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Egypt Study Circle Auction 55 Closed on September 24, 2016 |
| Palestine overprint stamps | ||
| 1 | Album page with various overprints, genuine and forged: 1mil O/P double (Nile Post P61b cat $50); 2mil O/P inverted (NP P2c cat $60); 2mil NP P21 with double bars (not cat); 3mil block of four with O/P shifted so only the Arabic is shown and the English Palestine is above the Arabic (NP P40c and P40d cat $150 & $100 as singles = $500); 2mil with 6 bars. Four forgeries FOC. Total cat $610 .  | £250.00 |
| 2 | Tenth Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights. Colour trial in brown on 35mil (Nile Post PC4ct only 50 stamps cat $200). Used on letter from Gaza with genuine Gaza T handstamp addressed to Cairo (to known collector?). Unfortunately only the front of the cover was kept! Still possibly unique item. Plus two FDC covers of normal stamps  | £70.00 |
| 3 | Definitive colour trials. Nile Post 4mil green (P4ct), 5mil red-brown (P5ct), 15mil green (P9ct1), 15 mil black (P9ct2). Total cat $400  | £150.00 |
| Zeppelin | ||
| 4 | Zeppelin 100 mils with Cairo Zeppelin datestamp  | £20.00 |
| 5 | Zeppelin 50 mils on company card with rare Port Said Zeppelin datestamp  | £80.00 |
| First Day Covers | ||
| 6 | Seven first day covers 1937-48, normal postmarks  | £7.00 |
| 7 | Agricultural Exhibition 1926 full set of stamps with special cancel  | £2.00 |
| 8 | XVIII International Congress 1938 full set of stamps with cancel  | £2.00 |
| 9 | XV Agricultural & Ind. Exhibition 1936 full set of stamps with cancel  | £2.00 |
| 10 | 18.JU.54. Republic on cover with rare picture of Mohammed Naguib (see QC 230)  | £2.00 |
| 11 | 9.AU.46. Hoisting of the Egyptian flag on the Cairo Citadel. Cancelled by rare SALE OF STAMPS CAIRO  | £2.00 |
| 12 | Inaugural Fight of S.A.I.D.E. 23.8.48 registered cover to UK with poor cancel and Cairo registration cancel. Also 20mils normal air stamp  | £2.00 |
| 13 | Front only with Type V cancel BENHA 11.DEC. 1874. 2x2pi plus 5para Third Issue stamps. To UK with boxed PD and half of red PAID ? marking which looks British  | £5.00 |
| Forgeries | ||
| 14 | Second Issue forgeries/facsimiles in singles and blocks of four  | £2.00 |
| Postal history | ||
| 15 | 13 covers from foreign countries passing through Egypt with Egyptian markings  | £2.00 |
| Postal markings | ||
| 16 | Long cover with fair Military Camp Aerodrome Heliopolis datestamp. Cover torn left hand side hence only  | £1.00 |
| 17 | Pair 1pi DLR stamps showing complete Dopo la Partenza marking  | £5.00 |
| 18 | Carte Postal with good FAIYUM Station postmark and Abuksa-Wasta TPO 4.MA.08. Top right corner damaged but does not detract  | £5.00 |
| 19 | Third Issue 1pi with fine Metelino cancel 17.NOV.1973. Egypt used abroad  | £5.00 |
| 20 | Company letter with fine machine cancel Alexandria Taxe Percue 26.AP.35. Boxed Unclaimed marking. Attractive item  | £5.00 |
| 21 | Fine machine cancel over 3x5mil pictorials with Crown overprint. Attractive  | £3.00 |
| Parcel Cards | ||
| 22 | Three modern parcel cards, one with 3x£E1 stamps  | £3.00 |
| Booklet panes | ||
| 23 | Two booklet panes, Boy King 5 & 6 mils. The 6mil with its original glassine interleaving  | £10.00 |
| The Nine-Day Stamp | ||
| 24 | Mini collection of this stamp withdrawn after only 9 days. Though the stamp is not rare the mini collection includes its use on parcel card, postal form and two covers. One is an internal letter paying the correct 30p rate. Official FDC and a full sheet (one currently on eBay at £177). See QC 226 or www.egyptstudycircle.org.uk/Articles/p64QC226.pdf  | £30.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 25 | S.A.I.D.E. 22mil double overprint on 200mil with normal. Nile Post cat.$100  | £24.00 |
| 26 | Crown overprint on 100 mil, double overprint. Nile Post 8916 cat $400  | £100.00 |
| 27 | 3rd Anniversary of the UAR 23.Feb.1961. Soon after a similar stamp with 3rd Anniversary replaced by National Union for Egypt and Gaza Strip were trial printed. Due to the breakup of Syria/Egypt these two stamps were never issued. See Nile Post page 279.C269, cat $175, and PC9 cat $175. Total cat $350  | £150.00 |
| 28 | Similarly a set to commemorate United Nations Technical Co-operation were printed in Cairo for Syria and Egypt. While the Egyptian ones were issued, October 24 1961, those for Syria were not. See Nile Post page 279 only 100 stamps of each survived  | £90.00 |
| 29 | British Forces in Egypt blue overprint Jubilee Commemoration Nile Post BF9 cat $150  | £40.00 |
| 30 | 2mil postage due overprint á cheval(?) shifted sideways in strip of three. Nile Post PD.42 cat as single $35  | £20.00 |
| Literature – please note that cost of postage and packing will be added to invoice | ||
| 31 | The Stamp Booklets of Egypt by John Revell 1997. Privately produced by a long time member of the ESC of 133 A4 pages. Few produced, so quite scarce  | £5.00 |
| 32 | Robson Lowe catalogue The “Royal” Collection of Egypt  | £2.00 |
| 33 | The Egyptian Flight L.Z. 127 – Graf Zeppelin by Blau and Deighton. 79 pages, 1981  | £5.00 |
| 34 | Ramleh Alexandrie, Its Development and Postal History, 1863-1929, by Ronny Van Pellecom, Peter Grech and Alain Stragier, 2010. 152pp, card back, packed with illustrations and original research. Occasional pencil marks inside, but excellent used copy .  | £30.00 |
| 35 | 1981, Palestine, Stamps (1865-1981), hardback, about 78 pages, detailing history of stamps for the area from Ottoman times to UN support for Palestinian stamps and postmarks, all of which are fully illustrated. Excellent condition .  | £10.00 |
| 36 | L’OP 140, June 2008, pristine, single copy  | £1.00 |
| 37 | 1934, Egyptian Government Almanac, detailing duties of all government ministries and departments and most important institutions – banks, companies etc. Truly vast amount of information inc 16 pages on the post office and recently instituted air mail service. 16x22cm, 500pp, cover gone replaced with hard card, looks scruffy but information is enormous! .  | £12.00 |
| 38 | L’OP 126, January 1973, pristine, single copy  | |
| 39 | L’OP 135, July 2004, single copy, good condition, Chaftar on Interpostals and on flaws on Harrison pictorials  | £1.00 |
| 40 | Postal History International magazine, Vol 3, Nos 6-9, 1974, with articles on “A Waghorn Letter Book” by F Rowland Hill; and Vol 4, Nos 3,4,8-9 and 10, with John Hobbs’s “British Forces in Egypt”. Excellent condition, good Egypt interest | £6.00 |
| 41 | Introducing Postal History, by Vivien J Sussex, an interesting and most useful little handbook explaining g postal history how it should be researched and displayed etc. British Philatelic Trust, 1988, 36 A5 pages  | £6.00 |
| 42 | National Geographic’s Mysteries of Egypt, 2009, three-DVD set with Egypt’s Underworld – Pathway to Eternity; King Tut’s Curse; and Into the Great Pyramid – totalling more than three hours of ancient Egypt organised by Zahi Hawass and Mark Lehner. Mint condition  | £6.00 |
| 43 | Egypt: The Rural Postal Service, 2010 publication by Mike Murphy and Ibrahim Shoukry, 190 A4 pages identifying and listing all known Rural Post markings. Hardback  | £15.00 |
| 44 | As last, but with card covers | £10.00 |
| 45 | Ancient Egypt, Six full-colour reproductions (appx 34x24cm) from David Roberts’ famous C19 collection. Evocative paintings printed on firm card, published 1986 by American University Press, Cairo. Card folder showing its age, but prints pristine  | £9.00 |
| 46 | 1931, La Liberte, special Egypt edition of French-language illustrated magazine, 75 pages lavish with sepia photographs of the King and visits all over the country, Automobile Club history, the good and the great. Cover gone, new binding failing  | £30.00 |
| 47 | 1945?, L’Evolution Nationale de l’Egypte, French-language history of political and economic development in the 50 years since 1892, presented as a series of significant events year by year and explaining their background. A4 size, paper cover  | £34.00 |
| Royal collection | ||
| 48 | 1950-51, three UNM Marechal definitives, all from the Royal Collection, as proved by the Saray Abdin vignette handstamped on the reverse: 1m, 4m and 10n, SG 291,294,296).  | £15.00 |
| Classical postal history | ||
| 49 | Italian PO in Alexandria. Front only of letter sent from Port Said to Arezzo via Alexandria, franked with Third Issue 1pi (SG 31) with two clear Port Said strikes of 3 MAI 1872. Cancelled by Italian PO en route, and charged “6”, that is 2x30c dues, on arrival in S. Sepolcro. Dues on cover rare!  | £100.00 |
| 50 | 1 VII 87, clean printed notice from Aghion & Suares Co in Alexandria (signed by both), and sent en ville to the Administration of the Khedivial Paquebots Postal Agency. Franked by 2x 5para DLR (SG 44). Paquebot stamp inside on arrival  | £100.00 |
| 51 | 27 XII 87, clean printed envelope of Alexander Weinberg company – Alexandrie, sent Imprimés to Leipzig and franked with DLR 10 para green (SG 52) with Clear ALEXANDRIE cds. No backstamp  | £100.00 |
| 52 | 2 XI 09, Arabic-addressed insured letter. Five-mills postal stationery envelope uprated with DLR 5pt (SG 63) and 5m (SG 56) stamps (on reverse) and sent from Nazali Ganub to Abu Tig via Asyut. Handwritten notation that the letter contains £E20 in cash, and furnished with large trilingual boxed INSURED handstamp on face and nine wax sealings on reverse. Note: cut down slightly at left  | £100.00 |
| Gaza postal history | ||
| 53 | 20 2 58, small Air Mail cover franked with Nefertiti £E1 overprinted in red with bilingual PALESTINE (NP 56), Arabic-addressed to Jerusalem and cancelled with clear Gaza / R, with Gaza Registration cachet alongside. The cover transited through Cairo Airport and received an Egyptian censor 42 mark in violet before receiving Jerusalem / 8 and Jerusalem Citadel arrival marks. Beautiful. How many can there be?  | £250.00 |
| Gaza Postal Order | ||
| 54 | 1962, Egyptian Postal Order value £E1 overprinted with boxed Palestine in Arabic for use in Gaza Strip. Bought at Deir el Balah on Dec 9, with two Palestine-overprinted 1m General Revenues, and cashed in Camp Cesare, Alexandria, three days later, with two unoverprinted Revenues on the reverse. Clean  | £30.00 |
| Gaza Revenues | ||
| 55 | 1948-55, Egyptian General Revenues – the Second Bilingual issue – overprinted for use in Palestine (Feltus p.10-11).1m Feltus 102), 5m (103), 10m red (104), 30m (107) and 200m red (209), all UMM  | £10.00 |
| Egypt/Gaza Stamps | ||
| 56 | 1893, First Official no-value stamp (SG O64), in right marginal block of four with plate number 1, UMM  | £15.00 |
| 57 | 1914, 3 mills DLR Pictorial (Ras el Tin Palace) (SG 75), UNM imperforate pair  | £15.00 |
| 58 | 1937-44, Boy King control block of ten from lower left corner of 13 mills (SG 255), control A/39. Unmounted mint  | £10.00 |
| 59 | 1953-54, Gaza/Palestine Farouk Air, 200 mills, doubly overprinted, with bilingual PALESTINE, and then with three bars. Block of four unmounted mint (SG 62)  | £15.00 |
| 60 | 1953-54, Gaza/Palestine. Boy King Farouk in right marginal block of ten overprinted with bilingual PALESTINE and three bars, unmounted mint (SG38)  | £10.00 |
| Egypt Stamp varieties | ||
| 61 | 1879, De La Rue 5 para stamp (SG 44, used 23 XI 80) with printing flaw in bottom centre panel – brown dot surrounded by white circle. This is NOT the well-known Nile Post flaw D 32a, and not well described, but interesting and Illustrated with a wonderful hand-drawn design  | £20.00 |
| 62 | 1879, same stamp as last but with a flaw much more like an early stage of the eventual joining of the two words barid masry in the bottom panel that became Nile Post D 32a. Stamp used in Alexandria SE 81  | £50.00 |
| 63 | 1957, 150th Anniversary of Victory over the British at Rosetta, 10 mills (SG 523) with perforation misplaced so that bottom of stamp appears at the top. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 64 | 1958, UAR/Egypt definitive set, 1m value (SG 553) with perforation misplaced so that UAR is displayed at the bottom of the stamp. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 65 | 1959/60 Air Mail set, 60 mills value (SG 622, Azhar University), with misplaced perforation so that upper inscription appears at the bottom. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 66 | 1963, 4m Eid Festival stamp (SG739), in lower left control block of 15 showing error 1913 instead of 1963 in Arabic date (position six on the block as shown. UMM  | £20.00 |
| 67 | 1989, centenary of birth of Jawaharlal Nehru, 5pi (SG 795), with frame misplaced horizontally. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 68 | 2005, presidential election, 30pi stamps (SG 2409) enormously misplaced perforation so that top one third of the stamp appears at the bottom. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 69 | 2015, Fourth Anniversary of the January 25th Revolution (£E2 stamp), marginal example showing strong horizontal perforation displacement, with right third of the stamp showing at the left. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 70 | March 2015, 26th Arab States Summit in Sharm el Sheikh (£E3 stamp) grossly misperforated in same manner as last. UNM  | £20.00 |
| 71 | July 25 2015, block of four and pristine first-day cover of withdrawn £E2 stamp commemorating Egypt as the “gift of the Nile”. Intended to carry an illustration of Hapi, god of the river, the central vignette shows an image of Osiris from the Book of the Dead. See QC 255, p.171  | £30.00 |
| Printing Experiment | ||
| 72 | 1960, The UAR Television Building in Cairo, no-value, unissued stamp, but gummed on reverse, UMM (Feltus p.199, described as a publicity and propaganda label)  | £10.00 |
| Sudan stamps | ||
| 73 | 1935, Fiftieth Anniversary of General Gordon, three high values of the issue: 2, 10 and 20 piastres (SG 63, 65, 66). Unmounted mint  | £20.00 |
| Sudan postal history | ||
| 74 | 17 MR 99, small cover addressed to UK and franked with 1, 2 and 3-mills Camel Post stamps all cancelled with rare Khartoum star and crescent CDS with information strike alongside. Reverse has Wadi Halfa / Camp transit and Whitchurch arrival April 8. Striking  | £140.00 |
| 75 | 6 SE 52, plain cover franked 2m,3m and 2pi (Air Mail), SG 124,125,115, addressed to New Jersey from Torit. Sudan Air Mail / Juba transit CDS on reverse  | £8.00 |
| 76 | 15 AUG 53, plain cover franked 5 x 1mill (SG 123) from Postal Agency / Gereif West to Brooklyn. Faint Khartoum machine transit behind  | £8.00 |
| 77 | 19 AUG 53, plain cover franked 2 x 1mill + 8 mills (SG 123,125) franked Postal Agency / El Hosh to Brooklyn. Wad Medani transit and Khartoum machine mark behind  | £8.00 |
| 78 | 25 VIII 53, plain cover franked with 5 x 1mill, 5, 10 mills and 10pi (SG 123, 127, 128, 137) for total 12pi reg air mail (trilingual label) to Indiana. Ornate El Geteina CDS and handwritten Reg label, Indianapolis arrival marks behind  | £8.00 |
| 79 | 30 AUG 53, plain cover franked with 2 x 10mill + 10pi (SG 128, 137) for reg air mail (trilingual label) to Indiana. Postal Agency / Halfaya el Meluk CDS and handwritten Reg label, Khartoum transit and Indianapolis arrival marks behind  | £8.00 |
| 80 | 9 DE 53, plain cover franked 4pi + 8pi (SG119,136) for reg air mail (trilingual label) from Kabushiya to Indiana. Reg label handwritten in English. Khartoum and Indianopolis marks behind  | £8.00 |
| 81 | 20 DEC 53, plain cover franked 2 x 4 ½pi + 2 x 15mills (SG 120, 129) for Air Mail (trilingual label) from Postal Agency / El Bauga, to Indiana. Reg label handwritten in Arabic. Khartoum transit, Indianopolis arrival behind  | £8.00 |
| 82 | 7 JAN 1954, plain cover franked 2 x 4 ½pi + 3pi (SG 120, 117) for reg air mail (trilingual label) to Indiana from Postal Agency / Abu Kershola to Indiana. Reg label handwritten in Arabic. Khartoum, Indianopolis marks behind  | £8.00 |
| 83 | 26 3 54, plain cover franked 2 x 4 ½ pi + 10 mills (SG120, 128) for Air Mail (trilingual label) to Indiana from Zeidab (printed Reg label alongside). Khartoum transit, Indianopolis arrival behind  | £8.00 |
| 84 | 5 5 54, plain envelope addressed to SA and franked with 2 x 2pi + 6pi Air Mail stamps (SG 115, 121) all cancelled Delco with trilingual Air Mail sticker and Par Avion Recomandee handstamp. Transit marks Wadi Halfa and Khartoum machine on reverse. Clean, neat  | £8.00 |
| 85 | 1 AUG 54, plain cover franked 2 x 4 ½pi + 2pi (SG120, 115) Air Mail stamps for reg air mail (trilingual label) from Postal Agency / Shambat to Indiana. Reg label handwritten in Arabic. Khartoum North, Khartoum and Indianopolis marks behind  | £8.00 |
| 86 | 15 DEC 54, 4 ½ P.T. surcharge on 3 ½ pi Camel Post stationery registered envelope (broken “4” in surcharge), cancelled Gebeit, Arabic addressed to Khartoum with hand-completed Reg label. Khartoum arrival CDS behind  | £10.00 |
| 87 | 15 JAN 55, 4 ½ P.T. surcharge on 3 ½ pi Camel Post stationery registered envelope (broken “4” in surcharge), cancelled Bara. Arabic addressed to Khartoum with printed Bara (Sudan) Reg label. Faint Khartoum arrival CDS behind  | £10.00 |
| 88 | 25 FE 56, merchant’s printed air envelope franked 3 x 15m for registration from El Mesellemiya to Khartoum. Reg label completed by hand, Khartoum arrival behind  | £8.00 |
| 89 | 22 11 59, Camel Post 4 ½ pi postal stationery registered envelope, uprated with 10 mill definitive (SG 28) and Aroma Reg label, Arabic-addressed from Aroma to Khartoum, faint arrival mark on reverse  | £8.00 |
| Egyptian Military mail | ||
| 90 | 1965, no-value aerogramme for military use only (vignette “pays postage”), red border but printed in black, sent from Line Division 9455/5 to Cairo  | £8.00 |
| 91 | As last, but printed in green  | £8.00 |
| 92 | 2003, large envelope(18 x 12.5cm) with military panorama on flap, cover used from Second Field Army to Dawawin, Cairo, with various military and civilian postal markings  | £8.00 |
| Children’s Savings Bank | ||
| 93 | 1970-8, six examples of pages from Children’s Savings Bank books, each with ten stamps cancelled when reimbursed. Sixty stamps in total from the first and second issues (see Feltus, page 72)  | £15.00 |
| Egypt Revenues and labels | ||
| 94 | 1899-1910, Cigarette Tax revenue stamps, six different including one wide, two perf and one marginal. Also Simon Arzt. Fine condition  | £10.00 |
| 95 | 1955-80, Cigarette Tax revenues (see Feltus pp.38-40, five different. with Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic and ARE. All except centre example mounted for strengthening  | £20.00 |
| 96 | 2012-16, modern Cigarette Tax revenue stamps – four different with designations including Tax Paid, Taxable and Duty Paid  | £10.00 |
| 97 | 2013-16, recent issues for the Lawyers’ Syndicate – 8 different, four designs, values ranging from £E1 to £E20  | £10.00 |
| 98 | 1941-62, Petrol Ration revenue stamps (see Feltus –p.203-4), eight different showing various types and various entitlements to kerosene  | £20.00 |
| 99 | 1948, doctor’s prescription receipt issued in Cairo and furnished with two strips of five of the Medical Sydnicate’s first issue of revenue stamps (23 mills, see Feltus page 87), together with a 3m General Revenue to pay the government tax. Remarkable  | £10.00 |
| 100 | 1947: Fund-raising labels, top left corner bloc of 4 x 10 mills labels sold to raise funds on behalf of the King Fuad Hospital charity. See Feltus pp. 202-3  | £10.00 |
| 101 | 1955-60, Three membership fee receipt stamps for the Alexandria Greek Club, dated respectively 1956, 1959, 1960. Unusual  | £5.00 |
| Cigarette advertising labels | ||
| 102 | 1930, Gabriel Mantzaris & Co of Alexandria and Cairo, Osiris brand cigarettes 10 x 7.5cm, mint  | £10.00 |
| 103 | 1930-40, Alex Livanos Egyptian Cigarettes, Alexandria & Cairo, 9.5 x 12.5cm, mint  | £10.00 |
| 104 | 1930-60, Simon Arzt, Egyptian Cigarette Manufactory, Alexandria and Port Said. Both labels say Established 1869, but one also has “Made in UAR”. 10 x 8,3 and 8 x 11cm. Mint  | £24.00 |
| Hotel interest | ||
| 105 | 21 I 95, small cover addressed to Holland franked with DLR 1pi blue (SG 54) and cancelled with Shepheard’s Hotel Type 3 CDS. Roermond arrival mark on reverse  | £8.00 |
| 106 | 30 XII 98, small envelope addressed to Lucerne and franked with DLR 2m (SG 59). Cancel is Type 1 of the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. Lucerne arrival (behind) is January 4. Neat  | £60.00 |
| 107 | 14 FE 99, French postcard of Ramesseum, franked 5mDLR and addressed to Dublin with message about return journey to Ireland. Cancelled with Luxor Hotel Type 1 CDS  | £8.00 |
| 108 | 1905-1910, three mint b/w Ghezireh Palace Hotel postcards specially made for Nicolas Papadopoulos  | £10.00 |
| 109 | 23 VIII 06, small cover, Arabic addressed to Minya and franked 5m DLR with excellent cancel of San Stefano Hotel Type 3 CDS (torn on opening but repaired), Transit Alex-Cairo TPO CDS and Minya arrival  | £10.00 |
| 110 | 7 XII 12, printed envelope of the Grand Hotel Liverpool in Cairo, franked with DLR 5m and cancelled Cairo Station for Assiout. Cairo-Asyut TPO and Asyut arrivals marks behind  | £14.00 |
| 111 | 27 JA 27, sepia photocard of Luxor Winter Palace, addressed to Berlin and franked with pair of 15 mills Cotton Congress (SG 147), cancelled with Winter Palace Type 5 CDS and very faint Registration cachet. Registered international postcards not common  | £20.00 |
| 112 | 26 FE 27, sepia postcard (Bisharin), posted without stamps, received Type 3 CDS of Cataract Hotel / Aswan with boxed-T tax mark, pencil 30 and red German tax handstamp on arrival  | £14.00 |
| 113 | 1 MR 35, hotel cover franked with 3, 20 and 30 mills of the 1933 Air Mails (SG 196, 204, 205, 53 mills) and addressed to Holland, cancelled with clear Winter Palace / Luqsor CDS (Type 5) with Registration cachet alongside. Cairo and Pescara Milano transit marks on reverse  | £38.00 |
| 114 | 4 JL 36, Shepheard’s Hotel printed cover addressed to Alexandria, franked with Fuad 15 mills (SG 161) for Registration (cachet handstamp) and cancelled with Shepheard’s Type 8 CDS. Cairo RD transit and Alex arrival behind  | £28.00 |
| 115 | 14 1 59, small brown cover franked with a selection of 11 Republic commemorative and definitive stamps (82 mills) and marked “Registered Seamail”. Cancelled Heliopolis Hotel / T.R., censor and Cairo transit, addressed to Kent  | £34.00 |
| 116 | 17 6 64, envelope printed for Alitalia’s Nile Hilton office, franked with Asian Railways conference 10m stamp (SG 794) and addressed to Alexandria. Cancelled with Hilton Hotel CDS Type 1. Alexandria Delivery machine arrival mark behind  | £6.00 |
| 117 | 2 10 77, Air Mail envelope addressed to UK, franked 140 mills cancelled with Sheraton Hotel Type 2 CDS, which had a life of only about four years. Unusual  | £20.00 |
| 118 | 27 12 77, as last, plain envelope, flap lost, franked 20 mills definitive for postage within Cairo. Same Sheraton Hotel CDS  | £20.00 |
| Postal Stationery / Railway Station markings | ||
| 119 | 3 DE 80, 20 para DLR p.s. postcard (NP SPC 1) used from Zagazig / Station to Alexandria. Arrivee CDS on the reverse  | £30.00 |
| 120 | 17 X 85, 20 para DLR p.s. postcard (NP SPC 1) used from clear Mansoura / Station to Cairo. Tanta / Station transit and Cairo arrival all on the face  | £20.00 |
| 121 | 26 FE 90, 1pi DLR p.s. envelope (wmk upright, NP SEN 2a) used from clear Suez / Station to Egyptian Gazette newspaper in Alexandria. Arrival CDS behind  | £20.00 |
| 122 | 19 AV 94, 20 para DLR p.s. postcard (NP SPC 1) sent from clear Alexandria / Station to France with red Modane a Paris transit and St Remy de Provence arrival behind  | £15.00 |
| 123 | 3 AV 95, 1pi DLR p.s. envelope (wmk inverted, NP SN 2), sent from good Alexandria / Station to Berlin. Arrival CDS behind  | £15.00 |
| 124 | 25 OC 33, 5 mills p.s envelope (wmk Al barid al masry, NP SEN 25), uprated with Fuad 15 mills (SG 160) for Express from clear Mansura / Station CDS to Alexandria. Wax seal behind, together with Alexandria / Delevary CDS. Neat, clean  | £14.00 |
| Railway Station markings | ||
| 125 | 23 XI 02, sepia card, Luxor – Temple of Amenophis, franked DLR 4m and sent to France from clear Aswan / Station. Transit TPO marking of Shallal-Luqsor alongside  | £15.00 |
| 126 | 22 I 05, b/w postcard (Denderah, The Temple) addressed to France and provided with 4 x 1m DLR from San Stefano (Station), earliest recorded date  | £20.00 |
| 127 | 20 VII 906, b/w card of Bethlehem franked 2 x 2m DLR for Isle of Man from a clear and rare Port Said / Station with stars each side of the date bar (indicating a replacement handstamp?)  | £30.00 |
| 128 | 7 III 08, thin card postcard of the Pyrenees, franked 1mill DLR and sent from Tanta / Station to Mansura, where it arrived at 1pm and was given a 2m Postage /due at 2.20pm  | £24.00 |
| 129 | 13 IX 12, Nuremberg-printed postcard, Bord du Nil, franked on the face with DLR 1+2m cancelled Ismailia / Station for France. Received boxed-T/0.5 en route, and 5c Postage Due on arrival. Port Said star/bridge transit on reverse  | £20.00 |
| 130 | 25 JL 33, Official entire, postage paid by Oval handstamp, sent from Ismailia / (Station) to Selim Bey Sednaoui in Cairo. Sealed, as per regulation, but bilingual Egyptian Government black/white labels  | £20.00 |
| 131 | 28 DE 36, Fuad 2m grey embossed visiting card envelope (NP SEN 27) uprated with 2 x 1m Fuad stamps and sent from Kafr el Zayat / (Station) to Arrau, Switzerland. Cotton Ginners handstamp behind  | £20.00 |
| 132 | 15 SE 39, neat little bilingual OHMS envelope, franked 5 mills Boy King booklet stamp and sent from Mansura / Station to the Military Hospital in Mankabad, Asyut. Transit/arrival marks behind  | £20.00 |
| Zeppelin | ||
| 133 | 11 April 1913, Original photograph snapshot on glossy paper (13.3 x 9cm) of the Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 flying over Cairo. Cachet of the Royal Agricultural Society’s Cotton Museum on the reverse  | £8.00 |
| Postal history | ||
| 134 | 20 XII 98, colourful “Souvenir du Caire” postcard franked with 5m DLR for Switzerland with excellent Caire-Alexandrie / crescent-and-star / Ambulant TPO marking (Type 2A3, not recorded before 1894)  | £6.00 |
| 135 | 18 III 10, Tony Binder humorous postcard – “A Flying Meal” in excellent condition franked 4m DLR for France and cancelled with fine strike of Hilwan  | £6.00 |
| 136 | 1945, small cover franked Fuad 2 mills (SG 234) cancelled with large red Post Office / Maritime Mail cancel and address to Martinez, California. (arrival machine cancel Nov 19). Marked in manuscript “Wrong address” and readdressed in pencil  | £5.00 |
| 137 | 1946, registered cover from Alexandria to Tel Aviv addressed in Hebrew and franked with the First Egyptian Stamp anniversary set SG 307-10) plus 2 x 1m Marechal to make 52 mills. Some flap lost ad some signs of foxing on stamps  | £8.00 |
| 138 | 1980, 30 mills postal stationery Air Letter (NP SALS4), uprated with four stamps totalling 80 mills and sent with Registration and Avis de Reception from Bab el Khalq, Cairo, to Agouza, also in Cairo. Reverse has redirection to the sender  | £7.00 |
| Siwa Oasis | ||
| 139 | 1942, A 1936 Fouad 3 mills brown postal stationery postcard (NP SPC6) with vertical pairs of the 1,2,3,4,5,6 mills Boy King stamps, and a single 6 mills, attached. Unaddressed, but all stamps cancelled with three clear strikes of Siwa 2 AU 42. Just a week before, Siwa had fallen to the Italians – perhaps they had fun with what they found there  | £60.00 |
| Instructional Markings | ||
| 140 | 9 III 00, printed envelope of the Societe Anonyme Agricole et Industrielle d’Egypte, franked with DLR 5m and 1pi for Registration from Cairo/R to Zagazig (Cairo Registration cachet alongside). On arrival recipient could not be found, the cover was marked Non Reclame (reverse) and returned to Cairo (May 1) bearing a good strike of the recently discovered and still rare bilingual Retour a Remettre / a l’Envoyeur / Zagazig  | £60.00 |
| 141 | 16 XII 02, much as the last, but initially addressed to Mansoura, and received large bilingual Non Reclame / Quoique Regulierement Notifie together with scarce Rebut … Mansoura. Originally sealed with stamp edging, the contents remain. Returned to Cairo sender on February 1st.  | £60.00 |
| Found Open labels | ||
| 142 | 1989, three covers, all addressed to Finland International Youth Service, all for some reason or other requiring resealing with “Found Open” label Type 18 before leaving Egypt. Odd | £10.00 |
| Egypt Taxed Mail | ||
| 143 | 23 JU 29, plain cover addressed to Denmark and franked with Fuad 10 mills. Received boxed-T in Egypt, Port Said Traffic transit mark and bold pencil “17” on arrival, then 10 ore and 7-ore Postage Due stamps. Striking  | £10.00 |
| 144 | 20 JL 33, b/w photocard, Port Said – In the Native Quarter, franked with pair of Fuad 5 mills for Romania, taxed on arrival in Bucharest and given a Romanian 2 lei Postage Due stamp  | £10.00 |
| 145 | 29 IX 36, plain cover franked Fuad 20 mills and sent from Alexandria to Beirut. Received boxed-T in Egypt and three Lebanese Postage Dues on arrival – 1, 3 and 5 piastres, cancelled in Beirut October 2  | £20.00 |
| 146 | 9 FE 43, Boy King 13 mills postal stationery card (NP SPC40) addressed poste restante to Rio de Janeiro and cancelled in Cairo. On arrival the card was taxed with a Brazilian 200Rs stamp - to pay poste restante fee or postage due? Either way, unusual  | £30.00 |
| 147 | 8 8 58, military used cover posted without stamps from Alexandria to Kafr Ashry. Received pencil “T” and military CDS before 8 + 22 mills Postage Dues affixed at Alexandria / A.4  | £10.00 |
| 148 | 1949-60, interesting mini-collection of five covers franked with Farouk or early Republican stamps, all taxed on arrival with foreign postage due stamps – France, Switzerland and Italy. Good condition  | £20.00 |
| Booklet Panes | ||
| 149 | 1919, booklet pane of 6 x 5m DLR (SG 33) used to pay the 3m tax on an all-Arabic receipt issued by the Girga Circle of Irrigation  | £30.00 |
| 150 | -2 SE 25, Cover from Abdallah Fahmy, Ras el Tin bodyguard to His Majesty King Fuad franked with 3 x 5m First Fuad booklet stamps for registration. Addressed to Cairo, with arrival on reverse. Central fold does not detract  | £10.00 |
| 151 | 22 MA 45, Arabic-addressed cover from Port Said to Cairo franked 8x 5m Boy King, being a booklet pane of six plus a pair from another booklet to make up the 40 mills for Express service. Port Said spotted that the back flap was loose and sealed it with a Found Open label (Type 8). Unusual  | £20.00 |
| Postal stationery | ||
| 152 | 1964-66, unrecorded no-value stationery lettersheet produced by the Arab Socialist Union, Nasser’s political party, intended for members’ use only. Pristine mint, vignette of worker and text all black  | £7.00 |
| 153 | As last, but printing of text in blue  | £7.00 |
| 154 | 2006, £E3 ½ cassette mail envelopes cancelled with the all-Arabic Laghy masalhy boxed cachet to annul the vignette price and for further use by the post office. Two pristine copies with different handstamps  | £10.00 |
| Rural Service | ||
| 155 | 6 VIII 90, Registered cover to Cairo, franked on reverse with 3 x 5m DLR. Face has Registration handstamp and village cartouche of Bachbiche and stamps cancelled with Service Rural numeral cancel of Mahalla (recorded 1889-1912)  | £40.00 |
| Merchants’ printed covers | ||
| 156 | 1926-59, colourful mini collection of printed covers by Greek merchants Anastassiadis, Vrettos, Athineos, Apostolidis and Athanassolis, addressed to Alex (2, one Express), Cairo, Germany, USA and Austria (2 Dues on reverse)  | £10.00 |
| TPOs | ||
| 157 | Interesting small 1917-1942 collection of covers or entires, all bearing different TPO markings, viz Bani Suef-Lahun, Minia el Gamh-Sahragt, Itai el Baroud-Cairo, Luqsor-Aswan, Qallin-Sherbin, Damanhour-Tanta  | £20.00 |
| Army Post | ||
| 158 | 1936 Postal Notice regarding the introduction of the Army Post stamps, folded .  | £5.00 |
| Postal Stationery | ||
| 159 | 1891 3 mill on 5 mill carmine Provisional Postal Stationery Card with Inverted Surcharge, fine unused, NP SPC5a  | £50.00 |
| 160 | 1916 3mill on 2 mill green Provisional Postal Stationery Card, unused, NP SPC24  | £40.00 |
| 161 | 1916 3 mill on 2 mill green Provisional Postal Stationery Card, used from Suez to Alex via Cairo, Ismailia - Suez TPO on reverse, two punched holes, NP SPC24  | £30.00 |
| 162 | 1913 10 mill blue Registered Postal Stationery Envelope, unused, fine, NP SRE2  | £50.00 |
| 163 | 1913 10 mill blue Registered Postal Stationery Envelope, uprated and used in 1919 from Faggala to UK, fine, tear on reverse from opening  | £30.00 |
| 164 | 1922 10 mill carmine Registered Postal Stationery Envelope, uprated and used in 1928 from Alexandria to UK, fine, opened two sides, NP SRE3  | £15.00 |
| 165 | 1922 10 mill lake Registered Postal Stationery Envelope, uprated and used in 1927 from Suez to UK, fine, NP SRE3a  | £15.00 |
| 166 | 1934 15 mill plum Registered Postal Stationery Envelope, unused, fine, NP SRE7  | £24.00 |
| 167 | 1934 15 mill plum Registered Postal Stationery Envelope, used in 1935 from Ramleh to UK, fine, opened two sides, NP SRE7  | £20.00 |
| British Navy labels | ||
| 168 | "We Realise in Egypt that the Safe Arrival of this Letter is Due to the British Navy" labels in a MNH sheet of 20 (a complete booklet pane), fine  | £24.00 |
| Specimen overprints | ||
| 169 | King Fouad 1st Issue, group of four values (2m, 3m, 4m & 20) with small red 'SPECIMEN' overprint. Similar to NP type C, MNH, missing perf on 20m  | £24.00 |
| Booklet panes | ||
| 170 | King Fouad 2nd Issue, 5 mill red-brown in booklet pane of 6 with A/33, A/34, A/35 control, MNH with interleaf adhering to margin, NP SB10a  | £30.00 |
| 171 | King Farouk, Young Portrait, 6 mill yellow-green, 2x booklet panes of 6, right & left margins, mint hinged, some trimmed perfs, NP SB15a  | £20.00 |
| 172 | King Farouk, Young Portrait, 6 mill yellow-green, bottom of sheet booklet pane of 12 with A/41, A/42 control, mint hinged, NP D141bk (var)  | £24.00 |
| 173 | King Farouk, Young Portrait, 5 mill red-brown, 4x booklet panes of 6, left margins, each with a different control (A/37, A/38, A/38 A/39, A/40), MNH, some trimmed perfs, NP SB13a/14a  | £40.00 |
| 174 | King Farouk, Young Portrait, 6 mill yellow-green, 10 mill purple & 15 mill violet-brown, each in a control booklet pane of 6, left margins, MNH, a couple of trimmed perfs, NP SB14b, c & 15a  | £50.00 |
| Egypt booklets | ||
| 175 | King Fouad 1930 210 mill booklet, blue cover, complete, fine, NP SB11  | £170.00 |
| 176 | King Farouk 1937 120 mill booklet, pink cover, complete, fine, NP SB13  | £100.00 |
| 177 | King Farouk 1939 210 mill booklet, blue cover, complete, fine, NP SB14  | £170.00 |
| 178 | King Farouk 1942 180 mill booklet, pink cover, left hand stitching, complete, fine, NP SB15  | £90.00 |
| 179 | King Farouk 1942 180 mill booklet, pink cover, right hand stitching, complete, fine, NP SB15  | £90.00 |
| 180 | King Farouk 1952 300 mill booklet, pink cover, complete, fine, NP SB17  | £250.00 |
| 181 | 1954 Defense 240 mill booklet, pink cover, left hand stitching, complete, fine, NP SB18  | £50.00 |
| 182 | 1954 Defense 240 mill booklet, pink cover, right hand stitching, complete, fine, NP SB18  | £50.00 |
| Postal Stationery | ||
| 183 | 1892 5m Postal Stationery Envelope in superb unused condition  | £7.00 |
| Royal Collection | ||
| 184 | 1936 King Fuad Army Post 3m as-issued Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £10.00 |
| 185 | 1927 French Fuad 1m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £15.00 |
| 186 | 1927 French Fuad 2m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £15.00 |
| 187 | 1927 French Fuad 5m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £15.00 |
| 188 | 1927 French Fuad 5m as-issued & X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £22.00 |
| 189 | 1927 French Fuad 10m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £18.00 |
| 190 | 1927 French Fuad 15m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £18.00 |
| 191 | 1936 Fuad Postes 5m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £17.00 |
| 192 | 1937 King Farouk 1m as-issued & X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £22.00 |
| 193 | 1937 King Farouk 3m as-issued & X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £24.00 |
| 194 | 1937 King Farouk 4m as-issued & X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £24.00 |
| 195 | 1944 King Farouk 20m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £20.00 |
| 196 | 1927 Postage Due 2m as-issued Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £4.00 |
| 197 | 1927 Postage Due 10m X-Back Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card | £7.00 |
| 198 | 1947 Fine Arts Queen Nefertiti 30m + 30m Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £12.00 |
| 199 | 1947 Fine Arts King Tut 50m + 50m Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £12.00 |
| 200 | 1951 King Farouk & Queen Nareeman Royal Wedding Ex-Royal Collection on Bileski card  | £50.00 |
| 201 | 1938 Officials complete set of 9 Ex-Royal Collection on 9 Bileski cards  | £50.00 |
| 202 | 1946 Arab League Congress complete set of 7 Royal Misperforate in superb MNH condition (very rare as only 100 sets exist)  | £700.00 |
| Suez Canal Company | ||
| 203 | 1868 Suez Canal 1C black type IV position #116 unused without gum (sound, but has a small cut from the right side)  | £120.00 |
| 204 | 1868 Suez Canal 5C green type I position #107 unused with gum (fully sound)  | £120.00 |
| 205 | 1868 Suez Canal 20C blue position #53 unused with gum (fully sound)  | £60.00 |
| 206 | 1868 Suez Canal 40C red type II position #84 unused without gum (fully sound)  | £100.00 |
| First Issue (1866) proof | ||
| 207 | Ten-para proof, unwatermarked, in good condition barring sl diagonal cut at top just touches top left corner  | £3.00 |
| Interpostals | ||
| 208 | Type III, Gedda in slate, Kehr 51a, Die A, 1867, mint no gum  | £15.00 |
| 209 | Type III, Gedda in slate, Kehr 51a, Die B, 1867, mint no gum  | £15.00 |
| 210 | Type IVa, Atfe, on buff, Kehr 109a, 1868, mint with full gum  | £4.00 |
| 211 | Type IVa, Ismailia, on blue, Kehr 125, 1868, mint no gum  | £3.00 |
| 212 | Type Vc, Alessandria, on grey, Kehr 274b, 1870, used with some marking, does not look like CDS  | £4.00 |
| 213 | Type VI, Alessandria Direzione, deep blue on white, Kehr 377b, Die II, 1872, mint with gum  | £3.00 |
| 214 | Type VIIIa, Sawakin, Kehr 708, tight-knit “plug” of say 20 examples, just as though they had come from the printing machine. Unseparated, and most probably a modern attempt at faking. Kehr value £25 most unlikely  | £10.00 |
| 215 | Type VIII, nine examples, mint, Edwa, Facouss, Fouah, Gouss, Kafr-Amar, Manchieh, Maraga, Mattahna, Mit-Gamr.. Edwa, Gouss, Mattahna have full gum  | £6.00 |
| 216 | Type IX, Minia, Kehr 782, IX, 1884, mint no gum  | £3.00 |
| Egypt Stamps | ||
| 217 | 1914-15 Officials, 2m right marginal block of eight showing variety “No stop after S” (second printing, position 118) SG 84a, mint full gum  | £18.00 |
| 218 | As last, top marginal pane of 36 (6x6), second printing SG 84, mint full gum  | £10.00 |
| 219 | As last, complete lower marginal pane of 60, second printing SG 84, with control number 1, top selvedge missing. Repaired tear at lower right affecting three stamps, smaller tears affecting selvedge  | £18.00 |
| 220 | 1926, set of three surcharges on Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition set (SG 135-37). Fine used  | £3.00 |
| 221 | 1926, set of three stamps of International Navigation Congress (SG 138-40), fine used  | £3.50 |
| 222 | 1933 Air Mail, 2m orange block of four with spot-on central CDS of Continental Hotel Cash CDS 11 MR 33  | £3.00 |
| 223 | 1947 Air set, assortment of nine control blocks of four, ranging from 2m to 30m (20m A/47 and A/48). All fine mint  | £9.00 |
| Egypt Recent Varieties | ||
| 224 | 1986, Sudan Drought Relief, lemon colour shifted significantly to right, over stamp edge (NP C1060a), only 50 known. MNH, with normal for comparison  | £18.00 |
| 225 | 1988, African Unity, silver colour (map of Africa) shifted significantly to right), NP C1124a), upper marginal copy, MNH, single sheet known  | £22.00 |
| 226 | 1988, as last, but magenta colour shifted significantly to right (NP C1124b), MNH, single sheet known  | £16.00 |
| 227 | 1995, Esna Barrage, black misplaced significantly upwards NP C1334a), MNH, with normal for comparison Only 50 known  | £18.00 |
| Cheeky Maxicard | ||
| 228 | 1915 cheeky maxicard: Ephtimios Freres colour card (Jeune fille egyptienne) en deshabille, franked on face with DLR 2m Pictorial showing Cleopatra VII similarly dressed. CDS is Port Said 13 III 15  | £15.00 |
| Classical period Postcards | ||
| 229 | Date? (no traffic) Upright mint sepia divided-back Cairo Postcard Trust photocard - Cairo, Davis Bryan Building, showing clear advertisements for YMCA and Pension Wales. Striking  | £8.00 |
| 230 | UPU single-back b/w mint card, Dahabeah, with small sail being rowed by its crew. Glorious, pencil mark behind, but excellent  | £10.00 |
| 231 | 3 V 14, upright b/w card (Cairo – A picturesque corner), as-mint card with a street scene showing incredible mashrabiyah and local workers. Franked DLR 2m for France, cancelled Cairo / I  | £10.00 |
| Postcards - archaeology | ||
| 232 | 19 joyous and colourful cards of Eastern Publishing Company’s “Gods and Kings” series (UAR period), all showing tomb wall paintings, mainly of classical scenes. All mint, good condition throughout  | £10.00 |
| Postcards | ||
| 233 | Three mint cards from same company as last, all with scenes of romance – Pyramids and camels, native street in Cairo, feluccas in the moonlight. Mint but two show signs of mounting  | £4.00 |
| 234 | Mint colour card with interior scene of Citadel Barracks, excellent condition  | £3.00 |
| Perfins | ||
| 235 | Aug 31, 1948, Socony-Vacuum complete service station account sent within Cairo and franked by 4m Marechal with clear company VO / Co perfin  | £6.00 |
| 236 | As last, same recipient, same stamp, same perfin, Oct 31 1948  | £6.00 |
| 237 | Various, four Egyptian perfins on loose stamps (Italian Bank, Credit Lyonnais, Ottoman Bank on Fuad definitives, and Anglo-Belgian Company on DLR pictorial 1m); plus APC from Palestine  | £6.00 |
| Postal stationery | ||
| 238 | 1888, 5m reply card (NP SPC4 in excellent mint condition (pencil mark on face)  | £4.00 |
| 239 | 3 VII 99, 1894 3m postcard (NP SPC7) marked Chargee and uprated with pair of DLR 5m stamps from Cairo to Missalah via Alexandria / CDS. Early registered postcard - unusual  | £10.00 |
| 240 | 1907, 2m on 3m provisional surcharge reply postcard (SPC13), excellent mint but unfortunately parted into two separate cards  | £4.00 |
| 241 | 10 I 14, DLR 2m stationery postcard (NP SPC 14) cancelled with Cairo / C, Arabic-addressed to Cairo with short message, reverse blank. “National Hotel” added in pencil on face – why?  | £4.00 |
| 242 | 1934, 1937, two examples of Fuad 2m grey embossed visiting card envelope (NP SEN27, vertical wmk), showing distinct shades of light and dark grey. Both with Cairo machine cancels, earlier retains two visiting cards  | £6.00 |
| 243 | 4 MA 34, Fuad 3 mills green stationery postcard (NP SPC 34) uprated with 2x3m Fuad stamps to make 10m rate to Vienna. Air Mail label pencilled out, interesting typed message. Excellent condition  | £10.00 |
| 244 | 1946, 4m Marechal stationery envelope (NP SEN 37), one mint one used  | £10.00 |
| 245 | 10 I 67, Festivals printed envelope (NP SEN 48, with smaller vignette), illegible postmark but sent to excellent clear Hadaiq el Qubba machine cancel on reverse Visiting card remains  | £5.00 |
| 246 | 4 1 68, Festivals envelope as last, but uprated with 1m definitive for new 5m rate, used from Cairo machine canceller in town  | £6.00 |
| 247 | 1966-issue 80m Nefertiti Air Letter SALS8 (list of countries on back), uprated with 20m 1972 definitive and apparently intended to be used to New York. But address incomplete and no postal markings. Oddity  | £8.00 |
| 248 | 7 3 67, 115m Air Letter NP SALS9 (with list of countries) sent from Cairo with Egyptian censor alongside to Pasadena. Good condition  | £12.00 |
| Discover Egypt 2004 booklet | ||
| 249 | Complete mint booklet with panes of 9 x 30pi, 9 x £E1.25, 9 x £E2, plus single stamps of 2 x £E5 and Tutankhamun mask at £E10. Egypt’s final booklet?  | £15.00 |
| 250 | Cancelled pane of 9 x 30pi stamps, with marginal selvedge  | £7.00 |
| 251 | Cancelled pane of 9 x £1.25 stamps  | £8.00 |
| 252 | Cancelled pane of 9 x £E2 stamps, with marginal selvedge  | £9.00 |
| 253 | £E5 Nefertiti stamp cancelled  | £4.00 |
| 254 | £E5 Sphinx stamp cancelled  | £4.00 |
| 255 | £E10 Tutankhamun stamp cancelled  | £5.00 |
| 256 | 22 1 2004, specially printed First-Day cover with three high-value stamps and special cancel  | £20.00 |
| 257 | As last, FDC for £E5 Nefertiti stamp with special cancel  | £10.00 |
| 258 | As last, FDC for £E5 Sphinx stamp with special cancel  | £10.00 |
| 259 | As last, FDC for £E10 “gold” Tutankhamun stamp with special cancel  | £15.00 |
| Postal history | ||
| 260 | 1 JY 79, small cover addressed to Cairo lawyer, franked with 1pi rose (SG 47) and cancelled with Alexandrie / A duplex. Post Egiziane / Cairo arrival mark behind same day  | £18.00 |
| 261 | 16 FE 84, small cover franked 1pi rose (SG 47) for Ambleside, cancelled with clear Port Said / Depart CDS, flap torn, but part Ambleside CDS on reverse 20 FE  | £8.00 |
| 262 | 1900 long mourning cover with wax seal of Crown over C and cachet of HBM Agency and Consulate General of Egypt on front, also signature that could be “Cromer”. No franking, but CDS Caire ?? III 00. Addressed to Tewfiq Palace Hotel, with Helouan arrival CDS on reverse  | £12.00 |
| 263 | 18 I 02, Beautiful clean commercial registered cover from Alexandrie with Alexandrie / Reg cachet alongside. Franked on reverse with horiz pair of 1pi blue plus total of four German handstamps  | £10.00 |
| 264 | 4 JL 02, 5m ps envelope (NP SEN6, uprated with 5m DLR for Germany and cancelled with clear Alexandria / Station CDS. Arrival mark behind, central fold does not detract  | £6.00 |
| 265 | 1pi postal stationery letter sheet (SLS 1), cancelled with Assiut-Cairo / TPO 23 II 10, with transit mark Cairo / A same day for Strasbourg. Sender’s handstamp on reverse. Message in German inside. Fully written up  | £4.00 |
| 266 | 28 VI 12, neat Arabic-addressed registered cover franked 2 x 2m + 4m DLR to cover en ville rate and registration within Ashmun. Clear CDS and excellent Ashmoun Gres reg cachet alongside.  | £8.00 |
| 267 | 1 NO 17 (from manuscript message), crisp clean colour card of Port Said, Jetty and Casino Palace Hotel, sending a thousand kisses from Egypt to France. Unfranked and imprinted on face with large circular cachet Marine Francais / Service de la Mer. Presumably travelled within an outer cover  | £8.00 |
| 268 | 20 OC 27, Clean registered Arabic-addressed cover franked 15m First Fuad from Tala. R&P with Reg cachet, to Cairo R&P and finally Azhar  | £6.00 |
| 269 | 3 MR 31, Imperial Airways First Flight cover Alexandria-Butiaba, Kenya, franked with 27 mills brown Air Mail stamp and 1,2,10 mills of Fuad 1927 issue. Kampala and Butiaba backstamps  | £7.00 |
| 270 | 26 SEP 39, Commercial printed envelope franked 4m Fuad with slogan machine cancel for Germany, “just” sealed. Boxed /t alongside but no tax raised on arrival  | £6.00 |
| 271 | 16 OC 39, cover addressed to UK Par Avion franked with three blocks of four of the Boy King 5m for a total of 60 mills, sent from Alexandria with Cairo machine on reverse  | £3.00 |
| 272 | 13 AUG 43, National Bank printed cover franked 2m Boy King + 50m Marechal (52 mills) for Air Mail (crossed through) to Tehran. Cancelled Cairo 4 roller machine, then censored by hexagonal No 87 and censored and resealed at both ends with different labels, further by Anglo-Soviet Persian and Russian(?) censors. Striking  | £12.00 |
| 273 | 2 SEP 1949, flimsy commercial printed envelope franked 2+10+20 mills Marechal (32 mills) for France, Cairo machine cancel, two censor marks and all-Arabic resealing label, corner lost  | £4.00 |
| 274 | 6 MR 56, b/w photocard (Luxor Temple) franked 17+50m Republic, cancelled Aerodrome Du Caire, Egyptian censor, sent to Johannesburg  | £3.00 |
| 275 | UAR period, date unknown. B/W picture postcard of piece of art (can be identified?) from a Cairo exhibition, mentioned in message for France. Marked Avion, franked 60m Air Mail + 2 x 10m UAR definitives, but cancelled only with three strikes of an Expres (single S) single-line handstamp. Unusual  | £6.00 |
| 276 | 23 DE 58(?), plain cover franked 2 x 10m + 35 m UAR Egypt definitives to cover registration and AR between Cairo and Giza. Astonishing, straight-line Avis de Reception handstamp used: very late date for this marking  | £24.00 |
| 277 | 1981, Colourful printed ARE Egyptian Railways envelope furnished with 5 x 70m Official (SG O1170) sent registered from Ahmad Badawi / RD to UK  | £4.00 |
| ‘New Issues’ | ||
| 278 | Total of 18 long envelopes from the Philatelic Bureau, 1966-82, to collectors delivering new issues and franked in 14 cases with blocks of four of the new stamp. One (1966) has no franking, one a single commem, one with three definitives, and the fourth with three Officials (1982). Mixed, interesting stamps | £6.00 |
| First Day, Souvenir covers etc | ||
| 279 | 20 JA 38, printed first-day cover with Farouk Royal wedding stamp (SG 265) and day of issue Philatelic Bureau CDS  | £3.00 |
| 280 | 1946, full set of stamps marking Cairo Philatelic Exhibition (SG 307-10), in blocks of four, on 24x15cm Exhibition cover and cancelled with centrally placed exhibition special handstamp for 28 FE 46 (day of Issue). Striking  | £10.00 |
| 281 | 9 AU 46, plain envelope with Cairo Citadel Evacuation (SG 313) and day of issue Philatelic Bureau CDS  | £1.00 |
| 282 | 9 NO 46, full set of Arab League Congress (SG 315-27) on plain cover, all cancelled with day of issue Philatelic Bureau CDS  | £2.00 |
| 283 | 1949, plain cover sent registered air mail to UK franked with “wrong colour” cutouts from the Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition miniature sheets. Cancelled 1 JL 49. Aeroport Farouk transit in blue. Colourful and novel  | £10.00 |
| 284 | 15.3.58, plain cover with 3m UAR Egypt definitive (SG 555) and FD cancel  | £1.00 |
| 285 | As last, smaller envelope  | £1.00 |
| 286 | 16 4 58, small visiting card envelope with marginal 4m UAR Egypt definitive (SG 556) and FD cancel of Port Said  | £2.00 |
| 287 | 2 6 58, Air Mail envelope with 1m UAR Egypt definitive (SG 553) and Cairo FDC cancel  | £1.00 |
| 288 | 10 12 68, two small covers, bearing 10m and 35m respectively of Gaza-overprint Human Rights issue (SG 98-9) with scallop-edge Gaza 2 / Palestine FD cancels  | £5.00 |
| 289 | 1987, specially produced cover marking performance of the opera Aida at Luxor Temple, unaddressed, with 5p stamp and special handstamp May 2-12 1987  | £3.00 |
| 290 | Similar to last, folded multicolour souvenir (No 302 of 1,000) with performance detail and 5p stamp with special cancel, pristine  | £3.00 |
| 291 | Similar to last, single A4 sheet with performance details, 5pi stamp and special cancel. No 339 of 1,000 produced, pristine  | £3.00 |
| 292 | Cairo 1991 stamp exhibition organised by Samir Fikry: souvenir card with 10pi special issue and miniature sheet for the exhibition (SG 1831 and MS 1832), each provided with special cancels.  | £6.00 |
| Star and Crescent cancels | ||
| 293 | 15 AV 89, excellent full strike of Damiette / star and crescent cancelling Arabic-addressed 5m postal stationery card (bottom right corner missing) with Tanta arrival  | £8.00 |
| 294 | 1 SE 96, full strike of Birket el Sab / star and crescent on 5m postal stationery envelope Arabic-addressed to Alexandria. Arrival mark behind  | £6.00 |
| 295 | 15 VII 02, Damiette-Tanta / star and crescent / Ambulant TPO 2A3.1 transit mark on reverse of 5m postal stationery envelope sent from Samanoud to state railways cashier in Tanta (arrival behind)  | £8.00 |
| 296 | 16 X 04, Caire-Alexandria / star and crescent / Ambulant TPO 2A3.1 transit mark on b/w postcard franked 2m DLR on face and sent from Cairo to Paris  | £6.00 |
| 297 | 12 VIII 05, CDS as last on colour card (pyramids and Nile) sent to Cornwall franked by 2 x 1m, 2m DLRs  | £6.00 |
| Modern Essays | ||
| 298 | 1959, printing experiment (first known production of Postal Printing House press) based on anniversary of United Arab States (UAR and Yemen), as NP C219. Perfed, no wmk: blue, light blue, purple, vermilion, olive, all MNH  | £15.00 |
| 299 | As last, perfed without watermark: vermilion, blue, MNH  | £6.00 |
| 300 | As last, perforated with watermark: rose-red, deep blue, purple, blue, vermilion, all MNH  | £15.00 |
| 301 | As last, perforated with watermark: rose-red, MNH  | £3.00 |
| 302 | 1970s, Postal Authority Press essay: mosaic face in blue, with writing reversed, in Arabic “Experiment without value). NP E548, horizontal pair, MNH  | £12.00 |
| 303 | As last, single MNH  | £6.00 |
| 304 | 1980s, Essay for President Moubarak (NP E549), astonishing variety of multicoloured part printings, perforated and imperforate or misperforated, showing colour make-up. Seven singles, all fully gummed, MNH  | £34.00 |
| 305 | As last, four singles MNH  | £16.00 |
| 306 | As last, five horizontal pairs and a single imperf in yellow. All fully gummed, MNH  | £44.00 |
| 307 | Undated, essay labelled “experiment without value” showing pupil at desk: light blue, perforated, with ellipses watermark, fully gummed and MNH  | £8.00 |
| 308 | As last, dark blue without watermark, MNH  | £8.00 |
| 309 | 1970, no-value stamps/essays(?) printed for the Kima Factory in Aswan in various colours, perforated but without watermark, fully gummed, on thin and thicker paper: orange, olive, blue, deep blue-green, brown, deep brown, six colours all MNH  | £30.00 |
| 310 | As last, five colours: brown, purple, orange, olive, blue, all MNH  | £24.00 |
| 311 | As last, deep purple marginal strip of four with last two stamps failing to print apart from a smudge. Pencil marks in margin indicate 28 IX 70. MNH and scarce  | £24.00 |
| 312 | Undated, stamp/essay for UAR Television building. See Feltus pp 199-200, where described as “publicity labels .. produced by printers of postage stamps”. Perforated, no wmk, attractive MNH  | £5.00 |
| 313 | Similar to last, also mentioned by Feltus, Son et Lumiere at the Citadel, in two colours, blue and brown as escribed by Feltus  | £10.00 |
| 314 | Undated, experimental printing of stamps featuring a bunch of flowers. Perforated, no wmk, full gummed, MNH. Eight various  | £24.00 |
| Parcel cards | ||
| 315 | Approx 1990s-2000s, accumulation of 19 parcel cards, all shapes and sizes, covered in stamps including several £1 values and a miniature sheet. Opportunity for research/ soaking off?  | £9.00 |
| Postal documents | ||
| 316 | 29 December 1889, remarkable printed folded document being a royal decree by Umberto I, King of Italy, agreeing that postal correspondence between Italy and Alexandria of Egypt should henceforth be applied under the tariffs of the Universal Postal Union. Fragile but complete  | £12.00 |
| 317 | 16 NO 64, Postal Identity card for Hanem Abbas Radwan, her photograph tied with 60 + 40m definitives, tax paid with 30m General Revenue, all cancelled by Alexandria . Renseignements CDS. Clean, neat, unusual  | £12.00 |
| Wartime | ||
| 318 | 6 MR 16, eight cutouts showing DLR pictorials apparently used from Field Post Office / 158 (one of them has Army Post Office bars cancel) and censored with one of three triangular censor arks – 3388, 3389 or 3711, but more likely to have been idle Welsh medical hands at work. See QC 122, p.157 and 125, p231  | £6.00 |
| 319 | Oct-Nov 1941, Complete Airgraph from J. Monk, serving with HQ 2302 Group, RAF Middle East, sent to Lancashire and complete with full delivery envelope, with machine cancel Nov 178. Airgraph was written Oct 10. Neat, fascinating  | £12.00 |
| 320 | 1942, British stamps overprinted M.E.F. for use by British troops in occupied Italian North Africa: nine darker-shade pairs ranging from 1d to 2s 6d, all MNH mint. Remarkable condition  | £8.00 |
| Egyptian military | ||
| 321 | 1958, unfranked cover sent from Abu Shusha to Cairo. Received pencil T en route, arrived Cairo 25 AUG green roller canceller, followed by 20m Due next day, and eventually small trilingual REFUSED handstamp. Contents remain  | £6.00 |
| 322 | 1964, unfranked barid harby cover, Arabic addressed, with hexagonal Unit 42 CDS and violet military censor. Machine arrival Sidi Gaber behind. Unopened  | £4.00 |
| 323 | 1967, large printed cover addressed to Cairo, franked with 35m Official stamp plus Official Oval for Registration, received military unit 23 hexagonal datestamp. No backstamps, contents remain  | £6.00 |
| Israel in Sinai | ||
| 324 | 3 1 57, Khan Younes unaddressed souvenir cover with Israeli 60 stamp cancelled by trilingual Israeli CDS to mark opening of Israeli PO. Cover shows earlier Khan Younes handstamps. Clean, neat  | £5.00 |
| 325 | 8 6 67, unaddressed Israeli “map” souvenir cover with Israeli 12 stamp cancelled by all-Arabic hexagonal handstamp (date in pencil) marking day of occupation of Tor aerodrome. Clean, neat  | £5.00 |
| 326 | Undated, similar to last, but plain cover with Egyptian 5m as well as Israeli 15 stamp, each cancelled with hexagonal handstamp with no date written in. No other marks  | £3.00 |
| Egyptian Airport markings | ||
| 327 | 8.9.69, barid harby plain envelope, unfranked, Arabic-addressed to Cairo (Hadaiq el Qubba machine arrival behind), posted from El Luqsor / Air Port CDS (Sears p.175), faint military marking. Unusual  | £6.00 |
| 328 | 20 10 69, much as last Air Mail envelope, unfranked, sent from El Luqsor / Air Port via fain military markings to Cairo and Hadaiq el Qubba machine canceller  | £6.00 |
| 329 | 5 9 76, intriguing attempt at a first-flight cover? Typed for carriage by EgyptAir flight MS 806 Cairo-Vienna, it has a bold German notification saying No postal transport available by this flight. Franked with 110m Egyptian Air Mail cancelled by 14 / Cairo Air Port (Sears p.174)t. Returned spotless  | £6.00 |
| 330 | 16 10 86, Air Mail envelope used to send entry to Cairo media competition, franked with pairs of 10m and 30m definitives, used from Bilbes / Aerodrom DS (Sears p.175)  | £6.00 |
| TPO markings | ||
| 331 | 6 IV 09, 1pi postal stationery envelope (NP SEN 2a) addressed to Basel and cancelled with scarce Tamia-Edwa Fayoum Light Railways TPO, as Type 8A1 but with Arabic in two lines with bi-Fayoum below. Recorded only Dec 04 to Jul 07. Two more part-TPOs on reverse, with Basel arrival. Neat  | £14.00 |
| 332 | 9 JA 43, printed cover franked Boy King 6m for Cairo, cancelled with faint Cairo-Tanta / & VV (Type 7A3.4, recorded DE 32 to MR 45). Cairo machine arrival behind  | £2.00 |
| Taxed and Postage Due | ||
| 333 | 30 X 94, fragment of much-travelled cover, with boxed-T marking accompanying Challal-Wadi Halfa CDS (TPO Type 8A7) with 1pi Postage Due alongside cancelled Caire 4 XI 94.  | £8.00 |
| 334 | 25 XI 01, b/w card of Phylae, unfranked, sent from Alexandrie / D to Zagazig, wishing compliments to Mathilde. Boxed T, but no Due raised – because it was addressed to a postal agent?  | £4.00 |
| 335 | 28 MR 19, colour card “Port Said, Jardin de Lesseps” franked with 3m DKR Pictorial for Chester, cancelled Port Taufiq / D but received boxed T / 05 en route. No tax raised in UK  | £4.00 |
| 336 | 6 NO 23, b/w postcard “Native Girl” franked 5m First Fuad for London, but given a boxed T with Abu Qir CDS because apparently reused. No Due raised in UK  | £5.00 |
| 337 | 12 DE 31, blue cover addressed to Kent and franked with pair of 5m Fuad from Minya. Boxed T applied, and 1 1/2d I.S./Q handstamp on arrival. Clean  | £5.00 |
| Stamps | ||
| 338 | 1867 1pi, sewing machine-perforated vertically on both sides (SG 14var, NP D11l, MB 11var), very fine used  | £20.00 |
| 339 | 1872 20pa, perforation 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, top left frame broken, (SG 30var, NP D16var, MB 16var), very fine used  | £15.00 |
| 340 | 1872 20pa LITHO, perforation 13 1/3 x 13 1/3, white hole in front of PARA, (SG 26var, NP D21v var, MB 21var), very fine used  | £50.00 |
| 341 | 1872 1pi LITHO, perforation 12 1/2 x 13 1/3, (SG 27, NP D22, MB 22 cat $60), very fine used  | £15.00 |
| 342 | 11879 20pa with rare upright watermark (SG 46, NP D36a, MB 36a cat $100), very light hinge mint  | £40.00 |
| 343 | 1906 1m, watermark inverted (SG 58var, NP D45a, MB 45a), very fine used  | £7.00 |
| 344 | 1906 2m, watermark inverted (SG 59var, NP D46a, MB 46a cat $40), very fine used  | £7.00 |
| 345 | 1906 5m, pair top stamp with white hole of "P" of POSTES (SG 63var, NP D50b cat $60, MB 50var), very fine used  | £20.00 |
| 346 | 1914 5m, watermark inverted (SG 77var, NP D57a, MB 57b cat $40), very fine used  | £7.00 |
| 347 | 1925 Geographical congress set (SG 123-125, NP C4-6, MB 1-3 cat $50), unmounted mint  | £15.00 |
| 348 | 1933 Railways set (SG 189-192, NP C38-41, MB 33-36 cat $85), unmounted mint  | £24.00 |
| 349 | 1933 UPU set (SG 219-232, NP C47-60, MB 42-55 cat $388), very fine used  | £100.00 |
| 350 | 1937 Farouk boy set of 11 (SG 248-258, NP D136-146, MB 143-153), unmounted mint  | £2.00 |
| 351 | 1938 Birthday £E1 (SG 272, NP C82, MB 77 cat $175), marginal copy with hinge on margin, stamp is unmounted mint  | £100.00 |
| 352 | 1944 Farouk soldier set of 11 (SG 291-301, NP D155-165, MB 162-172), unmounted mint  | £5.00 |
| 353 | 1952 Farouk overprinted set to 22m (SG 373-383, NP D173-183, MB 180-190), unmounted mint  | £7.00 |
| 354 | 1953 pictorial postage set of 19 (SG 414-432, NP D192-210, MB 199-217), unmounted mint  | £24.00 |
| 355 | 1953 bars set of 19 (SG 436-454, NP D211-229, MB 219-237 cat $100), unmounted mint  | £60.00 |
| 356 | 1953 6m Farouk boy bars, block of four, traces of double bars (SG 437 var, NP D212, MB 220), unmounted mint  | £7.00 |
| 357 | 1953 4m perforations shifted downward "EGYPTE" at bottom (SG 498var, NP 239a, MB 260a cat $200), unmounted mint block of four  | £50.00 |
| 358 | 1957 block of four, green spot on nose of plane plus inverted watermark (SG 545-6a var, NP C189b-190a-190b, MB 177-178a-178b cat $60), unmounted mint  | £12.00 |
| 359 | 1958 10m, corner block of four, watermark sideways to the left, (SG 560 var, NP C197a, MB 185a cat $100), unmounted mint  | £15.00 |
| 360 | 1959 Nefertiti 55m on 100m, misplaced overprint "U" missing, (SG 588var, NP D252b, MB 274b cat $40), marginal corner copy unmounted mint  | £10.00 |
| 361 | 1959 Definitives set of 17 plus overprinted £E1 (SG 603-619, 634, NP D253-270, MB 275-292), unmounted mint  | £20.00 |
| 362 | 1959 500m Nefertiti, red colour badly misplaced leftward (SG 619 var, NP D269b, MB 291a cat $30), unmounted mint.  | £7.00 |
| 363 | 1964 Definitives set of 15 (NP D275-289, MB 297-311), unmounted mint  | £12.00 |
| 364 | 1969-71 Definitives set (SG 1039-47, NP D292-300, MB 314-322 cat $70), unmounted mint  | £34.00 |
| 365 | Errors and varieties group of stamps and blocks, recorded and unrecorded. Very high cat and hard to assemble, unmounted mint  | £30.00 |
| 366 | Errors and varieties group of stamps and blocks, recorded and unrecorded. Interesting group, used  | £10.00 |
| 367 | Watermark errors group of stamps and blocks, inverted and reversed, unmounted mint and used. Nice very high cat lot  | £44.00 |
| Air Mail | ||
| 368 | 1948, 22m on 200m marginal block of four including "8 broken forming C" error, position 27 (SG 349-350 var, NP C120a, MB 44c), unmounted mint  | £7.00 |
| 369 | 1953 15m, block of four, inverted watermark (SG 434 var, NP A53a, MB 58a cat $80), unmounted mint  | £15.00 |
| 370 | 1953 40m, block of four, inverted watermark (SG 463 var, NP A62a, MB 67a cat $300), unmounted mint  | £24.00 |
| 371 | 1958 15m, corner block of four, watermark sideways to the left (SG 561 var, NP C198a, MB 186a cat $100), unmounted mint  | £15.00 |
| 372 | Errors and varieties group of air mail stamps and blocks, recorded and unrecorded. Very high cat and hard to assemble, unmounted mint and used  | £10.00 |
| Express | ||
| 373 | 1926-1952, the five express stamps (SG E138,139,289,290,404, NP EX1-5, MB 1-5 cat $65), unmounted mint  | £20.00 |
| Officials and Postage Dues | ||
| 374 | 1898 3m on 2pi PD block of four with one dot instead of two over Arabic "qaf" and Arabic "3" broken forming "2" errors (NP 19j-19c, MB 19h, 19b cat $75), unmounted mint  | £20.00 |
| 375 | 1923 5m Official with "el malakeya" and "el masreya" spaced out error plus normal stamp for comparison, position 12, very fine used  | £10.00 |
| 376 | 1993 25pi unmounted mint strip of 10 stamps showing 2 normal, 1 colour missing in bottom eliminating value and inscription, 7 completely blank stamps. (NP O121var)  | £15.00 |
| Palestine (Gaza Strip) | ||
| 377 | Errors and varieties group of stamps and blocks, recorded and unrecorded. Interesting group, unmounted mint  | £10.00 |
| 378 | 1948 postage due 2m, 8m, 10m blocks of eight ALL contain "Dot between I & N of PALESTINE" unrecorded error (NP PPD1,4,5 var), mint without gum  | £50.00 |
| Postal history, postmarks and perfins | ||
| 379 | 1935 "PAQUEBOT PORT SAID" cover to England  | £5.00 |
| 380 | 1936 Farouk boy RETTA censored cover to England  | £7.00 |
| 381 | 1949 CITEX PARIS stamp exhibition special flight cover to France. Vignettes block on back  | £15.00 |
| 382 | PAQUEBOT cancel on stamps and cover. Nice lot  | £10.00 |
| 383 | F.P.O and M.P.O cancel on stamps and "15 BASE POST OFFICE" cover. Nice lot  | £10.00 |
| 384 | Rural Service BELQAS - ESBET EL SENGAWEYA cancel on fragment  | £3.00 |
| 385 | Rural Service MATARIA CAIRO on 5m pictorial strip of three  | £3.00 |
| 386 | Used Abroad METELINO on 1872 20 para  | £10.00 |
| 387 | Used Abroad SMIRNE on 1872 1 pi  | £10.00 |
| 388 | Used Abroad GEDDA on DLR 1881 1pi blue  | £10.00 |
| 389 | Used Abroad SAWAKIN on DLR 1881 1pi blue  | £10.00 |
| 390 | Perfins, a group of 12 used stamps  | £5.00 |
| Postal History | ||
| 391 | Printed cover, registered and AR, is a 1958 internal letter with contents, franked 55 mills soldiers cancelled at Shubra (Cairo) with Shubra Gardens next day on reverse .  | £4.00 |
| 392 | 1955 Civil censored air cover franked 49 mills soldiers cancelled Alexandria 1.D to Zurich  | £2.00 |
| 393 | 1933 Air cover (crested on reverse) franked 28 mills from Sidi Gaber T to Cambridge SG 133 and 148 to make rate, Alex transit au verso; bilingual air etiquette  | £3.00 |
| 394 | Registered airmail cover to London 29.11.37 with all Farouk Boy King issued from Abu Qir – this is not a first day cover. Alex R2 transit on reverse  | £4.00 |
| 395 | First flight 1976 EgyptAir cover Kairo to Wien franked SG1172 cancelled at Cairo Airport with Vienna receiver same day. (Sent by Hermann Sieger, author of the Zeppelin catalogues)  | £3.00 |
| 396 | Two long 110 mills air covers from 1970s to same addressee in Denver, Colorado, each with commemorative (a) Aida, (b) St. Catherine’s Monastery  | £2.00 |
| 397 | S. Rothenberg pre-printed commercial air cover franked Farouk Maréchal 77 mills including 30m airmail sent Cairo to London  | £3.00 |
| Boy King | ||
| 398 | Boy King A/40 control block of six x 1 millième value, unusually used, at Port Said with unperforated margins – sadly not the watermark inverted version  | £3.00 |
| 399 | Boy King: a selection of nine control blocks lightly mounted mint of the 3 mills value – all different, some have perf margins, some imperf margins  | £12.00 |
| 400 | Boy King; a further accumulation of Boy King control blocks of the 3 mills, some duplication, all lightly mounted mint  | £9.00 |
| 401 | Boy King; three control blocks of the 6 mills, one, unusually on the right of the sheet, all different and lightly hinged mint  | £6.00 |
| 402 | Boy King; two identical A/40 A/41 control blocks of four of the 6 mills value but with a significant difference in shades  | £4.00 |
| 403 | Boy King, two blocks of six of the 20 mills grey A/39- A/40-A/42-A/43 one with imperf margins, the other with perf. margins. both very lightly mounted mint  | £10.00 |
| 404 | As above, again very lightly mounted mint  | £10.00 |
| Sudan stamps The following 35 lots are listed for the first time in the new SG North-East Africa catalogue. | ||
| 405 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10 PT in black, left upper corner block of four, VF mint NH, SG 410a.  | £40.00 |
| 406 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED, upper marginal pair, VF mint NH and very rare, SG 410a variety  | £24.00 |
| 407 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10 PT in blue, left upper corner block of four, VF mint NH, SG 410aa  | £40.00 |
| 408 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED, upper marginal pair, VF mint NH and very rare, SG 410aa variety  | £24.00 |
| 409 | 1985, as last but surcharge in RED (very rare), both normal and INVERTED, fine used singles, SG 410 ab and variety  | £24.00 |
| 410 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 20 PT in black. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, very rare, Michel cat €1000 + , SG 410 b  | £50.00 |
| 411 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four, very rare, Michel cat €1000 + SG 410b variety  | £60.00 |
| 412 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 20 PT in blue, VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, very rare, Michel cat €1000, SG 410 ba  | £55.00 |
| 413 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED, VF mint NH right marginal block of four, very rare, Michel cat €1000 + SG 410 ba variety  | £65.00 |
| 414 | 1985, as last but surcharge UPRIGHT on stamps position 4 & 9 and INVERTED on stamps position 5 & 10, a fascinating piece, VF mint NH right upper corner block of four, very rare, Michel cat €1000 + , SG 410 ba & variety  | £75.00 |
| 415 | 1985, as last but surcharge in violet and INVERTED, VF mint NH right marginal block of four, very rare, Michel cat €1000. SG 410 bb variety  | £60.00 |
| 416 | 1985, as last but surcharge in red and INVERTED, fine used single, very rare, SG 410 bc variety  | £20.00 |
| 417 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10 PT in black. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four, rare, Michel cat €1000, SG 410 C  | £50.00 |
| 418 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH upper marginal block of four, very rare, Michel cat €1000 + SG 410 C variety  | £60.00 |
| 419 | 1985, as last but surcharge black and UPRIGHT with surcharge MISSING on one stamp, a beautiful piece. VF mint NH lower marginal block of six, Michel cat €1250 + SG 410 c variety  | £70.00 |
| 420 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp — surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10 PT in blue. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, rare, Michel cat €1000, SG 410 ca  | £55.00 |
| 421 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH upper marginal block of four, very rare, Michel cat €1000 + , SG 410 ca variety  | £60.00 |
| 422 | 1985, as last but horizontal strip of four, one stamp with double surcharge, VF mint NH, rare, Michel cat €1000 + , SG 410 ca & variety  | £55.00 |
| 423 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10 PT in red (very rare). Fine used vertical pair, one stamp without surcharge, interesting, Michel cat € 250 + , SG 410 cb  | £20.00 |
| 424 | 1985, 1962 definitive handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 20 PT in black & INVERTED. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, very rare. SG 410 d variety  | £60.00 |
| 425 | 1985, as last but surcharge in blue, very rare, VF mint NH control number 8B corner single and fine used single with INVERTED surcharge, SG 410 da and variety  | £24.00 |
| 426 | 1985, as last but surcharge in red (very rare). Fine used single with "Khartoum" cancel in Arabic. SG 410 db  | £15.00 |
| 427 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10 PT in black. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, rare, SGO410 a  | £40.00 |
| 428 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, rare SGO410a variety  | £50.00 |
| 429 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10 PT in blue. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name. SGO410aa  | £40.00 |
| 430 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH right lower corner with printer's name, block of fourrare SGO410aa variety  | £50.00 |
| 431 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 10 PT in red (very rare). VF mint NH lower marginal block of four. SGO410 ab  | £55.00 |
| 432 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £5 on 20 PT in blue, normal (VF mint NH right marginal single) and INVERTED (fine used single) , very rare, SGO410ba & variety  | £40.00 |
| 433 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10 PT in black. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four. SGO410 c  | £45.00 |
| 434 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, rare, SGO410c variety  | £50.00 |
| 435 | 1985, as last with surcharge in black & INVERTED but stamp in position 10 has normal UPRIGHT surcharge. Fascinating piece. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four. SGO410c & variety  | £70.00 |
| 436 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10 PT in blue. VF mint NH left upper corner block of four. SGO410ca  | £45.00 |
| 437 | 1985, as last but surcharge INVERTED. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name, rare. SGO410ca variety  | £50.00 |
| 438 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 10 PT in red (very rare). VF mint NH right upper corner block of four, SGO410 cb  | £55.00 |
| 439 | 1985, 1962 Official handstamp surcharged in Arabic £10 on 20 PT in black (normal & INVERTED) and in blue (normal & INVERTED). Four stamps in fine used condition, very rare. SGO410d, da and variety  | £50.00 |
| Printing Experiment | ||
| 440 | 1959, 1st Anniversary of United Arab States printing experiment. VF mint NH four perforated and watermarked (eclipses) singles (different colours). NP $ 100  | £24.00 |
| Essay | ||
| 441 | 1971, Essay showing President Nasser and an eagle in the background, 20m value crossed with "printing experiment" in Arabic, blue perforated on watermarked paper (large eagles), VF mint NH left marginal block of four. NP#E 546, NP $ 200 = $ 800, rare  | £250.00 |
| Imperforate stamps | ||
| 442 | 1958, "Qassim Amin", VF mint NH right marginal single. NP#C 200 b, cat. $ 75  | £34.00 |
| 443 | "Sayed Darwish", VF mint NH upper marginal single.NP # C 207 a, cat $ 75  | £34.00 |
| 444 | 1963, Airmail definitive stamp, 20 m value. VF mint NH right upper corner single, rare. NP # A 80 b  | £65.00 |
| Oblique perforation | ||
| 445 | 1929 Express mail stamp, 20m, red with grey centre, VF mint NH single. NP # Ex 2 b, cat $ 50  | £24.00 |
| Egypt stamps | ||
| 446 | 1972 Definitive stamp 100m value (Cairo Citadel) with no watermark, rare, VF mint NH left marginal block of four  | £50.00 |
| 447 | 2014, Withdrawn set for "New Suez Canal" with error middle stamp showing Panama Canal. Only 4080 sets were sold according to QC article, rare. VF mint NH  | £50.00 |
| 448 | 2014, as last but used, on piece from cover and cancelled with cancel date 11-9-2014!  | £50.00 |
| Errors and Varieties | ||
| 449 | 1959, Airmail definitive stamp 60m value with horizontal perforation shifted downward across "UAR". VF mint NH left marginal vertical pair. NP # A77 b, cat. $ 50  | £22.00 |
| 450 | 1993/94 Definitive 15 pi value Sphinx with horizontal perforation shifted downward so that "EGYPT" and “masr” are at bottom instead of top of stamp. Only one sheet of 80 stamps known to exist. VF mint NH upper marginal vertical pair with extra "EGYPT" in margin with normal for comparison. NP # D338a, cat. 2 x $60 = $120  | £50.00 |
| 451 | 1989, Birth centenary of Nehru with green frame shifted to the right by 4mm. One pane of 50 is known to exist. VF mint NH single with normal for comparison. NP 1145 a, cat $ 150  | £50.00 |
| 452 | 1989, as last but with design, not frame, shifted upwards and to the right thus making "EGYPT" and “masr” are at bottom of the stamp and exposing incorrect birth centenary dates in Arabic which were obliterated by a decorative band in the normal stamp. Fascinating error. Only one pane of 50 is known to exist. VF mint NH single with normal for comparison. NP#C 1145 b, cat. $ 200  | £90.00 |
| 453 | 1995, 50th Anniversary of Arab League with gold colour shifted downward by 3 mm. and to the right. VF mint NH single with normal for comparison. NP # C 1315 a, cat. $ 50  | £22.00 |
| 454 | 1994, U.N. Conference on Population and Development with green background shifted 5 mm. downward, so that the words "EGYPT", "MISR" and "Barid" appear on white background instead of green. Only one pane of 50 is known to exist. VF mint NH lower marginal vertical pair with normal for comparison. NP # C1290a, cat. $ 50 x 2 = $100  | £38.00 |
| 455 | 2005, International year for Sports with red colour shifted to the left by 2 mm creating double image. VF mint NH lower marginal single with normal for comparison  | £12.00 |
| Sudan stamps | ||
| 456 | 1990, 1962 Definitive 10 PT value with no wmk handstamp surcharged £l in Arabic. VF mint NH right lower corner block of four with printer's name. SG # 468, SG cat. £110 = £440  | £80.00 |
| 457 | 1990, as last but with thick surcharge, rare. VF mint NH right upper corner block of four. SG # 468. SG cat 4 x €110 = €440.  | £90.00 |
| French Post Offices | ||
| 458 | Alexandrie - Block of 4 x 25c blue Mouchon, 1903 issue. Used. SG 29/ Ceres 27 .  | £5.00 |
| 459 | Alexandrie 1921 local overprints: 2 mill. on 5c green Type Blanc. OFFSET overprint, with normal overprint (small rust spot) for comparison. Unused. SG 37, Ceres 35. Scarce  | £7.00 |
| 460 | Alexandrie 1921 local overprints; 6 mill. on 15c orange Mouchon. Unmounted mint. Very fresh. SG 42/ Ceres 40  | £4.50 |
| 461 | Alexandrie 1921 local overprints: 10 mill. on 25c blue Mouchon, both mint & used. SG 44, Ceres 42  | £3.00 |
| 462 | Port-Said 1899 overprints - Sage 50c (Type II, U/N) fine used. SG 115/Ceres 12. Variety: right hand dot above i missing  | £5.00 |
| 463 | Port-Said 1899 overprints - Sage 1F (Type II), fine used. SG 116 /Ceres 13  | £6.00 |
| 464 | Port-Said 2F Merson, lilac & buff, Oct 1902 issue. SG 135/ Ceres 34. Fine used. Two missing perfs but clean & scarce  | £4.00 |
| 465 | 1903 Postcard from Alexandrie French PO franked 5c Type Blanc (yellow green, pre-1906 bottle green) to France. Printed matter rate. Picture side: Kafr-el-Dawar market  | £7.00 |
| 466 | 1918 Commercial cover from French PO Alexandrie to Paris, with Egyptian censor mark and opened/resealed by French Censor 304 (Marseille). Franked 15c and 25c Mouchon from 1902-03 issue = 40c double weight letter rate (uncommon; usually 40c Merson). Fine  | £15.00 |
| Postal History | ||
| 467 | Farouk double-bar-overprint on cover - 8 Feb 1955 registered cover in Arabic from Tala (nr Tanta) to Ismailia, received by Jean Boulad d'Humieres when working for Canal Co. Franked 20 mill Defense and 15 mill Farouk with double bar overprint (Nile D 219). Attached copy of 3 magazine articles about this cover (QC March 1981, Il Collezionista, Philatelie Française) + letter from QC editor. Properly used on cover, overprint is extremely rare (P.Smith, p. 358)  | £60.00 |
| 468 | Service de l'Etat cover with strip of 3 x 10 mills, pair 1 mill and 5 mill, plus pair 20 mill Defense, from Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, to the USA, 5.8.1957. Very attractive  | £22.00 |
| 469 | Air Mail - Small envelope from Marsa Matrouh (21.8.1936) to London, franked pair of 20 mills air mail (SG 204/ Balian 341). With manuscript Par Avion KLM. Alex transit  | £10.00 |
| 470 | 1938 local cover within Cairo, with BDUH talismanic sign 8642 lower left. Franked 5 mill internal rate with mixed issues 3 Mill Fouad and 2 Mill Farouk  | £2.00 |
| 471 | First Day Cover (21.9.1957) Arabi Pacha Revolution (SG 537/ Balian 194)  | £2.00 |
| 472 | Postcard - Embossed colour card commemorating F. de Lesseps. Unused, scarce  | £5.00 |
| Literature | ||
| 473 | Brochure for collectors, issued in 1969 by the UAR Philatelic Office, listing and illustrating all Egyptian stamps from the 1952 Revolution to 1969. 240 x 170 mm. 68 pages in Arabic, French and English, giving all official dates of issue and quantities sold. B/W in soft colour cover. With 1969 supplement. Very useful and original companion to catalogues  | £10.00 |
| Various | ||
| 474 | 1898 Postage Due SG D75 ovpt à cheval VF mint .  | £8.00 |
| 475 | 1925 Geographical Congress set of 3 UM  | £15.00 |
| 476 | 1924 Officials: full set SG D 123/130 VF mint  | £15.00 |
| 477 | 19?? “matchbox stamp” 500 mills King Fuad (with cigarette!)  | Bid? |
| 478 | 1933 Airs 1m, 3m, 5m, 10m, 20m, 30m: 6 stamps with cancelled back; pristine!  | £75.00 |
| 479 | 1926 Navigation Congress 10 mills with plate flaw “single dot” (NP C15c) VF used  | £4.00 |
| 480 | 1932 Fuad 100 m on £E1 VF used on piece  | £70.00 |
| 481 | 1959 Printing Experiment 5 stamps with watermark UM  | £20.00 |
| 482 | Ditto 3 stamps without watermark UM  | £9.00 |
| 483 | Ditto 3 vertical imperforated pairs UM  | £44.00 |
| 484 | Third issue, eight forgeries  | £8.00 |
| 485 | British PO Alexandria JU 17 1852 to Marseille: Malta Lazaret and French Paquebot  | £10.00 |
| 486 | British PO Alexandria FE 20 69 to Liverpool horizontal archive fold  | £30.00 |
| 487 | French PO Alexandria 26 FEVR 68 to Munster: PAQ.ANGL, arrival Marseille & Paris  | £34.00 |
| 488 | French PO Alexandria 7 JANV 55 to Marseille; PAQUEBOTS DE LA MEDITERRANEE  | £20.00 |
| 489 | French PO Alexandria: PAQ. FR. X 31 JANV 72, franked 80 c. cancelled with ‘ANCRE’ BACKSTAMP tpo Marseille a Lyon (light vertical fold)  | £70.00 |
| 490 | French PO Alexandria; 40 c. Napoleon cancelled 8 JANV 69, Paq. Fr. No. 5  | £7.00 |
| 491 | British PO Suez; nice pair 4 pence Victoria with 2x B02 (bit chafed at lower right)  | £12.00 |
| 492 | Official stamps O76 + O77 on somewhat foxed R-cover to London  | £20.00 |
| Air Mails The following 18 lots are air covers; all CORRECTLY franked exclusively with 1933 air mail stamps. References are to pages in John Sears’ The Air Mails of Egypt | ||
| 493 | From Continental Hotel 30 AP 34 to Khartoum  | £6.00 |
| 494 | Port Said to Lancashire 16 JL 35 by KLM (Sears 64) Cairo backstamp  | £8.00 |
| 495 | Cairo to London 28 NO 36 by KLM (Sears 72)  | £6.00 |
| 496 | Shepheard’s Hotel to London 28 NO 36 by KLM (Sears 69)  | £8.00 |
| 497 | Sidi Gaber to Kent 21 MA 34 by IA, “reduced concession rate” (Sears 61)  | £7.00 |
| 498 | Port Said to Holland 28 AU 34 by IA, “reduced concession rate” (Sears 61)  | £9.00 |
| 499 | Cairo to London 28 MAY 34 by IA, “reduced concession rate” (Sears 61)  | £6.00 |
| 500 | Dutch Paquebot via Port Taufiq and Alex to The Hague 9 NOV 31 by IA (Sears 51)  | £8.00 |
| 501 | Port Said to The Hague 2 AP 36 by IA backstamped Alexandria (Sears 66)  | £6.00 |
| 502 | Alexandria to Zurich 27 AP 36 by IA “by air up to Brindisi” (Sears 51)  | £5.00 |
| 503 | Cairo to Greece 17 OC 36 by KLM (Sears 69), backstamps Piraeus and Neon  | £6.00 |
| 504 | Port Said to Holland 18 SE 34 by KLM (Sears 60)  | £4.00 |
| 505 | (stamps on reverse): Alexandria to Holland 3 JL 36 by KLM (Sears 68)  | £10.00 |
| 506 | Port Said to Holland 10 AU 37 by KLM, backstamp Alexandria (Sears 70)  | £6.00 |
| 507 | Cairo to France 9 MA 39 by IA (Sears 74)  | £5.00 |
| 508 | (front only!!): Alexandria to The Hague 15 II 38 by KLM (Sears 74)  | £5.00 |
| 509 | Alexandria to Belgium 11 FE 37(?) by IA (Sears 74)  | £4.00 |
| 510 | Alexandria to Switzerland 29 SE 38 by IA: double weight?(Sears 74)  | £6.00 |
| French Consular Post Offices | ||
| 511 | Cover franked NP-FPO107, cancelled PORT-SAID/ 3 MARS 00, to Paris  | £1.00 |
| 512 | Cover (dirty) franked NP-FPO107, cancelled PORT-SAID/ 19 JUIL 01, to Glasgow arrival JY 28 01  | £1.00 |
| 513 | Registered cover franked NP-FPO70 strip of 3, cancelled ALEXANDRIE 6 MAI 27, to Bone, Algeria  | £3.00 |
| Postal history | ||
| 514 | Postal stationery envelope NP-SEN16 – front only – uprated with NP-D57 (Monuments), cancelled BASANDILA 24 DE 18, to French factory of shotguns and bicycles in Saint-Etienne, France  | £2.00 |
| 515 | Picture postcard (Sphinx & Pyramids Caire), franked NP-D87 pair (crown overprint), cancelled PYRAMIDS 15 JA 23, to Sfax, Tunisia  | £3.00 |
| 516 | Cover franked NP- C27+NP-C28 (International Medical Congress), cancelled ALEXANDRIA 27 DE 28, to Lausanne, Switzerland  | £1.00 |
| 517 | Picture postcard (Cairo Mosque of Al-Muayyad), franked NP-D115 (Fuad 2nd portrait), cancelled SHEAPHEARDS HOTEL (CAIRO) 10 MR 23, to Paris  | £2.00 |
| 518 | Registered picture postcard (F Perlberg artist – Water seller), franked NP-D119 (Fuad 2nd portrait) + NP-A4+NP-A6+NP-A11 (Air Mail definitive), cancelled CATARACT HOTEL ASWAN 28 FE 33, to Darbirn, Austria  | £5.00 |
| 519 | Cover franked D165 (Farouk Military), cancelled red POST OFFICE MARITIME MAIL- From steward on board French SS Ville d'Oran (City of Oran) to his wife in France  | £5.00 |
| 520 | Cover franked with General Revenue stamp (Feltus 28 or 38), cancelled EL ZAGAZIG 20.08.58 + framed T. On reverse Postage Due stamp NP-PD54 cancelled MAHMASHA 23.8.58 alongside MAHMASHA T 21.8.58 arrival  | £5.00 |
| 521 | Registered Air Mail large cover (112 X 237 mm) franked NP-D206 pair (first post Revolution issue, cancelled PYRAMIDS T 18.7.57, to France – Sphinx & Pyramids Mena House Hotel. Two vertical folds not touching the stamps – on back AERODROME DU CAIRE 20.7.57  | £5.00 |
| 522 | Very large cover (143 X 257mm) franked UAR NP-D282 + NP-D286 cancelled PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC / PRESIDENT'S OFFICE FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS 15(?).01.65. Inside is a large Best Wishes card from President Gamal Abdel Nasser. To Belgium, card and cover have same sizes  | £10.00 |
| News Agency Photographs | ||
| 523 | RAMADAN IN SUEZ, 117 x 173mm, sepia tone, Associated Press dated 21/11/1936. French text on paper stuck to reverse, strong fold at top left corner on view side  | £3.00 |
| 524 | ARABIAN SUMMIT CONFERENCE, 128 x 183mm, Belgian office of France AFP agency, dated 17/01/1964. Main characters are, from left, Marshal SALAL (Yemen), General AREF (Iraq), President NASSER (UAR), King HASSAN II (Morocco)  | £3.00 |
| Commemorative varieties, listed by Balian | ||
| 525 | 1952, SG 411, 10m Revolution, Bal 151y, spots over the head, position 36, left marginal single, MNH  | £2.00 |
| 526 | 1957, SG 545-6, Bal 197, Air Force, white spot between P and T in Egyptian, uncatalogued, lower marginal pair, MNH SG 543-4  | £2.00 |
| 527 | 1957, SG 545-6, Bal 197-8, Air Force, uncatalogued dots over and under both 10 mills, position 41-46, corner block of 4 MNH  | £3.00 |
| 528 | 1958, SG 593, Revolution, top marginal single showing red on Egypt flag misplaced 1.5mm leftwards. Bal 228a  | £5.00 |
| 529 | 1958, SG MS 570, Revolution. min sheet showing Bal 215a, red colour misplaced horizontally, displaying white line at right of flag, MNH, cat £16 without variety .  | £8.00 |
| 530 | 1958, SG 582-3, conference and opt version, Bal 218-9, two matched blocks of 4 with control, showing same variety in position 6, dots under C and E, MNH  | £6.00 |
| 531 | 1959, SG 589, Bal 224, Youth Conf, dot under Arabic gomhouria, not catalogued, posn 41, left corner block of 4, MNH  | £3.00 |
| 532 | 1959, SG 627 Museum, left bottom corner pair showing Bal 241x, extra Arabic letter posn 46, MNH  | £2.00 |
| 533 | 1960, SG 642 Football, showing Bal 255x, dot inside ring posn 25, plus control A/60 B/60, rare. Single, MNH  | £2.00 |
| 534 | 1965, MNH SG 869 Biennale, showing Bal 431x, hair in bob variety posn 6, horiz pair, MNH  | £4.00 |
| Commemoratives – inverted/reversed watermarks (all UMM) .. no illustrations | ||
| 535 | 1957, SG 533, Revolution10m bronze-green, Bal 190a (block of 4, right marginal) | £2.00 |
| 536 | 1957, SG 536, Revolution 10m yellow-brown, Bal 193a (block of 4, top left corner) | £2.00 |
| 537 | 1957, SG 537, Arabi Revolution, Bal 194a (block of 4, left marginal) | £2.00 |
| 538 | 1957, SG 543-4, Poets, Bal 195a-196a, block of 4, lower marginal | £3.00 |
| 539 | 1957, SG 545-6, Air Force, Bal 197a-198a (block of 4, left marginal) | £3.00 |
| 540 | 1957, SG 547-9, 5m, 10m, 15m (Bal 199a-201a), two right, one left marginal blocks of 4 | £4.00 |
| 541 | 1957, SG 550, Cycling, Bal 202a (block of 4, lower marginal) | £2.00 |
| 542 | 1958, SG 560-1, UAR commemoration, 10m+15m, Bal 205a-206a (blocks of 4, both lower marginal) | £2.50 |
| Commemoratives – control blocks of four | ||
| 543 | SG 624, Bal 238, Army Day with A/59 control number, UMM | £2.00 |
| 544 | SG 635, Bal 248, 2nd Anniv of the Republic Day with A/60 control number, UMM | £2.00 |
| Miscellaneous labels | ||
| 545 | Motor Mail (circa 1924) labels: left 15 half sheet 5 x 12 total 60, in perfect condition HN | £10.00 |
| 546 | Par Avion labels (circa 1931), Sears No 2 block of four, NH | £2.00 |
| 547 | Par Avion labels (circa 1934), Sears No 3 strip x3 | £1.00 |
| 548 | Air Mail multicoloured TWA labels, Sears No18, 4 labels NH | £2.00 |
| 1933 Air Mails – Balian Varieties. The following lots are full illustrated in his pages 292-304. MNH unless stated | ||
| 549 | 1 mill. Full sheet with control A/36 containing Bal 351, 330j, 330l, positions 9,3,5. Sheet folded, some splitting | £40.00 |
| 550 | 1 mill. Full sheet with control A/36 containing Bal 330b, 330c, positions 36, 32. Sheet folded, some splitting | £24.00 |
| 551 | 1 mill. Block of four with Bal 330b, 330c, positions 36, 32; plus Pair with Bal 330j, position 3 | £8.00 |
| 552 | 2 mills. Grey block of four with coloured spot over tail (uncatalogued) | £5.00 |
| 553 | 2 mills. Orange block of four with Bal 353 | £5.00 |
| 554 | 3 mills. Two block of four with Bal 333h (posn 34), Bal 333a (posn 20) | £10.00 |
| 555 | 3 mills. Block of six with Bal 333d, position 27 | £7.00 |
| 556 | 3 mills. Marginal pair with uncatalogued bottom curve of “3” having a faint tail | £4.00 |
| 557 | 3 mills. Block of nine containing Bal 333e, Bal 353, positions 36 and 42 | £10.00 |
| 558 | 3 mills. Block of four from lower left corner with Bal 353 in position 42 | £5.00 |
| 559 | 3mills. Block of four from top right corner with Bal 351, position 9 | £5.00 |
| 560 | 4 mills. Block of four from top right corner with Bal 351, position 9 | £6.00 |
| 561 | 4 mills. As last but with borders. Bal 351, position 9 | £4.00 |
| 562 | 4 mills. Border pair with Bal 334g, position 26 | £6.00 |
| 563 | 4 mills. Block of six with top margin, Bal 334d, position 8 | £6.00 |
| 564 | 4 mills. Block of eight with bottom margin, Bal 334f, position 48 | £7.00 |
| 565 | 7 mills. Large block of 12 containing Bal 337c, 337d, positions 13, 26  | £20.00 |
| 566 | 8 mills. Block of four from bottom left corner, Bal 353. Some gum bends not affecting variety | £6.00 |
| 567 | 8 mills. Block of four from top left corner with Bal 338d perforation shifts | £8.00 |
| 568 | 9 mills. Block of four from top right corner with Bal 351, position 9  | £12.00 |
| 569 | 9 mills. Pair with bottom margin, Bal 339g, position 46 | £10.00 |
| 570 | 10 mills. Block of four with top margin, Bal 340a two incomplete perfs | £8.00 |
| 571 | 10 mills. Block of six containing Bal 340a (three pairs) and Bal 340e (position 12)  | £15.00 |
| 572 | 20 mills. Top left corner pair with Bal 341f, position 1  | £20.00 |
| 573 | 30 mills. Left marginal block of four with coloured spot over tail (uncatalogued) | £5.00 |
| 574 | 30 mills. Right marginal block of six with Bal 342f, position 35 | £10.00 |
| 1933 Air Mails | ||
| 575 | Never-hinged blocks of four, all values 1m to 30m (SG 193-205), no controls but eight marginal. Pristine condition, total 48 stamps | £24.00 |
| 1933 Air Mails – NH control blocks of four unless specified | ||
| 576 | 1 millième A/36 | £1.00 |
| 577 | 2 millièmes A/37 | £2.00 |
| 578 | 3 millièmes A/37 | £1.00 |
| 579 | 5 millièmes B/39 | £1.00 |
| 580 | 8 millièmes A/37 | £1.00 |
| 581 | 10 millièmes A/39 | £2.00 |
| 582 | 60 millièmes A/32 | £8.00 |
| 583 | 90 millièmes A/32 | £8.00 |
| 1941 Air Mails NH control blocks of four showing both panes | ||
| 584 | 5 millièmes A/40 x2 | £2.00 |
| 585 | 5 millièmes A/40 A/45 x2 | £2.00 |
| 586 | 10 millièmes A/40 x2 | £2.00 |
| 587 | 10 millièmes A/40 A/45 (one only) | £1.00 |
| 588 | 25 millièmes A/40 x2 | £3.00 |
| 589 | 25 millièmes A/40 A/41 A/44 x2 | £3.00 |
| 590 | 25 millièmes A/40 A/41 A/44 A/46 x 2 | £3.00 |
| 591 | 30 millièmes A/39 A/40 x2 | £4.00 |
| 1959 Air Mails – NH control blocks of four, both panes if available (wmk 10) | ||
| 592 | 20mills A/62 one pane wmk 10b (small) | £2.00 |
| 593 | 30mills A/62 one pane wmk 10b | £2.00 |
| 594 | 50 millièmes A/61 one pane | £2.00 |
| Commemorative blocks of four | ||
| 595 | 1926 Provisional surcharge on Agriculture/Industry Exhibition (SG 135-7) with controls, UMM | £12.00 |
| 596 | 1929 Prince Farouk Ninth Birthday (SG 178-181), no controls, UMM  | £15.00 |
| 597 | 1946 Postage Stamps Anniversary (SG 307-10), full set with controls, UMM | £4.00 |
| 598 | 1946 Arab League Congress in Cairo (SG 315-21), full set with controls, UMM | £5.00 |
| Imperfs | ||
| 599 | 1923-24, First Fuad 5 mills in imperf pair (SG115a), fully gummed  | £12.00 |
| 600 | 1949, Agriculture/Industry Exhibition, “new colour” cutouts from miniature sheet, pair and block of four (from MS 114), gummed behind, UMM  | £5.00 |
| Palestine/Gaza variety | ||
| 601 | 1955-56, 2m with bilingual Palestine overprint, in right marginal block of 14 with o/p shifting dramatically down to the left, making the last stamps a cheval. Unrecorded, UMM  | £34.00 |
| Palace Collection | ||
| 602 | 1952, King of Egypt and Sudan overprint on 30m Marechal (SG 384/5), but with overprint in colour-trial brown not black. Mounted in card officially certified in Manitoba. Only one sheet of brown colour trial existed  | £26.00 |
| Palace Connection | ||
| 603 | Probably a unique opportunity to acquire a (mint) invitation on stout card from King Farouk to attend a function on board the Royal Yacht Mahroussa: in French, no date, probably 1940s. Together with b/w excellent photo of the vessel itself  | £30.00 |
| Egypt’s most recent booklet | ||
| 604 | 2004, Discover the Treasures of Egypt in Stamps, complete booklet of four panes, one containing 2x£R5 stamps and one of £E10 – Tutankhamun gold mask), three of nine stamps at regular postage rate of 30pi. Only 20,000 booklets printed, here mint, pristine  | £18.00 |
| Egypt definitives | ||
| 605 | 1953, Set of Farouk portrait issue definitives with King barred out: 18 stamps, 1m to 50pi and £E1, missing only the rare 40 mills. All fine used  | £18.00 |
| First Day Covers | ||
| 606 | Collection of 23 Official Egypt first-day covers for 2005, including two miniature sheets, SG 2390 (Mubarak) and 2407 (psychiatry) | £18.00 |
| 607 | Collection of 8 Official Egypt first-day covers for 2009, including four with blocks of four of UInder-20 World Cup | £6.00 |
| 608 | Collection of 7 Official Egypt first-day covers for 2010 | £6.00 |
| Covers with Farouk bar stamps | ||
| 609 | Group of six interesting covers and two cards, 1953-54, franked entirely with 39 Farouk bars stamps, including some Airs and definitive issues to 30 mills. All clean covers | £24.00 |
| 610 | Group of ten post-Revolution covers and one card, 1953-54, all addressed to Europe or USA franked with combinations of Farouk bars stamps (37) and new revolutionary issues (18). Good clean covers include KES Airs with bars | £34.00 |
| Postal History | ||
| 611 | 9 DE 81, neat lightweight printed commercial envelope franked 1pi rose (SG 47) and used from Ghourieh / Caire to Manchester via Caire / Depart transit. Neat S / Manchester arrival mark of 19 DE behind  | £15.00 |
| 612 | 1898-1950s, interesting miscellany of nine covers or pcs, wide variety of markings and usage. Also 2 diplomatic visas on passport pages and portrait of Khedive Tewfik Pasha. Mixed bag | £10.00 |
| 613 | 1911, 1914, two colour cards to NZ, franked with GB 12d stamps with Paquebot cartouche and Port-Taufiq star/bridge cancels. 1911 has a vertical crease  | £8.00 |
| 614 | MY 21 16, unfranked pyramids sepia postcard with “on active service” endorsement, clear Field Post Office / N.M.Y. (Yorkshire Yeomanry) CDS and red triangular military censor, addressed to Nuneaton. Faint pencil message  | £10.00 |
| 615 | 1915-53, three covers to Switzerland, inc 1915 registered (bank wafer on reverse), 1924 with 5+10m Crown opts, 1953 with Farouk barred out. Neat covers | £14.00 |
| 616 | 1954-56, two Air Mail covers (to NZ with nine Farouk bars definitives totalling 128 mills, and to S.Africa with 100m Nefertiti and 2+5mills fellah), both clearly cancelled Paquebot / Port Said cds. Two clean covers  | £10.00 |
| 617 | 1951, two registered bank covers to Switzerland, both rated 92 mills in Marechal definitives, both censored and with clear R.A / Aeroport Farouk transit CDS with Swiss markings behind | £12.00 |
| 618 | 21 JA 54, Registered postcard, commercially printed in Arabic, and provided with pairs of 3m+10m with Farouk bars for 26m local rate, together with black on red Registration label. CDS unfortunately illegible, vertical crease does not detract  | £12.00 |
| Used Postal Stationery | ||
| 619 | 2 MA 55, 1954 tourist view postal stationery card (sepia, Mosquee du Sultan Hassan) with Defense 6m stamp vignette (NP SPC 44), uprated with 1m + 10m definitives (SG 420, 495) for Air Mail to New York (Air France label crossed out). Handwritten message to a fellow collector from Jean Boulad d’Humieres, famous former ESC collector/researcher  | £40.00 |
| 620 | 30 AP 59, 1954 tourist card as last (NP SPC46, green, Ile et Temple de Philae), uprated with 35m definitive (SG 559) for Air Mail (trilingual label) to Switzerland from Alexandria / T2. Censor mark, message in French. Clean, neat  | £40.00 |
| Farouk 50pi used | ||
| 621 | Date not clear – SRE (State Railways of Egypt?) luggage tag with remains of wax seal and handwritten notation that it sealed a bag carrying £E300 to the Director of the Nag Hamadi sugar refinery. Reverse has Farouk 50pi (SG282) together with 3+20+50m definitives (SG 250,227,279). Astonishing  | £40.00 |
| First Day covers | ||
| 622 | 15 OC 37, illustrated FDC for Montreux Abolition of Capitulations set (SG 259-61), sent registered from Parliament / R&P CDS to Khartoum. Arrival on reverse four days later  | £30.00 |
| 623 | 1 JU 49, printed cover marking special flight for Citex in France, franked with 2 + 30m Farouk Air Mails (SG322,329) with special handstamp, Egyptian censor and block of four publicity labels behind. Returned to Aziz Zaki Bey, Director of Posts, via Cairo machine canceller June 29. Clean, neat  | £25.00 |
| 624 | 1 JL 49, printed cover similar to last, commemorating Bepitec in Brussels, unusually franked with Agriculture and Industry set (SG 352-55, one on reverse) covering registration fee. Censored, publicity labels behind, unclear Alexandria Station cds with special cancel behind. Sent by Egyptian Philatelic Corporation, Alexandria. Unusual  | £30.00 |
| 625 | 5 8 2014, pristine FDC of withdrawn Suez Canal stamp, with centre stamp of three se-tenant mistakenly showing Panama Canal instead of Suez. Astonishing blunder  | £60.00 |
| Royal postcard | ||
| 626 | 1924-25, His Majesty King Fuad, unusual portrait postcard with photograph by Kalfa, produced by Argus print works of Cairo, bilingual French/Arabic with royal crest in green. Mint  | £20.00 |
| Egypt Revenues, Charity Stamps | ||
| 627 | 1938, Ministry of Finance issue, 200 mills (Feltus page 4, No 25), in large used block of 20. Such blocks uncommon  | £60.00 |
| 628 | 1950, Completed application form (19 x 29 cm) seeking permission to publish a magazine in Manshieh district, Alexandria. Form completed with 1949 £E5 Syndicate of Journalists revenue stamp (Feltus p.86, No 804). Detail illustrated  | £45.00 |
| 629 | 1975-77, Syndicate of the Engineering Professions, Feltus’ Second ARE Issue (p.85), 100 mills in full sheet of 50 with full selvedge, control Arabic A/75, perf 13 ½ x 13, no wmk. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 630 | 1980, Ministry of Health, unrecorded by Feltus, 30 mills charity stamps issued by Giza Governorate to raise funds for medical care in rural villages. Full sheet of 50 with control number at lower right, full gum. Part sheet shown  | £10.00 |
| 631 | 1980, Syndicate of National Court Attorneys, £E1 value, Feltus Second Egypt Issue (p.80). Remarkable find of part of the Survey Department’s aluminium litho printing plate with two horizontal impressions of the stamp. Extremely unusual  | £50.00 |
| 632 | 1990, Syndicates of Theatrical and Cinematic Professionals, unrecorded 100 mills revenue stamp in full mint sheet of 50, fully gummed. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 633 | 2002, £E1 charity stamps raising funds for children’s cancer hospital, full sheet of 16 with consecutive numbers, no gum, bottom row unperforated on three sides. Most unusual  | £5.00 |
| 634 | 16/10/2014 (selvedge printing date), National Development Resources 10pt stamp in full sheet of 100 with large eagles watermark and full gum. Part sheet shown  | £15.00 |
| 635 | 20125, Egyptian Musicians Syndicate, £E5 revenue stamp single, rouletted, self-adhesive with backing, mint  | £10.00 |
| Medical Syndicate Revenues | ||
| 636 | Syndicates of the Medical Professions (see Feltus pp.87-93), £E5 value in brown, unrecorded, full sheet of 100 (small stamps) with large eagles wmk, shiny gum, full selvedge and printing date in margin of 1 4 71. £E5 so early? Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 637 | 13/IV/82 printing date for full sheet of 50 mills green, unrecorded, no wmk, matt gum. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 638 | 6/VI/83 printing date for full sheet of 100 mills red, unrecorded, no wmk, matt gum. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 639 | 28/XII/83 printing date for full sheet of 20 mills slate, unrecorded, no wmk, matt gum. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 640 | 6/I/93(?) printing date for full sheet of 2pi dark brown, unrecorded, no wmk, shiny gum. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| 641 | 21/V/97 printing date for full sheet of £E1 olive (small stamps), unrecorded, no wmk, shiny gum. Part sheet shown  | £20.00 |
| Printing Experiment / Essay | ||
| 642 | 1970, Aswan Kima Factory printing experiment / essay, no value stamp, deep purple, in full sheet of 35 with wide selvedge all round, fully gummed, no wmk, printing date 20/IX/70. Part sheet shown  | £30.00 |
| South Sudan Revenues | ||
| 643 | 2015, four different revenue stamps, all depicting the rhino, all MNH, three of Central Equatoria State and the fourth from El Jabel State. Not easy to find on account of the continuing civil war. 5SDG value shows colour shift  | £40.00 |
| Sudan stationery | ||
| 644 | De La Rue printed registered letter envelope, 4 ½ piastres Camel Post, mint, perfect condition  | £20.00 |
| Hotels interest | ||
| 645 | 1945, Shepheard’s Hotel complete re-addressing label, used and removed from cover, with large bilingual handstamp in violet: Back to Sender / Unclaimed  | £10.00 |
| 646 | 1910, Upper Egypt – Luxor and Assouan – neat little tourist travel booklet (15.5 x 12cm) of 32pp with card covers, explaining the sights and listing the main hotels of the area. Packed with black and white and colour photographs taken from Professor Miethes’ book Under the Egyptian Sun. Fine condition  | £30.00 |
| 647 | 1930s, folded four-page brochure for the Savoy Hotel, Luxor, inner pages extolling its virtues in English, French and German, back cover showing hotel terrace. Mint, pristine  | £8.00 |
| TPO markings | ||
| 648 | 12 OC 21, folded letter from Abshaway school to Governor of Fayoum franked with Harrison 2 mills Pictorial cancelled by Fayum-Wasta-Abuxa / &VV marking, recorded only April 23 (in our website update). As Smith Type 7A3 but with three town names  | £10.00 |
| 649 | 27 NA 21, Egyptian State Telegraphs form with telegram sent from Samadoun to Mansura franked with Harrison 5 mills Pictorial and cancelled with Mansura-Dumiat / &VV / TPO (Type 6A2, recorded 1916-26)  | £8.00 |
| Taxed postcard | ||
| 650 | Colour card, Port Said – Rue de la Cie du Canal, franked DLR 2 mills from Port Said 2 VII 13 for Milan, receiving boxed T / 10 en route and 10 centisimi Postage Due on arrival five days later  | £8.00 |
| Postal history | ||
| 651 | 14 III 92, Bank of Egypt printed envelope franked 1 + 2 pi DLRs for registration to Leghorn, with faint Alexandria Station registration cachet alongside. Livorno arrival mark behind  | £18.00 |
| 652 | 1897, spectacular envelope franked with 1m + 3 x 5m DLR (16 mills) for registration to the HQ of the Khedivial Paquebot en ville, provided with four wax seals behind and clearly marked “Offre blanchissage” on the face – clearly a tender to fulfil an advertised contract or the like. Interesting  | £16.00 |
| 653 | 1899, small envelope franked 1 + 2m + 1pi for en ville delivery and registration, with Caire S registration cachet, from Caire / R 18 IX 99 to Boulac (arrival mark next day). Found to be undeliverable and returned via Rebut a Remettre / a l’Envoyeur bilingual handstamp. Still unopened 117 years later  | £20.00 |
| 654 | 23 NO 00, small cover franked 5m DLR from Samadoun to Cairo dealer Hag Agha Shirazy. Cairo arrival next day  | £8.00 |
| 655 | 31 XII 07, small envelope franked 1+2+5m DLRs for registration en ville from Ghuria (Ghouria in Reg cachet) to Cairo lawyer. Clean and neat  | £8.00 |
| 656 | 28 I 09, printed cover (lawyer?) with Imprimés violet handstamp franked 2m DLR for printed matter rate to Chicago, cancelled with perfect strike of Birkit el-Sab arched CDS. No arrival marking  | |
| 657 | 1998 £E1 cassette post envelope (Magdi C5) uprated with block of 5 x 2 25pt daughter of Akhenaten definitives to cover registration to Germany. Labels on front acknowledge registration in Egypt, and successfully passing through Customs. Contained cassette? Date illegible  | £30.00 |
| Hotel interest | ||
| 658 | 1912, Illustrated bilingual French/Greek printed cover of Grand Hotel du Nord, Cairo, franked DLR 5m and sent from Cairo to Asyut containing letter from proprietor and some accounting on different hotel letterheads. Reverse has Cairo-Asyut / TPO CDS  | £20.00 |
| Consular Service revenues | ||
| 659 | 1927, Feltus Second Citadel Issue, 200 mills, used, with upright watermark (No 416, page 46)  | £8.00 |
| 660 | As last, but with wmk inverted (No 416a)  | £10.00 |
| Perfins | ||
| 661 | Accumulation of 53 perfinned stamps, with company markings ABE – OB – CLA – CLC on range of stamps from DLRs through to Second Fuad, including Crown overprints, Air Mails and one 2-on-3 provisional surcharge. Priced to go at  | £35.00 |
| Literature – two offerings of L’Orient Philatelique back copies, with no lot numbers, all in reasonable/good condition except where noted. Reserve price is £1 for each issue; postage may be added to invoice. To bid, please list under heading A or B, then the issue number and date, and your bid. For example: List A 46 (Apr-Jun 1940) £2.00 68 (Oct 1949) £3.00 List B 41 (May 1939) £1.00 130 (Nov 1978) £4.00 | ||
| List A | L’OP 25 (Jul 1935 – photocopy) – 26 (Oct 1935) – 27 (Jan 1936) – 29 (Jul 1936 – sl damage not affecting text) – 30 (Oct 1936) – 31 (Jan 1937) - 43 (Sept 1939) – 44 (Nov 1939) – 46 (Apr-Jun 1940) – 54 (Apr 1946) – 55 (Jul 1946) – 56 (Oct 1946) – 57 (Jan 1957) – 58 (Apr 1947, no cover) – 59 (Jul 1947) – 60 (Oct 1947) – 62 (Apr 1948) – 65 (Jan 1949) – 66 (Apr 1949) – 67 (Jul 1949) – 69 (Jan 1950) – 71 (Jul 1950) – 72 (Oct 1950) – 75 (Jul 1951) – 76 (Oct 1951) – 78 (Apr 1952) – 79 (Jul 1952) – 80 (Oct 1952) – 83 (Jul 1953) – 84 (Oct 1953) | £1.00each |
| List B | L’OP 4 (Apr 1930, no cover) – 5 (Jul 1930) – 6 (Oct 1930, “deuxieme edition”) – 8 (Apr 1931) – 9 (Jul 1931) – 10 (Oct 1931) – 12 (Apr 1932) – 13 (Jul 1932) – 14 (Oct 1932) – 16 (Apr 1933) – 17 (Jul 1933) – 20 (Apr 1934) – 24 (Apr 1935) – 26 (Oct 1935) – 27 (Jan 1936) – 30 (Oct 1936) – 31 (Jan 1932) – 41 (May 1939) – 42 (Jul 1939) – 43 (Sept 1939) – 44 (Nov 1939) – 45 (Jan-Mar 1940) – 46 (Apr-Jun 1940) – 48 (Oct 1944) – 49 (Jan 1945) – 51 (Jul 1945) – 52 (Oct 1945) – 53 (Jan 1946) – 57 (Jan 1947) – 58 (Apr 1947) – 59 (Jul 1947) – 61 (Jan 1948) – 62 (Apr 1948) – 66 (Apr 1949) – 68 (Oct 1949) – 71 (Jul 1959, cover damaged, text fine) – 81 (Jan 53, no cover) – 82 (Apr 1953, no cover) – 84 (Oct 1953, no cover) – 86 (Apr 1954) – 87 (Jul 1954) – 88 (Oct 1954) – 90 (Apr 1955, no cover) – 96 (Oct 56-Jan 57) – 97 (Apr-Jul 1957) – 100 (Jan-Apr 1959) – 103 (Oct 1960) – 106 (Jan 1962) – 107 (Jul 1962) – 115 (Apr-Jul 1963) – 121 (Jan-Jul 1969) – 128 (Oct 1974) – 129 (Feb 1978) – 130 (Nov 1978) – 131 (1979) – 132 (Jan 2002) – 133 (Dec 2002) – 134 (Jan 2004) – 135 (Jul 2004) – 136 (May 2006?) – 137 (2006?) – 138 (2007?) – 139 (2007?) – 140 (June 2008) – 141 (Feb2009) | £1.00each |