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Egypt continued...

Crown Cancels continued...
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
626   image1933 (Apr. 5), Earliest Recorded Crown Cancel #8, on cover from Moascar to London, reverse franked with 1pi Postal Seal (Scott #M1; black retta cancel) and flap bearing the crest of the Royal Scots Fusiliers; front with black M.P.O. Moascar datestamp (Type 2) and red Crown Cancel 8—which was placed in service only after Moascar's original numeral frank #7 was lost on March 6, 1933, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $100.00
Will close during Public Auction
627   image1935 (Dec. 5), Crown Cancel #13 on cover from Cairo to Harpenden, England, reverse bearing 1pi green Letter Stamp (Scott #M7) with two black retta cancels, with black M.P.O. Cairo and red Crown Cancel on front; envelope opened and unfolded along bottom to show front and back, Very Fine, an excellent start for further research, an unrecorded usage of this Crown Cancel, as there is no record that it was ever assigned to Cairo (allocated originally to Abu Qir and transferred to Alexandria); further, this M.P.O. Cairo datestamp is unrecorded, with its measurements not matching any of the five known datestamps used 1932-39.
Estimate $300 - 400. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
Cover Collections
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
628 M1//M8 image1932-36, Military Post Office Cover Collection (Scott M1//M8), comprising 27 covers franked with Postal Seals, Letter Seals or Letter Stamps; all to England save one to Canada; range of Crown Circle numbers and M.P.O. datestamps; improper usages, multiples, a scarce #M1 usage on post card, civilian cancels, a British Due cover, a violet retta cancel, etc., Gibbons value for singles on cover, with no premium for multiples, Very Fine, fully imaged on our website, an excellent range of material, all presented and annotated on 23 exhibition pages.
SG A1//A9; £618 ($850). Nile Post BF1//BF8.
Estimate $500 - 750. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23)

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Suggested Bid $500-750
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
629 M2//M11 image1932-35, Christmas Seals Cover Collection (Scott M2//M11), ten in total, neatly presented and written up on nine exhibition pages; one to Irish Free State, one to Scotland, the remainder to locales around England; printing varieties, a "T" Due cover, various Crown Cancel numbers, an Egyptian Traveling Post Office cancel, etc., etc., Very Fine, all on our website to peruse.
SG A3//A11; £2,545 for on cover ($3,490). Nile Post BF2//BF11.
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

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Suggested Bid $1,200-1,800
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction
630   image1936 (March 15), "Mary Lloyd" Covers complete, each mounted and beautifully annotated on exhibition pages; properly franked and cancelled on reverse with red 1pi "Letter Stamp", with bridge Military Post Office (M.P.O.) c.d.s. in black and double-ringed "EGYPT POSTAGE PREPAID" Crown Cancel (in red) on the front; all but the "lost" Crown Cancel #7 present; note M.P.O.'s from Abu Qir, Abu Sueir, Alexandria, Cairo (Type 1 & 2), Moascar and Port Said, and Crown Cancels #9 & 10 in violet and #11 & 12 in black; variously colored retta cancels on reverse, Very Fine+.
Estimate $400 - 600

Through the Anglo-Egyptian Postal Concession of 1932, British enlisted men could post surface letters to the UK and Irish Free State at a discounted rate, if mailed from military post offices. Special stamps ("labels", as they were called) were created for British Forces, and were used from 1932 through 1936, when Egyptian "Army Post" stamps were issued. These labels were to be placed on the back of the envelope with a retta (dotted lozenge) cancel applied, with a black Military Post Office and red numbered Crown Cancel applied on front.

The "Mary Lloyd Covers" were created on the last day these stamps and Crown Cancels were valid, March 15, 1936, following the franking practices set out in the Concession. There were originally 25 Crown Cancels, but #7 was lost in 1933 (dropped down a well…or trampled by a camel angry at its depiction on the 1932 Christmas label, reports disagree), so the Mary Lloyd sets have only 24 covers. Only 50 sets were created for the UPU and various officials involved with the Concession, including Egypt's King Fouad and England's King George V (both avid collectors). Most have been broken up over the years, making a full set such as this even scarcer. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
Army Post
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
631 M12-M13 image1936, Official Notice Announcing Army Post Stamps (Scott M12-M13), on watermarked bond, roughly 139 x 211 mm; letterpressed announcement headlined "POSTAL CONCESSION/BRITISH FORCES IN EGYPT", outlining the upcoming change-over from British Forces Letter Seals to Egyptian-issued Army Post stamps on March 1, 1936; hinged copy of each "new" stamp included as a bonus; small natural inclusion below text, otherwise Extremely Fine without a bend, crease or pinhole to be found; how it stayed so pristine is anyone's guess.
SG A12-A13. Nile Post AP1-AP2.
Estimate $250 - 350. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
632 P M12-M15 image1936-39, Army Stamps, 3m green & 10m carmine (Scott M12-M15), nice lot comprising imperforate singles with "Cancelled" on back, plus oblique-perforated examples, ranging from singles (#M12 & M13, four of each) to blocks of four (#M14 & M15), to a block of nine (#M13); imperforates on card show prior hinging, all gummed stamps except one #M13 are never hinged; as a bonus, a set of all four stamps from the Royal Collection (on card and backstamped), along with an additional #M15 reversed to show backstamp, included, Very Fine, a great set; please view.
SG A12-A15. Nile Post AP1-AP4; $1,062.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
633 / M12-M15 image1936-39, Army Stamps, 3m green & 10m carmine, collection of blocks (Scott M12-M15), mounted and fully annotated on exhibition pages, features both denominations of the large King Fouad and small King Farouk issues; at least one example of each possible control number block (including paper varieties), plus larger blocks including #M12 block of 25, #M13 block of 25 and 49 (with sheet number in margin), #M14 block of 25 (2) plus block of 46 and block of 50 (latter both Pane B), and #M15 block of 25, spot check showed most never hinged; the one we found hinged was lightly so, Very Fine, phenomenal specialist's grouping; priced as singles, with no premium for control number or larger blocks.
SG A12-A15. Nile Post AP1-AP4.
Scott $2,115 as singles.
Estimate $600 - 800. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

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Suggested Bid $600-800
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
634   image1939 (June 6), El Daba M.P.O. Datestamp, on cover to London, 10m King Fouad large Army Post (Scott #M13), tied by one of two strikes of the M.P.O. EL DABA datestamp; scissors-opened at top, with a small tear and few wrinkles away from stamp and cancels, Fine to Very Fine+, one of five recorded examples of the El Daba postmark.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
635   image1939 (Sept. 16), El Daba M.P.O. Datestamp, defaced, on cover to England, franked with 10m King Fouad Army Post stamp (Scott #M13), tied by one of two strikes of the defaced M.P.O. EL DABA datestamp; with "Passed by Unit Censor 28" handstamp at upper left; flap and inch-long tear taped closed on reverse; light horizontal file fold does not affect stamp or markings, Fine to Very Fine, one of two recorded covers (the other dated Oct. 6, 1939); the El Daba datestamp—and only El Daba's—was defaced to hide the base name sometime after the start of WWII, presumably for security purposes.
Estimate $300 - 400. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
636   image1939 (Sept. 19), Military Censor Marking, Earliest Known Use, on cover from Marsa Matrouh to Brighton, 60m pre-Concession Airmail rate paid by six 10m King Fouad Army Post stamps (Scott #M13, one missing), tied by strikes of the "M.P.O./1/MARSA MATROUH" datestamp, late cancel (last recorded use is Sept. 25, 1939), and cover bears the earliest reported use of the military censor marking; cover flaws, affecting one of the stamps, Fine, still a great item for the Auxiliary Markings collector.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $80.00
Will close during Public Auction
637   image1940 (June 10), B.P.O. E 602 Datestamp, on cover from Alexandria to Hampshire, mixed franking (Army Post plus regular Egyptian issues), overpaying the Airmail rate by 5m, cancelled by strikes of the Type 2 "B.P.O. E 602" datestamp on the day Italy declared war on the United Kingdom; BOAC suspended service to Europe, with mail flown to Durban, South Africa, and then carried to England by ship, Very Fine, a great piece for the military/WWII historian.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $100.00
Will close during Public Auction
638   image1940 (Sept./Oct.), Army "Dumb" Canceller, on two covers to Australia, a barred bridge-type canceller, with "ARMY/POST OFFICE" across bridge with no further unit or date information; here tying four 10m Army Post (Scott #M15) to an Airmail cover to Seven Hills, NSW, and two blocks of 4 of the same on a double-weight letter to Sydney (overpaying by 10m); borrowed from the British by the Australian Base Post Office in Cairo, Very Fine pair, normally used on parcels, these are considered among the scarcer postmarks on cover.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
639   image1940 (Oct. 4 & Oct. 13), Two Desert Rats Field Post Office Datestamp First Day Covers, the first an Honor Cover sent Airmail to India franked by strip of three and single of 10m carmine Farouk (Scott #M15) cancelled by strikes of "FIELD POST OFFICE/13 OC/40/245" datestamps, the second a plain envelope sent "per Air Mail" to England franked by a block of 4 of #M15 tied by "FIELD POST OFFICE/4 OC/40/242" datestamp strikes; each being the first day these F.P.O. cancellers were used for the 7th Armoured Division: #242 at Mersa Matruh, #245 at Division Headquarters at Sidi Haneish; cover to England with slight damage to top center from opening, which hardly detracts, Very Fine, two First Days from a vaunted unit.
Estimate $500 - 750. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $500-750
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
640   image1940 (Oct. 7), Abu Sueir M.P.O. Datestamp Latest Recorded Usage, on cover to London, strip of three and single #M15 (10m Farouk Army Post), paying the Airmail Concession rate, tied by two light strikes of the Abu Sueir datestamp on the last date known used, on Honor Cover; very light red RAF Censor handstamp on front (unlisted in Benians); reverse bears "Abu Suwer" Oct. 7 and Alexandria Oct. 8 transits, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
641   image1940 (Oct. 26), Multiple Franking on Australian Army Postal Service Honor Cover sent to Victoria, striking presentation of sixteen 3m small Army Post stamps (Scott #M14 in a block of ten plus three pairs), overpaying the 40m Airmail rate by 8m; all cancelled by light by legible strikes of the "DIV. H.Q.P.O./D.M.1" datestamp used at Ikingi Maryut in the Western Desert outside Alexandria; "Passed by Unit Censor 237" handstamp on front further confirms the envelope's origin, second stamp from left in top row is position 47, showing small blob/oil bubble at lower right of stamp, Very Fine, possibly a record franking for this stamp.
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
642   image1940 (Oct. 30), New Zealand Christmas Posting to Auckland, square envelope franked with 3m green King Farouk stamp (Scott #M14), tied by nearly full strike of New Zealand F.P.O. 1 datestamp (Camp Maadi, near Cairo); front bears violet "Passed by Unit Censor 101" handstamp (Benians #A3) and large manuscript "8", Very Fine, one of nine recorded covers sent to New Zealand with solo use of the 3m Farouk.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
643   image1940 (Oct. 30), Australian Army Postal Service Christmas Posting, on Large Envelope to Victoria, solo use of the 3m green Farouk issue (Scott #M14) on large Airmail envelope, tied by solid strike of "DIV. H.Q.P.O./D.M.1" datestamp; "By Air Mail" printed label lightly cancelled in pen with manuscript "Card Only" notation and violet "Passed by Unit Censor 237" handstamp on front, Very Fine, one of seven recorded 1940 solo-3m usages to Australia; this postmark was assigned to Division Headquarters of the 6th Australian Imperial Forces on their move to Ikingi Maryut (outside of Alexandria) in September 1940, and was lost during the 1941 Cretan campaign.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
644   image1940 (Nov. 9), Field Post Office #171 Datestamp, on Small Envelope to India, with franking of solo 3m Farouk (Scott #M14) tied by full, clear strike of F.P.O. 171 datestamp; front with circular "Deputy Chief Field Censor" and Indian triangular "Passed by Censor" handstamps; backstamped "10 DEC. 40/11:45 A.M.", Very Fine, one of four recorded covers to India with the solo 3m small Army Post stamp, and one of the two such covers posted at the RAF base at Heliopolis.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
645   image1940 (Dec. 6-9), "On Active Service" Free Christmas Airmail Service, 4 covers to England, each properly endorsed and postmarked within the Dec. 6-9 window; one cancelled F.P.O. #170 (Mena Camp, Cairo, Dec. 6), two F.P.O. #171 (RAF Heliopolis, Dec. 8 & 9, one of which originated in Greece), one F.P.O. #188 (Abbassia, Dec. 9), Very Fine group, though cover from Greece shows wear along top.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction

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