Imprimés and L.Kramer & Co, Four.rs de S A le Khedive, used to Switzerland from Cairo 6 III 04. Clean | £3.00 |
| 73 | Postcard. 1916, 3m on 2m surcharge, var broken Arabic letter on card (NP SPC24a $100, Magdi C24a $250), uprated with 1m DLR and used from Bacos 25 XII 16 to Italy. Wavy-line wartime censor on face, Alex transit and message in French behind. Return address Station Bacos. Very unusual | £80.00 |
| 74 | 1932, 3m Fuad green (NP SPC34 $16, Magdi C37 $30), used from Cairo 10 AP 34 in town, reminder of British Medical Association (Egyptian Branch) meeting at the Citadel Hospital | £8.00 |
| 75 | Envelope. 1888 DLR 2pi (NP SEN3 $7, Magdi E4 $30), addressed New Zealand and cancelled with Shepheard’ s Hotel CDS HS1 of 21 MR 94. Transit marks of Suez and Auckland behind, arrived Dunedin 29 AP (39 days). Clean, neat | £10.00 |
| 76 | 1889 DLR 5m (NP SEN5a $6, Magdi E9 $20), uprated with pair of DLR1m plus DLR 3m and neatly addressed to Moskau in Russland, CDS Alexandrie / D 5 III 02 and endorsed Via Italia. Transit mark of Paris (blue) and arrival in 36 days. Fascinating | £40.00 |
| 77 | 1913, 1m on DLR 2m printed envelope (NP SEN12 $75, Magdi E19 $80), uprated with 1m DLR, addressed in town from Mansoura 23 XII 22, but redirected in red ink to Cairo where it arrived on Christmas Day. Unusual | £30.00 |
| 78 | 1915, 2m on DLR 1m printed envelope (NP SEN 18 $30, Magdi E25 $80), uprated with multicolour 2m, 4m and 2m on 3m surcharged DLR pictorials for registration from Qubba Bridge / Cairo (Registration cachet alongside) 30 XI 15 to Ismailia. Worn but interesting | £32.00 |
| 79 | 1946, 4m Farouk Marechal with filigree interior (NP SEN 39 $50, Magdi E47 $100). Two used examples on Peter Goodwin album page, both with blue CDS | £32.00 |
| | Wreck mail | |
| 80 | 1918. Mysterious and badly damaged cover posted in Cairo 3 IV 18 and addressed to Mrs Williams, Kings Road, Cardiff (England). Stamp gone, but mirror-imprint of DLR 5m and other envelopes from immersion in water. Handwritten notes say "Ship sunk by Germans" and "Recovered from the sea and delivered.... May 1918". What ship? Mystery | £35.00 |
| 81 | 1936, cover addressed to London, franked Fuad 10m+20m cancelled Alex 21 AU 36, with black boxed handstamp Damaged by sea / water. Saved from the wreck of the Scipio flying boat which crashed off Crete next day. Peter Goodwin page. Sought after | £55.00 |
| | Royal mail | |
| 82 | 2 IX 95, printed cover "Secretariat du Khedive" franked (on reverse) with DLR 2pi and registered for London. Large blue handstamp with Crown and Secretariat du Khedive at lower left, Alexandrie cancellation with 11 bars. London Registration on face, 8 SP 95, SEDO on reverse next day. Colourful and unusual | £30.00 |
| 83 | 18 MAY 13, Arabic printed cover with violet star and crescent / Aide de camp / On His Highness’ s Service handstamp at top right, unfranked, addressed to London from Attarine/Alexandrie. Alex transit behind. Striking | £25.00 |
| | Air interest | |
| 84 | 5 MA 27, Air Mail cover addressed to Calcutta "To wait arrival", franked with 1926 27m violet Air stamp (SG 132) and cancelled Port Said / C. Reverse has CDS of Cairo, Karachi and Calcutta. Clean and neat | £6.00 |
| 85 | 4 MR 31, plain cover addressed to Imperial Airways, Kisumu, and marked in pencil behind "First Cairo-Kisumu". Franked 27m chestnut Air Mail (SG 133) plus pair of 10m Agriculture Exhibition and cancelled Cairo / E. Kisumu arrival behind 10 March | £12.00 |
| 86 | 13 MR 31, cover illustrated with Cape to Cairo First Flight and giraffe vignette, addressed to USA and franked 27m chestnut Air Mail stamp (SG 133) from Heliopolis. Handstamped "From Cairo", with Cairo and three US handstamps behind. Unusual | £6.00 |
| 87 | 10 6 46, printed Par Avion cover franked 35f and sent registered from Pornichet, Loire-Inferieur to Cairo Poste Restante with handstamp Par Service Rapide / Air France Ligne 21 in magenta. Paris-Aviation CDS 13/6 and Cairo Delivery 15/6. Then returned, Pornichet arrival 9/7. Clean and interesting | £8.00 |
| 88 | April-May 1950. Very odd small cover endorse "By The de Havilland Comet Aircraft", franked first with pair of KG VI 3d stamps cancelled Landing Officer / Customs & Excise / Northolt Airport / Middlesex / 24 APR 1950, with Northolt replaced by Hatfield in pen. Large violet handstamp of Passport Control Farouk Airport 10 May 1950, then 10m+17m Marechal stamps added and cancelled barely legible 11 May. Finally 11 May arrival with Landing Officer handstamp again amended. Addressed to Amersham and seems to have travelled London-Cairo-London by air, but not through the post! | £32.00 |
| 89 | 5 JL 52, BOAC Comet First Flight London-Cairo printed cover, franked 7m+20m Air Mail with King of Egypt and Sudan opt, addressed to London and cancelled D / Aeroport Farouk. Blue censor 100 on face and BOAC Post Section arrival July 5 behind | £8.00 |
| 90 | 14 OC 52, BOAC Comet First Flight London-Singapore printed cover, franked 7m+2x10m Air Mail with King of Egypt and Sudan opt, addressed to Bahrain and cancelled Aerodrome du Caire. Censor 100 on face and Bahrain arrival Oct 14 behind | £8.00 |
| 91 | 14 OC 52, BOAC Comet First Flight London-Singapore printed cover, franked 3x10m+20m Marechal and 2m Air Mail, all with King of Egypt and Sudan opt, addressed to Calcutta and cancelled Aerodrome du Caire. Censor 100 on face and Calcutta arrival Oct 15 behind | £8.00 |
| 92 | 14 OC 52, BOAC Comet First Flight London-Singapore printed cover, franked 2x10m Marechal and 7m+30m Air Mail, all with King of Egypt and Sudan opt, addressed to Bangkok and cancelled Aerodrome du Caire. Censor 100 on face and Bangkok arrival Oct 15 behind | £8.00 |
| | Air interest - Zeppelins | |
| 93 | 6 Apr 1931, both Zeppelin surcharge stamps (SG 185-6 £150, NP C36-7, Magdi 3-4 $300), mint pair, 50m UMM, 100m with hinge remains | £35.00 |
| 94 | 10 April 1931, Cover addressed to Devon endorsed "By Graf Zeppelin", franked 27m Air Mail (not Zeppelin), 2x4m and 50m of Second Fuad set and 15m Harrison pictorial (total100m), all stamps cancelled with clear Alexandrie / Graf Zeppelin CDS. On reverse, Friedrichshafen / Bodensee arrival mark April 13. Unusual | £40.00 |
| 95 | 10 April 1931, postcard largely as last, endorsed "By Graf Zeppelin" and franked 27m Air Mail (not Zeppelin), 10m+15m of Harrison pictorials (total 52m), all cancelled Alexandrie / Graf Zeppelin. Friedrichshafen arrival 13/4 | £35.00 |
| 96 | 11 April 1931, both Zeppelin surcharge stamps (SG 185-6 £160, NP C36-7, Magdi 3-4 $200) on clean Friedrichshafen Poste Restante cover endorsed "Via Zeppelin" with Air Mail sticker, CDS of Caire / Graf Zeppelin and Friedrichshafen arrival | £60.00 |
| 97 | 20 September 1933, Alexandria-Brazil. Registered cover with white on blue Via Zeppelin / Friedrichshafen label at top left endorsed "By airmail to London" and "By Graf Zeppelin from Germany" and franked 30m+7m of 1933 Airs cancelled Alexandria R.8. On arrival in London 10d George V stamp affixed for transmission to Berlin (red double-ring cachet on face) for Oktober flight to Brazil, arriving in Pernambuco on 17 X 33, a trip of 27 days. Reverse has large red hexagonal cachet for Oktober flight to America. Spectacular and unusual | £115.00 |
| | Unusual destinations | |
| 98 | 21 VIII 06, b-w postcard, Cairo, Citadel and Mosque (Max H Rudmann Carto-Sport 159), franked pair of 2m DLR green and addressed to Pekin with Cairo company handstamp. Sent from Cairo / D via Suez, Hong Kong, Shanghai and finally Peking 2 Oct. | £12.00 |
| 99 | 3 VIII 17, printed envelope addressed to Java, Dutch East Indies, franked with block of four of DLR 5m pictorial for Registration (Alex black on pink label) and cancelled Alex / R.3. Opened by Censor resealing label and two censor marks, followed (behind) by Port Said transit and Batavia arrival September 9 | £12.00 |
| 100 | 26 FE 19, envelope franked with 20m DLR pictorial for San José, Costa Rica, with black on white Cairo registration label and cancelled Cairo / RD 6. Boxed Passed Censor A on face, London Registered transit mark in red 10 Mar, and Costa Rica arrival April 19 | £12.00 |
| | Postcards - postally used | |
| 101 | 7 V 97, sepia card made for Simon Arzt (Moullot - Marseille - 4266) showing original store and portrait as on Arzt stationery envelopes, franked 2x2m+1m DLR for Vienna. Port Said CDS and Alexandria / A transit before Wien arrival six days later | £12.00 |
| 102 | 23 X 10, glorious sepia advertising card made for Grand Garages d’ Egypte showing "Vue generale du Garages" with seven ancient automobiles, Franked 2x1m DLR and sent from Alexandria / J to Cairo (arrival CDS). Message in Greek addressed to garage owner(?). Remarkable, excellent condition | £22.00 |
| 103 | 9 XI 12, b-w photocard Entrvée a Port-Tewfiq - Suez (Salon Internazionale - Giuseppe Liotta, Port Said), showing jetty with Hotel Bachet at right. Franked 4x1m DLR overlapping on to face for Switzerland | £10.00 |
| 104 | 12 VII 15, b-w card, Alexandrie - Station Bacos (Cairo Postcard Trust Serie 529), franked 5m DLR pictorial and addressed from Alexandria J to Defence HQ, Wellington, New Zealand. Port Taufiq / R transit on face. First class | £12.00 |
| 105 | 4 MAY 22, colour card of Heliopolis - Avenue of the Pyramids Street (Cairo Postcard Trust 393), franked on face with 2x5m pink Harrison pictorial and addressed to Switzerland. CDS is rare Bahr el Saghir /. Mansura / Cash, with Port Said transit behind | £6.00 |
| 106 | 3 DE 54, sepia photo map card, Bird’ s eye view of Suez Canal (Lehnert & Landrock), franked 2x10m+2m Marechal, all barred, for New Zealand. Cancelled Simon Arzt CDS, Egyptian censor, and Murupara arrival 14 Jan | £6.00 |
| | Postcards - no postal markings | |
| 107 | Feb 1 1915, b-w photocard Damanhour - La Station de la Chemin de fer (Comptoir Philatelique, Alex). Pencil message says "We arrived Jan 24 and entrained for the Cairo Camp.... arrived 2.30am.... I will describe all about it.... "(and stops). Neat, clean | £8.00 |
| 108 | 21 2 15.b-w upright photocard Alexandrie - Le Phare après le bombardment (GK), with crescent and star incorporated. Pencil message from Cairo: Keep these for me till I return. Clean, excellent | £8.00 |
| 109 | Colour card, Place Abdeen - English Regiment (Cairo Postcard Trust, 615), divided back. Excellent | £6.00 |
| 110 | Colour card Caire - Grand Café Chicha (Cairo Postcard Trust Cai 18). Mint but sl corner wear. Most unusual, with American Photo Studio and Berlitz | £6.00 |
| 111 | Colour card, Oasis d’ Héliopolis, Bureau de la Société (Lichtenstern & Harari). Biplane added, corners slightly worn, ancient horizontal fold. Long message (undated) says "... we march out about four miles, do a little skirmishing, then come home again... heat, sand and dust make it the toughest training in the British Empire... we have the Ceylon boys with us... " | £6.00 |
| 112 | Colour card (postcard) Mena House vue de la Pyramide: sl wear. Message on (unprinted) reverse: View taken from the top of the big pyramid showing one corner of the Australian camp - Gilbert good night | £6.00 |
| 113 | B-w photocard Port Tewfik - Maison de P.O & Coal. Co (M Handras, Port Said, 10). Long pencil message on reverse dated Suez Canal, Feb 11 says "we are in the trenches.... no fighting yet .. we are with the Ghurka troops who seem decent fellows" | £6.00 |
| 114 | B-w photocard Mansourah - Sika-el-Guidideh (Msh. 5), showing Hotel Imperial (left) and (very faintly) Hotel de la Lune (right). Mint, lovely | £8.00 |
| 115 | B-w photocard Parc à Ghezireh Palace (Ghino Dukich, Cairo, A 18). Long message describes visiting Great Pyramid interior and of a friend with the Australian troops dying after falling from the top | £6.00 |
| | Palestine - Gaza - Sinai | |
| 116 | 28 FE 49, small env addressed in green ink to Cairo and franked 2x10m+15m Marechal with Palestine overprints (SG 7,9) for registration from Gaza / T, with Registration cachet alongside. Egypt violet censor 102, and RD / Cairo arrival in blue behind 2 MR. Overprints on 10m slightly misplaced downwards. Neat | £9.00 |
| 117 | 4 MR(?) 50, neat small unsealed env endorsed "Imprimés" addressed to USA. Franked 1+2m Farouk Marechal and 2m Air Palestine overprints (SG 1,2,20), cancelled at Khan Yunis. Violet Egypt censor 102. Lovely | £10.00 |
| 118 | 26 NO 50, Arab Bank envelope addressed to Egypt proper, franked with 1m+5x2m+3x3m Palestine overprints (SG 1-3) for total 20m cancelled Gaza / T. Violet Egypt censor mark 102 and Port Said arrival next day. Striking | £8.00 |
| 119 | 5 JA 55, Barclays Bank envelope addressed to Cairo and franked 2x5m Second Fellah republican issue with Palestine overprints (SG 73), cancelled Gaza / T, with violet Egypt censor mark 102. No backstamp | £6.00 |
| | Military interest - Medals | |
| 120 | 1882-85, pair of medals issued for the Egypt Campaign: Egypt Medal, with blue and white ribbon, issued by GB, and Khedive’ s Star (dark blue ribbon) issued by Egypt, forming regular pair of honours awarded to all forces who served in 1882 against Arabi and in the Gordon Expedition to Khartoum. Rare and excellent | £140.00 |
| | Military mail interest - nineteenth century | |
| 121 | 1 V 99, small envelope franked 1pi DLR blue for Chicago and readdressed. Flap carries embossed emblem of The Queen’ s Own Cameron Highlanders. On reverse London faint transit and two Chicago duplex handstamps for May 23 | £6.00 |
| | Military mail interest - First World War | |
| 122 | Undated. Colour postcard (Femme Arabe, Cairo Postcard Trust), sent OAS with pencil message to Surrey, no apparent censor, and no date because cancelled with dumb Army Post Office double ring CDS intended for use on parcels only. Most unusual | £20.00 |
| 123 | 1 FE 15, plain cover franked ½ anna Indian stamp with IEF opt (SG E2) addressed to Cairo and cancelled FPO No 29. Large red double-ring censor Passed by Censor / Indian Expeditionary Force / 68, and FPO No 313 arrival behind next day | £8.00 |
| 124 | 13 FE 15, plain envelope franked 1m DLR and 4m Pictorial for Auckland, NZ, cancelled with clear Infantry Brigade / Field / Post Office / NZ Division. Then censored by large violet double ring Passed by Censor, Indian Expeditionary Force / 81 - at this time the Indians, already set up, were censoring all outgoing military mail. Unusual | £10.00 |
| 125 | 27 DE 15, sepia photocard (Le Caire - Vue generale de la Citadelle, Cairo Postcard Trust), sent OAS to New Zealand with faint pencil censor authorisation. CDS is lower half only of No. 1 / Stationary A.P.O., with arrival mark in NZ 15 Feb. Writer says he is now settled in Zeitoun Camp in Cairo | £10.00 |
| 126 | 1 JY 16, plain envelope addressed to London with Field Post Office L.Y. handstamp of the Lowland Mounted Brigade. Censor’ s signature and red triangular Censor 3571. No backstamps | £8.00 |
| 127 | 15 NO 17, small printed envelope of Regina Palace Hotel, Alexandrie, addressed OAS to Cambridge, endorsed by officer, and received faint star censor on face and Military Post Office / Alexandria barrel-type CDS on reverse. Neat, unusual | £6.00 |
| 128 | 3 SP 18, colour humour card (Very good, very nice sticks by Manavian), with details scratched out (by censor?) and sent to New Zealand from Army Post Office SZ22. Censor signature and green "wheel" censor mark alongside. Rare | £12.00 |
| | Military mail interest - Concessionary period - Jubilee Seal | |
| 129 | May 6 1935, 1 piastre blue Letter Stamp overprinted Jubilee Commemoration 1935 (NP BF9 $150, Magdi 9 $190, SG A10 £250)... astonishing pristine unmounted mint block of four showing var "shaved N" on top right stamp. Spectacular, staggering | £450.00 |
| 130 | As last, horizontal pair with no varieties, beautiful mint and gummed, but hinge remains on both stamps | £125.00 |
| 131 | As last, beautiful mint gummed single with hinge remains | £55.00 |
| 132 | 6 March 1935, Jubilee Seal cancelled with black retta on reverse of first-day cover addressed to Devon, with Crowned Circle No 23 and carmine CDS of MPO Cairo. Staggeringly rare because May 6 was a Service Holiday | £450.00 |
| | Military mail interest - Concessionary period | |
| 133 | 1932-35, the full series of Christmas seals (1x1932, marginal paid 1933, single 1934, marginal pair and corner block of four first printing 1935; marginal pair of second printing). Total 12 stamps, all hinged mint | £15.00 |
| 134 | 25 November 1932, the very rare Crowned Circle No 7, reportedly lost after only 126 days’ use. Postage Seal and black retta on reverse of Royal Artillery envelope, addressed to Dorset | £100.00 |
| 135 | ? November 1932, Crowned Circle No 5, addressed to bandsman at Catterick Camp with Postal Seal and black retta behind, but cancelled in black instead of red - by mistake so early in the scheme? Interesting | £10.00 |
| 136 | 14 December 1932, Crowned Circle No 4 addressed to War Office in London and franked with first Xmas Seal (black on azure, NP $50), only 42,000 printed | £28.00 |
| 137 | 11 December 1933, Xmas seal (brown-lake, NP BF4) cancelled with red retta on reverser of cover addressed to Wales from AB Suwer (RAF station), illegible Crowned Circle, smudged Alex-Cairo TPO and Alex roller cancel | £20.00 |
| 138 | 15 December 1934, Xmas seal (blue on white, NP BF6) cancelled with black retta on reverse of cover addressed to UK with MPO Cairo and Crowned Circle 21 overstamped with UK CDS on redirection | £18.00 |
| 139 | 5 February 1935, 1pi Letter Stamp franking a birthday postcard to Hampshire, cancelled with black retta, Crowned Circle 25 and MPO Cairo. Concession regulations do not mention postcards, and cards with concession stamps are very rare | £65.00 |
| 140 | 6 May 1935, unique(?) cover. May 6 was a Service Holiday and post boxes cleared only once. Unable to buy a stamp, sender managed to get reverse handstamped with Crowned Circle 14 in lieu - and this was accepted in transit at Alexandria. Remarkable and very rare | £45.00 |
| 141 | 18 October 1935, Crowned Circle No 13 from RAF Aboukir, which used civilian post office. Addressed to Yorkshire with Letter Stamp and black retta, showing CDS of Alexandria-Abu Qir TPO and Alexandria (1) arrival | £8.00 |
| 142 | 14 November 1935, Crowned Circle No 1, addressed to Hampshire and with Letter Stamp behind, but cancelled with MPO Moascar CDS instead of retta. Another MPO Moascar on face hand-cancelled as unnecessary. Unusual | £8.00 |
| 143 | 15 December 1935, Xmas seal (vermilion, NP BF10, first printing), on cover to England, with Crowned Circle 20 and MPO Cairo CDS | £12.00 |
| 144 | 16 December 1935, Provisional Xmas stamp, surcharged Xmas 1935 3 Millièmes (NP BF11). 10,000 issued, of which 9,920 sold, lowest number printed of any concessionary stamp. Two mint singles, both hinged | £12.00 |
| 145 | 19 December 1935, full pane of 20 (5x4) of the Fourth Issue of Christmas Seals (NP BF10a), second printing, pale vermilion on toned paper (only 12,075 sold), mint with sl hinge traces on top selvage. | £45.00 |
| 146 | Postal Concession: British Forces in Egypt - original printed leaflet 14x21cm announcing end of Letter Stamps and introduction of Fuad Army Stamps, and extra concession period until March 15 for their use. Rare | £36.00 |
| 147 | 15 March 1936, Crowned Circle 15 on philatelic cover to Miss Mary Lloyd, Isle of Man, on last day of extra two-week period allocated for use of Letter Stamp. No 15 was at Military Hospital, Ras el Tin. Hobbs says special posting of only 50 Mary Lloyd covers produced | £15.00 |
| 148 | 15 March 1936, as last, but NOT Mary Lloyd - genuine last-day usage from Crowned Circle 18 (Mustafa Barracks, Sidi Gaber), to Wiltshire | £20.00 |
| 149 | 18 December 1940, exceedingly badly torn honour cover addressed to New Zealand and franked with a pair of the Farouk small Army Post 3 mills (NP AP4)... three more stamps making up the 40 mills rate torn away. Great shame, because this stamp on cover is very rare | £15.00 |
| 150 | Residue of Concessionary collection in handmade box file. Very many album pages filled with information together with 29 covers with virtually all of the Crowned Circle handstamps plus varied adhesives, and 35 stamps, mainly mint including blocks up to eight Postal Seal (presumably used on a parcel). A good lot, priced to sell at | £65.00 |
| | Military mail interest - Second World War general | |
| 151 | 11 Jan 1941, large cover addressed to London showing usage of the "British Navy" propaganda label nicely tied with Alexandria datestamp alongside 27 mills of mixed frankings. Civilian machine censor at the bottom. | £10.00 |
| 152 | circa 1941, complete sheet of 20 (4x5) "British Navy" labels which were sold early in the war to place on mail in appreciation of the job the Royal Navy was doing. Issued in booklets of ten panes, and known with other countries’ affiliations. NH mint | £20.00 |
| 153 | 12 NO 41, incoming air letter from India, franked KGVI 2a+12a for registration though marked On Active Service and cancelled Calcutta GPO / Air 6 NO 41. Indian triangular censor, and on arrival provided with Base Air Post (Office?) double ring and Ind. BPO / R / Egypt single-ring handstamps. Opened out for display and strengthened behind. Unusual | £12.00 |
| 154 | 16 JL 43, plain envelope franked 10m Boy King and addressed en ville from Port Said. Received neat blue Censor mark (Andrews 10.a.6, recorded only Sept 1943), and resealed by b-w bilingual Censorship Department label. Return address: Civilian Internees Camp No 9, Fayed. Clean cover | £8.00 |
| 155 | 17 JL 43, plain envelope addressed to New Zealand and franked with multicolour KGVI Indian stamps with Bahrain opt - 3p, ½a,1a, 2a - cancelled Egypt Postage Prepaid 109. Square blue RAF censor and violet Deputy Chief Field Censor marks, no backstamps. Unusual | £6.00 |
| 156 | 31 JY 45. Remarkable Airgraph sent between ESC members, John Gilbert to W C Hinde (c/o another, Jean Boulad of the Suez Canal Company, in Ismailia), on the final day of Airgraph usage from the UK. Sent from Elephant and Castle CDS, and arrived on Aug 6, with giant M 74 circle censor mark (Andrews 5.d.6, recorded to 3 July). Message details history of the Airgraph system and laments passing of "an era of philatelic history". Astonishing document | £25.00 |
| | Military mail interest - postwar | |
| 157 | 5 OC 51, plain envelope addressed to MELF 17 from Field Post Office 375, censored by a captain and bearing a large double-oval red handstamp reading DDS General Headquarters MELF and date. No backstamp | £10.00 |
| 158 | 19 JAN 55, Forces Letter form, addressed to London and franked QEII 2 1/2d cancelled with machine roller Field Post Office / 2. Return address is MELF 15 (Fayid) | £6.00 |
| | Military mail interest - PoWs and internees | |
| 159 | 3 FE 42, neat German PoW Red Cross card addressed to Schleswig Holstein with P/W Middle East 165 handstamp at top right, together with large boxed handstamp in violet reading No 304 / Prisoner of War Camp. Prisoner says he was captured in fall of Bardia | £8.00 |
| 160 | 12 MR 44, 6m Boy King stationery card (NP SPC39, Magdi C42), addressed to Alexandria from Cairo. Prominent double-oval violet handstamp at left: Italian Internee Camp, Ramses City, Embabeh. Return address is Italian Civil Internee Camp 3, Embabeh. Message in Italian, filing holes | £10.00 |
| 161 | 4 FE 48, plain envelope addressed to Berlin Russian Zone and franked 3x120m Air Mail, 2x10m+23x5m Marechal for total 60m. CDS is Field Post Office 551, and return address names sender as K.Kleinsteuber of the 3112 Independent German Prisoner of War Working Company (see Edmund Hall, QC 233) | £10.00 |
| | Postage Due | |
| 162 | 28-29 December 1886, printed cover addressed to Alexandria and franked 1pi blue DLR from Caire / Depart. Provided with boxed T, and on arrival next day a 2pi Due of the 1884 issue affixed and cancelled Alexandrie. Beautifully neat and clean | £35.00 |
| 163 | 12 IV 98, small irregular piece with 2m and bisected 2m Dues of 1889 issue, cancelled clear Zefta CDS, as authorised in February 1898 to cover payment of concessionary soldier’ s letter rate from Sudan conflict (see Smith pp 419-20) | £26.00 |
| 164 | 11 NO 1911, postcard addressed to Scots Guards, Kasr el Nil Barracks, franked 1/d GB stamp, arrived at Cairo / E 6.30am, 4m Due affixed at 7.30am, and on to Military Post Office / Cairo, three years before the First World War. Neat | £8.00 |
| 165 | 13 MA 33, Air letter (Karachi-Egypt) addressed to passenger on SS Oxfordshire, franked with 4x2a George V stamps sealing the flap from Mudis, India. T, 10/8 and 1d due markings on the front attracted a 4m Due stamp on arrival at G / Port Said Traffic | £7.00 |
| 166 | Late 1942. George VI 2d postal stationery postcard uprated with 1d stamp for Cairo from Beverly, Yorkshire, 14 JL 42 but refused and returned with a plethora of markings, including 10m+2x8m Dues cancelled with rare boxed Taxed Non Retour (cerise), oval Return to Sender of 9 SE 42, rectangular Undeliverable / Return to Sender, boxed T, M2 censor mark (Andrews 4.d.2). Fascinating | £16.00 |
| 167 | 13 FE 50, Cover from Copenhagen for Norway, but readdressed to Port Tewfik and extra charges incurred. 2x6m+4m Postage Dues applied at C/ Port Said Traffic on 13 FE 50 | £6.00 |
| | Mixed lots of covers | |
| 168 | 25 covers/cards in very mixed condition, local and overseas, date range appx 1898-1922 | £11.00 |
| 169 | 38 Fuad-era covers, mixed bag, local and overseas, date range appx 1925-1938 | £15.00 |
| 170 | 22 Boy King era covers, all but one overseas, very mixed condition, date range appx 1939-1949 | £10.00 |
| 171 | 55 Marechal-era covers, almost all overseas, variety of stamps, very mixed condition, date range appx 1939-1953 | £22.00 |
| | Literature ... we regret that postage charges will be incurred on the following 29 lots indicated by an asterisk | |
| 172* | The Palace Collections of Egypt: The Stamp Collections (18x24cm, 119pp, 1954), paperback original, slight wear | £10.00 |
| 173* | Byam’ s Egypt (18x24cm,126pp, 1961), original paperback, excellent | £12.00 |
| 174* | Peter A S Smith, The Travelling Post Offices of Egypt (A4, 65pp,1983, original paperback, fine condition | £9.00 |
| 175* | ’ Jim’ Benians, Egypt Postage Prepaid Military Datestamps 1941-1947 (A4, 150pp, 1978), rebound as hardback by Peter Goodwin, excellent condition | £12.00 |
| 176* | Peter Feltus, ESC Temporary Checklist of Egyptian Postmarks (A4, 1983), rebound as cardback by Peter Goodwin, excellent | £12.00 |
| 177* | John E O Hobbs, British Forces in Egypt Postal Service 1932-1940 (A4, 90pp,1984), rebound as hardback by Peter Goodwin. Excellent, together with brief note from Rudi Jeidel casting doubt on Mary Lloyd 15 MR 36 correspondence | £22.00 |
| 178* | Higgins & Gage, Catalogue of Egyptian Printed Stationery 1879-1973 (17x25cm, 13pp), rebound as cardback by Peter Goodwin, slight spotting | £3.00 |
| 179* | Higgins & Gage, Catalogues for Egypt & Sudan, enlarged to A4 and rebound as hardback by Peter Goodwin. Fine | £4.00 |
| 180* | John Sears, The Airmails of Egypt (3rd edn, 2000, 184pp), spiral bound, dedication from author. Excellent | £20.00 |
| 181* | Ronny Van Pellecom/Peter Grech/Alain Stragier, Ramleh Alexandrie (A4, 152pp, 2010), excellent new p/b | £20.00 |
| 182* | John Firebrace, British Empire Campaigns and Occupations in the Near East 1914-1924 (A4, 460pp, 1991), hardback with dust-jacket. Also offprint, Douglas Muir, Views of Palestine, 1923-27, A Colonial Perspective (London Philatelist 1998) | £60.00 |
| 183* | Peter A S Smith, Egypt: Stamps and Postal History, A Philatelic Treatise (18x25cm, 875pp,1999), hard-back, with dust-jacket. THE BIBLE. Pristine | £100.00 |
| 184* | Joseph H Chalhoub, The Nile Post: Handbook and Catalogue of Egyptian Stamps (22x28cm, 788pp, 2003). Original hard back with dust-jacket, excellent condition | £110.00 |
| 185* | Giorgio Migliavacca, Italian PoWs and Internees in Africa (A4, 62pp, 1983), rebound as hardback by Peter Goodwin | £6.00 |
| 186* | Derek Tomlin, World War II PoW and Internment Camps (A4, c 40pp, no date, photocopy rebound as untitled cardback by Peter Goodwin | £10.00 |
| 187* | Wonderful novelty - Peter Goodwin upside-down A4 binding, with two-sided book presenting one way up as John Sears’ Egypt: The First Portrait Issue (1997, 127pp); and the other way up as John Revell’ s The Stamp Booklets 1903-1954 (1997, 133pp), the latter handwritten. Beautifully bound in red/green cloth with black gold-lettered spine. Quite astonishing, excellent condition | £40.00 |
| 188* | Michael Sacher, Army and Field Post Offices of Egypt and the EEF, 1914-1920 (19x26cm, 32pp,1970), rebound as cardback by Peter Goodwin. Fine condition | £12.00 |
| 189* | Mike Murphy and Ibrahim Shoukry, Egypt: The Rural Postal Service, An Introduction (A4, 191pp, 2010), original hardback, excellent condition | £24.00 |
| 190* | Barefoot Suez Canal Forgery & Reprint Guide (A5, 20pp, 1983), original paperback, excellent | £3.00 |
| 191* | Edmund Hall, Catalogue of Egyptian Postmarks (ESC listing 1990), rebound into A5 hardback by Peter Goodwin. Excellent | £5.00 |
| 192* | Vahe Varjabedian, Perfins on Egyptian Stamps (17x24cm, 32pp,1999, original paperback. Excellent condition, with 22 perfin stamps noted within its pages | £5.00 |
| 193* | Peter R Feltus, Catalogue of Egyptian Revenue Stamps (19x26cm, 210pp, 1982, original hard-back with dust-jacket, excellent | £22.00 |
| 194* | Major JJ Darlow, Palestine (11x18.5cm, 15pp,1935), paperback, very good condition | £12.00 |
| 195* | Catalogue, The Postage Stamps of Palestine Mandate (21x24cm, 16pp, date?), rebound pb by Peter Goodwin | £9.00 |
| 196* | Bale Catalogue: The Stamps of the Palestine Mandate (18x24cm, 142pp, 6th ed 1988), original paperback, fine condition | £10.00 |
| 197* | Bale Catalogue: The Stamps of the Palestine Mandate (18c24cm, 144pp, 7th ed 1992) original paperback, excellent | £12.00 |
| 198* | Michael Sacher, The Postal Markings of Mandate Palestine 1917-1948 (21x29.5cm, 522pp, 1995), original hardback, excellent, with dust-jacket. With offprint Douglas N Muir, The 1927 Pictorial Issue of Palestine, from Cross Post Vol 7 No 2 | £85.00 |
| 199* | Major E C W Stagg, Sudan Eighty Years On, reprint from Stamp Collecting, Oct 1977, rebound as stapled paperback by Peter Goodwin. With other cuttings | £5.00 |
| 200* | Andrew Humphreys, Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Touring (American University in Cairo Press, 2012). 192pp, lavishly illustrated in colour, brand new, providing fascinating histories of all of Egypt’ s top hotels | £24.00 |
| | Stamp varieties | |
| 201 | 1922 Crown opt, 1m in lower marginal block of four with ornate selvage, showing varieties on stamps frame broken (posn 90) and dots dropped (posn 100). Opt Type I (NP D78 I b,c). UMM | £7.00 |
| 202 | 1922 Crown opt, 1m block of four, showing varieties on stamps frame broken (posn 90) and dots dropped (posn 100). Opt Type III (NP D78 III b,c). MM | £6.00 |
| 203 | 1993. Death centenary of Ali Moubarak (NP C1270), pale green instead of deep green, with normal. UMM | £4.00 |
| 204 | 1984, Los Angeles Olympics miniature sheet (NP MS 40), woefully miscut so that part of the se-tenant stamp design appears at the right edge of the sheet | £10.00 |
| 205 | 1988, Seoul Olympics miniature sheet (NP MS45), two examples showing great colour variation, both UMM | £6.00 |
| | Stamps | |
| 206 | Crown opts, 1922, four high DLR values, 20m, 50m, 100m, 200m, Type 1 opt, MM, excellent appearance | £11.00 |
| 207 | 1959, Nefertiti 100m surcharged UAR 55m, control block A/53 A/54, UMM | £3.00 |
| 208 | 1988, Naguib Mahfouz Nobel prize, corner blocks of four of both values (NP C1134-5). UMM | £3.00 |
| | Postage Due | |
| 209 | 1898 3m on 2m surcharge, block of nine slightly over-inked, showing several examples with one dot over Arabic letter "qaf" making it "faf". NP PD19j. Mint, excellent appearance | £10.00 |
| 210 | 1922 Crown Opt, 2pi block of four (NP PD30), UMM | £7.00 |
| 211 | 1922 Crown Opt, 2pi with variety, overprint upright (NP PD30b), UMM | £9.00 |
| 212 | 30 JL 43, small Arabic-addressed cover apparently "franked" with 5m General Revenue issue, Disuq CDS, plus pencil T, boxed T, and 12m Due affixed in Cairo next day. Shows its has travelled! No backstamps | £6.00 |
| | On Active Service | |
| 213 | 27 II 15, stark colour postcard Kantara, l’ entrée du Canal, unstamped, sent to Darwen, Lancs, with stark message: "This is all there is at this place to look at, so you can see what it is like". Postmark Qantara | £5.00 |
| | Postal stationery | |
| 214 | date? 1911 provisional 1m surcharge with bars on 2m small postal stationery envelope (NP SEN 11 $25, Magdi E18 $80), used from Cairo to a Khedivial Counsellor en ville. Neat | £12.00 |
| | Second Fuad Issue - large stamps proofs - all pristine (Nile Post references) | |
| 215 | 20 milIs (D119a) with selvage | £31.00 |
| 216 | 20 mills (D119d) | £32.00 |
| 217 | 40 miIIs (D121a) | £31.00 |
| 218 | 50 milIs (D122a) with selvage | £37.00 |
| 219 | 50 miIIs (D122a) | £19.00 |
| 220 | 100 mills (D123a) | £31.00 |
| 221 | 100 milIs (D123d) | £25.00 |
| 222 | 200 milIs (D124a) with selvage | £52.00 |
| | Second Fuad Issue - small stamps proofs - all pristine (Nile Post references) | |
| 223 | Pair 5miIls proofs (tête-bêche from booklet print) | £110.00 |
| 224 | 5 milIs perforated single Type la. Only one sheet printed | £149.00 |
| 225 | 1 mill (Dl06e) with selvage | £12.00 |
| 226 | 1 mill (D106e) | £10.00 |
| 227 | 2 mills (D107d) with selvage | £12.00 |
| 228 | 3 milIs (D108e) | £17.00 |
| 229 | 3 miIls (D109b) | £21.00 |
| 230 | 4 mills (D111b) | £21.00 |
| 231 | 4 mills (D110c) with selvage | £23.00 |
| 232 | 3 mills (D108a) with selvage (Horizontal screen) | £49.00 |
| 233 | 10 mills (D113a) with selvage(Horizontal screen | £49.00 |
| 234 | 15 milIs (D116a) with selvage (Horizontal screen) | £49.00 |
| | Second Fuad Issue - postal history | |
| 235 | 8 mills postcard (5÷3milIs) to UK both with horizontal screens. Rare | £15.00 |
| 236 | 4 mills printed matter rate (2x2miIls) to UK, May1932. Clean, Turf Club envelope | £12.00 |
| 237 | 4 mills printed matter rate (4 miIls green) to UK | £12.00 |
| 238 | 28 mills airmail to UK 17.7.1936 (5x5+3milIs) | £15.00 |
| 239 | 40 mills First Flight Assiout-London (2x20mills), pristine | £19.00 |
| 240 | 2 mills REDUCED Printed Matter Rate to USA 17.12.1927. Clean | £15.00 |
| 241 | 20 mills (olive) Foreign Letter Rate Ismailia-France, Jan 1932. Opened out for display | £12.00 |
| 242 | 20 mills (blue) Foreign Letter Rate to Belgium, colour change. Mourning cover | £15.00 |
| 243 | 20 milIs (small blue) Foreign Letter Rate. Mourning cover, Continental-Savoy CDS | £20.00 |
| 244 | 15 miIls (3x5mills) understamped to USA. A fourth 5mills has been reused. Envelope stamped T but no postage due added. Interesting | £14.00 |
| 245 | 25 mills registered to UK (1x5+2x10mills, horizontal screen). Rare use, 16.11.28. Anglo-American Hospital envelope, sent from Qasr el Dubara (Reg cachet) | £19.00 |
| 246 | 35 mills registered to UK (20m large blue+15m small blue) 27.9.1934 | £19.00 |
| 247 | 35 milIs registered to UK (2x13+3+4+2mills) 3.3.1932. Clean | £21.00 |
| 248 | 40 mills Foreign Registered to Switzerland (pair of 20 mills large blue). Clean | £19.00 |
| 249 | 28 mills registered Sample Rate to UK (5x5+3x1miIl) 6.2.35 | £13.00 |
| 250 | 130 milIs Parcel Rate Card to USA (2x50+20+2x5mills). Pristine | £25.00 |
| 251 | 195 mills Parcel Rate Card to USA (100+50+2x20+5mills). Clean | £30.00 |
| 252 | Mint brown postcard with green inscription on reverse "Department of His Majesty the King - Personal Affairs". Special printing with rounded corners. Very scarce | £85.00 |
| 253 | 5 miIIs horizontal strip booklet pane including tête-bêche misperforated. Fine | £110.00 |
| | Mena/Pyramids postmarks | |
| 254 | Good Type 2 Mena House CDS 9 III 92 cancelling vignette on provisional postal stationery postcard 3 millièmes surcharged on 5m (NP SPC5, Magdi C5, Type C, addressed to Alexandria. Nice card | £55.00 |
| 255 | Type 3 CDS 29 III 99 on provisional postal stationery card 4 millièmes surcharged on 5m (NP SPC9, Magdi C9 Type B), with variety second E broken on surcharge. Addressed to Paris, from "du pied des Pyramides), Cairo transit. Nice | £15.00 |
| 256 | Fine Type 3 CDS 12 XII 01 on Mena House printed envelope, colourfully franked with 2m, 5m and 3x1m DLRs and addressed to Basel. Backstamps Caire and Basel (five days later) | £40.00 |
| 257 | Type 3 CDS 28 III 05, incoming on reply half of double 3m 1894 postal stationery card (NP SPC8 $25, Magdi C8 $75), addressed to Mena House, and sent from Cataract Hotel CDS (HCA1b) the previous day. Transit mark of Bani Suwef-Caire (TPO Type 8A1) is latest recorded. Neat, clean and fascinating | £30.00 |
| 258 | Type 3 CDS 22 II 06 on plain envelope franked 1pi blue DLR and address to Philadelphia. Backstamps Cairo, Philadelphia and West Philadelphia Station / Received. Neat, clean, and with long tourist letter enclosed | £25.00 |
| 259 | Type 3 CDS 14 XI 07 cancelling 5m DLR addressed to Germany on fine coloured Mena House postcard (Cartosport Max Rudmann 243) | £12.00 |
| 260 | Fine Type 3 CDS 10 II 03 addressed to Londonderry, franked 2x2m DLR on excellent Mena House mini postcard. Message: Climbed to top of Pyramid today & rode on camel to Sphinx. Splendid weather" | £30.00 |
| 261 | Pyramids. Type 3 CDS on upright Sphinx card from Mena House, franked 2x2m DLR for Lyndhurst. Cairo transit mark only | £12.00 |
| 262 | Pyramids. Type 3 CDS on Pyramids card from Mena House Hotel, franked 2x2m DLR for Crouch End, London | £12.00 |
| 263 | Pyramids. Type 3 CDS 21 I 06 on Mena House card franked 4m DLR for North Wales. Interesting message | £12.00 |
| 264 | Type 4 CDS (Ahram) 25 XII 09 (Christmas Day) on "Music of the East" humorous Tuck’ s Oilette postcard sent from Luqsor with Winter Palace Hotel CDS (HW2) of December 24. Greetings message | £12.00 |
| 265 | Type 4 CDS (Ahram) 4 XI 10 on Sphinx postcard addressed to Kent with message from Mena House Hotel, proving hotel-PO link. Neat and clean | £12.00 |
| 266 | Type 4 CDS (Ahram) 16 XI 10 on London-addressed 5m postal stationery envelope (NP SEN6, Magdi E8). Backstamp Cairo / A. fold across lower quarter | £10.00 |
| | Stamps. | |
| 267 | 1872 1pi LITHO, perforation 12½ x 13 1/3, (SG 27, NP D22, MB 22), very fine used | £20.00 |
| 268 | 1872 5pa, defective right frame and lower right corner, perf 13 1/3 x 13 1/3 (SG 28 II var , NP D14 var, MB 14g), FU | £12.00 |
| 269 | 1872 1pi typo, watermark inverted, perforation 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, (SG 31var , NP D17i, MB 17e), FU | £11.00 |
| 270 | 1884 20pa on 5pi, inverted surcharge, (SG 57a, NP 40a, MB 40b), VFU | £20.00 |
| 271 | 1906 1m, watermark inverted (SG 58var, NP D45a, MB 45a), VFU | £5.00 |
| 272 | 1906 2m, wmk inv (SG 59var, NP D46a, MB 46a), very fine used | £10.00 |
| 273 | 1906 5m, white hole in "P" of POSTES (SG 63var, NP D50b, MB 50var), very fine used | £30.00 |
| 274 | 1914 5m, watermark inverted (SG 77var, NP D57a, MB 57b), VFU | £12.00 |
| 275 | 1914 5m, booklet stamp, watermark sideways to the right, (SG 77a, NP D57k), VFU | £3.00 |
| 276 | 1922 5m crown opt type I, extra dot over Arabic "hamsa" posn 114 (SG 102var, NP D82 I a, MB 82 I a), VFU | £13.00 |
| 277 | 1922 100m crown overprint, reversed watermark, (SG 108var, NP D89 I c, MB 89 I b), VFU | £10.00 |
| 278 | 1923 1m Fouad, reversed watermark (SG 111 var, NP D91a, MB 91b), VFU | £8.00 |
| 279 | 1923 3m Fouad, reversed watermark (SG 113 var, NP D93a, MB 93b), VFU | £8.00 |
| 280 | 1923 4m Fouad, reversed watermark (SG 114 var, NP D94a, MB 94b), VFU | £8.00 |
| 281 | 1923 4m Fouad, retouch on top left lotus (SG 114 var, NP D94c, MB 94 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 282 | 1923 5m,10m,15m Fouad, reversed watermark (SG 115-117 var, NP D95a, 96a, 97a, MB 95b, 96b, 97b), VFU | £10.00 |
| 283 | 1923 5m Fouad, retouch to uraeus (SG 115 var, NP D95c, MB 95 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 284 | 1923 5m Fouad, hairy ear (SG 115 var, NP D95d, MB 95 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 285 | 1923 5m Fouad, retouch on collar below ear(SG 115 var, NP D95j, MB 95 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 286 | 1923 10m Fouad, retouch on oval top left (SG 116 var, NP D96f, MB 96 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 287 | 1923 15m Fouad, retouch at top right (SG 117 var, NP D97c, MB 97 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 288 | 1923 15m Fouad, retouch above shoulder at left (SG 117 var, NP D97f, MB 97 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 289 | 1923 15m Fouad, retouch to top right corner, (SG 117 var, NP D97g, MB 97 var), VFU | £10.00 |
| 290 | 1926 15m/200m block of four inc broken "M" and "S" var - pos 24 ( SG 137 var, NP D105ee, MB105c), UM | £20.00 |
| 291 | 1927 2m, Fouad Type I (SG 149, NP 107, MB 107), very nice used | £1.00 |
| 292 | 1928 Medical Congress set of two in blocks of four with first day cancel and includes "F" for "E" error (NP C27-28, 28c, MB 24-25, 25a), VF | £22.00 |
| 293 | 1937, 15m Boy King inverted watermark,(SG 256var, NP D144a, MB 151a), UM | £3.00 |
| 294 | 1953, 10m soldier booklet pane of six (SG 419a, NP SB18a, MB 18), UM | £12.00 |
| 295 | 1955 5m "extra dot" variety, (SG 507var, NP C158b, MB 146a), UM | £5.00 |
| 296 | 1955 5m centre of Arabic number "five" filled (SG 507var, NP C158f, MB 146 var), UM | £5.00 |
| 297 | 1955 37m Arab Postal Congress, centre of Arabic "five" filled (SG 509var, NP C160b, MB 148 var), UM | £5.00 |
| 298 | 1957 Anniversary of Revolution, two values in blocks of four, wmk inv (NP182a, NP183a), UM | £18.00 |
| 299 | 1957 10m Ramses II (SG542var, NP D242a, MB 266a), inverted watermark, pair, UM | £10.00 |
| 300 | 1957 10m vertical pair "gun on plane" variety, (SG 545a var, NP C189a, MB 177a), UM | £5.00 |
| 301 | 1959 Petroleum 10m extra dot variety. "arabia" reads "garbia" (SG 594var, NP C220d, MB 208a), UM | £9.00 |
| 302 | 1959 Nefertiti 55m/100m, misplaced opt "U" lost (SG 588var, NP D252b, MB 274b), margin corner copy UM | £15.00 |
| 303 | 1959 Flag orange, watermarked, printing experiment ( MB 207b), UM | £11.00 |
| 304 | 1959 Flag violet ,unwatermarked, printing experiment, (MB 207b), UM | £11.00 |
| 305 | 1972 £E1 green and orange DOUBLE PRINT error unlisted, (NP D320 var, MB 336 var), UM | £40.00 |
| 306 | 1985 10p lower right broken frame, TRIPLE PRINT unlisted (NP D345 var, MB 378 var), UM TL corner pair | £15.00 |
| | Miniature sheets | |
| 307 | 1951, Royal Wedding sheet with "blind" perf at both bottom corners (NP MS5 var, MB 5 var), UM | £8.00 |
| 308 | 1952, Mediterranean Games with extra dot at right of Arabic 9 (NP MS6f, MB 6a), UM | £15.00 |
| 309 | 1959, Transport (SG MS601, NP MS12, MB 12), UM | £2.00 |
| | Air Mails | |
| 310 | 1948, 22m on 200m marginal block of four inc "8 broken forming C" error, posn 27 (NP C120a, MB 44c), UM | £11.00 |
| 311 | 1953, 5m with 3 bars, pair with "flagpole" variety on upper stamp (NP A56a, MB 61 var), UM | £6.00 |
| | Officials | |
| 312 | 1922 2m vermilion, two dots below "el masriya" misplaced to bottom and break in "el malakeya" (SG O112var, NP O23h, MB 22a), mint | £20.00 |
| 313 | 1914 2m green, mirror surcharge variety (SG O84var, NP O11var), UM | £10.00 |
| 314 | 1926 15m misperforated (SG O146var, NP O48b, MB 47r1) UM | £10.00 |
| 315 | 1926 20m misperforated (SG O147var, NP O49b, MB 48r1) UM | £7.00 |
| 316 | 1993 25pi UMM strip of 10 showing 2 normal, 1 colour missing at bottom eliminating value and inscription, 7 completely blank (NP O121var) | £75.00 |
| | Postage Dues | |
| 317 | 1921 10m lake watermark pointing down (SG D103var, NP PD26i, MB 26g), very fine used | £4.00 |
| 318 | 1921 10m lake watermark pointing down and second "M" connected to frame, position 12 (SG D103var, NP PD26j, MB 26m), VFU | £17.00 |
| 319 | 1922 2m red-orange control block of 9 with centre stamp "3 dots" variety, (NP PD32a, MB 32a), UM | £11.00 |
| | Postal stationery | |
| 320 | Reg envelope. 1922 10m "Thomas de la Rue & Co Ltd" to Ireland franked 2 x 15m Crown Opt plus 5m Fuad (NP SRE3, MB R3) | £25.00 |
| 321 | 1899 4m DLR card used from Cairo to Paris (NP SPC11, MB C11) | £8.00 |
| 322 | 1900 4m DLR card used from Alexandria to Zurich (NP SPC11, MB C11) | £8.00 |
| 323 | 1907 2m on 3m +prepaid card separated reply, unused (NP SPC13) | £10.00 |
| 324 | 1907 2m DLR unused card (NP SPC14, MB C14). | £10.00 |
| 325 | 1916 3m+3m prepaid reply card, unused (NP SPC26, MB C26) | £15.00 |
| 326 | 1889 1p gray letter sheet, unused (NP SLS1, MB L1) | £8.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 327 | 1843 Stampless letter from Cairo to Alessandria. Interesting item | £20.00 |
| 328 | 1900 Greek postcard (Bacchus Theatre - Athens) sent from Cairo to Paris franked Egypt DLR 1888 2m green pair | £5.00 |
| 329 | 1935 Paquebot Port Said cover to England | £7.00 |
| 330 | 1936 Paquebot Port Said franked British stamps to England | £15.00 |
| 331 | 1937 Paquebot Port Taufiq, British stamps cancelled "PAQUEBOT" to England. Alexandria cds on reverse | £20.00 |
| 332 | 1938 Cotton Congress set on reg cover to Greece, opened, stamped and taped by currency control, which mentions (reverse) in Greek that "mint stamp of Farouk wedding was found enclosed". Very interesting item | £35.00 |
| 333 | 1938 Royal wedding of King Farouk FDC | £15.00 |
| 334 | Postal history. 1949 "BEPITEC" stamp exhibition special flight cover to Bruxelles, Belgium. Vignettes block on back. Nice Hagopian cover | £20.00 |
| 335 | 1950s censored four colour franked cover Cairo to Greece franked Marechal 1m,2m,4m,2x10m | £3.00 |
| 336 | 1950s censored cover Cairo to Greece franked Marechal overprinted (2m,40m) | £3.00 |
| 337 | National Bank of Egypt cover to Greece franked 22m Farouk soldier plus censor cancel | £3.00 |
| | Military interest | |
| 338 | Postal history. 1940 Active Service censored Military cover to Australia, franked 10m strip of four | £15.00 |
| 339 | 1942 British Forces airmail cover franked British stamp cancelled "EGYPT" to London. RAF Censor | £15.00 |
| 340 | 1948 British Forces airmail cover franked Marechal stamps cancelled "FIELD POST OFFICE 235" to USA | £20.00 |
| | Postmarks | |
| 341 | ABUHOMUS cds on 1874 10pa | £10.00 |
| 342 | RETTA cancel on DLR and Farouk Boy King. Five stamps | £3.00 |
| 343 | 1914 5m, cancelled Rural Service four used stamps | £2.00 |
| 344 | 1926 10m, cancelled Rural Service Ashmun-Mahallet Subk, very rare | £8.00 |
| 345 | Railway/TPO postmarks on DLR (9 stamps + pair), 1914 pictorial (3 stamps), Boy King (3 stamps): 17 total | £3.00 |
| | Perfins | |
| 346 | Perfins, a group of 12 used stamps | £6.00 |
| | Control Blocks of 4: | |
| 347 | 3rd Fuad: 1m - 4; 2m - 3; 4m - 6; 5m (inc block of 6 for booklet) 7;10m - 2; 15m - 2; 20m - 5. Total 29 blocks, all mint | £48.00 |
| 348 | Fuad, Army Post - 3m (large) - 1; 10m (large) - 7; 10m (small) - 5. Total 11 blocks, all mint | £25.00 |
| | Stamps | |
| 349 | Imperf. 1914, First Pictorial Issue, complete set of ten mint imperforate stamps, 1m to 200m. Rarely offered complete (NP D53-D62) NB. Faulty scan | £190.00 |
| 350 | Imperf. 1923, First Fouad, horizontal pair of 5m, imperf, pristine condition | £60.00 |
| 351 | Officials, 1938 complete set of nine oblique perforation stamps, 1m to 50m, in pristine condition. Rarely offered as a complete set | £180.00 |
| 352 | Definitives. 1937, Young Farouk, definitive issue, top right corner block of four of 3m brown with inverted watermarks, pristine | £30.00 |
| 353 | Inv. Wmk. 1937, Young Farouk, lower left corner block of 10m violet with inverted watermarks and control A/39 A/40 A/41. Pristine. | £30.00 |
| 354 | Inv. Wmk. 1937, Young Farouk, lower left corner block of 15m stamps with inverted watermarks and control A/39 A/40. Pristine. | £30.00 |
| 355 | Royal misperfs. 1944, Farouk Marechal, assortment of nine stamps with oblique perforations: 1,2,4,5,10,17,20,22m and the scare £E1. Pristine NB. Faulty scan | £150.00 |
| 356 | Year issue.. 2010, complete issue for he full year, 25 stamps and two miniature sheets. Pristine | £25.00 |
| 357 | Year issue. 2011. All stamps issued during the year of the revolution, comprising: Post Day issue (10 se-tenant stamps), 50th Anniversary of Cairo Tower (2 se-tenant), Bicentenary of the Military Academy (one stamp), Rivers joint issue with Singapore (6 se-tenant stamps), UNCP (one stamp); and the six First-Day covers | £36.00 |
| 358 | Stamps. 2011. Post Day commemoration, marking diamond jubilee of the Postal Museum: ten se-tenant stamps, mint, pristine, together with three FDCs with all the stamps. | £22.00 |
| 359 | Stamps. 2009, special commemorative sheetlet, extraordinary session of the PAPU conference in Cairo. Each sheetlet has 16 stamps of £E1.50 value and illustrates a portrait of an African personality. Limited edition, pristine | £24.00 |
| 360 | Stamps. 2009, special sheetlet marking the FIFA Under-20 World Cup. Each sheetlet comprises 16 stamps with £E1.50 value showing the tournament logo and the national flag of competing nations. Limited edition, pristine | £24.00 |
| | Stamps - Varieties on Modern Definitives. The following nine lots are all listed for the first time in the new 7th edition of the SG Middle East catalogue: | |
| 361 | 1993, SG 1874a Type II, very rare. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four | £32.00 |
| 362 | 1994, SG 1917a, rare colour variety. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four with block of four of SG 1917 for comparison | £6.00 |
| 363 | 2001, SG 2020ab, perf 11½ and different colour, rare. VF mint NH block of four | £6.00 |
| 364 | 2001, SG 2021a Type II, rare. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four with similar block (SG2021 Type I) for comparison | £8.00 |
| 365 | 1999, SG 2025a, Queen Nefertari perf 14½, also a lighter colour shade, very rare. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four | £28.00 |
| 366 | 1999, SG 2032b (No 2020 but with wmk), rare. Two upper marginal blocks of four with different shades (brown and pinkish). VF mint NH, SG cat £16 | £7.00 |
| 367 | 1999, SG 2033 (No 2022 but with wmk), rare. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four | £5.00 |
| 368 | 1999, SG 2034 (No 2031 but with wmk), rare. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four. SG cat £20 | £10.00 |
| 369 | 1999, SG 2034a (No 2032 but with wmk), rare. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four with lighter colour shade. SG cat £32 | £14.00 |
| | Rare Modern Definitives | |
| 370 | SG 1138a, no wmk, Balian 703. VF mint NH left marginal block of four. Michel cat €80 | £50.00 |
| 371 | 1985, SG 1343ba with wmk. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four, rare | £14.00 |
| 372 | 2001, SG 2023a, variety with perf 11 instead of 13 x 13½, darker colour shade and larger inscriptions. VF mint NH left lower corner block of four, with similar block of SG 2023a for comparison | £12.00 |
| | Officials | |
| 373 | 1991-99, SG O1806-14, including newly listed O1807a (10p brown) and O1808b (20p ultramarine). VF mint NH complete set of 13 stamps | £6.00 |
| 374 | 1999, SG O1807a, newly listed 10p brown. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four | £4.00 |
| 375 | 1999, SG O1808b, newly listed 20p ultramarine. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four | £4.00 |
| 376 | 2001, SG O2183a-89, the newly listed set of seven but on unwatermarked paper (limited printing). VF mint NH lower marginal block of four | £12.00 |
| | Year issues | |
| 377 | 2010 complete: 28 stamps and two miniature sheets, VF mint NH | £15.00 |
| 378 | 2011 complete: 22 stamps, no miniature sheets. VF mint NH | £10.00 |
| | Modern issues | |
| 379 | 2002, SG 2234-43, including the newly listed 2238a. The last definitive set of ten stamps with multiple reprints that have distinctly different shades - four of the 10p value, 3x25p, 1x30p, 2x50p, 2x£E1, one of 110p (2238a), 2x150p, ie, total of 25 stamps, beautiful assortment. VF mint NH | £20.00 |
| | Sudan stamps. | |
| 380 | 1962, £1 Camel postman definitive reprint without wmk, VF mint NH upper marginal block of four | £9.00 |
| 381 | 1962, £1 Camel postman definitive reprint with rectangles wmk, VF mint NH upper marginal block of four | £9.00 |
| 382 | 1991, Eighth definitive set, complete, 16 stamps, in official folder, VF mint NH, Michel cat €60 | £15.00 |
| 383 | 1991, Officials. Eighth definitive set, 16 stamps overprinted SG in Arabic, VF mint NH, Michel cat €75 | £15.00 |
| 384 | 2003, Ninth definitive set, complete, 14 stamps (50-500 dinars), VF mint NH, Michel cat €32 | £15.00 |
| 385 | 2003, As last, but imperf miniature sheet combining the 14 stamps, rare, only 1000 issued VF mint NH | £30.00 |
| 386 | 2006, 50th Anniversary of Independence, set of 3 stamps and imperf miniature sheet. VF mint NH, Michel cat €53 | £28.00 |
| 387 | 1990, 1962 definitive 10PT value handstamp-surcharged £1 in Arabic, VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer’ s name Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd on the lower margin | £35.00 |
| 388 | 2003, 1991 definitive 125PT value surcharged 100 dinars in black and in red (very rare). VF mint NH, two singles, Michel cat €57.50 | £30.00 |
| 389 | 2003, Officials, complete set of four stamps (50,100,200 and 300D), VF mint NH, Michel cat €40 | £12.00 |
| 390 | 1948, Postage Dues, SG D12-15, complete set of four, VF mint NH, SG cat £30 | £12.00 |
| 391 | 1980, Postage Dues, "Steamboat on the River Nile", complete set of two, 10m, and 20m values, with the rare Sudan Arms (rhinoceros) wmk (see note after SG D15). VF mint NH, Michel cat €300 | £50.00 |
| | Forces postal history | |
| 392 | 2 Mar 1943. OAS air cover to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. South Africa stamps. Egypt 71 prepaid pmk | £8.00 |
| 393 | 13 Feb 1942. OAS air ’ honour’ cover to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. GB stamps. Egypt 19 prepaid pmk | £8.00 |
| 394 | 9 Oct 1941. OAS airmail cover to Durban. South Africa stamps. Egypt 63 prepaid pmk | £5.00 |
| 395 | 7 Apr 1942. OAS airmail cover to Johannesburg. South Africa stamps. Egypt 54 prepaid pmk | £5.00 |
| 396 | 26 Aug 1943. OAS airmail cover to East London. South Africa stamps. Egypt 29 prepaid pmk | £5.00 |
| 397 | 9 July 1942. OAS registered airmail cover to Johannesburg. South Africa stamps. Pmk APO 3 | £6.00 |
| 398 | 3 Oct 1941. OAS unstamped cover to Cape Province. APO 30 | £4.00 |
| 399 | 24 July 1941. OAS air cover to Pretoria. South Africa stamps. Postmark APO 3 and Egypt 60 prepaid pmk (poor bottom left corner) | £4.00 |
| 400 | 17 June 1941. OAS unstamped cover to Johannesburg. Pmk APO 7 | £4.00 |
| 401 | 16 Jan 1941. OAS unstamped cover to GB. Pmk APO 36 (creased at top) | £3.00 |
| 402 | 10 Nov 1941. OAS unstamped cover to Pretoria. Egypt 70 prepaid pmk | £4.00 |
| 403 | 22 Aug 1941. OAS airmail cover to East London. South Africa and GB stamps. Egypt 54 prepaid pmk | £7.00 |
| 404 | 7 Oct 1941. OAS airmail cover to Johannesburg. South Africa stamps. Egypt 40 prepaid pmk | £5.00 |
| 405 | 22 Aug 1941. OAS airmail cover to East London. South Africa and GB stamps. Egypt 59 prepaid pmk | £7.00 |
| | Postal stationery (Nile Post references) | |
| 406 | 1879 PC1 20 paras fine used TPO Alexandrie-Damanhour 1 .I. 87 | £5.00 |
| 407 | 1907 PC13 2/3 mills double card VF mint | £8.00 |
| 408 | 1907 PC14 2 mills mint pristine! | £6.00 |
| 409 | Do. 2 mills + 2 added VF used to Belgium 20.III.09 | £4.00 |
| 410 | 1914 PC20 2 mills unused pristine | £7.00 |
| 411 | 1914 PC21 4 mills VF mint | £7.00 |
| 412 | 1914 PC23 4 mills double card VF mint | £16.00 |
| 413 | 1914 PC21 4 mills VF used 16.VIII.15 | £6.60 |
| 414 | 1923 PC27 10 mills Fine used | £6.00 |
| 415 | 1929 PC32 3 mills VF used | £18.00 |
| 416 | PC from Switzerland 31.III.18 to Heliopolis + censor | £5.00 |
| | 1954 Tourist View cards with 4m Defence vignette - green border, all pristine | |
| 417 | Do. Assouan | £8.00 |
| 418 | Do, Université de Caire | £7.00 |
| 419 | Do. Exposition | £7.00 |
| 420 | Do. Vue du Nil au Caire | £7.00 |
| 421 | Do. Vue près des Barrages du Delta | £7.00 |
| 422 | Do. Vue du Nil - Le Caire | £7.00 |
| 423 | Do. Le Nil et Pont el Gala, Le Caire | £7.00 |
| 424 | Do. Mosquée du Sultan Hassan Le Caire | £7.00 |
| 425 | Do. Pont de Kasr el Nil - Le Caire | £7.00 |
| | Postal stationery (Nile Post references) | |
| 426 | 1941 PC38 4 mills VF mint | £5.00 |
| 427 | 1892 EN7A 5 mills/2 piastres VF mint | £8.00 |
| 428 | 1907 EN10 3 mills VF used 18.XII.12 | £5.00 |
| 429 | 1925 EN24 2 mills VF used 1.JA.26 to Paris | £4.00 |
| 430 | 1928 EN27 2 mills grey (+ 2 mills) VF used | £4.00 |
| 431 | 1937 EN29 2 mills unused pristine! | £12.00 |
| 432 | 1937 EN29 2 mills vf used Dumiat 7.JA.38 | £4.00 |
| 433 | 1939 EN31 2 mills unused pristine! | £24.00 |
| 434 | 1943 EN35 4 mills fine used | £4.00 |
| 435 | 1946 EN37 4 mills 45-degree screen knife A VF unused | £6.00 |
| 436 | 1941 EN34 3 mills laid paper pristine! | £35.00 |
| 437 | 1967 EN49 10 mills (+ 10) Abu Senbel 12.2.72 CTO? | £5.00 |
| 438 | 1940 RE10 15 mills (+ 6) VF used but horizontal crease through stamp | £35.00 |
| 439 | 1889 LS1 1 piastre VF used from Helouan 19.MA.92 to San Marino!; backstamps Caire and Rimini | £5.00 |
| 440 | 1911 LS4 5 mills VF unused with insignificant hinge remains on reverse | £38.00 |
| 441 | 1914 LS7 10 mills with wmk ONOTO unused pristine! | £20.00 |
| 442 | 1922 LS9 5 mills pink VF unused | £25.00 |
| 443 | 1930 LS10 5 mills (+10) VF used | £20.00 |
| 444 | 1948 ALS2 25 mills VF used + civil censor | £10.00 |
| 445 | 1948 ALS2 25 mills VF Mint | £8.00 |
| 446 | 1949 ALS4 25 mills VF used + civil censor | £8.00 |
| 447 | 1914 WR3 2 mills VF Mint | £4.00 |
| 448 | 1914 WR3 1 mill VF Mint | £4.00 |
| | Postal history | |
| 449 | 1917 censored cover to Lausanne; franked 1 + 2x2 + 5 mills DLR 1914 (to Jean d’ Humières!) | £10.00 |
| 450 | Grand Continental Hotel Post 17.V.01 to Budapest Type HC2 | £6.00 |
| 451 | Winter Palace Hotel Post 2.II.08 to Switzerland Type HW3 blue | £6.00 |
| 452 | Simon Arzt (Caisse) on Registered window envelope of The Simon Arzt Stores! Wax seals, Port Said R, and arrival Leipzig on back. Vertical fold | £4.00 |
| 453 | Advertising envelope 6.MA.26 to Switzerland | £3.00 |
| 454 | Nice Registered Air cover to England (3 mills stamp torn corner) | £8.00 |
| 455 | OHEMS envelope with block of four SG O142 (some adhesion on back) | £5.00 |
| | Parcel Card | |
| 456 | 1914, franked 10pi and 4m Sphinx & Pyramid plus 10m Colossi stamps all neatly tied Douane Alexandria R.P. cds. With Drawback handstamp, Alex customs label and pink Egyptian Remboursement label tied Trieste transit mark. On reverse arrival cds Cormondreche (Neuchatel) | £65.00 |
| | Hotel Postcards | |
| 457 | Grand Continental: horizontal b-w card, Hotel main entrance, Lichtenstein & Harari No 83. Unused | £4.00 |
| 458 | Grand Continental: unused b-w card showing whole hotel, by LL (Levy et Neurdein Réunie Paris) No 248, pristine | £4.00 |
| 459 | Grand Continental: vertical card, main entrance, LJ & C, franked 2mills DLR neatly used Caire Station 9.X1.03 to Edinburgh. Unusual | £7.60 |
| 460 | Mena House: vertical real photo card showing hotel and part of the gardens, Lehnert and Landrock Succ. Franked 22m Maréchal neatly used from Pyramids 1951 to England. Also civil censor and bilingual Air Mail cachet | £7.60 |
| 461 | Mena House: horiz card by Mena Photo Store-Pyramids unused but small cachet indicating purchased at Hotel, clean | £5.00 |
| 462 | Mena Housel: horiz colour Tuck’ s Oilette (7205) of hotel and nearby village Nazlet from distance, unused | £4.00 |
| 463 | Semiramis: unused sepia vertical card (Lehnert & Landrock No. 1159), of this magnificent building | £5.00 |
| 464 | Semiramis: unused horiz photocard of Corniche and hotel from river (Lehnert & Landrock Succ, Cairo 63. | £6.00 |
| 465 | Shepheards: photocard (Imp. Levy Fils & Cie, Paris), used to Bristol, stamp removed, ms dated 20.11.23 | £4.00 |
| 466 | Shepheards: horizontal card of painting of hotel main entrance (Proprieta Artistica of Milan), unused | £4.00 |
| 467 | Shepheards: horizontal card (BB No 77), of impressive front entrance, b-w, unused, pencil ms behind | £4.00 |
| 468 | Heliopolis Palace: unused b-w card (Cairo Postcard Trust Série 634), pencil manuscript message behind | £4.00 |
| 469 | Heliopolis Palace: vertical real photo card of internal scene, unused | £4.00 |
| 470 | San Stefano: unused b-w card of the hotel (Louis Levy No 30). Immaculate | £5.00 |
| 471 | San Stefano: unused colour card produced by L. Papazoglou & Co | £4.00 |
| 472 | San Stefano: identical to last but used by Base Army P.O. Z (Alexandria) 14 SE 17 to Margate with triangular censor crown No 3137 | £9.00 |
| 473 | Luxor Hotel: unused b-w card of painting of hotel and gardens (Rommier & Jonas, Dresden, No R 165) | £5.00 |
| | Maritime postal history | |
| 474 | Great Britain 1d George V (Mackennal design) cancelled with Port Said "Paquebot" in cartouche and cds of Port Said 25 X 11 on small neat envelope to West London | £4.00 |
| 475 | Farouk Maréchal air cover franked with three colour definitives. Cancelled Paquebot Port Said 14 JU 52 (5 slug missing) to Fraserburgh | £2.00 |
| | Air Mails | |
| 476 | Boy King air cover franked 47m, CDS Port Said Traffic and Star 30 AP 52 (4 strikes), civil censor to Leeds | £2.00 |
| 477 | Three Farouk Maréchal air covers to same addressee in London with a variety of definitives and airs, all 27 mills rate, two from Cairo, one from Alexandria cancelled blue, all with civil censors. Priced to clear | £2.00 |
| 478 | Post-Revolution air cover to Zurich franked 49 mills (SG 499,417,418,423) cancelled Alexandria 1.D 20.OC 55 with civil censor. Colourful and clean | £2.00 |
| | Miniature sheets | |
| 479 | 1949 LMM MS357 16th Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition at Cairo. Cat. £11.50 | £4.00 |
| 480 | 1951 Unmounted mint MS368 Royal Wedding. Cat. £15 | £5.60 |
| 481 | 1958 Sixth Anniversary of the Revolution MS570. LMM Cat £16 | £6.00 |
| 482 | 1959 Seventh Anniversary of the Revolution MS601 LMM Cat £14 | £5.00 |
| 483 | 1961 Ninth Anniversary of the Revolution 100 mills Cat £4.75 | £2.00 |
| 484 | 1962 Arab Socialist Union, MS714/715 and imperf. One mounted, other has a minor crease. Cat £5.50 | £2.00 |
| 485 | 1962 Tenth Anniversary of the Revolution 100mills, MS751752, one perf, one imperf. Both LMM. Cat £6 | £2.50 |
| 486 | 1964 Aswan Dam Projects MS 802 LMM Cat £4.75 | £2.00 |
| | Postcards | |
| 487 | 45 postcards of Nile Temples and towns, mainly postally unused, of mixed condition and with a small number of duplicates | £10.00 |
| 488 | 45 postcards, precisely as last | £10.00 |
| 489 | 53 cards of Suez inc Port Tewfik, the canal and town, mainly postally unused, mixed condition, small number of duplicates | £12.00 |
| 490 | 53 postcards, precisely as last | £12.00 |
| 491 | 35 postcards of Port Said and environs, mainly postally unused, mixed condition, small number of duplicates | £8.00 |
| | Palestine overprint forgeries on cover | |
| 492 | 5 AU 55, small cover, Arabic-addressed to Beirut, cancelled with Farouk-barred Air stamps - 7m with bilingual Palestine opt (NP PA16), 5m with KES and Palestine (PA27), and 3m KES with Palestine in red instead of black. Cancelled Gaza el Gidida, violet 102 censor mark, Beirut arrival next day | £10.00 |
| 493 | 25 AU 55, small cover, Arabic-addressed to Beirut, cancelled with Farouk-barred Air stamps - 5m with KES and bilingual Palestine opt (NP PA27), 2x10m similar (PA28). Also 15m 1955 issue without Farouk (PA 31), with Palestine opt doubled (forgery). Violet circle (worn censor? faint trace arrival mark | £10.00 |
| 494 | 3 JL 56, Air cover, Arabic-addressed for Beirut from Gaza el Gidida (Reg cachet alongside), franked with 2x PA31, PA32, and barred Farouk Air stamps - 2m KES/Palestine (PA25), 10m Palestine (PA18) and 3m Palestine with opt inverted (forgery). Violet 102 censor, backstamps of Gaza el Gidida, Aerodrome du Caire, Beyrouth / Renseignements | £10.00 |
| 495 | 3 JL 56, as last generally, but forged stamp is 3m barred Farouk with KES doubled and Palestine | £10.00 |
| 496 | 3 JL 56, as last generally, but forged stamp is 5m no-Farouk Air with Palestine opt inverted | £10.00 |
| 497 | 5 SE 56, small cover, Arabic-addressed to Beirut, franked 2x10m Bared-Farouk KES with bilingual Palestine overprint (PA28), plus 20m the same (forgery). Cancelled Gaza / T with violet circle (worn censor?). Beirut arrival behind | £10.00 |
| 498 | 6 9 56, Air envelope addressed to the American Embassy in Beirut, sent from New Gaza / R with pair of 10m barred-Farouk KES/Palestine (PA28), no-Farouk 15m/Palestine (PA32), and 5m barred-Farouk with Palestine, but KES doubled (forgery). Beirut arrival 19/IX | £10.00 |
| | Revenues - Salt Tax | |
| 499 | 1897, mini-collection of nine Salt department receipt forms in excellent condition, all cancelled with large Ministry of Finance Salt Department double-ring cachet in green-blue, signatories all "signing" with signet ring (actual signatures rare), and authenticated with spot-on CDS of Minieh, Manfalout, Sedfa, Abou Kerkas, Akhmim, Teh el Baroud, Kafr Sakr, Chebrekhit and Atfe. Most unusual. Example | £28.00 |
| | Postal form | |
| 500 | 13 MA 89, Registration receipt for item sent by the Khedivial Paquebot line to the director of its Jeddah office, despatched from Suez / Depart CDS. Excellent condition | £14.00 |
| | Postal order | |
| 501 | 14 JUL 1951, Egyptian postal order for 500 milliémes with crowned Farouk insignia, issued at Cairo / Inland Cash office, where 2m tax paid in General Revenues. Apparently not cashed - receiver’ s name not completed | £24.00 |
| | Postcards | |
| 502 | 13 SE 15, Tourist postcard showing Alexandria railway station, sent from Attarine/Alexandria via Alexandria/H to Bournemouth | £8.00 |
| 503 | 1918, Original printed sepia photograph, postcard size, showing Port Said street car garage terminal. Most unusual, mint | £10.00 |
| 504 | 1927, unused embossed card by Walter Erhard of Wurttemberg showing all the coins current in Palestine at the time. Excellent condition, all corners bent slightly. Scarce card | £30.00 |
| 505 | 15.6.73, maximum card showing Saqqara Step Pyramid of Djoser, franked with 1 mill Saqqara Pyramid definitive (SG 1131a) and cancelled with First-Day CDS. Clean and unused | £10.00 |
| | Sudan postal history | |
| 506 | 25 JU 99, three-view b-w card - Khaifah, Mahdi’ s grave, and Omdurman - published by the Press Association in London, franked 2x1mill Camel Post stamps and sent from Souakin to Switzerland. On arrival in Suez, boxed T applied and later crossed through. Umstein transit and Langenbuhl arrival marks. Excellent clean condition | £24.00 |
| 507 | 2 OC 51, Leo Meyer ornate printed envelope (Roman statue of the Nile river god), franked with 3½ and 4½ PT Sudan Air Mail stamps for registration, cancelled White Nile TPO No 2 for Miami via Khartoum, and New York (reverse) | £14.00 |
| | Egyptian military | |
| 508 | 1949-1966, lot of four small envelopes, all Army connected, showing military and military censor markings | £10.00 |
| | Rural Post | |
| 509 | 24 IX 02, Official receipt for registered article or Avis de Reception, to do with a registered item, sent from Caire / R and returned with authentication of Service Rural / Abou Hommos CDS (Murphy p.53) | £35.00 |
| 510 | 3 XI 07, Official form as last, sent from Cairo / R and returned with authentication of Service Rural / Batanoun CDS (Murphy p.54). In transit (behind), CDS of Ashmun-Tanta and Alexandria-Cairo TPOs (Smith 5A3) | £45.00 |
| 511 | 15 VI 15, 2 mills Cleopatra p.s. postcard (NP SPC 20) sent from village Nawai (cartouche) via Service Rural / Roda to Qubba Bridge (Cairo Station transit behind, CDS on face), and redirected to Godaieda (arrival 17/VI behind). Clean and neat | £77.00 |
| 512 | 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 | £65.00 |
| 513 | 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 | £38.00 |
| 514 | 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 | £65.00 |
| 515 | 30 DE 26, government form sent from Mansura to Fariskur via Mansura-Dumiat & V.V. TPO (Type 6A2) and Fariskur finally to Rural Service Dumiat-Izbit el Borg (Murphy p.89). Sealed with Government label and Ministry of Education official oval | £42.00 |
| 516 | 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) | £12.00 |
| 517 | 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 | £45.00 |
| | Official mail | |
| 518 | 25 AI 98, small green cover Arabic-addressed from Guerga to Hawamdiya via Wasta (transit behind). Unfranked, but cancelled with TPO lone Guerga-Caire CDS (Type 8A8) | £26.00 |
| 519 | 20 V 06, Daira Sanieh (the khedivial estates) printed envelope franked 2x1pi DLR (SG 54) and sent from Cairo / Recommande to Fashn near Minya. Addressee not found and returned via trilingual auxiliary boxed marking Unclaimed (on reverse). Clean unusual cover | £34.00 |
| | December tax | |
| 520 | 22.12.74, Arabic-printed cover sent from Postal Agency Soliman Pasha in Cairo to Abdeen, franked with 55m plus extra 1 milliéme stamp to pay for medical resources. This extra tax charged on all letters sent in December | £8.00 |
| | Postal stationery - used | |
| 521 | 9 III 04, 5 mills p.s envelope (NP SEN6) uprated with pleasing colour combination of 2,3m DLR (SG 59,61), all cancelled with Alexandria / Station CDS for Zurich (arrival behind) | £12.00 |
| 522 | 19 MA 24, 5 mills postal stationery letter sheet (wmk Egyptian Postage, NP SLS9) uprated with 2x5m First Fuad plus 10m Crown overprint (SG 103) for postage and registration within Asyut. Full Arabic letter enclosed | £38.00 |
| 523 | 1936, 5m embossed Fuad envelope (NP SEN 28) uprated with 20 mill Fuad stamp for registration and AR and sent from Hadaiq el Qubba (Qubba Gardens) 24 IC 36 (Reg cachet alongside) to Mohammed Eshmawy Bey in the Ministry of Education. Two Cairo Reg markings behind. Neat and clean | £38.00 |
| | TPO | |
| 524 | 12 XI 03, b-w postcard Pyramides et palmiers, franked 2m DLR for Ramleh and sent from Cairo via Caire-Alexandrie TPO with crescent and star (Type 2A3.1). Unusual clean | £14.00 |
| 525 | 13 VIII 05, colour card marked Imprimes but with long note(!), franked 4x1m DLR for Station Bulkeley from Damiette. Neat TPO cancel Damiette-Tanta / Ambulant with star/crescent (Type 2A3.1) plus Bulkeley arrival | £14.00 |
| 526 | 10 VIII 14, small cover, franked 5m DLR pictorial, from Godaieda to Qubba Bridge, with two TPO lines (behind ) - Cairo-Mansura Type 7A4 and Banha-Ismailia (Type 5A3) | £18.00 |
| 527 | 7 MR 18, official letter from Qena Finance administration to Banha, unfranked (Government official oval and white on black label), with two TPOs - Cairo-Asyut Type 7A3 and Cairo-Alexandria Type 5A2), together with excellent early Banha Station cds | £10.00 |
| 528 | 6 JU 40, printed business envelope franked 5m Boy King and sent from Rashid to Kherbeta. Markings behind include two TPO, unrecorded Tod-Wafaieh (faint, 7 JU) and Type 5A2.5 Alexandria-Cairo (6. JU), with transit marks of El Tod and Kom Hamada | £38.00 |
| 529 | 27 NO 40, well-travelled cover cancelled with unusual Saayra TPO type for Ityai el Baroud-Shabrakhit & V.V. (with no TPO indication in European language). Franked 4x5m Boy King plus 1m to make up postage and registration rate of 21m. Addressed to Alexandria. Cover not best, but a rare CDS | £80.00 |
| 530 | 1 AU 41, small printed cover (flap) franked 6m Boy King from Abu Kibir to Alexandria and redirected to Cairo. Stamp cancelled TPO Abu Kibir-Salhia (Type 7A3.4). Alex arrival behind | £12.00 |
