Italian Post Office at Alexandria, March 16, 1865 cover to Livorno franked by 1863-65 London printing 60c, separated by scissors and with some trimmed perforations on three sides, mistakenly not cancelled at departure, showing “Alessandria D’Egitto/Poste Italiane” datestamp and boxed “Piroscafi/Postali/Italiani” handstamp adjacent, with the stamp, after landing in Italy, being neatly cancelled in transit by the Papal States lozenge of Ancona, struck with arrival c.d.s. on back, illustrated on page 238 by Zanaria-Serra-Del Negro in their handbook dedicated to the Italian P.O.’s Abroad, the only cover recorded originating from Alexandria and cancelled with the “Griglia Pontificia” cancellation; signed Holcombe and accompanied by 2009 Colla certificate. (Image)

Est. $1,500-2,000

Italian Post Office at Alexandria, July 20 1865 cover to Genoa bearing 1863-65 London printing 10c, two examples, and 40c, tied by framed “Piroscafi/Postali/Italiani” handstamps with “Alessandria D’Egitto/Poste Italiane” c.d.s. at top right, some stains and faults caused by disinfection slits, a scarce disinfected cover; 1982 Sorani certificate. (Image)

Est. $150-200

Italian Post Office at Alexandria, #7, 14, 1878-81 "Estero" overprinted "V.E.III" 20c Orange and "Umberto" 20c orange, both contemporarily used on cover front addressed to Milan, paying the double rate, cancelled by "234" numeral handstamp with matching "Alessandria D'Egitto/16 2-83" c.d.s. at right, illustrated on page 246 of the "Historical Postal Catalogue of Stamps Used in the Italian Post-Offices Abroad", an extraordinary combination of the same denomination originating from different Kings Issues, unique, with only an additional example known of any "Vittorio Emanuele III" - "Umberto I" mixed franking; 1999 Colla certificate; (Zanaria-Serra-Del Negro €10,000) (Image)

Est. $750-1,000

Egypt complete mint collection to 1991 in mounts in a Minkus album, including classics, regular issues, commemoratives, souvenir sheets, air mails, semi-postals, officials, postage dues, express and Palestine overprints, noteworthy are the 1866 issue, all the 1867 to 1902 Sphinx and Pyramid issues, the rare 1926 Port Fouad set and the always elusive 1956 Scouts souvenir sheet (facial scuff), somewhat mixed condition, the earliest issues with some small faults or no gum, otherwise mostly o.g., l.h. or n.h., fine-very fine.

Est. $4,000-5,000

Egypt classic issues collection, heavily duplicated mint and mostly used collection of many hundreds of 1865 to 1888 issues, including postage dues, mounted on quadrilled pages in an album along with nine covers or fronts, mixed condition, many fine-very fine and perhaps a few cancel finds; high catalog value..

Est. $1,500-2,000

Egypt postal stationery entires collection, lightly duplicated collection of 195 mint or used entire envelopes housed in an album, including sizes, shades, varieties, inverted watermarks, etc., largely fine-very fine.

Est. $750-1,000

Egypt postal stationery collection of 85 mont or used items in an album, including registered envelopes, wrappers, air letters, envelope letters and cassette posts, many uprated, mostly fine-very fine.

Est. $750-1,000

Egypt postal card and reply card collection of 210 mint or used pieces from 1879 to 1950 with duplication as well as varieties and shades housed in an album, mostly fine-very fine.

Est. $750-1,000

Egypt Rural Service study comprised of 39 covers and a front in an album, with usages spanning the 1892-2002 period, many different small towns and types of cancels noted, generally fine-very fine; scarce group for the specialist.

Est. $2,000-3,000

Egypt Stations and Travelling Post Offices cover collection comprised of 197 items from 1882 to 1978 identified in an album, covers the Delta, Suez Canal region and Upper Egypt, some usual commercial mail faults, most fine-very fine; also includes The Travelling Post Offices of Egypt by Peter A.S. Smith.

Est. $2,000-3,000