1916-26 collection on Minkus album pages, with first issue Hejaz used or unused, overprints, including a page from Mohamed Ali Abdou with complete set of six overprints (L14-19,JL4,5,7), Arms of Sherif of Mecca issues, Jedda (L51/60), Nejd issues, including overprints on Hejaz Bill and Railway Tax stamps, Pilgrimage set (30/54), some varieties, many better items (Image)

Est.$500

1916-45 selection of used and unused singles mounted on pages in a 1934 UPU presentation book, some cover wear, otherwise fine (Image)

Est.$150

1920-80 balance of the Al Hajj collection ("a philatelic treatise of the Pilgrimage to Mecca"),10 pages with few stamps, part sheets and other multiples, cigarette cards depicting Railway scenes, first nine stamps mounted on illustrated album page (apparently designed by T.E. Lawrence, who as not yet the legendary Lawrence of Arabia, worked on a project that became the symbolic first shot fired in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He designed and printed postage stamps. Collected in a limited edition book in 1918, A Short Note on the Design and Issue of Postage Stamps Prepared by the Survey of Egypt for His Highness Husein Emir & Sherif of Mecca & King of the Hejaz. One of the most respected and desirable volumes of philatelic literature, it has become an extremely rare book), Mesopotamia 1919 Hejaz Railway Revenue revalued for Postage (complete sheet of 1/2a), also Hejaz Revenues overprinted and used as Turkey 1920-21 Ankara issues, including multiples, etc. (Image)

Est.$1,500