Egyptian Stamps?

Rod... just picked it up! I only wish the print quality was a little better...

Not a bad quality for Brazil Nells,
on occaisions their print quality is very poor.

I still have trouble getting my head around
those Egyptian ruins, to imagine real flesh and blood people
being involved in such things.
They are a source of endless wonder, Oh for a time machine.

Amun
with the headdress of the sun god,
They knew the sun was the source of life 5000 years ago.

and Tutankhamun

Here is a cover with Egyptian postage and history. Hope you enjoy and welcome to the whole wide world of stamp collecting. This cover was mailed to Paul Diettrich Photographers to the Royal Court of Egypt during the rein of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II.

Here are a few more you might like. These are locals from Bernera Islands, Scotland-----Gairsay Islands, Scotland----Staffa, Scotland---and Sweden

Wow!
I thought I owned the majority of those dune labels,
I have none of what you show,
fantastic stuff,
Are they for sale?

I have never heard them called Dune labels. And yes I have dupes. I have enough to make 3 extra sets of the 4 shown. Make me an offer you feel comfortable with.

$1 a sheet plus postage and handling/packaging?

over to you.

(quote copied from a newsgroup)

"Sand dune" is a term derisively applied to what are now the United Arab Emirates: Sharjah, Fujeira, Ras Al Khaima, Ajman, and so forth. They were also called the Trucial States (after "truce"). During about 1964 to 1970ish, they issued a huge number of gaudy pictorial stamps under the direction of a philatelic agency. These stamps were cancelled to order and sold to dealers in Europe and America at dirt cheap prices, and then marked-up tremendously for the approval and packet trade. This practice, which still continues to this day, was a contributing factor to the decline of the hobby (kids who paid hard-earned allowance for the junk they received in the mail learned one day that it WAS cancelled-to-order junk, aka wallpaper, and they soured on the hobby, feeling it was a racket). Well, it WAS a racket. Now on the other hand, genuinely mint material, not CTO, DOES command a market in Europe, at least...and its day may yet come here.

Hmmm, I've gone through the entire pages for this thread & found some correct & useful info. posted by some members (especially, rod222) ...

However, some info. provided in this thread were either inaccurate or incorrect. Since Egyptian Philately was my specialty (particularly, King Fuad Portrait Issues) please allow me to shed some lights on some mysterious points & clear up the ambiguous data.

Briefly, the postal history of Egypt on the period preceding the 20th century falls naturally into five main sections:

1) Precursors (pharaohs & clay tablets .... Express & Normal postal service during Ptolemaic period "horse relays & running men" .... Pigeon service in the middle of 12th century .... Horse, Camel or Foot Courier continued through the medieval period.)

2) Venetian mail service (known as the Corrieri Bergomaschi, developed in the 13th century)

3) French expedition to the Levant (Napoleon forces 1798-1801)

4) Earliest days of the Egyptian Government post (Mohammed Ali Pasha who ordered the establishment of a telegraph service, with relay towers set up at uniform distances between Cairo & Aleandria, on which, so it's said, messages could pass from one to other in 40 minutes. In 1821, he established the first modern Egyptian governmental postal service. System remains till 1874)

5) Forwarding agents: The Overland Mail (during the time of Mohammed Ali Pasha, several companies established flourishing agencies handling transit of mail between East "Indian sub-continent & Australia" and West "Europe" through Egypt. This system became known loosely as "The Overland Mail". Agencies were:

- Briggs & Co. (1805-1843), Egypt & India

- Thomas Waghorn (1833-1846). The route employed during intial years are devided into three segments: Alexandria to the Nile at Atfe, along the Nile to Bulaq, Cairo to Suez across the desert.

Waghorn had an extensive network of agents:

* London (Smith Elder & Co.)
* Liverpool (R & T Willis)
* Manchester (F W Winstanley)
* Glasgow (Thomas & Stirling)
* Edinburgh (Broadhead & Thomas)
* Plymouth (George W. Wheatley, Church St.)

- The Posta Europea (1840-1865). Carlo Meratti from Liveorno-Italy and then G. Muzzi Bey who became a director from 1865 to 1876 after Ismail Pasha bought the Posta Europea for 950,000 Francs on October 29th, 1864 (I think this topic was briefly discussed in this thread.)

There were as well operating Foreign Consular Post Offices in Egypt:

- France (1837-1931)
- Austria (1838 - 1874)
- Britain (1839-1878)
- Greece (1843-1881)
- Russia (1857-1875)
- Italy (1863-1884)

In the next post I'll shed some lights on "King Fuad" postage stamps.

Cheers

Sorry duplicate post ...

King Fuad 2nd Portrait Issue (1927-37):

A Brief Introduction:

The 2nd Portrait issue to bear the portrait of King Fuad had a two-fold origin:

1- Meeting the new UPU requirement for identification of the country and denomination in Latin letters (as 1st Portrait Issue was inscribed in Arabic only!)

2- Bringing the printing of its postage stamps home to Egypt.

Although the contract with Harrison & Sons was in effect until the end of 1925, the Ministry of Finance in 1924 approached the Survey Department of Egypt, which was in the business of printing maps, about its capabilities for producing stamps. The proposal was accepted, and design work and printing experiments were put under way.

The King authorized the necessary credits to be extended for purchasing "Photogravure" equipment from England and announced an international competition, widely advertised, for designs. Although 300 entries were submitted, none was found satisfactory, and ultimately designs generated by the Survey Department itself were chosen.

The designs utilized a portrait by Hanselmann (Anglo-Swiss Studio, Cairo), with four different surrounds and minimal inscriptions in French and Arabic.

The inscription of FR stands for Fuad Royal ...


"10 milleme" King Fuad 1st Portrait Issue with Arabic inscription only:





"10 milleme" King Fuad 2nd Portrait Issue with Arabic & French inscriptions:





"£E1" King Fuad 2nd Portrait Issue:





Cheers

LB1,

Actually, you have tempted me MUCH to provide some scans for my ex. Egypt collection after I saw yours.

When I saw King Fuad birthday postage stamp you reminded me of those golden days & made me almost sad!

Thus, I have to punish you for what you've done to me!

In the next posts I'm posting scans for my ex. Egypt materials which you don't see them every day (majority are either Very Rare or Unique)

So, here we go

King Fuad 58th Birthday (Upper side Imperf) ... Rare




Egypt 2nd Issue Essay ... Very Rare





Unadopted King Fuad £E2 Consular Issue Essay on a Harrison & Sons presentation card ... Very Rare (2 examples are known to exist)






Port Fuad Issue ... Rare





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James, I really enjoyed viewing your scans and reading
about the technical details.

Please continue.

Another example of an unadopted King Fuad £E2 Consular Issue Essay ... Rare





Half sheet of Harrison Pictorial Issue (10m) ... Rare





Bi-color "5m"King Fuad 1st Portrait Issue ... Unique





Pair of Proof Bi-color King Fuad 1st Portrait Issue ... Very Rare





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Hand Painted Bi-color Essay of £E1 King Fuad 1st Issue ... Unique





Another example of pairs Hand Painted Bi-color Essay of £E1 King Fuad 1st Issue ... Unique





Three Essays of £E1 King Fuad 1st Issue ... Rare












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