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Egypt Unknowns - Need Help Identifying Them

 
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Posted 01/14/2013   02:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Jan-Simon to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have a bunch of stamps that appear to be Egyptian. In some cases it even says so on the stamp, so there is no discussion about that. The problem however is that I cannot find them in the catalogue.
Perhaps anyone here has seen them before and knows what they are? Cinderella, revenue, or other back of the book...?





The images on the second scan seem to be the same as the 1962 Proclamation of the National Charter stamp (Sc. 555) but what is the difference?
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Posted 01/14/2013   06:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Check Syria, it was a part of the UAR with Egypt in the 60's!
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Posted 01/14/2013   08:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add khj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The National Charter stamps in the bottom picture are all revenue stamps.

The pics are a bit small/blurry, but I recognize the stamp pair in the upper left corner as Arab Socialist Union membership revenue stamps. Likely from the mid-1960s. The large stamp below the pair appears to have the same inscriptions (you can check), so it is likely the same.

They should be listed in the Felkes catalog.
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Posted 01/14/2013   09:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jan-Simon to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have received some answers privately as well. About the first picture:
"they are Revenue stamps and postage dues for internal use.
The First Row is for raising money to support agriculture development, the second row is for encouraging people to save money in postal saving accounts (like a bank saving account but in the post offices). the others is for affixing on official papers from hospitals, universities and police stations."
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Posted 01/14/2013   09:13 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add khj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
In the top picture,

Row 2 Stamps 1-2 are postal savings stamps.
Row 2 Stamp 4 and Row 3 Stamp 2 are both revenue stamps.

I'm guessing that all the stamps in the top picture are revenue stamps. You can also check the Feltus catalog.
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Posted 01/14/2013   09:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jan-Simon to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I do not have that catalogue, nor do I have access to it somehow.
The fact that I now know that they are revenues is very helpful.

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Posted 01/14/2013   12:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add khj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't collect revenues, so unfortunately I don't have those catalogs either. Sorry.
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Posted 01/15/2013   04:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jan-Simon to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
No problem. I do not collect them actively either, but what I get, I keep.
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Posted 01/16/2013   02:06 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add khj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


That also explains the ever-shrinking amount of crawlspace in my stamp room, err... I mean study room.

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Posted 02/12/2013   09:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nasr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
you are correct .... all are revenues or revenues like

yet, there is no postage due shown
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