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  • Lot# : 768 Egypt Kingdom

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    1865: Essay by Prevost of Paris, 10 pa. design in red on violet envelope with "1 piastre" overprint in circle below, fresh and very fine. Scarce. Signed Todd AIEP Nile Post E9g.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 769 Egypt Kingdom

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    1869: Stampless Official cover from Alexandria to Constantinople with faint negative "Maktab / Omoon bosta masriya iskenderiye 1285" seal handstamp in black alongside circular "POSTE VICE-REALI EGIZIANE / ALESSANDRIA" despatch cds (Dec 23, date transposed and inveerted) in black. Reverse and obverse with "POSTE VICE-REALI EGIZIANE / COSTANTINOPOLI" cds in greenish-blue (Dec 27). A rare Official usage. Cert. Nakri (2021).
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 770 Egypt Kingdom

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    1865: Essays by Prevost of Paris, 10 pa. designs (9), imperforate in a variety of colours with shades of green (2), in black on lilac, cream or yellow paper, brown on white and in shades of rose to red (3), a generally fresh and fine group. Scarce Nile Post E6.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 820 CHF

    Lot# : 771 Egypt Kingdom

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    1865: Essays by Prevost of Paris, 10 pa. designs (3) with circular overprint alongside, 10 pa. brown on thick cream paper, 10 pa. black on thin green paper and 10 pa. black on yellow paper, all with "1 piastre" circular overprint adjacent. Some minor creasing but a scarce group. Signed Todd AIEP Nile Post E9a+E9b+E9e.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 450 CHF

    Lot# : 772 Egypt Kingdom

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    1871: Essays by Penasson (5), the unused imperforate selection in pairs without inscriptions at top and at base, printed in lilac, myrtle-green, deep green, red and in brown (largely following four of the shades from the 1867 issue), all on gummed unwatermarked paper. Fresh and very fine group. Signed Holcombe Nile Post E51.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 800 CHF

    Lot# : 773 Egypt Kingdom

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    1871: Essay by Penasson, an unused imperrforate block of four without inscriptions at top and at base, printed in red (colour of the issued 1 piastre), on gummed unwatermarked paper. Fresh and very fine multiple. Signed Todd AIEP Nile Post E51a.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : 380 CHF

    Lot# : 774 Egypt Kingdom

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    1874: Essay for proposed 20 para value by Carlo Borani of Florence, showing Sphinx and Castle vignette, printed in green, imperforate with large margins all round, slight thin as usual. Rare. Signed Todd AIEP Nile Post E57 = $ 500.rnProvenance: Collection Peter A.S. Smith, Corinphila sale 198, 28 May 2015, ex lot 5229.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 850 CHF

    Lot# : 775 Egypt Kingdom

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    1874: Essay for proposed 20 para value by Carlo Borani of Florence, showing Pyramid and Lady vignette, printed in yellow, imperforate on vertically laid paper with large margins all round, slight thin as usual. Rare. Signed Todd AIEP Nile Post E56 = $ 300.rnProvenance: Collection Peter A.S. Smith, Corinphila sale 198, 28 May 2015, ex lot 5229.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 900 CHF

    Lot# : 776 Egypt Kingdom

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    1874: Essays (3) by the Continental Bank Note Company, New York, all engraved and imperforate on thick card paper and each with 'first issue' type Arabic overprint for 20 paras, with one in vermilion & green (Nile Post E62), another in pale brown & green (Nile Post E63) and a third in yellow & black (Nile Post E64). Fresh and very fine. Rare. All signed Todd AIEP.rnProvenance: Collection Peter A.S. Smith, Corinphila sale 198, 28 May 2015, lot 5231.
    Starting bid : 1,800 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,000 CHF

    Lot# : 777 Egypt Kingdom

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    1877: Essays (3) by Westfehling of Zurich, submitted to the Postal Administration by J. Zoulikoffer, all being imitations of the Bulâq 5 pa. of 1875; with "Egiziane" spelt "Egizirne" in error; printed on wove unwatermarked paper in pale grey-green, brown and in blue; perf. 12½ or imperforate. A particularly fine group. Signed Todd AIEP Nile Post E70/E70a.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 778 Egypt Kingdom

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    1937/60: Lot 25 commemorative stamps in unmounted og. condition, incl. 1937 Montreux Conference, the sheet corner marginal set of three, all with Farouk oblique perforations, just 100 sets printed (Nile Post C69b/C71b = $ 255), 1957 Anniversary of poets Hafez Ibrahim and Ahmed Shawky, an imperforate block of four from top right corner of the sheet, just 50 imperf. pairs printed (Nile Post C187b/C188b = $ 400), 1958 U.A.R. Egypt, the definitive set of seven values, all in horizontal imperforate pairs, just 100 sets printed thus (Nile Post D245b/D251a = $ 560+), and 1955/60 definitive 35 m. blue, an imperforate corner marginal block of four, Control A/60, just 200 stamps printed thus (Nile Post D262a = $ 150+). Many signed Todd AIEP.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF

    Lot# : 779 Egypt Kingdom

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    1948 (Nov 10): Death Centenary of Ibrahim Pasha, 10 m. deep green & brown-lake, the special King Farouk sheetlets on nine: with one featuring the background of the Battle of Navarino and Duty Plate in brown-lake (Nile Post RPC121a = $ 5'000) and the other with Ibrahim Pasha in deep green (Nile Post RPC121b = $ 5'000), both imperforate on watermark upright paper, superb unmounted og., together with a corner marginal horizontal pair of the 10 m. from lower left of sheet with Farouk Oblique Perforation variety, unmounted og. (Nile Post C121b). Splendid and of great rarity.rnProvenance: Collection King Farouk, Harmers, Cairo, 15 Feb 1954, lot 1103; Collection Vahan Andonian; Collection Joe Chalhoub, DF, Geneva, 3-7 Dec 2018, lots 10173 and 10174 = € 22'000 + 20'%.rn              
    Starting bid : 14,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 998 Egypt Kingdom

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    Imperial Airways Crash of Short S.23 'COURTIER' at Phaleron Bay, Athens, Greece 1937 (Oct. 1): Selection of five envelopes, incl. three acceptances from Egypt bearing 'DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER' (3) of which one of PAQUEBOT PORT SAID dispatch 'DAMAGED BY / SEA-WATER / IN AIRPLANE / ACCIDENT' and two from India Nierinck 371001d+f.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 250 CHF
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