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Egypt Study Circle Auction No 53 - on Novermber 12, 2014 Members Only |
| Postcards | |||
| 1 | B/w photo-postcard of the Marseille-Alexandria Egyptian mailboat SS Heliopolis (Lehnert & Landrock), formerly the Royal George, built in Glasgow 1907. Addressed to England with a brief message "This is my little steamer 13000 tons" Sent from Naples 1911(?), with stamp removed  | £15.00 | |
| 2 | 1905, b/w postcard showing man cycling past the spectacular Khedive´s Villa at Kasr el Nil (now sadly no longer with us). Franked with 2x1m DLR cancelled Caire 28 XI 05 for Paris  | £8.00 | |
| 3 | B/w photo-postcard labelled "Public Heath Department Hospital, Giza, Egypt" showing tents, men in uniform and trees, embossed L in laurel wreath at lower left. Bilingual printing on reverse but mint. Handwritten notation WWI 1917  | £8.00 | |
| 4 | As last, cheery-looking driver of Red Cross ambulance set within wide black border. Basic French print info behind, with handwritten "WWI Egypt 1917 Suez Canal". Mint, unusual  | £8.00 | |
| 5 | 1910, Comptoir Philatelique b/w photo-postcard of Bedrechein railway station, photo by Khardiache, mint  | £20.00 | |
| 6 | 1919, Sinai - b/w photocard published by CM of Cairo, showing a "village near Deir el-Belah, Palestine" (now Gaza Strip). Unposted, but pencil message speaks of "our new railway" and the Egyptian policeman guarding it  | £10.00 | |
| Re-drawn stamps | |||
| 7 | Remarkable copy of Fuad 1927-37 500 mills stamp (SG169), drawn and painted by hand in the 1970s, 174x100mm. Simply beautiful  | £16.00 | |
| 8 | As last, the Fuad L.E 1 stamp (SG 172). Quite remarkable reproduction  | £16.00 | |
| Postal stationery | |||
| 9 | 1889 1m wrapper (NP 1, Magdi 1), uprated with First Fuad 2m for postage to Switzerland from Alexandria. Late usage: 20 FE 27  | £20.00 | |
| 10 | 1888-1902 1m visiting card envelope (NP 4, Magdi 6), uprated with 4+5m DLR stamps for posting from Muharrem Bey 27 IV 08 to Germany. Opened to show clear mirror print of the vignette on the interior of the envelope  | £8.00 | |
| 11 | 1915, 2m provisional surcharge on 1m envelope (NP 18, Magdi 25), with clear breaks in both figure 2 and letter M of the surcharge. Neatly used from Alexandria to Cairo 22 IV 15  | £12.00 | |
| 12 | 1926, 10m red De La Rue Colossi Reg ps envelope (NP SRE3, Magdi R3), uprated with 4m and 20m First Fuad definitives for Hamburg and cancelled Shepheards Hotel Cairo / Cash (Type HS9) of 1 XII 26 with Reg cachet alongside. Cairo transit, Hamburg arrival, excellent condition  | £28.00 | |
| 13 | 1930, 3m Ras el Tin postcard with revised text (NP 30, Magdi 33), Arabic addressed and cancelled with excellent strike of Mit Abu Khaled CDS 25 DE 31. Part-strike of Min el Qamh-Sahragt / &VV (TPO Type 7A3, eight years later than recorded). Pinholes, but rare card and good markings  | £24.00 | |
| 14 | 1930 5m brown embossed Letter Sheet (NP10, Magdi 11), uprated with 1+3+20m Second Fuad stamps for Air Mail to France. Arrival markings behind. Full message inside. Roughly opened but striking  | £24.00 | |
| 15 | 1937 Fuad 15m embossed Reg Letter Envelope (NP SRE 7), uprated with 3m+30m of 1933 Air Mail set, addressed to Isle of Wight and cancelled at Simon Arzt store in Port Said with three excellent strikes of 4 AP 37 and Arzt Reg cachet alongside. Alex transit behind, perfect condition  | £80.00 | |
| 16 | 1938 15m red-violet Boy King Registered Letter envelope (NP 8. Magdi 8), with frame around vignette. Pristine mint  | £120.00 | |
| 17 | 1938 20m blue Boy King Registered Letter envelope (NP 9, Magdi 9), with frame around vignette. Pristine mint  | £160.00 | |
| 18 | 1938, as last, but uprated with 4+6m Boy King stamps and used, with mute Reg label, from clear Delivery/Mansura CDS of 11 SE 43. Apparently undelivered, excellent condition  | £70.00 | |
| 19 | 1940 20m blue Boy King Registered Letter envelope (NP11, Magdi 11 - cat $400 and $500) - without frame around vignette. Slight gum marks, but excellent condition mint  | £240.00 | |
| 20 | 1949, Farouk 25m Air Letter Sheet (NP 4, Magdi 4), uprated with 3m Boy King and pair of 4m Marechal for postage from Alexandria 18 AU 49 to New York. Censor mark alongside.  | £12.00 | |
| Illustrated envelope | |||
| 21 | 22 AU 21, printed envelope of famous Cairo Jewish jeweller Maison Beinisch (ornate oval design on flap), franked 5m Pictorial for En Ville postage with red intaglio (?) at top right  | £22.00 | |
| 22 | 1923, printed envelope of Hardmuth ´Koh-i-Noor´ pencil company, represented in Cairo by M Rothschild & Co, franked 2m for printed matter and addressed in Arabic to Ibyar. Arrival CDS behind. Striking  | £12.00 | |
| Star and crescent postmark | |||
| 23 | Interpostal of Chibin-El-Kom (Type VII Die B) with 60% clear strike of the rare dateless circular handstamp reading Poste Vice-Realie Egiziane / Scerbin-el-Kom surrounding a large star and crescent. Unusual  | £38.00 | |
| Postal history | |||
| 24 | 14 JU 89, mourning cover addressed to Director of Khedivial Packet-Boats in Alex with beautiful clear cds of Alexandrie / Minet-el-Bassal . star and crescent, franking 1pi and 5 mills DLRs. Latter has apparently unrecorded frameline flaw below Y and P of Egyptiennes. Spectacular cover  | £38.00 | |
| 25 | 16 VI 02, French printed b/w postcard of the Citadel addressed to France, franked 2m DLR with clear Assouan / Reservoir CDS, with clear AMB Beni Souef / Cairo (Type 3B2) transit and Clamart / Seine arrival  | £14.00 | |
| 26 | 1909, b/w postcard showing the three Pyramids, addressed to UK and franked 4m DLR, cancelled with unusual Ahram ("meaning Pyramids")CDS of 13 XII 09 (in use for only 12 months). Postmark maxi-card!  | £8.00 | |
| 27 | 1911, much travelled cover (opened out for display), sent first from US (2c stamp) to London, marked "Please forward", given £1/2d GB stamp (covering original CDS) and redirected to Cooks in Cairo, and then again to Luxor, receiving various CDS including Winter Palace and TPOs. Eventually opened and returned to UK sender with large violet oval saying Not Called For - Returned / Brown Shipley Co of Pall Mall / who have paid all necessary extra postage. Eventually back in US with extraordinary handwritten note: Not for Mrs Stanton of Pasadena.. Quite remarkable  | £66.00 | |
| 28 | 4 III 18, 5m postal stationery envelope (NP 16, Magdi 23, uprated with 5m Pictorial, and sent from Apostolic Assembly, Alexandria, to Missouri from Asyut via Cairo. Green rectangular Passed Censor marking. Covered with red handstamp religious slogans. Unusual  | £15.00 | |
| 29 | 6 DEC 22, 1m stationery newspaper wrapper (NP 1, Magdi 1), uprated with 3m Pictorial for postage to New York, and comprehensively cancelled by Cairo straight-line machine roller. Wonderful!  | £20.00 | |
| 30 | 4 IV 24, small envelope franked 15m Crown overprint (NP 84I, Magdi 84II) for Registration within Cairo from Cooks Office / Cairo (Type HTC9), with Cooks Registration cachet alongside. Fold at right just touches stamp perfs  | £20.00 | |
| 31 | 25 JU 29, small envelope of the College des Freres, Khoronfish, addressed to Rome (and redirected), franked with 1m Crown overprint, 2x2m on 3m provisionals (SG 81) of 1915, and 10m First Fuad. Cancelled Bacos / T. Alex, Rome and French marks on reverse. Unusual and neat  | £48.00 | |
| 32 | 1929-35, three covers used from Marsa Matruh, all with the same CDS: two OHEMS to Suez unfranked with large official handstamp , the third from the Lido Hotel (flap) to Wasta franked 4x5m for Express  | £15.00 | |
| 33 | 23 MA 35, small envelope franked with 5+20m Pictorials and 2 on 3m provisional surcharge (SG88), with Air Mail sticker for Baghdad from Alexandria. Baghdad Delivery and Sorti postmarks same day on the reverse, together with bilingual Non Reclame and Retour a l´Envoyeur - and Alex arrival mark on May 30. Returned in seven days. Clean, neat  | £240.00 | |
| 34 | 1946 6m Marechal stationery card (NP 41, Magdi 44) with pair of 13m Marechal Bars stuck over the vignette to pay Registered postage En Ville by a tenant giving notice of leaving his apartment. CDS Bab el Luq 24 MR 54  | £32.00 | |
| Egypt Soldiers´ letters | |||
| 35 | 13 7 64, Egypt-Yemen war, printed postage-free military letter form sent from Yemen with hexagonal military battalion and censor mark on face, backstamps include a clear Tinub arrival only three days later. Form misused, sealed but containing letter written in a separate sheet. Unusual  | £12.00 | |
| 36 | 11 7 64, as last but no censor mark. Tinub on reverse with Poste National / Mit el Keram. Properly used: message written on the sheet  | £12.00 | |
| 37 | 11 8 64, as last two, with censor mark, Mit el Keram mark, Tinub Aug 22. Letter contained inside  | £12.00 | |
| 38 | 29 4 64, similar to last, but printed vignette 25mm dm instead of 30mm, same battalion identifier (43) but different unit number (7011 instead of 8259), and illegible Rural Service marking behind. Letter written on sheet  | £12.00 | |
| Iraq-Kuwait war 1990 | |||
| 39 | Three registered covers (all window type) addressed to Kuwait City from Dessouk in Egypt. All were blocked in Kuwait on arrival during the Iraqi invasion and returned with boxed handstamps in Arabic reading: Return to Sender on account of current situation between Kuwait and Iraq". Most unusual  | £20.00 | |
| Zeppelin covers | |||
| 40 | 9 AP 31, clean cover to Sicily properly franked with right marginal 100m on 27m Air Mail with Alexandria Zeppelin CDS. On reverse, Cairo Arrival 10/4, Friedrichshafen 13/4, Catania 15/4 (not clear). Clean cover  | £64.00 | |
| 41 | 9 AP 31, mourning cover properly franked with 100m on 27m Air Mail with Alexandria Zeppelin CDS. Addressed to Athens with large red VIA BERLIN. Cairo Arrival 10 AP 31 behind, together with Friedrichshafen arrival 13.4 and finally Athens arrival 16.4. Sl vertical fold away from stamps, otherwise clean and neat  | £66.00 | |
| Instructional markings | |||
| 42 | 1926, three Registered covers with First Fuad stamps - from Ghuria, Imbaba and El-Khoronfish - all refused or undeliverable, and with a total of five Instructional markings between them  | £12.00 | |
| 43 | 1949-2012, mixed lot of 21 covers and postcards, all cancelled with a range of instructional markings or labels, including the tick-box handstamps in which the postman indicates the reason for non-delivery. Wide range  | £32.00 | |
| Egypt Official mail | |||
| 44 | 29 III 07, small brown cover Arabic-addressed to Cairo (arrival behind) and franked with single and block of four of 1m DLR with 1907 bilingual OHHS overprint (SG O 73) and cancelled clear Zagazig CDS  | £74.00 | |
| 45 | 8 IV 07, small grey covered Arabic addressed to Cairo (arrival behind), franked 5m rose DLR with 1907 bilingual OHHS overprint (SG O 76) and cancelled clear Zagazig CDS. Clean and neat  | £35.00 | |
| 46 | 1911, large (27x14.5cm) plain buff envelope Arabic-addressed to Cairo, franked with 1907 bilingual O.H.H.S. 5 mills overprint stamp (SG 076) and No-Value Official (SG O64) from Tanta / R 14 XII 11. Indistinct Cairo and Cairo SG marks with couple of rust spots behind  | £20.00 | |
| Egypt Official mail, Rural destination | |||
| 47 | 1914, large (25x13cm) bilingual OHHS buff envelope Arabic-addressed, franked with faint green Mudiria Assiut oval stamp, marginal pair of 3 mills 1907 bilingual OHHS overprint (SG O75) and No-Value Official (SG O64), cancelled Assiut 29 IX 14. Behind is clear Manfalut arrival same day and numeral-type Service Rural / 1 / Manfalout 30 IX 14 (Rural Post p.57, recorded only 1895-97) Spectacular  | £130.00 | |
| 48 | 1914, largely as the last, but Official stamp is the 1913 5m OHHS overprint (SG O80, slight crease) and reverse markings a little less clear. Nevertheless a remarkable clean cover  | £120.00 | |
| Sudan official mail | |||
| 49 | 20 JAN 17, folded form franked with 5m Camel Post stamp perfinned AS (for use within Egyptian Army units) and sealed with white-on-black Egyptian Government label, sent from Omdurman to El-Fasher via Khartoum  | £16.00 | |
| Hotel and Commercial interest | |||
| 50 | 1905, fine small cover printed for Cook´s / Nile Steamboat Service with b/w vignette, addressed to Germany and franked with vertical pair of 5m DLR cancelled Luxor Hotel. Lower stamp has apparently unrecorded flaw on loop of P of Postes  | £68.00 | |
| 51 | 1914, Richter & Co colour postcard of Savoy Hotel, Alexandrie, franked at right with par of 2m DLR for Paris cancelled Alexandrie /D. Nice card  | £8.00 | |
| 52 | 1915-1932, mini collection of four used pieces of printed hotel stationery: letter on Casino Palace (Port Said) notepaper 19025; letter on Victoria Hotel printed notepaper 1928; two invoices from Bristol Hotel, Cairo (1932)  | £8.00 | |
| 53 | 29 MR 37, plain envelope franked 10m Second Fuad plus 6+8+9m 1933 Air Mail stamps for air to Germany. Good strikes of Winter Palace HW5 CDS (recorded 1926-54), Cairo transit behind  | £16.00 | |
| 54 | 18 NO 37, Continental-Savoy printed cover addressed to London and franked 20m Capitulations commemorative and 8m 1933 Air Mail. Good strike of HC7 (recorded 1933-53). No backstamp  | £16.00 | |
| Revenues etc | |||
| 55 | 1927, Two-page certificate issued in Constantinople, taxes paid by total of eight Turkish revenues (seven different, two surcharged/overprinted) and four 100 mills Fuad Consular Service stamps (Feltus 407, p.45) cancelled with cachet of Royal Egyptian Consulate in Constantinople. Striking  | £30.00 | |
| 56 | 21 July 1953, remarkable late use of Russian Office stamps, pair of 5m on small Ministry of Interior headed notepaper document verifying that passport applicant had arrived in Egypt in 1912 and had been registered with the Russian Bureau since 1926. Cancelled with large Russian Registration Office violet handstamp  | £74.00 | |
| 57 | 1966, Arab Socialist Union revenue stamps, second issue (Feltus 599, page 73), full sheet of 30 (6x5) of the 240 mills value, se-tenant in pairs of olive and purple, with printing date of 24 IV 68 (one day after Feltus´ earliest recorded). Mint, unusual (half sheet illustrated)  | £20.00 | |
| 58 | 1968, all-Arabic Savings Bank booklet card, issued in Heliopolis and containing three stuck-in examples of the 1963 first issue savings bank revenue stamps (20 mills green, Feltus S73a, page 71)  | £15.00 | |
| 59 | 1970-75, Iraqi International Vaccination Certificate booklet of 12 pages for Mona Saber Selim, complete with total of 11 Iraqi or Egyptian revenue stamps properly used inside, plus Iraq Red Crescent Society fund-raising label on face. Most unusual  | £10.00 | |
| 60 | 1973-2010, Syndicate of Commercial Professionals (Feltus page 80), 17 different stamps, all used, ranging in face value from 10m to £E10 in four sizes. Most unrecorded, very unusual  | £10.00 | |
| 61 | 1975-2000, Syndicate of Applied Arts Professionals (Feltus page 76), eight used stamps in shades of green and brown, ranging in face value from 50 mills to £E1, some of them unrecorded  | £10.00 | |
| Stamp varieties | |||
| 62 | 1957, Egypt 10mills definitive (head of Rameses II) (NP D242) in block of 4x2, with lower half of lower row printed in gummed reverse. UMM, unusual  | £10.00 | |
| 63 | 1959-60, UAR 10 mills (head of Ramesses II) (NP D 258), misperforate, unmounted mint  | £20.00 | |
| 64 | 1961, UAR 4 mills old lamp (NP D 272), perforation spectacularly shifted so value is at the top, unmounted mint  | £20.00 | |
| 65 | 1994 Officials, £E1 value (NP O 126) in upper marginal block of four woefully misperfed so that EGYPT appears in selvedge. UMM, spectacular  | £8.00 | |
| 66 | 2012, £E3 issue marking Anniversary of Nasser´s July Revolution, spectacular double printing variety, UMM  | £8.00 | |
| 67 | 2013, Tourism & Water issue, £E3 stamp spectacularly misperfed so that value appears in centre, only one sheet affected. UNM, with normal for comparison  | £15.00 | |
| 68 | 2014, August 5, FDC of an astonishing faux pas - centre stamp of se-tenant strip of three issued to mark building of a parallel section of Suez Canal in fact illustrates the Panama Canal£. Stamps immediately withdrawn and replaced - how many of 7,5000 FDCs produced survived withdrawal! Amazing error.  | £60.00 | |
| Postage Dues on cover | |||
| 69 | 1927, incoming cover to a judge in Alexandria from France, franked 50c with boxed T alongside and T25 manuscript below. Vertical pair of 1921 10mill Dues applied on arrival  | £24.00 | |
| 70 | 1927, same addressee as last, but franked with 2x50c in France. No boxed T, but T25 manuscript below. A single 10 mills Due applied on arrival with Alexandria . Foreign Traffic CDS  | £20.00 | |
| 71 | 1937, b/w photopostcard of Alexandrie - Queen Nazli Avenue, franked 2x5m Boy King and 5m Fuad for France, where redirected and 30 centimes French due applied on arrival  | £8.00 | |
| 72 | 1956-58, three covers written in pencil and sent unfranked under bareed harby "soldiers´ mail) system but posted in civilian letter boxes and so received Dues on arrival: control pair of 8m with Cairo /TD (2) cds in blue; strip of 5x4m Due with Hurin and Qubba Bridge cds; and block of 5x2 of 2m Due with Cairo Station, Hurin and Cairo machine markings  | £24.00 | |
| 73 | 1960, small envelope, slightly cut down at right, franked (behind) with 5m UAR definitive and addressed en ville to Qabbari. Pencil T on face, and taxed on arrival with 4m and 6m Dues of the 1927-56 issue (SG D175,178)  | £10.00 | |
| Cassette covers | |||
| 74 | Group of five cassette covers (£E1 plus 4 x £E2.5), overprinted as cancelled for official use (after original usage had died out), but all registered and then returned to sender bearing different "return" cachets. Interesting  | £20.00 | |
| 75 | Essay? Strip of envelope paper 24x6.5cm printed both sides with elements of cassette envelopes (£E1 and £E25)  | £10.00 | |
| Judaica | |||
| 76 | 1915, Edition Egyptienne colour postcard of Alexandrie - Temple Israelite with pencil message to Groningen, unfranked, with military address in place of stamp. Most unusual  | £30.00 | |
| TPO markings | |||
| 77 | 1905, b/w postcard, Savoy Hotel a Assouan, addressed to France, franked with vertical pair of 2m DLR cancelled with TPO local CDS Challal-Louxor / Ambt 1 II 05(Type 3A1b)  | £10.00 | |
| 78 | 1922, cover Arabic-addressed to Qallin franked with Harrison pictorial 5 mills pink cancelled with clear TPO CDS Kafr el Sheikh-Sidi Salem (Type 7A3). On reverse, faint Kafr el Sheikh, Qallin and unrecorded TPO Biala-Qallin 27 JL 22 T66 (Type 7A3)  | £15.00 | |
| Royal household | |||
| 79 | 1926-38, four items of correspondence concerning Ihsan Bey Effendi, Grand Master of Ceremonies to King Fuad, being incoming covers from Turkey to Ras el Tin and Abdin palaces, an Air Mail registration receipt from Ras el Tin and a parcel card from Muntazah palace to Istanbul  | £15.00 | |
| Maritime interest | |||
| 80 | 1908, letter written in Arabic on headed folded notepaper of the SS Cairo (Egyptian Mail Steamship Company) on the way to Naples  | £8.00 | |
| 81 | 1936, All-Arabic printed list of passengers on board the SS El Nil, July 16, sailing from Alexandria to Genoa and Marseilles.  | £8.00 | |
| 82 | 1937, As last, bilingual English/Arabic list for El Nil´s Alex-Genoa-Marseilles journey of September 1  | £8.00 | |
| 83 | 1938, Bilingual printed First-Class Menu for El Nil, June 30  | £8.00 | |
| 84 | 1939, Bilingual printed list of passengers aboard the SS Kawsar sailing from Marseilles-Genoa-Alexandria September 7, headed by SE Ismail Sidky Pacha and SE Abdel Kader Hamza Pacha  | £8.00 | |
| 85 | 1939, Arabic printed menu for the SS Rod el-Farag (in SS El-Nil cover) on April 13  | £8.00 | |
| 86 | 1939, All-English printed passenger list for Pharaonic Mail Line´s Khedive Ismail, sailing Alex-Marseilles on April 13  | £8.00 | |
| 87 | 1949, Khedivial Mail Line, unused bilingual generic b/w photocard of the Khedive Ismail and the Mohamed Aly el Kebir, together with three handwritten pages in Greek on notepaper of the latter vessel  | £8.00 | |
| 88 | 1949. Khedivial Mail Line, unused bilingual b/w photocard of the SS El Malek Fouad, together with two printed receipts used on board  | £8.00 | |
| 89 | 1961, b/w mint photocard of the United Arab Maritime Co´s El Gazayer, together with infinitely detailed deck-by-deck plan 34x34cm) of the vessel´s accommodation provided by the shipping line  | £18.00 | |
| Military memorabilia | |||
| 90 | March 2, 1940, printed Menu and Toast List of the Pharaoh´s Club President, A N Baligh) XIX annual dinner at the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, attended by Egyptian Ambassador  | £8.00 | |
| Resealing labels | |||
| 91 | 1906, printed "Found Open and Officially Sealed" labels, Type I, block of four, unmounted mint  | £10.00 | |
| Rural Post | |||
| 92 | 5 X 05, Service Rural / 2 in shield / Tala (Type X240.304, p.60, 18 months later than recorded) on photocard of Palm forest during inundation of the Nile, addressed to England. Tala town CDS alongside, with Alex transit  | £20.00 | |
| 93 | 16 JAN 22, Rural Service / Tala - Kafr el Arab el Bahari (Type Y200.106, p.109, three years earlier than recorded) on 5m pictorial on small Arabic envelope addressed to Cairo with village cartouche Kafr Qalashi  | £14.00 | |
| 94 | 13 MR 22, Rural Service / Aba el Waqf - D.Garnus - B.Wellems (Type Y200.101, p.79, in use for only two years) on 5m pictorial on small folded letter to Minia with Shem el Basal village cartouche, Aba el Waqf transit and Minia arrival  | £14.00 | |
| 95 | 9 JL 25, Service Rural / Disunus - Izbit Rafia Bey Tadros (Type 650.201, p.67, one year earlier than recorded), cancelling (on reverse) block of 4x5m First Fuad for Registration to Cairo, with village cartouche of El Ghaba on face and clear Disunis behind  | £14.00 | |
| 96 | 20 JUN 27, rural Service / Minia - Behdal (Type Y100.102, p.98) cancelling 5x5m First Fuad for Registration and AR to Cairo. Village cartouche of Nazlet el Fallahin (unrecorded). Clear Minia / R and Gizira / (Cairo) CDS behind  | £14.00 | |
| Literature: please note that it may be necessary to charge for postage on the following 31 lots | |||
| 97 | L´Orient Philatelique issue 114 (October 1964-January 1965), including Jean Boulad d´Humières studies on Egyptian Hotel Cancels and Egyptian Booklets  | £15.00 | |
| 98 | As last, issue 118 (April-October 1967, including studies of the Interpostal Seals by Ibrahim Chafter Bey, and the First Issue by Dr William Byam  | £15.00 | |
| 99 | As last, issue 120 (July-October 1968), including Egyptian Cancellations by Dr Sava Michel, Specimen "Stamps of Egypt" by Peter A S Smith and Interpostal Seals by Ibrahim Chaftar Bey  | £15.00 | |
| L´Orient Philatélique back copies | |||
| 100 | No 25, July 1935  | £1.00 | |
| 101 | No 40, March 1939  | £1.00 | |
| 102 | No 51, July 1945  | £1.00 | |
| 103 | No 53, January 1946  | £1.00 | |
| 104 | No 70, April 1950  | £1.00 | |
| 105 | No 95, July 1956  | £1.00 | |
| 106 | No 124, Jan-April 1971  | £1.00 | |
| 107 | No 125, April 1972  | £1.00 | |
| 108 | No 126, January 1973  | £1.00 | |
| 109 | No 127, October 1973  | £1.00 | |
| 110 | No 128, October 1974  | £1.00 | |
| 111 | No135, July 2004  | £1.00 | |
| 112 | No 140, July 2008  | £1.00 | |
| 113 | No 141, February 2009  | £1.00 | |
| Quarterly Circular back copies | |||
| 114 | No 119, September 1981 | £1.00 | |
| 115 | No 172, March 1995 | £1.00 | |
| 116 | No 180, March 1997 | £1.00 | |
| 117 | No 182, September 1997 | £1.00 | |
| 118 | No 184, March 1998 | £1.00 | |
| 119 | No 188, March 1999 | £1.00 | |
| 120 | No 190, September 1999 | £1.00 | |
| 121 | No 196, March 2001 | £1.00 | |
| 122 | No 213, June 2005 | £1.00 | |
| 123 | No 214, September 2005 | £1.00 | |
| 124 | No 232, March 2010 | £1.00 | |
| 125 | No 240, March 2012 | £1.00 | |
| 126 | No 241, June 2012 | £1.00 | |
| Egypt presentation album | |||
| 127 | Arab Republic of Egypt Post Office presentation album for UPU Congress in Lausanne 1974, containing 1970-74 stamps including high-value 1972 definitives (SG £50); Aswan Dam ms (£17) and Tutankhamun set and MS (£83). Strong stockbook with 12 pages, containing 150 mint NH stamps and six miniature sheets | £35.00 | |
| Postal stationery | |||
| 128 | 1953, Reg Env stationery with 35m violet mosque stamp affixed over1945 Reg Env and 30m Farouk vignette obliterated with handstamp "X". Pristine mint condition. NP (SRE 14) and Magdy (R14) report only a few examples. Cat $300  | £200.00 | |
| Controversial Mobinil stamp | |||
| 129 | December 2010, £E1 ´commercial´ stamp: 100,000 printed by Post Office and all given to Mobinil, none sold to public (see QC 246). Issued to mark 30 million subscribers for Mobinil - but target was not reached in time, and Mobinil seem to have used them all locally or for VIP FDCs. Here a complete sheet of 50 (too big to scan) in near-pristine condition with printing date December16 2010. Rare  | £300.00 | |
| First Day / souvenir covers | |||
| 130 | 6 V 94, Alexandrie Exposition perfect strike of handstamp on 3 mills maroon DLR (SG 60) on pristine plain cover  | £15.00 | |
| 131 | 1 MR 26 (day of issue), three low values of Exposition Agricole & Industrielle set (SG 126-128) on exhibition printed cover with exhibition CDS  | £5.00 | |
| 132 | 4 JA 28, Statistical Congress set (SG 173-75, issued Dec 29) on plain cover with congress CDS, fold away from stamps  | £3.00 | |
| 133 | 11 FE 29 (day of issue), Prince Farouk´s birthday (SG 178-81) on commercial cover registered from Cairo / RD 18 to Port Said  | £5.00 | |
| 134 | 20 FE 31, Agriculture/Industry exhibition set (SG 182-84, issued Feb 15) on plain cover with exhibition CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 135 | 1 FE 34 (day of issue) four low values of UPU set (SG219-22) on printed cover, sent to Alex with congress CDS  | £5.00 | |
| 136 | 6 MR FE 34 (date of issue), ten low values of UPU set (SG 219-28, issued Feb 1) on printed cover of Heliopolis House Hotel (reverse) with congress handstamp  | £10.00 | |
| 137 | 29 JL 37 (day of issue), full original set of Boy King definitives (SG 248-58, less 6m and 20m grey), on registered cover to UK with Cairo / R.D. (17) CDS  | £6.00 | |
| 138 | 4 AUG 37, 4m Boy King (SG 253) used alone on illustrated cover via Cairo machine cancel to UK  | £1.00 | |
| 139 | 15 OC 37 (day of issue), Abolition of Capitulations set (SG 259-61) on plain pre-prepared registered cover with A / Cairo CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 140 | 15 OC 37 (day of issue), Abolition of Capitulations set (SG 259-61) on plain registered cover sent to England with Cash / El Amir Farouk CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 141 | 15 OC 37 (day of issue), Abolition of Capitulations set (SG 259-61) on illustrated cover (the Awakening of Egypt statue) used en ville from Ezbet el Zeitoun CDS  | £5.00 | |
| 142 | 8 DE 37 (day of issue), Ophthalmological Congress set of three (SG 262-64) on illustrated cover (Imhotep) with congress CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 143 | 8 DE 37 (day of issue), Ophthalmological Congress set of three (SG 262-64) with added 5m and a 3m Air to cover registration to UK from Choubra Gardens CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 144 | 20 JA 38 (day of issue), Royal wedding 5m (SG 265) on illustrated cover showing happy couple, with Cairo / V CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 145 | 20 JA 38 (day of issue), Royal wedding 5m (SG 265) on illustrated cover showing Boy King portrait, sent to Ismailia from Alexandria CDS  | £5.00 | |
| 146 | 26 JA 38 (day of issue), Cotton congress set of three (SG 266-68) on plain cover sent to UK with congress CDS and registration cachet  | £4.00 | |
| 147 | 26 JA 38 (day of issue), Cotton congress set of three (SG 266-68) on plain cover sent to Abbassia with congress CDS and registration cachet  | £4.00 | |
| 148 | 1 FE 38 (day of issue), Telecoms Conference set (SG 269-71) on printed conference sheet with conference CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 149 | 1 FE 38 (day of issue), Telecoms Conf set (SG 269-71) on plain envelope sent to UK with Hadaiq el Qubba CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 150 | 21 MA 38 (day of issue), Leprosy Congress set of three (SG 273-75) on plan small cover with large (32mm) Congress CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 151 | 21 MA 38 (day of issue), Leprosy Congress set of three (SG 273-75) on congress printed cover registered to UK with 2 / Cairo CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 152 | 21 MA 38 (day of issue), Leprosy Congress set of three (SG 273-75) on congress printed cover registered to UK with small (27mm) congress CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 153 | 21 MA 38 (day of issue), Leprosy Congress set of three (SG 273-75) on congress printed cover with large (32mm) congress CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 154 | 17 MA 40 (day of issue), Princess Ferial (SG 284) on plain cover sent to Cairo from 2 / Cairo CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 155 | 28 DE 43, Princess Ferial overprint to mark fifth birthday (issued Nov 17) on plain cover with Alexandria CDS  | £3.00 | |
| 156 | 28 FE 46 (day of issue), set of four of Stamp Anniversary issue (SG 307-10) on illustrated exhibition cover, sent to UK with exhibition CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 157 | 28 FE 46 (day of issue), set of four of Stamp Anniversary issue (SG 307-10) on printed exhibition cover, with R / Sidi Gaber CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 158 | 9 MR 47 (day of issue), set of four of International Arts congress (SG 334-337) on pre-prepared registered cover and sent to Scotland with congress CDS and Registration cachet  | £4.00 | |
| 159 | 1 MR 49 (day of issue), set of five of Agriculture/Industry exhibition (SG 352-56) on plain cover sent to UK from Ismailia / (Caisse 2) CDS in blue  | £4.00 | |
| 160 | 1 MR 49 (day of issue), set of five of Agriculture/Industry exhibition (SG 352-56) on congress illustrated cover with congress CDS  | £5.00 | |
| 161 | 1 MR 49 (day of issue), set of five of Agriculture/Industry exhibition (SG 352-56) on congress illustrated cover with cover date barred out and changed from Feb 15 to March 1. Registered from Alexandria (poor strike) to UK  | £14.00 | |
| 162 | 1 JL 49 (stamps valid March 1 to June 30), complete set of six cutouts from the two miniature sheets (with changed colours) used on air mail registered cover to UK from 1 / Cairo CDS. Black on white mute registration label validated by blue RD / Cairo CDS, censored. Transit mark of RD / Aeroport Farouk in blue behind. Contents remain. Rare  | £35.00 | |
| 163 | 6 MA 52 (day of issue), birth of Ahmed Fuad, single stamp (SG 408) on illustrated cover sent to UK with 2 / Cairo CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 164 | 6 MA 52 (day of issue), birth of Ahmed Fuad, pair of stamps (SG 408) on plain cover suitably cancelled Poste / Rue Fouad 1er (with dateslug inverted)  | £3.00 | |
| 165 | 23 NO 52 (day of issue), set of four marking July 23 revolution (SG 410-13) on illustrated cover sent to UK with 2 / Cairo CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 166 | 23 NO 52 (day of issue), set of four marking July 23 revolution #(SG 410-13) on illustrated cover different from last, 2 / Cairo CDS  | £4.00 | |
| 167 | 23 NO 52 (day of issue), set of four marking July 23 revolution #(SG 410-13) on President Naguib illustrated cover with 2 / Cairo CDS. Cutout front only  | £3.00 | |
| Definitive First Day Covers | |||
| 168 | 1958 Egypt issue: 5m horizontal pair (SG 541, 1.2.58), clean illustrated cover  | £2.00 | |
| 169 | 1959-60 UAR issues: 2m (SG 604, 30.5.60); 30m (SG 611, 29.10.59); 30m+ 55m (SG 615, 29.10.59); 35m (SG 612, 30.4.60); 40m+200m (SG 613,618, 30.11.59); 45m (SG 614, 30.4.60); 100m (SG 617, 21.2.60); 200m (SG 618m 30.11.59). Eight good clean illustrated covers (two designs) | £15.00 | |
| 170 | 1960 UAR overprint on £E1 (SG 634, 22.2.60). Clean cover, not easy to find (Magdy $100)  | £30.00 | |
| 171 | 1964-67 UAR issues: 1,2,3,4,10,15,35m, SG769-772,774-5,779) all on one illustrated FDC with 1.6.64 cancel. Neat  | £4.00 | |
| 172 | 1978-85 Egypt issues: 1,5,10,20,50,55,85,100,200m, SG134-45, 1347-9), all on one illustrated FDC with 23.7.78 cancel. Full set as originally issued  | £7.00 | |
| 173 | 1978-85 Egypt issues: 70m (SG1346), on FD cover with 22.8.79 cancel. Neat  | £3.00 | |
| 174 | 1993 Egypt issues: 5p+15p (SG1864-65, 1.2.93), 15p redrawn (SG1866, 1.11.93); 25p (SG1867, 10.3.93); 55p (SG1868, 1.2.93). Four clean neat covers with complete set  | £5.00 | |
| 175 | 1993 postage: £E1,£E2 (SG1870-71, 1.4.93; £E5 (SG1972, 1.8.93) on two covers. Air: 55p, 80p (SG1873-74, 1.8.93) on another. Three clean covers with high-value stamps  | £8.00 | |
| 176 | 1994 Egypt issues: 5,15,55p (SG1916-17,1919, 20.10.94) on one cover; 25p (SG1918, 25.5.94) on another Two clean neat covers  | £4.00 | |
| 177 | 1997-2007 Egypt Post issues: 5p (SG2020, 21.5.97); 20p (SG2021, 25.8.00); 20p (SG2022, 1.2.97), 25p (SG2023, 23.6.99); 30p (SG2023a, 11.6.01); 75p (SG2030, 25.3.97); £E1 (SG2025, 25.10.97); £E5 (SG2027, 23.3.98). Eight neat clean covers of long set, not checked for wmks | £12.00 | |
| 178 | 1997-2007 Air issues: 75p (SG2030, 25.3.97); £E1 (SG2031, 23.8.97); 125p (SG2032, 25.7.98), three neat clean covers  | £5.00 | |
| 179 | 1991-2001 Official FDCs: 5p (SG O1806, 1.2.93); 15+25p (SG 01808-9, 1.3.98, as Magdy, not as SG); 55p (SG 01812, 1.4.93); £E1+£E2 (SG 01813-14, 22.3.94). Four neat clean covers, unusual to find  | £10.00 | |
| Sudan stamps - The following 26 lots are listed for the first time in the new SG North-East Africa catalogue | |||
| 180 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10PT in black, both normal and INVERTED, VF mint NH, SG 410a  | £50.00 | |
| 181 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue, left upper corner block of four, VF mint NH, SG 410aa  | £60.00 | |
| 182 | 1985, As last but surcharge in blue & INVERTED, Upper marginal block of four, VF mint NH and very rare, SG 410aa variety  | £80.00 | |
| 183 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £5 on 20PT in black. VF mint NH control number 7A corner block of four. Very rare, Michel cat € 1000+. SG 410b  | £90.00 | |
| 184 | 1985, as last but surcharge in black & INVERTED. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four. Very rare, Michel cat € 1000+. SG 410b variety  | £100.00 | |
| 185 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue, VF mint NH control number 8B comer block of four. Very rare, Michel cat € 1000. SG 410ba  | £90.00 | |
| 186 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue & INVERTED. VF mint NH control number 7A corner block of four with the lower two stamps missing surcharge. A beautiful rarity£ SG 410ba variety  | £120.00 | |
| 187 | 1985, as last but surcharge in violet & INVERTED. VF mint NH control number 8B corner block of four. Very very rare, Michel cat € 1000+. SG 410bb variety  | £150.00 | |
| 188 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10PT in black. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four. Rare, Michel cat € 1000, SG 410c  | £90.00 | |
| 189 | 1985 as last but surcharge in black & INVERTED. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four. Very rare, Michel cat € 1000+. SG 410c variety  | £100.00 | |
| 190 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue. VF mint NH control number 9A corner block of four. Rare, Michel cat € 1000, SG 410ca  | £90.00 | |
| 191 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue & INVERTED. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four. Very rare, Michel cat € 1000+. SG 410ca variety  | £100.00 | |
| 192 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £10 on 20PT in black & INVERTED. VF mint NH corner number 8B block of four. Very rare. SG 410d variety  | £120.00 | |
| 193 | 1985, 1962 definitives handstamp-surcharged in Arabic in red (very rare), £5 on 10PT, £5 on 20PT (INVERTED), £10 on 10PT and £10 on 20PT in fine used condition with ´´Khartoum´´ cancel once in English and once in Arabic. SG 410ab, 410bc, 410cb & 410db  | £80.00 | |
| 194 | 1985, 1962 Officials handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10PT in black. VF mint NH control number 3A 2A 2A corner block of four. Rare. SG O410a  | £80.00 | |
| 195 | 1985, as last but surcharge in black & INVERTED. VF mint NH control number 3A 2A corner block of four. Rare, SG O410a variety  | £90.00 | |
| 196 | 1985, 1962 Officials handstamp-surcharged in Arable £5 on 10PT in blue. VF mint NH control number 3A 2A corner block of four, rare. SG O410aa  | £80.00 | |
| 196a | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue & INVERTED. VF mint NH control number 3A 2A corner block of four, rare, SG O410aa variety  | £90.00 | |
| 197 | 1985, as last but surcharge in red (very rare). VF mint NH right lower corner block of four, SG O410ab  | £100.00 | |
| 198 | 1985, 1962 Officials handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £5 on 20PT in blue, normal (VF mint NH right marginal single) and INVERTED (fine used with ´´FASHER´´ cancel), very rare, SG O410ba  | £60.00 | |
| 199 | 1985, 1962 Officials handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10PT in black VF mint NH control number 7A, corner block of four, rare, SG O410c  | £80.00 | |
| 200 | 1985, as last but surcharge in black & INVERTED. VF mint NH control number 3A 2A corner block of four, rare. SG O410c variety  | £90.00 | |
| 201 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue. VF mint NH control number 7A corner block of four, rare SG O410ca  | £80.00 | |
| 202 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue & INVERTED. VF mint NH control number 3A 2A corner block of four, rare. SG O410ca variety  | £90.00 | |
| 203 | l 985, as last but surcharge in red (very rare). VF mint NH right lower corner block of four, SG O410cb  | £100.00 | |
| 204 | 1985, 1962 Officials handstamp-surcharged in Arabic £10 on 20PT in black (normal & INVERTED) and in blue (normal & INVERTED) in fine used condition, very rare, SG O410d & da  | £80.00 | |
| First Day Cover | |||
| 205 | 2004, prestige booklet ´Discover the Treasures of Egypt. Set of 3 beautiful FDCs, one each for high-value booklet stamps (£E5 Sphinx, £E5 Nefertiti & £El0 Tutankhamun mask). No FDC issued for the three panes of nine lower-value stamps  | £18.00 | |
| Sudan stamps | |||
| 206 | 1962, £1Camel postman definitive reprint without wmk. VF mint NH upper marginal block of four | £15.00 | |
| 207 | 1990, £1 Camel postman definitive reprint, rectangles wmk. VF mint NH lower marginal block of 4, SG 469a, cat £68 | £15.00 | |
| 208 | 1948, Officials, VF mint NH complete set of 16 stamps. SG O43-58, cat £110 | £45.00 | |
| 209 | 1962, Officials, set with wmk 61 (rhinoceros), VF mint NH, rare, SG O185-198, cat £85 | £40.00 | |
| 210 | 1962, as last but without wink. VF mint NH | £32.00 | |
| 211 | 1991, Officials, set of 16 stamps, VF mint NH, SG O491-506, cat £100 | £35.00 | |
| 212 | 1993, 1991 definitive set handstamp-surcharged with new currency, dinar, VF mint NH complete of 5 stamps, rare, SG 510-514, cat £69.75 | £32.00 | |
| 213 | 2002, Complete year of 5 sets, VF mint NH, SG 604-618, cat £210 | £50.00 | |
| 214 | 2003, Officials, set of 4 stamps, VF mint NH, SG O623-626, cat £60 | £20.00 | |
| 215 | 2006, 50 Anniversary of Independence, set of 3 stamps and min sheet, VF mint NH, SG 665-667, MS 668, cat £80 | £35.00 | |
| Romanian Steamship company | |||
| 216 | 23 IAN 938, printed lawyer´s envelope addressed to Hotel Zion, Haifa, franked with five Romania stamps totalling 26 lei and sent from Vatra-Dorrnei with boxed Registration cachet. Reverse has a faint Bir.Amb Maritin/Constanta-Alexandria (Type 4) of 30 Jan 1938  | £10.00 | |
| 217 | 14 VII 933, 6 lei printed postal stationery card showing oil wells, addressed to Jerusalem, Palestine, from Bucharest, with clear Type 4 CDS on the face, message but no postal markings behind  | £10.00 | |
| 218 | 19 IX 934, stationery card as last (Croix sur le Caraiman), addressed to Jerusalem, with indistinct origin CDS of 16 SEP, then good Type 4 marking. Message only on reverse  | £10.00 | |
| 219 | -1 VI 932, flimsy postcard (filing holes) of the Romanian Insurance Company Transport Branch, sent to Alexandria to announce despatch of a cargo of wood value £1410 via the SS Dobrogea. Remarkably, franked with a 6 lei stamp with (reversed) perfins SR, machine cancel of Bucuresti Gara du Nord and clear Type 4 CDS on face  | £10.00 | |
| Suez Canal Co stamps | |||
| 220 | 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  | £150.00 | |
| Army of Occupation | |||
| 221 | 12 XII 05, small cover franked DLR 5mills, with return address given as a Rifles regiment, Army of Occupation, sent to Blackburn, Lancs, and then address amended. From Abbassia / (Caire) CDS, with transit marks of Cairo and Blackburn before arrival in Darwen Dec 19; damage at left  | £10.00 | |
| 222 | 27 AO 82, On Active Service cover with most of the reverse lost. Sent unfranked from a Royal Artillery gunner to Ipswich with officer´s signature alongside. CDS Ismailiah with Port Said transit and Ipswich arrival on reverse. 1d "due" handstamp on arrival. British Army post office opened on 26 August 1882 and this shows that soldiers were using the civilian PO after the Army PO opened. Covers from the ranks are scarce but this leaves much to be desired  | £15.00 | |
| Stamps | |||
| 223 | 1867 20pa sewing machine perf vertically both sides (SG 13var, NP D10j var, MB 10var), superb used  | £40.00 | |
| 224 | 1872 20pa, perf 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, one eyed sphinx flaw (SG 30var, D16h, MB 16var), fine used  | £22.00 | |
| 225 | 1872 20pa, perf12 1/2 x 13 1/3, top right frame broken (SG 30var, D16var, MB 16var), very fine used  | £22.00 | |
| 226 | 1872 20pa LITHO, 13 1/3 x 13 1/3, hole in front of PARA (SG 26var, NP D21v var, MB 21var), VFU  | £65.00 | |
| 227 | 1872 1pi LITHO, perf12 1/2 x 13 1/3 (SG 27, NP D22, MB 22), very fine used  | £11.00 | |
| 228 | 1884 20pa on 5pi, inverted surcharge (SG 57a, NP 40a, MB 40b), very fine used  | £14.00 | |
| 229 | 1884 20pa on 5pi, hole in "20" (SG 57var, NP 40var, MB 40var), very fine used  | £16.00 | |
| 230 | 1884 1pi, narrow Crescent and Star watermark, (SG 54 var, NP D43a, MB 43b), very fine used  | £20.00 | |
| 231 | 1906 5m pair, top stamp with white hole of "P" of POSTES (SG 63var, NP D50b, MB 50var), VFU  | £24.00 | |
| 232 | 1914 5m, watermark inverted (SG 77var, NP D57a, MB 57b), very fine used  | £8.00 | |
| 233 | 1922 100m crown overprint, reversed watermark, (SG 108var, NP D89 I c, MB 89 I b), VFU  | £8.00 | |
| 234 | 1923 100m Fouad, reversed watermark, (SG 120 var, NP 100a, MB 100a), fine used  | £8.00 | |
| 235 | 1926 15m on 100m block of four inv wmk (SG 136 var, NP D104b, MB 104b), unmounted mint  | £30.00 | |
| 236 | 1926 15m on 200m block of 4 inc broken "M" and "S" posn 24 (SG 137var, NP D105ee, MB 105c) UM  | £24.00 | |
| 237 | 1926 15m on 200m block of 4 inc dot after "S" at top right (SG 137var, NP D105 var, MB 105 var) UM  | £11.00 | |
| 238 | 1937, 6m Farouk Boy control booklet pane of 12 (SG 253, NP D141, MB 148), mint / unmounted mint  | £20.00 | |
| 239 | 1937 30m, Farouk oblique perforation (SG 277var, NP D148d, MB 155r1), unmounted mint  | £22.00 | |
| 240 | 1953 4m perfs shifted down, "EGYPTE" at bottom, block of four (SG 498 var, NP 239a, MB 260a) UM  | £80.00 | |
| 241 | 1957 Anniversary of Revolution, two values in blocks of four, inv wmk (SG 533 var, 534 var, NP182a-183a, MB 170a-171a), unmounted mint  | £12.00 | |
| 242 | 1957 block of four, inverted watermark, (SG 545-6a var, NP C189b-190b, MB 177-8b), UM  | £8.00 | |
| 243 | 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  | £14.00 | |
| 244 | 1958 10m, corner block of four, watermark sideways to left (SG 560 var, NP C197a, MB 185a), UM  | £22.00 | |
| 245 | 1959 Nefertiti 55m on 100m, misplaced opt, "U" missing, (SG 588var, NP D252b, MB 274b), marginal corner copy UM  | £10.00 | |
| 246 | 1959 Flag, red, unwatermarked printing experiment, block of four (MB 207b), UM  | £38.00 | |
| 247 | 1959 500m Nefertiti, red badly misplaced leftward, (SG 619 var, NP D269b, MB 291a), UM  | £8.00 | |
| 248 | 1959 10m flag eagle, pair with red slightly misplaced (SG 635 var, NP C238b, MB 226c), UM  | £11.00 | |
| 249 | 1971 200m & 500m Nasser complete sheets of 14 (SG 1045-1046, NP D298-299, MB 321-322), very rare, UM  | £135.00 | |
| Miniature sheet | |||
| 250 | 1952, Mediterranean Games, extra dot at right of Arabic 9 (NP MS6f, MB 6a), unmounted mint  | £14.00 | |
| Air Mail | |||
| 251 | 1953, 15m, block of four, inverted watermark (SG 434 var, NP A53a, MB 58a), unmounted mint  | £20.00 | |
| 252 | 1953, 40m, block of four, inverted watermark (SG 463 var, NP A62a, MB 67a), unmounted mint  | £30.00 | |
| 253 | 1958 15m, corner block of 4, wmk sideways to left (SG 561 var, NP C198a, MB 186a), UM  | £22.00 | |
| Officials | |||
| 254 | 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)  | £52.00 | |
| Postal History and FDCs | |||
| 255 | 1843 Stampless letter from Cairo to Alessandria. Interesting item  | £14.00 | |
| 256 | 1904 Shepheard´s Hotel "Femmes Arabes" UPU postcard from Cairo to USA, franked 2m DLR pair  | £20.00 | |
| 257 | 1932 Taxed cover from France to Cairo, 8m tax stamp plus arrival Cairo postmarks on back  | £20.00 | |
| 258 | 1936 PAQUEBOT PORT SAID franked British stamps to England  | £10.00 | |
| 259 | 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  | £25.00 | |
| 260 | 1949 "BEPITEC" stamp exhibition special flight cover to Bruxelles, Belgium. Vignettes block on back. Nice Hagopian cover  | £12.00 | |
| 261 | 1954 Shepheard´s Hotel "Goddess ISIS" Eastern Publishing Company censored postcard Cairo to USA, franked 33m Farouk stamps  | £15.00 | |
| 262 | 1972 Definitives set 1m to £E1 complete on seven FDCs (NP D304-320), very rare  | £160.00 | |
| 263 | 1972 Officials 1m to 55m on FDC (NP O93,94,95,98,99), rare  | £48.00 | |
| Military | |||
| 264 | 1940 Active Service censored Military cover to Australia, franked 10m strip of four  | £10.00 | |
| 265 | 1942 BRITISH FORCES airmail cover, British stamp and cancelled "EGYPT" to London. RAF Censor  | £10.00 | |
| Stamps | |||
| 266 | 1879 20pa blue with rare upright watermark (NP D36a, MB 36a), very fine, very light hinge mint  | £50.00 | |
| 267 | 1898 3m on 2pi postage due block of four with one dot instead of two over Arabic "qaf" error and Arabic ŗ" broken forming Arabic Ŗ" error (NP 19j-19c, MB 19h-19b), very fine unmounted mint  | £30.00 | |
| Postal history | |||
| 268 | 1906 SHEPHEARD´S HOTEL CAIRO postal stationary 4m card from Cairo to Paris, with CAIRO (on back side) and PARIS arrival cds.  | £25.00 | |
| 269 | 1907 LUXOR HOTEL "Groupe de baudets" UPU postcard from Luxor to France, franked 2m DLR  | £20.00 | |
| 270 | 1908 GRAND CONTINENTAL HOTEL CAIRO "77 - Cairo - Interior of Mosque Moeriri -LL" UPU postcard from Cairo to Paris, franked 4m DLR  | £18.00 | |
| 271 | 1908 ASWAN-LUQSOR T.P.O. "KOM OMBO inscription of the temple - 187 Lichtenstern & Harari" coloured postcard to Cairo, franked 2m DLR  | £20.00 | |
| 272 | 1910 CATARACT HOTEL ASWAN "59 Egyptian Types and scenes - Bisharins (Soudan) - LL" UPU coloured postcard from Aswan to USA, franked 4m DLR with CAIRO transit and OHIO arrival cds  | £25.00 | |
| 273 | 1910 CONTINENTAL CAIRO "Egyptian fleet on the Nile" postcard from Cairo to France, franked 2m DLR, with CAIRO transit cds  | £20.00 | |
| 274 | 1911 LUXOR HOTEL "KOM OMBO inscription of the temple - 537 Lichtenstern & Harari" UPU postcard from Luxor to Germany, franked 2m DLR pair, with FRANKFURT arrival cds  | £25.00 | |
| Postal Stationery | |||
| 275 | 20 paras postcard H&G 1, Alexandria - Cairo, duplex postmark Alexandria TII 8 MA 80. Cairo arr (back)  | £5.00 | |
| 276 | 20 paras postcard H&G 1, Alexandria - Mansourah, duplex pmk Alexandria TI 4 SE 81, Mansourah arr (back)  | £5.00 | |
| Rural Service | |||
| 277 | Cover postmarked with three-centre Rural Service CDS H?rin - Kafr el Sheikh - Taima 31-AU-39 (Murphy/Shoukry page 93) and Hurin 31-AU-039. On back Birket El Sab and Cairo (arr.)  | £5.00 | |
| Stamps | |||
| 278 | Gaza opts: 1948 air stamps overprinted for use in Palestine, unmounted mint set less three lowest values. SG 23-31  | £7.50 | |
| 279 | 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 | |
| 280 | Second Arab League Heads of State Council: 1964 complete set of 13 mounted mint, SG 805-17  | £2.50 | |
| Postage Dues | |||
| 281 | 1958-59. Complete set of 7 SG D573 D579 lightly mounted mint, cat. £31  | £12.00 | |
| Hotels interest | |||
| 282 | 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 | |
| 283 | 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 | |
| 284 | 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 | |
| Literature: Please note that it may be necessary to charge for postage on the following three lots | |||
| 285 | Auction Catalogue - The Palace Collections of Egypt: "French Paperweights and Ornamental Glass, Koubbeh, 27-28 March 1954. 50 page illustrated catalogue in very fine condition, with prices realised. Not philatelic, but a piece of Egyptian history from the Koubbeh Palace Sale of King Farouk´s belongings  | £8.00 | |
| 286 | Pictorial History of KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, by Roy Allen. Pub. I. Allan, London, 1978. Non-philatelic, but KLM was one of the first to run an airmail service to Egypt. 80 p. text, 110 p. of photographs. 160 x 235 mm. Excellent condition, much sought after  | £15.00 | |
| 287 | 1939 - Guide du Musée Fouad I des Postes. Guide to the Cairo Postal Museum officially opened 18 January 1940 (1,000 copies only printed). Half in French (56p.), half Arabic (58p.) & 24 photo pages, sepia & B/W. 180 x 138mm. Together with CDS strike of the Postal Museum (with L´OP description) and handwritten admission slip issued by the Cairo Information Office, 19-12-79 as no museum tickets were available. Scarce & unique combination  | £32.00 | |
| French POs Abroad | |||
| 288 | French PO Tripoli, Barbarie (Libya), 16-12-1909 CDS, cancelling French 10c red Sower on postcard (view of Tripoli market) to the UK. Scarce  | £8.00 | |
| 289 | French PO Jerusalem- Palestine, 2-1-1909 CDS on 10c Levant Mouchon stamp on pretty girl glamour postcard to Beyrouth  | £15.00 | |
| 290 | French PO CAIFFA, SYRIE (Haifa), 17-9-1907 CDS on 10c Levant Mouchon postal stationery card to Paris, with boxed red arrival cachet. One of the rarest Levant Pos  | £25.00 | |
| 291 | French PO Smyrne, Turquie d´Asie, 28-5-1912 CDS on Levant Mouchon 1 piastre, on commercial cover to Paris, with arrival and fine red/black paper seal on the back  | £3.00 | |
| French Post Office stamps | |||
| 292 | Port Said, 1899 Sage Overprint issue, 20c green, fine used (SG 110, Yvert 10, Dallay 8)  | £3.00 | |
| 293 | Selection of 5 higher-value fine Mouchon stamps of Alexandrie 50c & 1 F (SG 32, 33; Yvert 30, 31) and Port-Said 50c, 15 Mills/50c & 50 Mm (SG 133, 160, 188; Yvert 31, 55, 83). MM. difficult to find so well centred. Cat. € 42+.  | £7.00 | |
| 294 | Alexandrie- ERROR of 1921 local surcharge 15 Mill on 2c Blanc stamp of Port-Said (SG 46a, Yvert 44a, Dallay 44A). Mint, very well centred, lightly mounted and with foulage of surcharge at the back. Cat. € 160  | £28.00 | |
| 295 | Alexandrie Blanc 2c used on Assiut postcard (mosque) 6 Aug.1907 to Nantes  | £4.00 | |
| Postcards | |||
| 296 | Alexandria Place Mohamed Ali, ca. 1890 (before French Gardens). Unused  | £2.00 | |
| 297 | Two Postcards unused, showing the Alexandria corniche: one in the 1920s (B/W) and one colour in 1980s  | £3.00 | |
| First Day Cover | |||
| 298 | FDC (Herald Tribune) of US airmail 5c stamp, CDS Washington 25 Sept.1946, addressed to Jean Boulad (d´Humières) at Ismailia (ESC 16, Secretary of PSE)  | £3.00 | |
| Hotel postmark | |||
| 299 | Cairo Sheraton CDS 19-4-1972 on cover, together with colour postcard of the hotel  | £8.00 | |
| Paquebot covers - Farouk barred out | |||
| 300 | 3 AU 53, Port-Said to UK, small envelope, return address MV Prometheus, franked 2x15+17m barred Marechal for 47mills rate  | £5.00 | |
| 301 | 26 AU 53, Port-Said to Holland , small Blue Funnel Line envelope (printed flap) with barred Marechal 20+22m and barred 5m Air for 47 mills total  | £4.00 | |
| 302 | 11 DE 53, Port-Said to UK franked barred Marechal 22 mills, colour postcard Pharaoh Seti receiving Offerings  | £4.00 | |
| 303 | 20 FE 54, Port-Said to UK, small envelope, return address SS British Skill, franked barred 2m and barred 50m KES Air for 52 mills rate  | £5.00 | |
| 304 | 28 MA 54, Port-Said to UK, Air envelope with return address TSS Strathmore, franked barred 2+50m for 52m rate  | £5.00 | |
| 305 | 5 OC 53, Port Taufiq to New York, English Coaling Co envelope (printed flap), mixed franking, pairs of barred 50m, 1m fellah, 10m Defence for total 122mills rate. All-Arabic censor label, plus 59 (circle) and 2 (hexagon) censor stamps  | £4.00 | |
| Air Mail covers - Farouk barred out | |||
| 306 | 21 MR 53, Alexandria-New York, Air Mail envelope franked 4x3+30+40m barred Airs for 82m rate, censored  | £4.00 | |
| 307 | 25 ? 53(?), Port Said-France, sepia card of the Sphinx, franked 20m barred Marechal and 7m barred Air for 27m rate, censor mark  | £4.00 | |
| 308 | 24 AU 53, Alexandria-Sweden, printed envelope of Alex Cotton Trading Company, franked 2x15+22m barred Marechal for 52m rate, all-Arabic censor liable plus 68 (circle) in violet and 2 (hexagon) censor marks  | £4.00 | |
| 309 | 23 SE 54, Alexandria-Germany, Union Cotton Company printed envelope franked 2x30+7m barred Airs for 67m rate, censor mark  | £4.00 | |
| 310 | 26 DE 54, Cairo-Germany, b/w mosque photo-card. mixed franking, 5m Air, 2+3m barred KES Airs, 4+17m Marechal, 4m fellah, 2x1m second fellah, for total rate of 37 mills, censor mark  | £5.00 | |
| 311 | 13 JA 55, Maadi -France, Air envelope, mixed franking, 20m barred Air with 32m mosque for 52m rate, censor mark  | £5.00 | |
| 312 | 23 JA 55, Ismailia-France, Air envelope, mixed franking 50m barred KES Air with 2m second fellah for 52m rare, censor mark  | £5.00 | |
| 313 | 8 FE 55, Cairo Foreign Traffic-New York, mixed franking, 15m Air, 40m barred Air, 30m mosque for 85m rate, censor mark  | £5.00 | |
| 314 | 28 MAY 5(5?), Cairo-Austria, printed company Air envelope, mixed franking, 2m barred KES Air with 50mmosque for 52m rate, censor marks  | £5.00 | |
| 315 | 3 JL 55, Alexandria-Switzerland, company printed Air cover, 2m Air and 40m Marechal, both barred KES for 42m rate, censor mark  | £5.00 | |
| De La Rue Stamps | |||
| 316 | De La Rue First group 5 pa pale brown with upright watermark mint (NP D32d) | £2.00 | |
| 317 | De La Rue First group 20 pa cobalt blue with upright watermark mint (NP D36a)  | £35.00 | |
| Stamps | |||
| 318 | 1866 First Issue; full set, mostly ´unused´ all forgeries  | £6.00 | |
| 319 | 1867 5 paras Type II, SG11, VF mint, full gum, very light hinge remains | £12.60 | |
| 320 | 1867 2 piastre Type II, SG 15, VF mint, full gum, very light hinge remains | £30.00 | |
| 321 | 1921 1 mill plate flaw SG84a UM, with selvage | £10.00 | |
| 322 | 1922 1 mill block of 4 with both plate flaws , UM, with selvage  | £10.00 | |
| 323 | 1922 100 mills wmk ´large moon´ SG 109 VF mint, BPA certificate | £40.00 | |
| 324 | 1932 Second Fuad 500 mills control nr block UM but for light hinge remains in margin  | £150.00 | |
| 325 | 1941 Airs 25 mills plate flaw ´cloud in sky´ VF mint | £3.50 | |
| 326 | 1947 Airs SG 332/3 both imperforate cancel-back, no hinge remains  | £25.00 | |
| 327 | 1929 Farouk 9th birthday SG 178a/180a; VF used, cat. £390  | £100.00 | |
| 328 | 1945 Arab League 10 mills SG321 UM; oblique perforation  | £15.00 | |
| 329 | 1955 Museum Week imperforate horiz. pair  | £75.00 | |
| 330 | 1958 6th Anniversary revolution SG 565/9 Bottom strip of 5 imperforated UM; RRR  | £400.00 | |
| 331 | British Forces SG A2 vertical strip of 4; VF used  | £2.00 | |
| 332 | "Palestine" SG 1-19; full set UM | £ 17.60 | |
| 333 | "Palestine" Airs ´barred Farouk´ SG 51-62; full set UM but for 50 mills which has mere trace of hinge | £32.50 | |
| 334 | "Palestine" Postage Due SG D32/38; full set UM | £3.50 | |
| Postal Stationery catalogued acc. to Nile Post | |||
| 335 | 1907 Provisional double card VF unused SPC13 | £7,60 | |
| 336 | 1899 Provisional double card slightly foxed but clean; unused SPC10 | £4.00 | |
| 337 | 1908 4 mils SPC18 VF unused | £3.00 | |
| 338 | 1931 3 mills green VF unused SPC32 | £7.00 | |
| 339 | 1923 10 mills lake VF unused SPC27 | £10.00 | |
| 340 | 1939 3 mills brown VF unused SPC37 | £8.00 | |
| The following 11 lots are 1954 view cards; all in green; all pristine* | |||
| 341 | 6 mills Assuan | £8.00 | |
| 342 | 6 mills Plage a Alexandrie | £8.00 | |
| 343 | 6 mills Le Nil et Pont el Gala | £8.00 | |
| 344 | 6 mills Vue du Nil - le Caire | £8.00 | |
| 345 | 6 mills Vue près des Barrages du Delta | £8.00 | |
| 346 | 6 mills Jardin du Nouzha, Alexandrie | £8.00 | |
| 347 | 6 mils Hotel Semiramis | £12.00 | |
| 348 | 6 mills Hotel Semiramis | £12.00 | |
| 349 | 6 mills Mena House (Hotel) | £12.00 | |
| 350 | 6 mills Université du Caire | £8.00 | |
| 351 | 6 mills Place de Ramleh | £10.00 | |
| 352 | Envelope 1 piastre blue-gray; SEN2b pristine unused | £3.00 | |
| 353 | Envelope 3 mills orange SEN10; pristine unused | £3.00 | |
| 354 | 1914 Envelope 5 mills carmine; 1st knife SEN16 pristine unused | £15.00 | |
| 355 | 1914 Envelope 10 mills blue; 1st knife SEN17 pristine unused | £15.00 | |
| 356 | 1937 Fuad 2 mills orange; SEN29 pristine unused | £8.60 | |
| 357 | 1938 Farouk 2 mills orange SEN30 VF used  | £6.00 | |
| 358 | 1937 Farouk 1+2 mills SEN33a VF used  | £10.00 | |
| 359 | 1944 King Farouk 4 mills SEN37 VF unused | £5.00 | |
| 360 | 1911 Letter sheet 5 mills SLS4 VF mint  | £25.00 | |
| 361 | 1914 Letter sheet 10 mills SLS7 unused pristine  | £12.60 | |
| 362 | French PO Alexandria envelope 10 mills SFPOENV4; VF unused | £5.00 | |
| 363 | Sudan 1897 letter sheet 1 piastre SSLS3 VF unused | £3.00 | |
| Hotels and other proprietary offices | |||
| 364 | 1 pi envelope WINTER PALACE 6 iii 07 to Germany (type HW1)  | £12.00 | |
| 365 | PPC Fuad 3 mills WINTER PALACE 9 II 33 to Alexandria (type HW4)  | £5.00 | |
| 366 | PPC WINTER PALACE 28 II 48 to Switzerland (type HW6)  | £8.00 | |
| 367 | Hotel envelope, franking 2 piastres, SHEPHEARD´S 25 MR 98 X to Germany (type HS1b)  | £15.00 | |
| 368 | Envelope 1 mm SHEPHEARD´S 24 XI 94 TIV (type HS3)  | £7.00 | |
| 369 | PPC franking 28 mills by Air to Holland CATARACT 6 MR ?0 (type HCA3)  | £10.00 | |
| 370 | Hotel receipt 25-8-54 with 10 mills fiscal cancelled SEMIRAMIS HOTEL  | £1.00 | |
| 371 | Air cover 40 mills SIMON ARZT to Scotland 15 AU 36  | £8.00 | |
| 372 | R-Air cover 92 mills SIMON ARZT (CAISSE) to Switzerland 4 DE 54 (late date£)  | £18.00 | |
| Postal history covers | |||
| 373 | French PO Alexandria; wrapper franked 5 cent. (stamp missing 2 perfs) to Germany 27 JUILL 82  | £5.00 | |
| 374 | Small cover, franked 1+4 DLR 21.XI.11 from Giza via Cairo Station to Bristol  | £8.00 | |
| 375 | R-cover franked 35 mills 26 IV 22 Cairo to Malta  | £8.00 | |
| 376 | Interesting PPC ´Khanyounas´ franked 1+2+3 Harrison (the 1 mill with plate flaw!) NB There is a Cairo address on the back but not clear if card has travelled!  | £10.00 | |
| 377 | Ship cover franked 3x5 mills Crown issue cancelled LLOYD TRIESTINO PIROSCAFO ASIA to Germany (cover has slight damage)  | £15.00 | |
| 378 | R-Bank cover 2d weight class to Vienna (opened 3 sides) franked 2x20 mills 1st Fuad  | £12.00 | |
| 379 | PPC franked on front 1+3 mills 1st Fuad 23 NO 23 to Teheran  | £7.00 | |
| 380 | Cover with 7 different UPU stamps; total 40 mills ( correct franking for Air mail via KLM £?) sent 7 MR 34 from Cairo to Liverpool  | £15.00 | |
| 381 | R-cover 2d weight class 20 OC 34 to Belgium, nice mixed franking!  | £8.00 | |
| 382 | Air cover from Alexandria to Germany franked 60 mils incl. a 20 mills fiscal stamp; marked as invalid and T for postage due£  | £6.00 | |
| Hotel interest | |||
| 383 | 19 internal covers, 1939-45, franked with Boy King or Marechal stamps, all to the same address with Continental Hotel CDS and addressee name obliterated. Plus one with full name. Ex Chaftar | £5.00 | |
| 384 | Seven covers, 18 cards, mixed bag 1900-1950, all with Hotel/Cooks CDS - 9 Shepheard´s, 5 Continental, 5 Cataract, 1 Luxor Hotel, 1 Hilton, 3 Cooks | £4.00 | |
| 385 | 1933, block of four of 2mills Air with bull´s-eye strike of (Cairo) / Cash / Continental Savoy (Type HC12)  | £3.00 | |
| 386 | 8 AP 42, cover franked 20+2m Boy King for Geneva, cancelled Shepheards HS 8, censored and resealed  | £1.00 | |
| 387 | 24 DE 45, cover with10m Marechal and clear Shepheards (Type HS8), faint Asyut Station CDS behind, torn on opening  | £1.00 | |
| 388 | 8 MR 50, incoming cover from Hungary (2 stamps), reverse has clear Continental-Savoy / Cairo (Type HC7)  | £1.00 | |
| 388a | 7 MR 50, cover from Hungary (3 stamps) addressed Giza, redirected to Continental in Arabic (Type HC7)  | £1.00 | |
| Egypt military interest | |||
| 389 | 14 2 57, small envelope Arabic-addressed in pencil, unfranked, from Asyut with two military markings, Cairo machine and large CDS Post Militaire / Trafic du Caire on reverse  | £4.00 | |
| 390 | 5 5 60, small unfranked cover with military unit 2 hexagonal datestamp, Arabic addressed, censored, 2 backstamps, flap torn  | £1.00 | |
| 391 | 16 5 64, bareed harby military cover, Arabic-addressed and apparently properly used, with counter-signature, military hexagon and military censor. Part machine cancel of Sidi Gaber behind. Letter still contained  | £4.00 | |
| 392 | 1964, Official military letter-sheet with eagle vignette defraying postage, Arabic-addressed in red from Unit 43 to Cairo, roughly opened, but good appearance  | £1.00 | |
| 393 | 10 1 67, printed official envelope, Arabic addressed, franked 35m Official (uncancelled), with military Unit 23 hexagon datestamp and faint official oval registration authoriser. Also, printed letter within  | £1.00 | |
| Postal history | |||
| 394 | 1893, b/w Carlo Mieli postcard of Ras el Tin Palace, franked on face with 1m DLR cancelled clear Ramle Alexandria. Addressed to France and Calvados arrival stamp  | £3.00 | |
| 395 | 1904, Lichtenstern/Harari b/w card (Phylae, Le Kiosk), franked 2m DLR cancelled Cataract Hotel and addressed to Anna Debono (daughter of the archaeologist?), arrival mark Ibrahimia / Alexandria 5 II 04  | £1.00 | |
| 396 | 5 XI 06, small cover franked 3x1m DLR from Cairo / D within Cairo, no backstamp  | £1.00 | |
| 397 | 25 VII 10, Credit Lyonnais printed cover franked 3m DLR, Cairo / D CDS en ville, no backstamp  | £1.00 | |
| 398 | 3 V 13, charity printed envelope franked 1m DLR and addressed within Cairo, no backstamp. Flap unsealed - genuine printed matter rate?  | £8.00 | |
| 399 | 1923, strangely cut-down (reused?) Arabic-addressed envelope from Mit Assem (faint CDS) franked for registration with 3x5m Crown overprints  | £3.00 | |
| 400 | 1928-29, Official folded letter with Official oval, with two TPOs, two strikes of Gabel el Asfar (incoming and outgoing) and neat Khanka 1 JA 29  | £3.00 | |
| 401 | 18 DE 31, neat small cover franked 20m deep green Fuad (SG 163a), Cairo / D CDS for France, no backstamp  | £1.00 | |
| 402 | 16 JA 38, lawyer´s printed envelope franked 3x5m Boy King for registration in Cairo, neat Cairo / Postmen CDS behind  | £1.00 | |
| 403 | (date?), Westinghouse air env (barred out) franked 20+2m Boy King and addressed as "Personal" to staffer in Naval Intelligence, Washington. Stamps uncancelled, no backstamp but clear O.N.I Naval Censor handstamp on face  | £4.00 | |
| 404 | 1940, small envelope, Arabic addressed to Cairo, franked with 1m+5m Boy King, latter from a booklet pane. Excellent information strike of Maraziq 15 NO 40  | £6.00 | |
| 405 | 5 NO 41, Arabic printed postcard franked 4m Boy King with Cairo machine cancel in town  | £1.00 | |
| 406 | 1 FE 43, plain cover franked 1m Boy King and 20m Air for postage and registration rom R&P / Qasr el Eini (Reg cachet alongside) within Cairo. Cairo / Postmen CDS behind part-obscured  | £2.00 | |
| 407 | 30 NO 45, printed commercial cover franked 4x1m Marechal from Cairo / H to Giza  | £1.00 | |
| 408 | 18 AP 46, printed cover franked 10m Marechal, Arabic addressed to Cairo and redirected. CDS is not circular but clear oval Fayum. Flap lost. Unusual  | £4.00 | |
| 409 | National Bank of Egypt folded statements sent with 10m Marechal stamps, two to HE Mohamed Fouad Serag el Din Pacha (1946, 1949), one to the very rich Mrs Zaki Badrani (1946)  | £2.00 | |
| 410 | Belgian Bank printed window envelope furnished with array of small-value Marechal stamps to make up 10mills, cancelled Cairo / D.B (meaning?)  | £1.00 | |
| 411 | 14 SE 47, neat commercial printed air env franked 2+5+2x10 Marechal for London, no backstamps  | £1.00 | |
| 412 | (date?), Watson Murdoch Brickworks env franked 5m Air + 1m Boy King inside Cairo, no backstamps  | £1.00 | |
| 413 | 22 FE 48, large envelope franked 50m Air + 2x1m Marechal for France from Ismailia. Reverse (flap lost) has Cairo machine canceller in blue  | £1.00 | |
| 414 | 13 MR 49, small envelope addressed with Cairo, franked 30m+2x1m (behind). On arrival received exceedingly rare House to House / Delivery / Cairo CDS, unfortunately faint  | £4.00 | |
| 415 | 22 JL 49, Bank´s window envelope franked 3x10m Marechal with Reg label from Mansura. Reverse has clear strike of scarce marking Kafr el Garayda  | £1.00 | |
| 416 | 25 OCT 49, Arabic-addressed cover franked 4m Marechal, clearly never sealed. No backstamps  | £1.00 | |
| 417 | 15 V 51, Arabic-addressed printed cover (flap) franked with 2x4+2x1m Marechals for postage to Maadi (clear CDS behind)  | £1.00 | |
| 418 | Early 1950s, two advertising cards, seven A5 envelopes, all medical-related, addressed to Dr Youssef Rizkallah in Choubrah, franked with a variety of 4m Marechals (3 Bars, one uncancelled, one pair) | £3.00 | |
| 419 | 22 MA 52, reply card for Unesco Science office in Cairo franked 2 pairs of 1m Marechal. Neat  | £1.00 | |
| 420 | 1953(?), readdressed Reg envelope franked strip of 3x10m Barred Marechal, markings unclear  | £1.00 | |
| 421 | 31.12.60, Grand Hotel Assouan printed cover, franked 10m Ramesses II and cancelled Aswan/T for Cairo. Machine arrival is 1.1.61  | £1.00 | |
| 422 | 30.12.73, envelope Arabic-addressed Cairo-Cairo franked with vertical pair of 10m "soldier´s stamp" (SG1097) - produced in 1971 for civilian use only to send to members of Armed Forces; later made freely available. Flap gone  | £1.00 | |
| 423 | As last, complete envelope, two single stamps  | £2.00 | |
| Rural post | |||
| 424 | Abwit/Itwab - two Wasta Rural covers, one with Abwit cartouche (Wasta-Abwit, p.111, 29.5.27, earliest recorded by ten years); other with Itwab cartouche (Wasta-Ifwa, 11 JU 36, p.111, registered). Both have transit marks behind  | £12.00 | |
| 425 | 17 JUN 17, complete form for acknowledging receipt of an AR letter, sent from Matai on 15 June and returned, with three intaglio seals of identification, from Rural Service / Matai-Minbal (p.98) two days later. CDS in blue, original repair (stamp edging) behind  | £10.00 | |
| 426 | 27 SE 18, Rural Service / Giza-Konaiyisa-Z.Abu Mesallem three-name marking (p.92, earliest date recorded) on folded official form with Official oval handstamp of Giza Agricultural College and sealed with white on black Government labels. Spectacular  | £10.00 | |
| 427 | 9 OC 18, perforated form giving permission for departure of a worker on holiday, folded and unsealed, sent from Delhanes (cartouche) via Rural Service / Fashn-Shinra CDS ((p.91). Fashn, Minia CDS behind. Remarkable  | £8.00 | |
| 428 | 23/24 OC 24, Rural Service Deyrut-Dolga (p.88), two strikes on Official letter from Meglis Hasbi / Dirut (Official oval and label), incoming on 23 OC, response written, and returned with new CDS next day. Unusual  | £10.00 | |
| 429 | 5 May 25, Rural Service / Duqqi-Abdel Rahim Pasha Sabri (p.89, earliest date, only three recorded) as arrival mark on printed Greek Orthodox Patriarchy envelope franked 3x5m for registration from Alexandria. Five backstamps include Duqqi / Cairo in blue, undeliverable and returned  | £10.00 | |
| 430 | 72 JL 25, Rural Service / Tud-Yahudia (p.110, latest date, only two recorded), with village cartouche, franked with 3x5m First Fuad for registration. Good ringed El-Tud and faint Dilingat / Cash arrival mark behind  | £12.00 | |
| 431 | 15 6 36, Rural Service / Fashn-Saft el Orifa (p.91, earliest date recorded). on Arabic-addressed cover. Fashn / (T) transit and Cairo machine arrival  | £8.00 | |
| 432 | 25 SE 26, Arabic-addressed reg env to Cairo franked 3xFuad 5m, with cartouche of Abu Sir el Malaq but no Rural CDS. Instead cancelled with TPO marking Ashmant-Abu Sir el Malaq / & VV (p.50). Flap lost, good Ashmant CDS behind  | £6.00 | |
| 433 | 10 XII 28, tiny folded handwritten note, unfranked, sent from Shanfas (cartouche) via fine Rural Service / Burg Nur-Minshat el Ikhwa CDS (p.87) with Burg Nur transit behind. Opened for display  | £5.00 | |
| 434 | 2 DE 29, Service Rural / Bulaq el Dakrur-Bani Magdul (p.66) on Arabic-addressed cover franked 2x5+15m Fuad for registration and AR to Giza, with village cartouche of Birak el Khiam alongside  | £8.00 | |
| 435 | 18 DE 29, Rural Service / Sahragt el Kobra-Kafr Abu Nagah (p.104), good clean strike on printed cover franked 5m for Cairo with rare village cartouche of Mit Yaish alongside  | £8.00 | |
| 436 | 10 AU 31, Service Rural / Ausim-Siqeil (p.65, earliest date recorded), franked 3x5m Fuad for registration to Giza with village cartouche mis-spelled Siqlil instead of Siqeil. All face markings in blue, with Ousim, Cairo and Giza / Branch behind. Spectacular  | £20.00 | |
| 437 | 27 JL 32, Rural Service / Fayum-Sannuris (p.91), clear strike incoming on official letter (all-Arabic Official oval in red) from Fayoum with Government label  | £8.00 | |
| 438 | 27 AP 36, Service Rural / Salhia-Kafr Abu Omar (p.74), perfect incoming strike on much-travelled printed envelope from Ghezireh Palace and the heirs of Prince Habib Lotfallah Pacha. Franked 3x5, for registration from Gezira on 23 AP 35, it received no fewer than ten handstamps before being returned on May 12  | £10.00 | |
| 439 | 114 OC 36, Service Rural / Maghagha-Malatia (p.70), three perfect strikes on agricultural; report sealed with 2x1m Fuad stamps (both damaged on opening) with perfect strike of village cartouche Malatia alongside. Lovely  | £10.00 | |
| 440 | 2 FE 37, large bilingual OHEMS envelope, Arabic addressed to Cairo, unfranked, with perfect rare Rural Service / Tukh-Dandana (curved lettering, p.110, latest date, only two recorded). Clear CDS of Tukh behind  | £10.00 | |
| 441 | 3 NO 37, Service Rural / Qus-El Moqarrabiya, clear strike on cover with El Keratia village cartouche, franked 5m and Arabic-addressed for Cairo. Qus and Heliopolis (T) markings behind  | £8.00 | |
| 442 | 23 MR 37, Rural Service / Tima-El Hisha (p.110, earliest date recorded), on cover franked 3x5m for registration to Tanta with illegible village cartouche. Clear Tima transit CDS behind  | £8.00 | |
| 443 | 4 AP 38, Service Rural / Mit Assem-Ezbet el Khomsomaya (p.72), blue CDS on cover franked with 3x2m Fuad for Alexandria  | £7.00 | |
| 444 | 18 FE 39, Service Rural Giziret Shandawil-Tounis (p.68, with "Z" characteristically wrong way round): two registered covers to same address on the same day from Arabian National Bank of Hedjaz in Gezira, but refused and returned via a series of backstamps including the Rurals. Despite its duplicate efforts, the bank didn´t get their mail delivered  | £10.00 | |
| 445 | 21 AP 40, Rural Service Hehia-Kafr el Nassara (p.92), clear incoming strike alongside Hihya CDS on reverse of printed dealer´s envelope franked with 5m Boy King from Cairo  | £8.00 | |
| 446 | 27 NO 40, Service Rural Teriya-Abu el Khawi (p.76) four strikes on cover franked 5x5m+1m #Boy King for Alexandria, with village cartouche of Abu el Khawi and Teriya transit alongside. No AR indication - why 26 mills?  | £8.00 | |
| 447 | 16 FE 42, Rural Service / Saft el Miluk - Shubra el Nuna (p.104), excellent strike incoming on official folded letter (illegible Official oval) from Damanhur with clear Saft el Miluk alongside  | £8.00 | |
| 448 | 14 AU 44, Rural Service / Ezbet Khurshid / Ezbet Gharabli Pasha (curved lettering, p.90, latest date recorded), franked with 3x5m Boy King for registration on printed envelope of Ezbet Dief grocers. Cairo Delivery arrival  | £8.00 | |
| 449 | 10 3 53, small cover franked 10 Marechal with KES overprint, Arabic-addressed for Cairo and cancelled with all-Arabic Rural handstamp of Fayed-Mantiket (ie district) Sawahel. Most unusual  | £10.00 | |
| 450 | 8 JU 57, Rural Service / Disunis-Ezbet Guindi el Sabungi (p.88, latest date recorded), on printed cover with village cartouche of Rodet Khairo Pasha and franked with 35m Mosque for Cairo. Republican rurals not easy to find  | £8.00 | |
| 451 | 26/28 OC 59, Service Rural / Daraw-El Gaafra (p.67, now amended), two strikes on official unfranked postcard with very faint boxed AR, incoming on 26 OC, response written, and then outgoing CDS two days later. These represent two of only three examples of this CDS recorded  | £12.00 | |
| 452 | Ten Rural Service covers, 1925-1940, mixed condition but all with legible markings | £15.00 | |
| 453 | Ten Rural Service covers, 1918-1942, mixed condition but all with legible markings | £15.00 | |
| 454 | Sixteen Rural Service covers, 1926-1960, mixed condition but all with legible markings | £22.00 | |
| 455 | Ten Service Rural covers, 1928-1939, mixed condition but all with legible marking | £15.00 | |
| 456 | Ten Service Rural covers, 1932-1940, mixed condition but all with legible marking | £15.00 | |
| 457 | Ten Service Rural covers, 1930-1960, mixed condition but all with legible marking | £15.00 | |
| 458 | Sixteen Service Rural covers, 1930-1953, mixed condition but all with legible markings | £22.00 | |
| TPO markings | |||
| 459 | 19 SE 04, very battered tiny postcard (Venetian gondola?), franked with bruised DLR 3mills and Arabic addressed from Talkha with Damiette-Tanta star/crescent TPO CDS (Type 2A3.1) in transit  | £1.00 | |
| 460 | 1918,1920, two part examples of scarce Mansura-Dumiat / & VV / TPO (Type 6A2) on agricultural reports franked with 10m Pictorials  | £1.00 | |
| 461 | 9 MA 49, part-printed government envelope franked 6m Boy King and cancelled with faint Cairo-Tanta / & VV (Type 7A3.4). Cairo machine behind  | £1.00 | |
| Used postal stationery | |||
| 462 | MR 26, 1923 pink Sphinx letter sheet (Magdy 9 $75, NP 9 $100), sent en ville with single-ring Alexandria CDS. Worn and flaps gone, but not easy to find. No backstamp  | £6.00 | |
| 463 | (date?) Air Letter 1 (Magdy $25, NP $20) properly used to London, cancelled with bars of machine canceller but unfortunately no date indicator. Censored, complete  | £4.00 | |
| 464 | (date unclear), Air Letter 4 (Arabic watermark; Magdy $15, NP $20), properly used to London, same Arabic handwriting and addressee as last. Censored, complete  | £4.00 | |
| Stamps | |||
| 465 | 1923 Fuad first definitive portrait issue - block of four imperforate 5m brown with crescent and star watermarked paper (seen at right). Scarce  | £60.00 | |
| 466 | 1938 complete imperforate set of nine Official stamps printed on thin card with "Cancelled" on reverse. Pristine  | £80.00 | |
| 467 | 1938 complete set of nine Official stamps (1m-50m) with markedly oblique perforations. Pristine  | £60.00 | |
| 468 | 1939. From the Palace Collection. Complete set of 15 definitive stamps of young King Farouk from 1m to £E1 with very marked oblique perforations including 50pt and £E1. Rare  | £300.00 | |
| 469 | Palace Collection - Horizontal pair of 30m definitive imperforate, from Farouk´s private collection bought in February 1954 at Koubbeh Palace, Cairo. Reverse of each stamp shows seal of authenticity; two normal stamps for comparison  | £110.00 | |
| 470 | 1980, Essay by the Postal Authority Press for President Moubarak. Horizontal strip of four showing oblique perforations and striking colour misplacements  | £50.00 | |
| 471 | 2013, complete set of all 18 stamps and one miniature sheets issued in the year, various values, including two reprints of 2007 and 2008 commercial stamps with higher values. Pristine | £35.00 | |
| 472 | 2013, the latest mystery definitive stamps, issued (probably) in October: 50pt, £E1, £E3, £E4, mint, NH  | £12.00 | |
| 473 | 2014, all available stamps (7) and miniature sheets (2) issued. Sheets show "contemporary Egyptian art" and "Diversion of the Nile stream", latter printed in Russian/Mint, NH | £20.00 | |
| First Day covers | |||
| 474 | 2013, three FDCs, each with one of the new "commercial" stamps - Utopia Marsa Alam, Madinat Makadi Hurghada and Sahl Hasheesh Hurghada, all issued on 7-12-2013  | £25.00 | |
| 475 | 2013, definitive stamps on FDC dated 7-10-2013, with four stamps of values 50pt, £E1, £E3, £E4 in colours different from other definitives sold separately  | £15.00 | |
| Postal history | |||
| 476 | Oct 1907, Credit Lyonnais printed envelope franked 25x Alex French PO stamp, addressed to Budapest with excellent French PO CDS. Quirky, with original seller´s price label attached at upper left  | £4.00 | |
| 477 | Dec 1924, printed envelope franked 5m+3x10m First Fuad for registration (black on pink Cairo label) to Leeds. Remains of wax seal behind. Notes in Minett handwriting  | £6.00 | |
| 478 | Jan 1927, cover franked with 10+15m First Fuad to cover registration and postage from Maadi (Reg cachet and boxed AR alongside) to Boulad & Ackaouy, Alex lawyers. Remains of wax seal behind  | £6.00 | |
| 479 | Oct 1927, clean cover franked 15m First Fuad for registration from Tala / R&P (clean Reg cachet alongside) to Azhar in Cairo (backstamps)  | £6.00 | |
| 480 | June 1929, printed envelope of Regina Palace Hotel, Alex, franked block of 4 of 5m Fuad from booklet pane (bottom perfs shaved) for Express to Cairo. Roughly opened but striking  | £6.00 | |
| 481 | Oct 1936, printed lawyer´s envelope franked 4x5m Fuad for Express to Asyut from Cairo / Station CDS. Arrival mark behind eight hours later  | £6.00 | |
| 482 | June 1958, plain cover addressed to Germany from CDS Secretariat Privee / El Gezira / Presidence de la Republique, franked with 3x5m definitives for internal postage, 37m Officials for overseas. Earliest recorded  | £6.00 | |
| 483 | Aug 1958, small cover Arabic-addressed from Abu Shusha (faint) to Cairo, unfranked, marked T in pencil and given 20m Due on arrival. Then rejected and given trilingual Refused / Refusee handstamp and returned  | £6.00 | |
| 484 | January 1982, brown envelope with government eagle handstamp, franked (behind) with strip of 4x10m Official, striking CDS of Port Said / R in red  | £6.00 | |
| 485 | Feb 1992, incoming air cover from Oman, repaired at top, left and back bottom on both sides with red on white Egyptian resealing label tied by Cairo CDSS of 23.2.92  | £6.00 | |
| Instruction/Direction marks | |||
| 486 | 1891, 3m on 5m postal stationery card cancelled Alexandrie / D with Caire / A arrival. Bilingual Non Reclame cachet followed by (faint) red bilingual Bureau des Rebuts of 5 I 92, earliest recorded  | £8.00 | |
| 487 | Nov 1924, printed cover (flap) franked 15m First Fuad for registration (black on white Alex label) in town. Delivery attempted on several days (backstamps of Hadra, Qabbari and Alx), but eventually received trilingual Rebut a Remettre / a L´envoyeur marking in black 1 DE 24 (earliest recorded)  | £8.00 | |
| 488 | Feb 1925, as last, lawyer´s letter franked 15m First Fuad (black on mauve Alx Reg label), En Ville. Delivery attempted many times, but eventually bilingual mark in black as last 1 APR 25, and returned  | £8.00 | |
| 489 | Feb 1925, lawyer´s letter franked 10+15m First Fuad for Reg (black on white Cairo label) and AR (boxed cachet) within Cairo (arrival mark behind). Undelivered, and received trilingual Refused / Refusee handstamp  | £8.00 | |
| 490 | Aug 1926, lawyer´s printed letter franked 15m First Fuad for registration (mute black on white label) within Alex, sent from Mina el Bassal but undelivered. Trilingual Unclaimed / Non reclame and bilingual Rebut a Remettre / a l´Envoyeur (both earliest recorded) handstamps on face, and returned  | £8.00 | |
| 491 | Oct 1986, air envelope franked with 60m Air (pen cancelled), faint machine cancel arrival mark of (?)arka al-Sham(..?) and violet tick-box handstamp to explain non delivery (Egyptian?)  | £4.00 | |
| Air Mail | |||
| 492 | Sept 1953, small cover to New York with an array of pre- and post-republic issues back and front totalling 127 mills for New York, sent from Alexandria / R via Aerodrome / du / Caire transit (Sears p.71, later date)  | £6.00 | |
| 493 | July 1958, printed cover (flap) franked strip of 5x20m Defense, pair of 5m Republic issues (pink Cairo reg label), CDS unclear, censor mark, and Aerodrome / du Caire / transit behind (Sears p.172) plus Vienna arrival  | £6.00 | |
| 494 | Aug 1960, printed cover franked 5m definitive plus canal 100m and Games 30m for reg (pink mute label) to New York from Post / Adli - Cairo. Transit mark of 1 / Cairo Air Port 20 AU 60 (Sears p.172) and New York arrival in violet  | £6.00 | |
| 495 | May 1961, Cairo university printed envelope franked with definitives and commemoratives totalling 120m for registration to UK, T / Cairo University CDS, transit via 1 / Cairo Air Port as last 5 MA 61  | £6.00 | |
| 496 | Jan 1962, long printed Rotary cover franked 45m for registration (mute red label) to Khartoum from Cairo. Transit via 2 / Cairo Air Port 7 II 62 (Sears p.172) and Khartoum arrival 2 May 1962 - why so long?  | £6.00 | |
| 497 | Jan 1968, plain cover franked 140m Air plus 2x15m definitives for registration San Stefano to Hereford, censor marks and sealing label, transit via 1 / Cairo Air Port (Sears p.172)  | £6.00 | |
| Postcards | |||
| 498 | Alexandrie Place Mehemet Ali et Jardin Francais- publisher LL - franked by NP D53 - cancelled French PO Alexandrie 20/juil/20 - not addressed  | £3.00 | |
| 499 | Alexandria Statue Mohammed Ali - publisher LL - franked by NP D57 - cancelled French PP Alexandrie 20/Juil/20 - not addressed  | £3.00 | |
| 500 | Cairo Monument of the Khedive - sent to France - franked King Fouad 2nd Portrait Issue NP D112 strip Of 3 - cancelled Mazghuna 3 Se 32 (??) 8 - 4 PM  | £3.00 | |
| 501 | Cairo the Great Minaret of the Mosque El Azhar - publisher L. Scortzis & Co Cairo - franked Young King Farouk portrait issue NP D137 - commem cancel VII Conference Internationale pour l´unification du Droit Penal 12 JA 38 10 30 A  | £5.00 | |
| 502 | De Lesseps Statue - publisher Lehnert & Landrock Succ - not franked - Par Avion label - cancelled Port Said Simon Arzt (Caisse) ?? MA 54 3-4P - taxed In France 2 French postage due stamps  | £10.00 | |
| Postal stationery - destination - famous name | |||
| 503 | Stationery envelope SEN17 - cancelled Suhag D / 17 Ii 14 3,55 PM - sent to Professor Henri Maspero in Far East School in Hanoi, Tonkin [Henri Maspero born Paris December 15 1883 - Died in Buchenwald March 17 1945 - sinologist Specialising in Taoism and son of Egyptologist Gaston Maspero]  | £10.00 | |
| First World War / censors | |||
| 504 | 13 XII 15, small cover franked 10m Colossi for Mullheim, Cairo / K CDS, Cairo transit, Mullheim arrival. Magenta chamfered Passed / Censor / 11 and Opened by Censor resealing label  | £1.00 | |
| 505 | 15 6 916, printed company envelope franked 2x5m Pictorials for Zurich, Alexandria / D CDS, Zurich arrival, violet oval Passed by Censor No 6, Opened by Censor resealing label  | £1.00 | |
| 506 | 19 JA 17, plain envelope franked 2x5m Pictorials for Geneva, Cairo / F CDS, Cairo / G transit and Geneve arrival, black chamfered Passed / Censor / 1 and Opened by Censor resealing label  | £1.00 | |
| 507 | 25 5 17, small plain envelope franked 10m Colossi for Zurich, Alexandria / K CDS, Zurich arrival, faint black oval Passed by Censor No 7, Opened by Censor resealing label  | £1.00 | |
| 508 | 4 IX 17, plain envelope franked 2x5m Pictorials for Switzerland from Aswan, Cairo Asyut / &VV transit TPO, Cairo K and Cairo M transit marks, Ennenda arrival, black chamfered Passed / Censor 13, Opened by Censor resealing label conceals handwritten return address  | £1.00 | |
| 509 | 9 SE 38(?), small envelope franked 20m Air from Alexandria / D-1 to Zurich, magenta censor 70 in circle, bilingual resealing label  | £1.00 | |
| 510 | 18 JU 45, unfranked cover with Base Army Post Office / 4 CDS alongside APU-U-MPK double ring (date unclear) addressed to Alexandria. Rear sealed with Union Loan certificate labels and civilian PO resealing labels, cancelled with large M / 90 ringed censor handstamp. Wavy-line marking at lower right another censor mark? Alx arrival 21 June  | £3.00 | |
| Hotel markings | |||
| 511 | 29 4 59, multi-franked (60m) air mail cover to Switzerland with Nile Hilton CDS (Type 2)  | £1.00 | |
| 512 | 19 12 59, cover to Switzerland marked in manuscript Printed paper (presumably Xmas card) and franked 45m, Hilton Hotel CDS Type 2  | £4.00 | |
| Postcards | |||
| 513 | Mixed group of 34 clean used cards, mainly 1902-05, but couple of military and hotels noted. French PO and Cairo Station marks. Subjects: topography, daily life | £7.00 | |
| 514 | 12 IX 04, b/w card Les Pyramides de Gizeh, woefully miscut so that part of illustration appears at right. Used to Paris nevertheless, with pair of DLR 2m and Cairo CDS  | £1.00 | |
| 515 | 16 XI 04, b/w Comptoir Philatelique card La Ferme, used to Paris with single DLR 2m on face. Transit behind is (75%) TPO Caire-Alexandrie star & crescent / Ambulant (Type 2A3.1)  | £1.00 | |
| 516 | 29 Jan 1909, b/w photocard of Women carrying water at Khartoum (Sudan), printed F.Fiorillo, long message in French but not passed through post  | £1.00 | |
| 517 | 9 XI 12, Giuseppe Liotta b/w card, Entree a Port Tewfik - Suez, showing Hotel Bachet at right, franked front and back with pairs of 1m DLR for Geneva. Long message in French  | £1.00 | |
| 518 | 21 2 15, GK b/w upright card of Alexandrie - Le Phare après le bombardement, with message "Keep these for me till I return". No postal marks  | £1.00 | |
| 519 | Feb 11 (year?), M.Handras b/w card of Port Tewfik - Maison de P&O & Coal Co, written but not passed through post. Pencil message says writer is in trenches on the Canal, no fighting yet, he is with Ghurkhas, who seem decent fellows  | £1.00 | |
| 520 | 18 MY 18, sepia card, The Garden of the Canal Company, Ismail, by M.Stg, unfranked, addressed to Scotland without message from large double-ring FPO 29. Another faint military cds alongside, with double-cross green circular censor mark  | £1.00 | |
| 521 | (date?) Mint Cairo Postcard Trust colour card of marching horses - Place Abdeen - English Regiment  | £1.00 | |
| 522 | (date) Ghino Dukich b/w card Parc at Ghezireh Palace, not passed through post, but long message about visiting Great Pyramid interior and a friend killed by falling from the top  | £1.00 | |
| Pyramids postmarks | |||
| 523 | 29 I 03, 4mills postal stationery card addressed to Hamburg and cancelled with Pyramids / Cairo. Caire transit and Hamburg arrival, message in German  | £1.00 | |
| 524 | 20 II 03, colour card, Cairo, Place de l´Opera, franked 2x2m DLR for Germany, two strikes of Pyramids / Cairo. Cairo2transit alongside and Erlangen arrival  | £1.00 | |
| 525 | 11 XII 03, pristine coloured Mena House Hotel postcard of the Sphinx, franked 2x2m DLR for UK and cancelled Pyramids / Cairo  | £2.00 | |
| 526 | 27 I 04, excellent coloured Mena House Hotel postcard of the Pyramids, franked 2x2m DLR and cancelled Pyramids / Cairo  | £2.00 | |
| 527 | 21 XII 04, colour card Femme arabe sur le baudet, addressed to Luxembourg, franked 2x2m DLR cancelled Pyramids / Cairo. Brief message in French, part Diekirch arrival CDS  | £2.00 | |
| 528 | 16 XII 05, b/w Lichtenstern/Harari card - Bedouin - franked 2x2m DLR for Switzerland and cancelled Pyramids / Cairo, obliterated buy Montreux arrival CDS. Cairo transit alongside  | £1.00 | |
| 529 | 22 II 06, small envelope franked 1pi DLR for Philadelphia and cancelled Pyramids / Cairo, with Cairo transit and excellent Philadelphia arrival of March 9. Long pencil letter (plain paper) talks of staying at Mena House Hotel  | £3.00 | |
| French Offices | |||
| 530 | LC sepia postcard p Alexandria - Post-office Street, unused  | £1.00 | |
| 531 | 1852 folded letter from Alexandria to Malta. French PO small CDS (EGYPTE) and manuscript ř" (5 decimes to pay) . Arrival mark illegible  | £4.00 | |
| 532 | 1908 Credit Lyonnais envelope to Philadelphia, USA, franked Alexandrie 25c Mouchon, cancelled large double-ring CDS. No other markings  | £2.00 | |
| 533 | 1927 small envelope posted in Alexandria for Paris with straight-line Paquebot alongside. Franked with 50c Sower issue, apparently underpaid as rate from Aug 1 1926 was 1fr50  | £2.00 |