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Auction: 9013 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 65

Egypt 1926 King Fuad´s birthday 50p. purple, variety imperforate between stamp and margin at top, Alexandria cancellation of 1 Feb. 1930, the margin at top ragged as usual but a fine example of this rare variety of which only fifteen examples are recorded. Illustrated in L´Orient Philatelique of April 1945 (Volume IV, number 50, pp 244). Charles F. Hass Certificate (2003). S.G. 134 var., Balian 10a. Photo Estimate £ 1,000-1,300

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