Lot 10019 – 20pa Blue, perforation 12½, tied on small neat envelope from Cairo to Assiut in Upper Egypt
Lot 10019 – 20pa Blue, perforation 12½, tied on small neat envelope from Cairo to Assiut in Upper Egypt
20pa Blue, perforation 12½, tied on small neat envelope from Cairo to Assiut in Upper Egypt, by POSTE VICE-REALI EGIZIANE / CAIRO cds in black, very fine and an extremely rare single franking.
An important and extremely rare usage.
Provenance: Peter Smith.
Note: The single rate was normally 1 piastre between any of the sixteen or so Vice -Royal Post Office open in Egypt at the time, mails to town on the Nile in Upper Egypt were charged according to distance in weight stages at 1 dirhem = approximately three grammes and was conveyed by the Mohammed Ali State Courier Post.
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