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An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...
Died. December 5, 2012. (2012-12-05) (aged 70) Berkeley, California, U.S. Peter Randolph Feltus (1 January 1942 [1] – 5 December 2012 [2]) was an American philatelist, an expert on the revenue stamps of Egypt and Sudan. He was a member of the American Philatelic Society, the Sudan Study Group and, from 1962 until his death, the Egypt Study ...
The gallery of passport stamps by country or territory contains an accurate alphabetical list of sovereign states, partially recognised states, and dependent territories with images of their passport stamps including visas. All Schengen countries and Cyprus use the same format for their stamps and stamps are not issued when traveling from one ...
The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age, during the rule of Sargon of Akkad, and successive empires have established and operated a ...
An Egyptian stamp issued for the abrogation of the treaty, February 1952. Following the abrupt withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam, Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956, [8] ostensibly to pay for the dam, although in reality the Soviets provided most of the funding. The ...
The Postal Museum of Egypt is located at Al-Ataba Square, second floor of the Central Post Office building, Central Cairo spread over 543 sq. meters. [1] The museum was established in February 1934 but it was not open to the public until January 1940. The postal museum has displays of postal artifacts, pictures and documents showing different ...
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$ 9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [ 1][ 2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [ note 1 ...
Nofret is depicted on Egyptian stamps of 1958, [11] 1989, [12] and 2000 (the cost is 20 PT.; No. 1669) [13] and on the Fujairah stamp of 1966 (pair statue). [14] The watermark of the E£20 banknote depicts the head of a sculptural image of Nofret. [15]