Stamps: World Stamps & Significant Franks on Worldwide Mail

Egypt 1st issue, 1866: 5pa grey (Smith orientation type II) with inverted watermark & 13:13 perf (SG 1e), MH OG. Cat value £350....

Egypt 1st issue, 1866: 5pa light blue-grey (Smith orientation type I) with inverted watermark & 13:13 perf (SG 1e), used + with inverse imprint on gum side showing the template's perforation guidelines (whose Y-axis appears gauged to 10¾ perf) & lithographed overprint. Cat value £400; this color not listed....

Egypt 1st issue, 1866: 10pa brown (Smith orientation type I) with inverted watermark & 13:12½ perf (SG 2c), MNH & OG - this rare. Cat value £100....

Egypt - 1st issue 1866 10 para stamp in brown with upright watermark & 13x13 perforation - unrecorded combination (SG #2e/w), used...

Egypt - 1st issue 1866 20 para stamp in pale blue with upright watermark & 13x13 perforation - unrecorded combination (SG #3e/w), used...

Egypt - 1st issue 1866 1 piastre stamp in claret with 13x13 perforation, unwatermarked as issued (SG #4d), used...

Egypt rarity - 1st issue 1866 10 piastre stamp in blue-slate with 13x13 perforation & upright watermark with 10 rays in the sun (SG #7d/w); used, with partial postmark visible - very rare as such (7,600 confirmed used) & price unlisted in SG (£1900 if mint); rare combination.Of note the top horizontal perforation appears jagged and may be the result of either of two things: either that the axis w...

Egypt rarity - 1st issue 1866 10 piastre stamp in blue-slate with 13x13 perforation & upright watermark with 9 rays in the sun (SG #7d/w); possibly used as without gum, but not tied by postal markings. This is not a re-perforated imperforate proof stamp, among other reasons, because the paper is watermarked with the correct design (documented with 9 or 10 visible sun rays) & the paper is rough and...

Egypt - 1874 typographical 5 piastre stamp in green, perforated 12.5 x 13.5 (SG #41c); used & tied by POSTE EGIZIANE CAIRO Mar 1874 dated postmark (type V5-1)....

Egypt 1st series 2nd issue postage dues, 1886-87: 10pa rose-red, without watermark (SG D16/D62); MH OG with selvage at top. Cat value £80....

Egypt 1st series 2nd issue postage dues, 1886-87: 20pa rose-red, without watermark (SG D16/D63); MH OG with small dirt speck on gum; rough perforation. Cat value £250....

Egypt 1st series 2nd issue postage dues, 1886-87: 1pia & 2pia pa rose-red, without watermark (SG D16/D64-65); MH w/OG; 2pia with small dirt speck on gum; 2 pia roughly perforated. Cat value £90. (2pc)...

Egypt - imperforated souvenir sheet of the 1946 Philatelic Exhibition in Cairo (SG #MS312), MNH with light foxing in places along the edge...

Indian (Pakistan) WWII paraphilately: 'Sind War Gifts Fund' 1/2 Anna denominated fundraising label with image of anti-aircraft gun & English + Sindhi legend "Help to Defend Your Country| Sind War Gifts Fund" (in Sindhi: "Come to Help for your country!"; top marginal: line rouletted perforation on 3 sides + top imperforated; MNH & OG (a few spots on gum). Issued in the region of India which subsequ...

WWII Anzac Club of New York illustrated label, by Jewish artist Arthur Szyk, 1944; MNH...