Egyptian Revenue

I can't find this Egyptian revenue stamp (salt department 500 m). Any information welcome. (nr., Cv, date of issue etc.) Thanks.

There is one (at least) offered on ebay at present. Link below. It has what appears to be a catalogue number of L33 after it. Not sure which catalogue. I couldn't find it in Gibbons. It is not much but hope this helps.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...300518183416

A thought - I wonder how these stamps tasted when you licked them??

Looking at the date on your stamp and the date on the one in the link below, I'd put the set in the 1890s

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...330522632539

Courtesy and Kudos to Riga stamps
for sharing the beautiful Richard Witt Cinderella
collection

...and a little bit of nonsense,

a GB Postmark

Nice information about the cancels. Also nice to know where the unused examples likely come from. I have seen a note that the bicolors (value tablets in a contrasting color) are 1895, but that should be verified before being tucked away as correct.

Here is the complete series.
Catalog values are in 1915 French francs.
Hope this helps.

I suppose with modern refrigeration
one can forget the older importance of salt,
Used for prservation of foodstuffs and
as a cleansing agent and from prehistory
a method of payment.

The phrase "worth one's salt" began with the ancient Romans. One reference suggested that the origin of the phrase "worth one's salt" could date back to before 900 B.C. During that time, Roman soldiers were paid for work in salarium, which was an allowance for the purchase of salt. Salt was considered good for human health and was a hard to find commodity. The word soldier, in that era, literally meant 'one who is paid in salt. The 'sal' in the word salarium is Latin for pay. Over the years, the word salarium was shortened and came into the English language as salary. To say that someone is worth his or her salt, you are saying that he or she is worth the wages that he or she earns. One particular reference used a quote from a Human Resources manager who told her supervisor that she had not hired a new administrative assistant because she had not interviewed anyone worth their salt.