Egyptian Stamps?

Those are beautiful stamps! I do love Egyptian Culture! After Lux saw this post, she gave me my first Egyptian Stamp :) Very excited to start collecting them. The history of Egypt is intriguing as well. Thank you for the interesting facts on history, can't wait to find more :)

I really wish I had internet at home, I could look at these all day. Beautiful! Amazing history to be learned! Thank you! :)

Cheap dial-up access at Dal you at http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/
I think most want the high speed nowadays though.

Here are some Egyptian stamps, too bad I don`t have a good catalogue for them, but first row is `Para`, second `Piastre`, third `Milieme`. Third and fourth row were not shown yet

Thanks for the link Puzzler! Definitely something to look into! :) And wow, the beautiful Egyptian stamps continue :) I have some time online, going to do some reading :) Thanks everyone!

Londonbus1.....

You always have the ever so appealing (to me) bright colored sets don't you Londonbus?! LOVE my Puffins btw :-D nice stamps posted! Ash

From the Cook's Tourist Guide 1897


POSTAGE.



For Egypt, which is included in the General Postal Union,
mails are made up in London for Port Said, Alexandria, Cairo,
Suez, etc., via Brindisi, every Friday evening.
For Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said, Suez, etc., by French
packet, via Marseilles, every Tuesday night.
For Smyrna, via Constantinople, daily.
For Smyrna, via Marseilles, every Thursday evening.
For Jaffa and Syria (and Jerusalem if specially addressed),
by Austrian mail, via Brindisi, leaving London every Tuesday
morning (post letters on Monday).
Letters by Brindisi to Cairo and Alexandria take six days
in transit.
There are daily mails from Alexandria to Cairo, Suez,
Ismailia, and Port Said. Letters for Upper Egypt are forwarded
daily.
For the Syrian Coast and Palestine, the French mails take
from ten to twelve days.
To most of the above-named places letters can be registered
at a charge of 2d.
Money Orders are issued for Alexandria, Suez, Smyrna,
and Constantinople at the following rates—not exceeding £2,
sixpence; not exceeding £6, one shilling; not exceeding £10,
one-and-sixpence.
The Postage for letters within Egypt is 5 millièmes; to other
countries in the Postal Union, 10 millièmes; Foreign Post
Cards, 5 millièmes.
The times of despatching letters from Egypt will be best
ascertained in Egypt, etc., where they are posted. The departure
of Mails from Cairo, Alexandria, etc., via Brindisi, is
dependent on the arrival of the London Mails at Port Said from
Suez, special notices of which are given at the British Post
Offices. A weekly mail list is published and sent to THOS.
COOK & SON'S Offices and to the Hotels, showing days of
arrival and departure, with the latest time for posting, etc.

The Egyptian Post Office Guide, published twice yearly in
English, French, and Arabic, affords complete information as
to the postal service in Egypt.

Egyptian stamps



Fujeira 1968- for stamp expo Cairo


Sharjah - Egyptian art (2 already posted)

wonderful information rod222! Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge with me :) Also, those stamps you posted.. superb. Absolutely breathe taking. In fact, all of the stamps you all have posted have been A+ in my books! beautiful :D

Lovely Brasil example Nells!
not seen that before.

Actually, the use of French was a small, deliberate snub to the British, who were a bit too omnipresent for the liking of the Egyptian nationalists.

Those very attractive Egyptian stamps of the 1930s to the pre-Republican 1950s can be put down to the fact that King Farouk was an avid stamp collector. He naturally took a great interest in 'his' stamps - to the extent that he had large numbers of errors specially created for his collection. They still turn up regularly at auction.