Lot# 88 - 205-209 Auction

1925 (Sept 10): The extraordinary underpaid cover franked on despatch by Egypt 1923 3 m. sepia and 4 m. green mailed from Alexandria to Jeddah via Port Taufiq (Sept 11), franked on arrival for 22 piastres to collect with Hejaz Government Postage Due pairs of 1925 1 pi. blue optd. in red (two pairs), 1 pi. blue optd. in blue inverted pair, 2 pi. claret optd. in blue pair, 2 pi. claret optd. in blue inverted pair (unpriced used by Gibbons); and 14 mm. Hejaz Government overprint on December 1924 Postage Due 1 pi. blue optd. in red (two pairs, one pair with some surface rubs) and 1 pi. blue optd. in red inverted pair (unpriced used by Gibbons), all cancelled by 'Djedda' datestamps in black. Some minor tropicalisation but a sensational cover and without doubt the most important Hejaz Postage Due cover extant.