1887 5 guerche and 25pi unused marginal blocks of 12 from the De La Rue Archives with "Cancelled" handwritten in ink across eight stamps in each block (in response to concerns expressed by the Egyptian Postal Administration about the cleaning and illegal re-use of revenue stamps, these blocks were employed in a trial by De La Rue & Co. of their doubly-fugitive inks to demonstrate that it would not be possible to remove cancellations or signatures without damaging the underlying stamps), fine-v.f., scarce (Image)

Est.US$500