David Feldman - The Joseph Chalhoub Collection of Egypt I. Commemoratives Monday, December 3, 2018, at 13:00 CET

33 Geneva, December 3, 2018 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page The Nile Post Cat. N° Estimate ( € ) Varruchi Bey, the architect of the Palace, then designed a new frame, which was sent to Harrison. The firm submit- ted three different colour essays to Egypt; the one in purple was selected. They were printed by screened photogra- vure with the exception of the frame of E333 which was printed by unscreened photogravure. These essays were larger in size (104%) than the issued stamp and are on unwatermarked paper in a souvenir-sheet format. The tops of the souvenir sheets E332 and E333 were inscribed in French “SOUVENIR DU VISITE D’ÉTAT MR. LE PRÉSIDENT DU FRANCE”. The French inscription was misspelled and should have read: “SOUVENIR DE LA VISITE D’ÉTAT, MR. LE PRÉSIDENT DE LA FRANCE”. 10025 A C13 1926 King Fouad’s Birthday, 50pi purple, slightly enlarged essay (104% of issued design) in sheetlet (58 x 84mm), inscribed “SOUVENIR DU VISTE D’ETAT MR. LE PRESIDENT DU FRANCE”, very fine, colourful and a unique essay (Nile Post E331) 3’600 10026 10027 10026 S C13 1926 King Fouad’s Birthday, 50pi purple, mint showing London UPU SPECIMEN overprint, very fine and rare 600 10027 H C13g 1926 King Fouad’s Birthday, 50pi purple, used showing top sheet marginal at top IMPERFORATE, extremely fine and rare, cert. Charles Hass 1’600