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APRIL 23 • 24 • 25

TWELnH ANNUAL STAMP EXHIBITION

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Another New Year and an opportunity to wish our readers the very best in health, happi­ness a~d good stamping- in the months aheaoo

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A perl.lsal through this issue loqks like~ the United Nations, with a variety of artic.les by our many friends . fro m several parts ' of

. the ·bivilized world~···. W0 thank each & every one, and we thank the new contributors with the hope they will soon become regulars.

Dr. ~. Winter, of Montrouge, 'France, writes on the very interesting crash covers of IM­PERIAL AIRWAYS, and he continues his study of Egyptian perfins with additions by Lars Alund of Sweden. Gino Piperno, our faithful contributor from sunny Italy, offers yet an­other of his famous 11varieties11 on the off-:­icial 10 Mill. Add to this Al. Moses, Peter

· A.S. Smith, William Billens andBill Scheetz and we believe you can spend an h o u r or so e_ngrossed in our pages, with the added plus of keaping it for reference.

We want to thank the many among you who have offered congratulations for our silver win at Philympia but, as we have pointed out, while we are justly proud of the achieve­ment we o ffer the credit to our many fine contributors who really made it possible.

We also entered in the literature competit­ions of the SPA and at HAPEX (APS). We did­n't win but we received UN-official comment that only the big society slicks were real­ly in the running at APS, and only the mon-

·':thlies were considered by SPA. lie also be­'.lieve some reasonable rules for judging the literature competitions of a uniform nature will be adopted as these competitions grow in popularity. As it stands now, the smaller

· organizations with small budgets will auto­matically be forced out of competition. We have no axe to grind; an international sil­ver and a growing subscription list tells us all we need to know. We can 1 t hope to com­pete with the 11 slicks11 butwe believe we can match our writers with the bes~ article for article. • And, just a little note to our many friends who have written recently. We're behind in our correspondence due to the holiday rush, and the wife's trip to the hospital. Grad­ually getting back to normal and we'll ans­wer the mail just as quickly as we can get to it • · • • and:, thanks fE:lr your many re­newal subscriptions and prompt pa,yment.

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In the years 1936 -37 several planes .crash­Gd on the Egypt -Europe . route. I have found thret} of them while filing my air covers. Al.L concern liners of the British "Imperial Airways".

The first accident happened in the sea, off the coast of Crete, where the 11 SCIPIO" fell and crashed during a storm 22 August, 1936 .. Two psssengers lost their lives. All mail aboard was salvaged and handed aver to the post office i~ ~the~s (Greece).

My cover, posted at Alexandria on 21 August , 1 9 3 6, was add­ressed to Pont de Vaux, in the north of France where it arr­ived on 30 August, 1936, hav­ing traveled via rail from Athens to Paris (•Hopkins).

In spite of rust stains the cover bears a good legible one­lined strike on the face in large purple letters:

"A .(:cide~t d 1 A-..rion"

Length of this text is 87 mm. ($ee illustration at right).

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Another liner, the "COUR'i'.CJ!:H. 11 ,

sank at Ph a le ron Bay, near Athens, Greece on l October, 1937, a s it winged, homelJ/ard bound from Alexandria. It carr­ied mails frol!l India, Iraq and

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I have a cover from this mail addressed to Paris, France, bearing the Alexandriel de­parture marking , of 2 S IX 37 l. 30 PM. The stamps have been lost by water immersion.

The French Postal Services sealed the let­ter by sticking· ' two off i ·:::ia l labels on the reverse with the following text: N° 509 "POS'i:'ES TELEGRAPHES.

(Art. 26, liJe fa se. _de 1' Instruction gebera le) I

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Superimposed . on these labels we find a large five-lined wreck cachet in violet, as:

SERVICE POSTAl, F~ANCAIS J·

Correspondance retardee par suite

du naufrage d 1 un Avian

Reconstitue par le Service Francais

NE PAS Til.XF.Jl.

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Thi.s cachet translates as follows: French Postal Service, mail delayed due to wreck of airplane. Rt:lstored by the French Service. Not to be taxed.

This cover appears to have reached Par is by 6 October (Hopkins). The third cover illustrated survived the crash of the liner 11 CYGNUS 11 which occured atBrindisi, Italy on 4 December, 1937. Homeward bound, it carried mails from Hong Kong, India, Ceylon, Singapore, Ne>~ South Wales, Palestine, Egypt and Greece. Thus a very l arge and varied mail was aboard.

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My cover was posted in Cairo on 3 December, 1937, and damaged during the d_i sa ster. It

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SERVICE POSTAL FRANCAIS

Correspondance retardee

par accident d'Avion

Pr i ~ci~__ng_:ga s t a::£El!: **

** French Postal Service. Mail delayed by air crash. Not to be taxed.

* * * · BibliograJ&y:

L10rient Philatelique, No. 113. Wreck Covers, by Gabriel Boulad

A History of Wreck Covers, A. E. Hopkins The Aero Field, Vol. 5, No. 2, April '41

Biogs. of 20 British Flying Boats.

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-CRASH COVER ~ THE 11CYGNUS 11 - NOTE FRENCH Yffi!CK CACHET IN CENTER

Ali photos with this article from the collection of Dr. A. Winter, Franc~

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Diplomatic Pouch

Covers be.!lring foreign postage stamps ·with U. S. postmarks oft er a n unusual s i g h t to many philatelists. Suah covers are encount­ered in personal mail .from U. S. diplomatic missions abroad to the United States, and in mail that had been posted on t h e hi€J;l seas aboard a vessel of foreign . registry prior to discharge of the mail at a U. S • port. The latter type of :mail bears the ma·rking "l'aquebot" or an equivalent term and is ·not the subject of this article.

.. Personal 111ail from an A!nerican diplomatic. mission abroad to an address in the Uni te.d States is exemplified by the cover illus­trated on the. lower half of the preced­ing page. This cover wa s sent, in 1956 by a pers9n with the.U •. s. Embassy in Cairo to a business in .the United St~tes.

Until 1964 personal mail .from staf.f members of·AmericanMissions abroad to addresses iri in the United States required .franking with stamps· of the· country of drigin at the In.;. ternational airmail rate fro m that country to the U. s. .for such mail to be sent via. diplomatic pouch. .The pouches were. sent to Washington, D. C. as air cargo •. 'l'he mail. received. no postmark a broad a s . it w a 1:! ·not processed by a foreign postal service. 0 n a~ival in Washington, the mail was channel­ad. to tbe Washington City. Post Office Where the Washington postmark, and .frequently the marking "This article o:dginally ma.iled in country inq·icated by· postage" were applied.

. The use of .fOreign postage· on such letters wa~.: left up to the Miss.ion' s 'Chi:e.f after July 2~ .1964 as he could authorize domestic. U ~ S. postage for such mail. The final de­mise of our nice covers came o:n October 1, 1966 when diplomatic pouah mail was class~: .fied as domestic U. s. mail.

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Much of the in.format~on presented he re has been taken from the definitive work on the U. S. Diplomatic· Pouch Mail by Col. Leonard H. Smith Jr., which appeared' in .the S.P.A • Journai, Vol. 30, No. 6, Febr., 19 6 8, PP• 369- "381. Students of this· stibjeet will. find his article to be an· in d is pen a able source of information.

* * * Editori's note: U. MOSES is .the highly:regard~

· ed Editor of t~e Los Angeles Herald-Examin­er's Weekly Stamp Department and an Asso.ci­ate Editor of the National Stamp News. His personal collection:~s· extensive with spec­ialized areas in the German,:polar,military and paquebot field.. He has a large ·number of interesting and informative articles to his credit in a variety of national publica­tions.

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: .. The PROVISIONAL POSTAGE ... DUE HANDSTA,MPS of Port Said, French P·ost Office, of ;1.921 have been discussed in EGYPTIAN TOPICS Nos. 2, 3 4 and 6 of Volume 2 in the past year. Jean Boulad d'Humieres has questioned the valid-· ity of these provisionals on the ground that the covers illustrated were already proper-

. ly franked. He pointed out how easy it would have been in Egypt at that time to have had· such items cancelled per complaisance by the French postmaster. Nevertheless, I do not think these provisionals can be dismissed so easily. For one thing, the letters in question would onzy have been propez:ly frank .... ed if they were not overweight.

I recently wrote to Mr. Robert G. Stone, of the France and Colonies.Philatelic Society Inc., regarding these stamps. Mr. Stone has

·written in detail of other French Colonial postage-due provisionals in the Collectors' Club Philatelist this past year. H& has very kindly given me_ permission to quote ·from his reply. · "About your questioned cover from Port Said {actually, to Port Said), I have to confess the usage is entirely new· to me, as I hSve been with the· Colonies, ar.d have paid little attention to the Offices. However, on gen­eral pri~ciples, I can make a few comments for you to mull over. As you and Mr. Boul­ad suggest, the addition of the Port Said stamp with special cachet could well be a fantasy added later. But the Yvert & Tall­ier specialized catalogue, Vol. III, 1940 (the last issued), has a footnote on p. 2 2 9 mentioning this cachet as h~v-ing been used in Nov., 1921, on postage stamps cof Port Said serving as surrogates for .postage-d~e stamps, and their legitimacy is not quest­ioned. Now, your cover is ·:earlier in date than November by a few months {July)', but I would not be concerned about that because the Yvert reference was probably based on a report in one of the journals ·by somebody who just happened to see only November cov­ers, even though the usage had been going on for some time. But we find in the same cat­alogue that,· starting in·about June, 1921 French postage-due stamps of several denom­inations were overprinted similarly to th,e Port Said stamps at that time, and were us­ed at both Alexandria and Port Said. T' h e

quanti ties 0 f these overprinted were small {500 to 1700). So we can say that prior to these due overprints, there probably were

_no dues stamps available at Port Said, and even after the overprints were issued, the stock was so small that it probably soon ran out {what with heavy philatelic sales).

·on Nov. 17th, therefore, they made another overprinted. set on the French dues stamps, this time just for .Port Said. The· quantit­ies were somewhat larger than in June. A s to the rates: your cover with 25c. stamp

. would have been properly franked for a sin­gle weight letter, but if it happened to exce~d the single weight by one weight-step, then the postage due with penalty would be two times the deficiency, or 50c. = 15 Mills. Ergo, I don ' t offhand see anything wrong with the cover. As you say, it doesn't look philatelic. Apparently, prior to 1921, they used ordin­ary F~ench postage-due stamps at Port Said, without overprint, as they are listed thus in·Langlois and Francois "Les Obliterations des Bureaux Francaises a l'Etranger" (Yvert 1924), P• 9 and 114. My gues.s would be that. the French dues ran out of stock around May or June, 192 l or sooner, and wheri a fresh supply came from France, they decided to overprint them in Egyptian currency, as al­ready. done with the postage stamps."

Mr. Stone's remarks require little further comment, exqept to emphasize that any new issue of provisional stamps in Egypt immed­iately attracted large philatelic purchases so that a quantity that might have su.fi':i.ced for many months of ordinary use wo'uld be quickly exhausted. It seems likely that the stock of ordinary French postage-due stamps held at Port Said Wa'3 overprinted. iri_.Egypt­ian currency in normal course, follov7ing the overprinting of the postage stamps (!.pril to June), ·and that. the small stock available was inadequa.te to fulfill philatelic as well as postal needs. Recourse to the handstamp­~d provisionals in question would have been a logical action whUe· awaiting .a fresh suppJ,.y of postage-due stamps from France, during th~ period July Novembe~'l7, 1921.

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bazacr There is never a charge fo:~ WANTS or Ol!"f'EF.S lhted for our readers in Egyptian Top:i.csc

* WANTEDr L 10P's containing articles on the Port Fuads and the 1879 Provisionals, 5 and 10 on 2t. If you can help write to WEBER STEARNS, :E'. 0. Box No. 112, A.stor Station, Boston, Mass., 03123 ••••• -·- -------!N OFFER: "POSTAL HISTORY of the BRITISF FORCES in EGYPl' 1932- 4011 , recently publish­ed by John E. O. Hobbs of England. Booklet contains 40 pages with details of the post­al service, postal seals, 9 pages of illus­trations. Price $3.00. Write now to WAL'rER BJOR..'IC, 54~-~!~ St., N_:~.:!..._~.Y-~_10024.

WANTED: Egyptian airmail control blocks for specialized collection. See listing in last issue. If you can help - write to WILLIAM HIL~ 7743 Naniamo St., Vancouver, B. C., Canada · • • • ·--------------- ---WANTED: More wants and offers so your poor overworked, underfed editor wouldn't spend so much time here at the &%_$#&? type·writer trying to fill up this space. DO IT NOW!! --------- ..... -·-·-----·--·------·--~ WANJ:@: E.EaF. Covers. Please write first with d~scription of material. S. NAIDI T CH, 3638 N~ Canon Blvd., Altadena, Ca., 91001.

WANTED:· V. ANDONIAN, P. 0. Box 11093, Oak­land, California, 94611, needs var~ous sets of Royal Imperforates. Please write first, and include price.

EXCHANGE:. A. S. Michrick M.D., 520 Franklin Ave., NYC, N.Y., 11530, has a verY. extensive collection of varieties & imperfs. He would be delighted to compare notes and exchange. Write now if you are ~nterested. • • WANTED: Your editor is looking for early airmail items of the Sudan and Egypt: coll­ateral material, covers, vignettes,. labels, ANY covers flovtn by Walter MitteTho~zer, to Africa or other destinations. Needed for a planned article on the ·life and flights.of this famous Swiss pio:;~~--- __ . __ _

THE PYRAMIDS

We printed an article in our last issue on p.!:tge 5 entitle::l "Pioneer Air Event in Egypt" whlch concerned an early. ballo<7n flight by S p3l":.erini over the · pyramids • ' \

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D:r. Smith transl;'lted from a German Publi­cation "Der. Serrunler Dienst" while your edi­tor copied exactly from the Swiss Air cata.­logue.

Both of these publications listed the flight as being over the three pyramids, Khufll, Kheops and Khefren.

William J. Brown of King George, Virginia, wr.·i te s to correct us, and he is perfect l y correct. We should have known better.

The three pyramids of Gizeh, of course, are CHEOP3~ Khefren and Mycernius~ Bi 11 goes on to say that the Pharaoh Khufu and Kheops are one and the same; that Khefren was the son of Cheeps and that Mycernius was the son of Khafren ..

There are numerous spellings of these names depending on the tongue, with variations in pronunciation as well.

Bill says one standard set is English while the other is Greek, however, like Bill I am never sure sure either just which is whicho My encyclopedia was no help either.

In any event, we thank you Bill, for taking the trouble to correct 'lS. Now, if you· can kindly tell me where +· acquire \the card l

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I refer the readers of this short co1nrne·nt to my previous artie!le to Egyptian Topi·~s , Nb. 2, .Jan!lary- February 1 S'70, wherain I have mentioned the existence ofth.e 15 mills over­printed l..Jith 0. H. E. M. S., having both the variety "two dots displaced to the bot­torn" and a large circular brea k in the let­ter 11 S ". . Mr. W. F. Billens slso mentioned t hese t1w varieties on the 2 rnilla v.";;~lue of the same set (Zeheri, 22jJ, . in T opj_c s No. 4, of Vol. 1, May- June 1969).

In the enlarged . photo above illustrated, we no"J record th e existence of the dull - blue 10 mills valJ.e (Zeheri No. 26b) having both of the two abm[e chronicl(:;d variP-ties ..

The variety "broken S and dropped dotsn de­scribed by Mssrs. Bilhms & Pi p er no occurs in position No. 99 in the pane of lOO, as shown by a psne of the 2 m. in my collect­ion. This pane is setting D, vihi·Jh was used insofar as is· known, only for the 1, 2, 3; · 4, 5,10 blue, and 15 rn • .. "milliem§.", but nQ!;, for the 10 m. car m i ne or for the· 15 m. "milliemat11 •

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Thanks to Mr. · Billens, w h o f l. r st drew rny at~ention . to the se two varieties on thf) sam<~ star1p, . we can thu~ .::onfi:rm the .exist• ence · of at lt;Jast t w 6 stamps moi·~ (the 10 arid 15 mills). Of co1irse, H may be suppos­ed that all the val•1es of this issue sh.~uld exist with both vari·~ties, b~it where are they ? Who knm,rs of them ? ·

• Let us hopf) th~t other collectors, ln · the near fut1lre m· ay confirm the existence · of the remaini::Jg st<~mps of this issue . with i the "dropped dots" and the "large circular break" on . the lette:r 11S11 , and thQ t one day the Zel].eri catalogue will list them i~1 the regula:r inan.ner. as const":lnt varieties ..

:By · Peter A. S. S mj t h

though it does have the dropped dotsand the break in · the lolt!er Arabic inscription. it ma:r therefore be th~::~t the brok:~n nsn wa~3 not originally present, b ut res:...tl ted from dt-:u~age during printing. A ltern::!ti ve ly, the damage may have been noticEi'd after pr·inting was under way, and the brok:m letter may then have been replaced. In either event it could have resul-:;ed that not all VfJlues of setti:::tg p sh01.,r the b r okcm ·"S". I have not seen any values other than those report­ed.

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PBILmPII 1970

Everyone has rea:l of Philympia 1 s huge size, the crowds and the lines of people entering so I won't dwell on this. One thing I learn-­ed, and pass on - buy a seGson ticket and avoid the 1 i he s when there is a special door to enter . Saves a lot of time.

The popularity of stamp collecting is cer­tainly unquestioned when one could see the crowds in attendanceo Meeting fellow coll­ectors; names you'd seen, authors yo u1've wanted to meet, etc., all was most pl9asant. Renewing acquaintances of long-time friends was also a pleasure.

Sunday, the Study Circl<:l Meeting, brought togetbe!' the largest gathering ever (accord­ing to our English hosts). Not only many of the British members, but internationally as well. A varied display :of many speciaities was set up, with a selected line -up of those shm~ing, telling of the special items on disphy. Then we visited, examined c lose­ly the special items, and discussed various questions or .items 'We had with us.

Jean Boulad, John Gilbert, the Jeidels of South Africa, · Lars Adlund of Sweden, the Pipernos of Italy, Kassabs from Syria. Mr. E. Antonini of S•..Jitzerland, 'Hancy Sqhaefer, the Peter Smiths and Peter Feltus, and many many more. (Hope no one i s offended for not mentioning their names).

Ernie Kehr took a pi·::: ture we all hope will appear in print.

The varietie.s on display at Philympia were the magnet drawing these people together at various times dur ing the show. It was great to talk personally with these individualin­ternationai experts on theiT- specialty. vhs this a genuine stamp ? How· did such a rate appear to him? That ca ncellatbn date: could it possibly be genuine • Etc., etc.

C\Jtew point Rarities seemed commonplf:lce after se~:l,ng so . many, sometimes 3 ·:>f the 4 known world . cop­ies etc., such as Leros; and a Leros was discovered in ·a collection at one . of '-the ·' dea lers

Dealers in abundance w~re there, with quite . a bit of Egyptia:J. me.terlal, stamps, cOvers, i

etc. The prices were sky-high however, _ in·· . most i.r:tstances. · · · · ·~ , ·

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Some ·really· good deals were made, h.owe·veT, by those . whose kno1.Jledge permitted . them to recognize rarities not known by their· Cit.Jn·­

ers.

One of the most inte:rest:ing presentations was made by Mr. MacArthu:r at· the S~udy Cir­cle meeting. l7, (!Onr:~srnf3d idet,t.:lfi(~at5cr of the 5 Piastr~:-1, 18?;:: or J87~ .• · His meth:£ if; moBt intfm<:tin£, and ha~: been wicie:;_y che:~k­ed by hi.Ir.~ It wil:l be int.eT:,, sting to le:arn J..f aDyone ear~ d i :Jpl'O'JO it"'

That there is a wealth c f g oo•l · material in the world, as well as m·a ny iidiscoveries" yet to be made, is certainly unquestioned • And, many very knowledgeable ~ple around: as shown by the people who attendedu

This was my first foreign International but not my last - God-wilUq~. Not <,mly was the show and the meeting great; the return home was alE.o a highlight. Shared a seat on the plane with Gordon Torrey and the flight be­came the shortest ever l

Thus ended ou:r Philympia trip, a pE:rfe m t highlight to 8 days of highlights~ o ~

* * EA.STLAND AJCTIONS ('PETEH. KF:NEDI) will feat­ure Egyptian material - in one of the March l97C Auctions. Write no'.,.] for your catalogue. Two locations - Gal ifornia and Michigan •. .

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UNOTED ARAB GAMAL ABDEL NASSER 'iS'IB - 1i9·7D ,

A t f f d • t• n h " h t' \ 1- , se o . our enoml::la ,J.ons or w. lC~. fie ,. ·uwo higher values are airmails were isr;uedi.~rly in November in comrn0morat.ion of the death · of t heir beloved Arab l sader who died on Septem-ber 28, 1970 i:n Cairo.

DA':'E OF IS-SUE 5 November, 1970 DE :~OMINATIONS : 5, 20, 30 and 80 Mills DESIGN : 5 & 20 m. Nasser 1 s portr ait

30 & 80 m. Nasser 1 s portrait be­side the mosq:le which is his torab

DIME~SIONS:

Air Mail PERFO:t<.A T ION:

5 & 20 m. each 2S x 30 mmo 30 & SO m. 11 50 x 30 mm. Listed as 111, measures lli

SHEET:

COLORS:

5 & 20 m. 180 stamps· (10 x 10) 30 & 80 m. 50 " ( 5 x 10) Portra:i.t in bla:Jk on all va lues. 5 mq Sky-blue, bla ck & l,Jhite

20 m~ Nile-green, " 11 . u

30 m. 0 live- green, 11 11 u

80 m. Cocoa-brmm, " n u

WATEH.MARK : 5 & 20 m. 20 & 80 m.

Unwaterma rked Multiple Eagle

PH.INTING:

CONTROL: QUA NTITY :

Rotogravure - Post8l Organiz­ation Printing House in U A R Date of I ssue &, Serial nmnber 5 & 20 m. 2,000,000 each

30 & 80 m. 50o,oqo each l .

NOTE* Marked init ial printint:. The i~tial printine desi gnation gives the right to the Postal Organization to reprint these stamps withL1 15 days only , as fro1n date of issue.

Issued in honor of the l st Anni versary of TRIPOLI CHARTER t ho Charter· signed on 27 Decembt"Jr, 1969, by Presj_dents, Nasser of the U A R, Hoammar EL Kaza:fi of t he Libyan Arab Republic, and the Presj_dEmt of the D~~rnoc;nodic Rep1.blic of the Sudan, G;aafar Nemeiry.

DATE Ol" ISSUE DEN0l1INAT ION: DESIGN:

DlMENS ION: PER l''ORA T ION: SHEET : CO:WR:

27 DecembeT, 1970 20 Mills

Map of UAR, Libya and Sudan encircl·3d in ribbon in the c olors of the flag of U A R

40 x 40 mm. 11 1/4

35 stamps (5 x 7)

WATERMAHK: PRINTING,:

Green , pale green, black & red MultipL~ Eagl e (1 per stamp)

QUANTITY: Rotogravure - P . 0. Printing.

Not listed

EGYPTIAN TOPICS JA.NUA.RY - FEBH.UARY 1971 Page .31

A set o:f' five comuemorati ·;e star1ps were re ­le::l sed by the Postal Orga:noi. za t_ion Printing Hou.se in honor of the follo1.Jing occa:::;j_ons. (1) 50th 1\.nniverS<lry o f the Egyptian Med·­i~al Association. (2) 50th Anniversary of the Egyptian ,Engineering Association. (3) The Egyptian C\redo. (.~.) Centenary of thf~ Egyptian Libn:!:'y. (5) 50tl1 Anniversary of the Government Printing Off ic:es.

D!I;TE OF IS~DE: 20 De::::ernber, 1970 DENOMINATION: (Se-tenant ) 20 mil1:3 each DESIGNS: Medical: M'3d:i.cal & Psychiatry Em-

blems and the buildingo Library: Old & ne1.J bnild.ings C:::-edo: Quote by Nas:3eT in Arabic Engineering: Old & neH building3 Printing : 'rts emblAm and the old

and hew buil.-lings. DIMENSIONS: 42 PE!i.FGRAT ION: SHEl~l': 50 sta.mps CO:u:m3.: Shades of

WAT~.:U\11\RK:

PRINTING :

E G Y P T I A N L· I B R A R Y .E sta bli shed in l-3'70 by ALY lVJOJ31l..R.A K who, in hi:~ lifetime~ gathered books, manuscript.s. & printed :na~ter scatte:r·ec1 in mosques, houc>2s of Wakfs, sam~tuaries, cemetarie.~ : & im>ti­tutions, and eid-:lecl them to many 6t,her book;,; · in various la ngw~ges a nue le us for a ptl ':'Jlic library. Originally at Darb el Garnam-eize am l ::1. ter at Ba b El Kh,:J.1k Its fine ne \<I buH,ling comprises the Nation­al Library_, Hcuse of Historicnl docwne nt. s & the libr-'=lry Directoe­ate.

ASSOCIATION

QU.1NTTrY: 1,500,000 of each

Established in 1 919 , it begnn as the first pop Llla r o:-ganization to r ec ruit

doctors and rclise the standards of the med­ical profession and the pr~ctice of medicine.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFIGES

The Government press wa s establ.i.'3hed L1. H~2d - as the first printing press in the country. Its publications

were the Holy Q•1ran, official jo11rnals and State · printings: school books, periodi·~aL>, etc., in dS.ffe J~ent languages:, inc'lud­

ing Hieroglyphic, Syriac, and Hebrew. The Go·;·J rmnent press has ahJays pa-rtl.cipated jn the modifierl and additional isw1esof postage

stamps during the yetlrS 1879, 1884, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1926 and 19/+.3 e

Consi:Jered the largest printing :f'.lci1i.ty i :J. the Midd2.e East, it comprises more than. 35,000 maters on se·Jen floors, with up-t·::l-date printing ma·::hinery

offset and p1 toto-en.graving sections et.e., wj_th a tra ining cento::.~ annexed t o the main building. Total cost of this facility Wa 3 nearl y L.E~ 4 _, 500,000.

ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION

Created on the 3rd of December, 1920 'A hen an agreement was sigued by the lJO founders, now numberine 30,000, as an org:miz~tion of profesr3ionals as a means of pubLishing their reseGrches; t o keEYp abr·:>ast of technical ad ­va nces, and to impr:J•Je their social position.

They were recognized by tho govt::rntment :in ·~ decree signed on 12 Decerc.be-r, 1922 'when the constituti ::m was appro,Jed.

CREDO

The text of the c redo on the comm3morative, in Arabic tr3nslates as follows:

"The most s:Lgnificant victory achii.''JVed by the Egyptian entire strn3:gl e is that in whi(~h the science and the people stood, one bes-Ide the other."

GAivf AL ABDEL NA;SSE...R

Page 32 JANUARY - FEBRU~qy 1971 ~}YPTI&N TOPICS

P 0 5 TA L AN N I V . First Issue of 1971

. POST DAY

The Postal Organization in the U.LR. annu­ally celebrates its anniversary at the be­ginning of the year, in 1971, on January 2.

DA:'i~E OF ISSUE :­DE.NUHINATIONS: DESIGNS:

DTI>lliNSTONS:

5, 10, 5 m.

10 m. 20 m. 55 m.

2 Janua ry, 1971 20 and 55 Hills

QA:SIIJ{IJN - 1285 AS SALE1'1 - 1241+

ISNA - 1081 AL HAKTI-1 - 1013

61 x 28 mm.

REPUBLIC OF SUDAN DhTE OF ISSUE: DENOHDJATION: DIMENSION : DESIGN:

PERFORAT IO H: SHEET: COIDRS:

WATERMARK; Ph:INTING :

QUANTITY: CONTROL:

2 January, 1971 2 P.T.

40 x 40 mm. Maps of the· three countries

and their flags 11 l/4

35 stamps (5 x 7) Scarlet red - Leaf green, Half-tones "Light Green", Bla:::k on ~oJhite background

None Rotogravure Egypt ian Postal Press in Cairo, U. A. R.

Unlisted Unlisted

Will be withdr<nJn frorn snl•3 a f ter 6 months. Stamp will be valid for prepayment of post­age until demonetiz(cld by law.

This year's commemo raLive offering is a set of four stamps and a spec ial vignette Hith the Em'olem of the Post, in se-tenant strip.

P&'tl?ORATION: SHEe;T: COIDHS: 'viA 7ERMfl.li.K: PI.UNT I.vG

QUANTITY:

ll l/1+ Not l:is t;ed

Blue, gr.':len, bruwn 11nd yellow . Multiple Eagle

Rotogravure - Posta~ Organiz­ation Printin~ Honse in U A R

Not l·i sted

MUTUAL COOPERATiON

SUDAN LIBYA UA .. Il

EGYPTIAN TOPIUS JANUA..."R.Y - FEBRUARY 1971 Page 33

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FlAWJ ()IJ

~~~UI

ADDITIONAL NIJTE.!

I N THE ' AUGUST ISSUE of Top­ics there appeared a description of some interesting plate f la "Ws on the First Issue, discovered by the sharp eyes of W :illiam Billens. One o~ these "Was described as a retouch on the 2o para value, to­gether "With a coMpanion stamp sho"W­ing a "White flaw where the putat-ive retouch would be. Although these -two flaws are in the same pa:rt of the design, and retouching would seem at first consideration to be a reasonabl·9 expl ana­tion, the evidence is clear that there can be no relation between the two flaws. Their occurrence at the same place in th•= cb<>ign is purely fortuitous ,

It wss mentioned, on the second page of the a r ticle, the stanp with the white flaw be­longs to Type 2 of Byam 1.s classification in­to ten lithogr~phic transfer types, whereas the stippled fl:11V is on a Ty]JA 10 stamp (.in bot~ cases reference is to the backgron:nd, ::J.ot the overprint) o If one were a retouched version of the other, the two would ha•.re to be of the same type.

Through the kindness of Mr. E.L.G. MacArthur of the Egypt Study Circle. it is now possi­ble to report the posit i ons on the shee t for these two varieties. Photographs of the

complete proof shee t s showthat the stamp with the white flaw joining 2 and 0 is at position #l4'J, and the stamp "Wi ·':ih stipplnd flaw is at pos­ition #198. Position 140, ~-lOwever, is a Ty~ 7 stamp with a Type 2 ov­erprint. The illustration in Topics is not clear eno11gh for me to veri-fy the typ8, but it does, indeed, seem to reseml1le Typ3 7. The perfor­

ation, 12t x 13, is consi3tent with a stamp from vertiesl row l or 20 ( i. e.,; the ex-treme right or left row. '

Position #198, of the 20 para has an addi­tional variety , of even greater importance. but it is 11nfortunately obscurec by the cancellation on Mr. Billen 1 s example. The central word of the overprint ha.s a promin­ent bl<H~k dot just above and to the right of the central loop. This chang~s the "Word from 1Mi.sr 1 to '~·1i-.Jhr'. There are, inci­dentally, many other fl8"WS and variP-ties on the stamps o.f this value.

The other major variety reported by Mr. Billens, t he 5 piastre with a prominent gash slashing through the top word of the black inscription, is also a constant var­iety. It o cc u r s at po:>j_ tion #76 on the proof sheet.

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AN INTERESTING

c ·ISCOVERV. •

1 By W. F. 8 ill en s

. To start things off, I thlnk . I 've coiJI~ across a good one ~ This is the 10 Millieme carmine, of the 1921- 22 Ha rrison printing of the pictorials (Zeheri No. 63, page 68). It has a broken frame at the lower left, equal in size and quite similar to the brok...:. en frame already listed as Zeheri #55e for the one Mill value l This break is vertical at the lower left, whereas the one mill is horizontal at the lower right. He re the break is caused is caused by ink flowing in from the outside; the one Mill has ink flowing outward. It is very distinct.

10 Is ~here a member with a full sheet of this only 48 year- old it e m who would be good enough to check for constancy and, if so, identification of the plate position ?

My d ~a wing of the flaw a pp ears above. lf thP. flaw is confirmed as constant I will have photograph made for reproduction in Egyptian Topics.

*

AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH of the SphirL"'{ & the "Great Pyramid" by Karel Chalouplro.

First reproduced in Czechoslovakia through the facilities of Spring Books, the Spri:.:g House, London NW5.

NUBIAN MONU-MENTS

en WESTERN STAMP COLLECTOR To the many of our re&ders :mterested L1 rrubian Monuments,' a relevant e.r­tlcle, written l)y our colleag tie and f 1·tend, : Ernest A. Kehr, a:··ppeats ln the Je.nuary 9tr. edition of the West­ern Stan:r Collector, entitled "PHILAE COMES TO LIF';E" •

Ernie, as usual, does a fine job and includes much descr~. pti.ve mate .ri a l in such a manner that, seemingly you are traveling vrl th him as he narrates. Having made mar1y trips to our f,avor-

;lte philatelic area, he wr1tes with au,thori ty. Ee also goes into detail on the spec­ial is s ue released last October 24th by the PostBl Organization in cornmem­oratlor' of t h e Nubian Monuments, listed in o ur ne ;·J issue section in Vol. ), No. 1 ..

* * * UNIO.UE HONOR~TIPPER

A faithful reader and regular contr:i,butor to Topics, RALPH Cv TIPPER, a retired To~­onto (Canada) banker w a s recently honored in the Leisure Section ofthe Toronto D&.ily Star. The article, in six columns, entitled "EGYPTIAN STA.ti1P C 0 LLECTION WINS PRI~ES" by James Montagnes, cites Ralph' s early ;_begin­nings as a stamp collector at the age of 10: his interest in early Egyptian history whlch l·3d to the .colledion of Egypt and the Sw:kln, and ultimately; to hj.s specialization in in these countries.

The article also mentions many of t_he . Exhi­bitions in Canada an :1 Britain where he has won major. awa:c~ds for hi:3 l\laterial, especial­ly his covers with markL1.gs of the British Forces in Egypt.

Ralph currently i:~ -working on a new area of interest, postal cards, postal stationery, early pre -stamped envelJpes, censored ~~ I envelopes and postal marks used during rt h.e martial law periods in Egypt.

An interesting photograph of Ralph, deeply engrossed in his favori te albums accompanies the arti:Jle. Congratulations to you, Ralph for accolades well deserved.

, , ~ I'"" '• ~ o,-..' ' ··' • ', ·:. ', ' •• : •,. ".!.'·~·<.' : -:· ' , •,•;:/'f' '.' •

EGYPTIAN TOPICS JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1911 Page 35

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NOTI:S

The earliest record of these fantasies that I have been able to trace is a brief note published in L10rient Philatelique, No. 29, July, 1936, p. 107, where they were at once condemned. The noti~e, in French, reads in translation: .

"A Philatelic Fantasy. Mr. A• L. Taylor, our member No. 311, of Vancouv,er, B .• _,.c., ·.· Canada, has sent us this illustration of an Egyptian item. Thit3 sp-called ·es$8y,· in various colors, having been declared a fake by our expert, we place all our mem­bers on guard against this item,. which is

. JlO'bllipg but a fanta~;~y, without any: value."

It appears that they ·had been: u.nknownt~ Egyptian. specialists before that ·time:, ·and they· were· certainly .promptly condemned. I recall receiving them on approval at some time in the mid - '301 s from H. E •. Wils.on &:

· Co., who were specialist dealers in Egypt. The freshness of a 1.1. the specimen& I have ever seen is . consistent vi th such a. rela-tively recent origin. · Professor Lowell Ragatz recently wrote · me that he first sav them just after'·lforl~· War II, when he bought some. frllm a dealer in London, and since then has seen·. them· offer­ed in Antwerp and Australia. · Their .connec­tion vith Wilbelm Sellschopp is uncertain.

· · Sellschopp had . a stamp shop in San Francisco ·in the ~rly 2Qth Century, and· was- apparent­ly a highly regarded dealer. He later re­turned to Hamburg to continue his l?usiness, but the San Francisco business may have Qeen ~ried on {by relatives ?).

Sellschopp • •

It may be purely coincidental that the ear­liest encou.l'tters vi th these fantasies v are

. on the West Coast (Los Angeles·& .V~mcou·.,ar)-..

Prof. Ragatz te 11 s me that Sel'lschopp ·was not the sort vho would hava perpetrated a . traud, but, on the other hand,· they might have been created as soavenirs · or· pt"omot­ional seals, with nointention of. repr.esent-·. i.ng them as essays. · Pro£. Ragatz showed me a number of blocks •. All were printed in units of four,· vi't h margins around the periphery .~ider 1-~.n t~ spaces betlleen the seals. S~ were ui'J.water mrked, and others had portions. of a large· vatermal"k, which appears to have b ·e en a centralwtermark in sheets of writing PlP"'.-: er, probably of about Si X .11 size. The le~ geild NATIONAL BANK forms an arc, . b en eath which is the outline of a capitol dome~ p1us the word BO!tD. This tact strot:1gly n~ests that the seals- originated. in the u.s·. Per­haps they were ~keted in Hamburg at an· early date, as well as on the West Coast. .. The l2 color combinations reported in ~ last issue of Topics remains complete, even after examining the hol~ings of :aeveral collectors, and it· is thus very probable that there are onl,y tw.lve.

I am convinced there vas no fraudulent intent ·on· the part of whoever baa. these fantasies printed, and as long a s they are sold as curiosities of relatively recent origin, and not misrepresented as essays, there is no ground for complaint. On the other band, I am vecy curious about why solileone went to so much trouble to create tb,em !

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I. • • \ \ \

Egyptlan Since our basic list of Perfins in f:I'opi~s, Vol. 2, No. 6, November December 1 ·, 1970J . 1>1~ have received contributions from two of our readers: David Stump, Editor of the Per-

flns "Bulletin", the A. P. C. Yearbook, and several others; also Ralph Gro ,lp of Seattle, Washington, whom ~e th:mk. Their kind hc:Lp ena bhl s us to publish our lst added l:i..st ing.

Zeheri numbers (ordinary stamps, unless other:wise stated).

.. . . . . .. .. . . . . . ... . . . . . . .. .

height: 6 m.~11. A: 10 holes ;B: 13, E: 10. With t1t1o line text on Egypt Nos. 41 & 51.

A B E

....,.,...,..,.......,...,......._ B • I. . .. . .. • !. • . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . ... .... . . .. . . .. ..

E. h: 8m.m. B: 16, I: 10, E: Vf, Period after B and I Two line text on Egypt No • 107. Cancelled: Alexandria

.-~~~~~~ Firm: Banco Italo-Egiziano

..,....,..,..,..,.,.....,..,...B ;l E

... :·: .··:··. :•· . .. . . .. . . . . . . .. ···=··· ... . .. .

h : (B & E) : 5 • 5 mm. h ( C ) : 7.5 mm. h (I):: 9.5 mm. B: 12 holes, C: 16, I: 13, E: 10. C and I ligaturedo Firm: Bancl Italo-Egiziano

.,.. __ _._..a.J~WII..;.• (Cairo Branch ? ) • On Egypt

Previously Illustrated

No. 111.

c 1 A

Additional listing on Egypt Nos. 38 and 94

• eo ·-~r

. . . . . . • ' ...

.. . . ... · ...

... . . . .. . . . ..

: . . Previously Illustrated

... . . ... . . . . .•. ... .• . ... : .•. · .. . ~"•. . ..

.. . . . . . . . . . .. .•. . .. ••• ... .

I ••••••

I 0 B h: 7 mm. I: 5, 0: 10, B: 13 On Egy-~t, Nos • 46 and 47

1 s h: 6 mm. 1: 7, S: 11

' 0 B \ Additional on Egypt ~ps. 54 (p. 140), 97, 103, 109, 110 1.38 and on 152

R & CQ

h (R- &): 6 rmn. (C): 6.5, o: 3.5. Two line text on Egypt. No • 4 5

V 0 · Co

h: 6mm..,V: 9, 0:10,0:7, and o: 6. Two lbe text on Egypt Nos. 48, 183 and 110

EGYPTIAN TOPICS JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1971 Page 37

PERFINI. • •

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. I have read with some interest, the article in Egyptian Topi::::s (Vol. 2, No. 6, Sept. -Oct., 1970) by Dr. A. Winter. I would like to add a few additiona l lines.

W'ten I was young and just starting to coll­eet st~mps, I was taught by older and more experienced collectors that torn or other­wise damaged stamps were to be thrown away. Of course, the punctured stamps or "Perfins11

as we call them today, consid e red as dam­aged stamps. I cannot tell ho1t1 many perfins I have thrown away in the early days and I guess that most collectors di::1 the same.

B 0

C L A

S B

T C & s

(Banq ue Ottomane) also on stamps Nose 122 and 195

(':::red:Lt Lyonnais Alexandr ia) al­so on Nos. 80, 85, 88 and 106 .

... . .. . . . . . . . ... . .. . . . . . . . . ...... . .··· :·· .. ... : .. : . . . ... : . : ....

(.3oc. An. du Behara) also on Nos .. 42 and 122. There is one i nter­est tne detail to note about this: perfin. One vertical ~ir of No. 42 shows the S .B. reversed on the loW3r stamp i.e. the S. B. 1 s turn their backs to each other. Evi­dently the sheet of stamps was folded before the puncturing took place.

(Thos Cook & Son) Also on stamp No. J5.

Furthermore, I have two perfins, not listed by Dr. Winter, viz:

Because of this many of the "perfin s are quite scarce now.

When I first began to acquire an interest in the postaJ.. ·history of Egypt some years ago, I also saved and tucked away all per­fins I came across. They are not many, but all the same I do have a fet.J i terns to add to Dr. Winter 1 s list. Starting w-ith perfins,

·already listed by Dr. Winter, I would like to help complete his lis.t of the punctured stamps with t he follm-Ting (all Yvert and Tellier numbers), viz:

A B E

In two lines. All letters 6 mm. high. A - 10 holes, B- 13, and E 10. Found on stamp No. 49.

(D-t. Winter's supplement, on the previous page covers this item but not on stamp No. 49. Ed.)

. . .. • . . . :~ t. : : :·: :·: : . . .....

K & .H In two st mm. holes,

. .... : .. ·.: . ' ....... . . •·. . . . . .. :. · .

lines. Height: & and A: 5 mm. & -12, H -12,

Found on Egypt No. J5.

. . :··· . .

K and H: K- 10

and A- 10

(We have also forwardf:ld this in formation on to D~. Winter so it may be incorporated in­to the master listing with Zeheri numbers.)

8agtQoJtd ~tamp cAuctiong A DIVISION OF PETER KENEDI, INC.

COHCOURSE. EASTLAHD CEHTER HARPER WOODS, MICHIGAN 48225

Page. 3!3 JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1971 FJ.1YP,.i'IAN TOPICS

THE PHILATELIC LITERATURE OFEGVP"r.

11AN ·: ~NNOTATED RESEA:tGH·. BIBtioci.=tttPHY" -- .. ---·--·- _. _ _...__ - ~-- .. -·-- . -By · GoROON B.: GARRI~' 1'T

With Valuable Assistance From C:HARLES .!i'OX

.SECTION VI A1FIMAIL

P .LONE.P-1 ~:_q<;liQ~~tcy AI.~ MA:~t ~~lf{.IG~ US~Q gURINQ. !1&liQ)j Aml ~!:Ji!1 .l.212 PS lli~ 1l"'~1E. QI T~ RIOTS AND STRIKES IN EG~PT - Gilbert, John H. E,, Quarterly Circular of the Egy:;::rl;

St·rtdy Circle,. London, Vol. II, No. 12, pp. 166 - 174. An exc:e.llent study or this interesting phasr3 of pione~!' Egyptian Airma:U history b.}r an acknowlqdged exp3r.t in. this field. Recommended for the student arid specialist, IllU:titrated.

LIEUt. M!RC _l:Qllli~· PION~ER. TI§~ll PI!P'.r - GILBER'r, John H. ·E., QC, Vol. rf, No. 9, · · pp· ... ).l5 -.J22,. ·A comprehensi-ve, ill'.istrated study of Ee:rpt' s fi:est pil:)t t9 ·

,, .. -, · .. carry _mail. . · .· Mf~RQ. POilllPE ' ..;. MpR'I'I\.NE, Jaques. and Flight (magazi.ne, 19:L+); _also La Revu.t~ !er"it=mne,

"19}4. ·.We haye not seen these but note .them listed under bibliogrdphy at the .. en.d of.Mr.·Gilbert 1 s article in the QC, noted abova. .

·l~~t[q.tmi\TIQ),'f Q~tJ!W~~ A~:pJ~ ·~ ~f'l(it~~~ .. (TI'-1P~I~I~ AJ!l\i~:'(~ biNJJ!) (First Flight 'l?o Greece). The Airpost Journal, Vel II, No. '5, May 1931. A brief but inf~J:rmr:~tive accou_nt w1th dates and ::!ities listed, am:)unts of :mail carried ;etc. Good for research.

M:_~~F,;!A,A 12.!\1 - QiiE.!t~ 1:1nd fr.Ii~tl'I BR:t'tAtN - ~Q\.TT!i AEiilQ~ - Airpost Jonr., Vol. II, . No. 5, . pp. 9 & .il. • Facts on landing i:=J. 1929 on the Cret•~/Egypt./India run of interest t;c; sp:lcitHists; itinersry of the 9 COtlntries on the ne'W BrHish ser­vice opened in 1931 to Egypt, Suda·:1. and So~ Africa •.

. . !illXP. C - SOU~ti !E&l9.J1 -.. AB. MAIL NOTES AND NEWS, May 1932. A complex list bg of the amounts oi'•mail fror:1 Cairo and Alexandria to poiilts .sou-t;h on the run of January 23, 1932; also mail carried to Duteh E. Indi•es from Egypt:

· - !EB:~QJ\ EJ:IQ:tl't. - .. l\./M Notes & News, May 1932. A short article on: the iha ugura 1 of mail .betwei.m Zurich and Nairobi on Dec. 15, 19~29, ·with the fi.ve stop$ lis·t;ed

. and the anounts of mail carried. Pilot Walter Mittelholzer. .

§QUV~~lH "fJ!Q.lJ.q~~~~ Q'f1~~l'vfi.r~~\T COl~ ~Q.OR.I1fl Ji!J:I.Q ~Q.QfrQ EL IQ:I:!'JZ. - Airp. Jour.., Vol. 18, No., 2, November, 1946, p. 47. A brief artiele, ill·.1strated w:.~h signed cover bearing Egypt i.n n adhesive's for this hiAtorical Honol·11u to Egypt. flight.

I~ ~--~!..-l~--'Q~_F~~ PRQ'fi~J;.Q~~I~~ of EGX:ET.. - KEHH, Ernost A., Ki::-p. Jour., Vol. 20, No. 3, De;:!emb:n:.o~ ·1948, :OP• 75-76. Illustrated. Good text f::>r studen.t with transbtion of t.he overprint and a comprehensi ·re listing of the errors in the overprint compiled by the author. ·

!..:.\~!.~~}2~JAS..T..Q_~cr£-et - .§.J~NG~'(, RiG.Uta!Q J:., Ai:rp. Jour., Vol. XVII, No. 8, May, 1:146, pp. 274. -76. Ill·.1strated. Notes on the innaugural flight 3/31/46 from Washing­

. ton D. C. to Paris and on to Gai ro, and later flights via Lisbon, Ma-'lrU and Rome

·~ri:'I:.~~~ ~l~ MAlTA - Aatolycus, We~t End Philateiist, Vol. XXHI, No. ·267;· ~ay, 1926, An article de::~ling briefly with the flights of Marc Pourpe, Ca5_ro-Delhi, 1918,

·the military post of' 1919, Cairo-Baghdad Ai:r- mail and· some notes on the first (1926) Egyptian air mail stl:lmps. · ~

M.&·-~~N· CO!'fE~_il<~'t'iQ§ OV]lRP.]:J..mz. - SCO'I'CHER, W. B•, Philatelic Magazine, Feb. 7; 1947 • . pp .• -57 -58. · Interesting and informative. Enlarged illust r.ation ·of the over-. print with translation unde·r. eac!• section of Arabic ch~:uacters in English ..

_ .. EGYPTIAN TOPICS JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1971 Page .39

MORE §Q~TI.~ VAR!_"~TIES - Wll.HD; Gordon, M.D., Stamp Collecting (Eng1:md), J~nuary 15th, 1954, p. 619o . Illustrated with drawings of fla,...rs on the Bar overpri~ts (air) and errors'in the !rabic. Good specialized text.

THE A.IR ST~~~§ ANI2 A TRMJilLS OF §.CJI,"E't - GILBERT, J .H.E., The London Philat~;tist, Vol. 48, No. 679, June 1949o Good text bu-1:. some duplication of material previously listed in ESCIQC., Vol. 2, No. 12. Interesting plates of photos of stamps, cov­ers, cachets and postmarks.

.. . Illustrated coyers (I:nperial First Flight) AlexandriA. / Mwanza and Cairo I Mwanza, 1931.

No. 46, December, 191+2, p. 911.

R.A4F. AIRQRAPH GREE'.£.£NQ. A~]l.!."E..!. - Illustrated (no text) No. 59, .:fanuary, 1944, p.· 1173

* * * * * ~-QRAE.:~J:~~~I~L~1JLMihlT:di1:~~1E~LQ.EJ!~GYE~ - KErm, ERNEST A., The Airmail Dige~t,. Vol.

1, No. 3, Oct I Dec., 1938 (PhilipiJ.e Islands). Reprinted in Egyptian Topics & updated by the author. Vol. 1, No. 6, Sept /Oct., 1969. pp. 96-9'7. lnterest­ing and timely after many years.·

THE §PEQ.~~ ROI~L JMPER~EJA't~ PRJ..TI:!NQ§ OF ~QYPT - LEE, Geo. L., The Airpost Journal, Vol. 29, No. 7, April, 1958, pp. 194-197. The airs illustrated with a complete t~bl·3 by Scott, Mi'lkl.lS and Zeheri Nos., No. of sheets, stamps per sheet and.pve.r-all number of stamps printed in this imperf condition. · · ··

NEt~J!!.-~~~!.~._ll::.!Ill'1Ji1LS - KEnft, Ernest A., l'he Ai:-post Journal, "Vol. 34, No.· 8, May, ~9.63,. pp. 193 -19/+. Inter'esting insight cm ,the modern 'airs of the U."&•R~ '

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS HAVE APPEARED IN EGYPTIAN TOPICS ·• • -·- ----~·~----- ---- --- ------·-- - --- ---CANQ.ELLA!ION EfmOJ;! Q~ ZEHER! Q.::~ - BILLENS, W. F., Vol. 1, No. 6, p. 97. Deals with

Deals with error in cancel prior to date st~:imp was issued. Alli ~!:t! QJlJJ!'!:I - !!AVlNG TO DO MlTH COW.,l_! OF LISTEJ2 OVERPRINT - BILLENS, W. \F., Vol. 2,

No. 4, p. 81. Black instead of red overprint noted on the 3 m. Palestine issue.

~IEI A.IID.1~1~ - OV~:J;~ DOUBLE - PIP£RNO, GINO, Vol. 2, No. 5, P• 97, July/:A.ugust, 1970. Color illust. with the Arabic (red) overprint double.

AIJ:!M.~IL YAH.!_~l - DA~~HN, F loyd, Vol. 2, No. 6, Sept./Oct., 1970, P• 125. Illustrated with the "Bo:r.J.bn vr:~riety (dot below wheel of plane).

PIO~ !m !Y~.m' J.H £;G'P'T - SMITH, Peter A. S., Vol. 3, No. 1., p. 5. Article on one of the little--known balloon drops made by Spelterini in 1904.

U. A • .Ji..... A~JJ. VARIETY - ANGEL!, Georgio, Vol .. 3, No. 1, P• 9. Perforation and misplacement, illustrated (Zeheri No. 91).

* * * * * WE9m POS.'J'~b SER]JCE - Egyptian Postal Administration, 1rop, Nos. 25, July, 1935 in

French, and 109, Jan. 1963 in English. A chronicle of Egypt's early Pigeon Post f'rom a book pul:·lished bjr ·the :?.bstal &dmir .. o l Feb., 19.34 for loth UPU Congress.

EGYPJ' !!ID SUDAN NOT~§ - .THOMPSON, G. Seymour, L'OP, Volo VI, No. 65, Jan., 1940, PP• 7 and 8.. Il1ustrated. with rem&rks on various airmails and S.A.I.D.E. in particu-lar. Mentions several varieties of j.nterest to the specialist. .

(To be continued in'our next issue)

Pag-e 4o' JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1971 EGYPI'IAN TOPICS.

A ' BUERY -:. : . ·-FUN AND PROFIT

By, W. F. 8 i lIens

T'his set· of five denominations~ iss11ed 15th _ , . February, 1936 shows no varieties in Zeheri however, I have detected two variati on•s in the ·otherwise' perfect printing of this

A young man from Ama:dll o, Texas sends ·thf~ following queries on Sudan:Jse philatelyo He is serious and we feel h:ls question~ merit our attention: can you help ? Your 'editor

. . ' will =see that he rece lves your answer!')·-

What was the day of release of the 5 mill, 1897 provisional? Gisburnand Thornpsons 1 11 St<~mps and Posts of the A.n­glo-Egyptian Sudan gives a hint ' on p;lge 40 that it was someti:ne in May. Do yon know the day ?

issue; both are pretty nice. 2 ) When (or about when in you; ~stimation) did Port Sudan. open a Post Office ? It My copy of the 5 Mills (Zeho Noo 51, po 140)

has ~L~arge and very distinct break in the firs.t ~rabic character at the top, just be-lo-w and slightly to the left of the 11E11 in Egypte.

ECYPT£ ~

EG __ __..,..,G~

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The11 the 1.3 M:Uis (No. 53) ·exists with an ad .. :fed line that is quite unusual. Rising

, vertically frorn each ·_o f the tv1o rooftop pa­godas are vertic1-1l Une .. ':l tha 'J I presume are flngpoles. I have a copy with a nearly ho­rizontal red line, the sam~ .th;hckg~ss as the two "flagpoles" which runs all the way acros-.s the st;'lmp. It starts at the left border, passes ahout l mmQ above 11POS'l'ES 11 ,

c ~ts .into the uppe r Arabic at the left :md · arrives, s t r aight as an arrow, at the sec­ond perforation on the rtght !

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.. -was officially established in 1909, but I have copies dating back to l906o ·More­over, I have a registered cover mailed from Port Sudan in 1905 ~

3) ·Are the El- Obeid cancels ( typ_.e. ·#lO in G & T that scarce ?

4) Why do Te-wfikia cancE;lls qf , ab out 1900 cavvy the name of the cquntry, "SUDAN", after "TEWFEKIA. 11 ? Was it because of the . Fashoda incident .? · · -·

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5) Do you have any infonn~tio.O on the post­masters o·f . ·Khartoum . -.?· ;i.e~, : the··Khar'­toum post office b~fore the Mahdi' s re-volto . -

These questions may seem quite easy to ans­wer at a quick glance. Not so · easy \.!hen yci;l read them carefully. If you: can help send your answer to the editor. If some of these same queries have been bothering you let us

· know and we 1 ll print the answers later.

* * * From the collection of FI.OYD DAEHN we illus­trate a block of four of the 10 Mill defini­tive, issued 23 January, 1953 (Zeheri #218, p. 117). A 'paper crease has created an in­teresting perforation variety.