Sale No: 155
Lot No:1325
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Saudi Arabia: Hejaz: Literature: 1918 “A Short Note on the Design and issues of Postage Stamps Prepared by the Survey of Egypt for His Highness Hussein & Sherif of Mecca & King of the Hejaz”. Includes the first three issues and twelve plates of essays, colour trials and progressive proofs. Only 200 produced, this numbered 102. With 1923 official Buckingham Palace invitation to formally view the King’s Collection of Postage Stamps and 1921 London G.P.O. letterhead, both to Captain S.P.C.Vesey, pasted onto inside front cover or front flyleaf, and London 1928 Stamp Exhibition plaque for Vesey’s exhibit of Specimen Stamps on wooden frame with engraved and affixed name-plate, contemporary photo of Vesey and news clipping regarding Sir Kingsley Wood (Minister responsible for London G.P.O.). Photo. (Image1)