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[DOWSON, Sir Ernest Macleod].

A short note on the design and issue of postage stamps

A short note on the design and issue of postage stamps

prepared by the Survey of Egypt for his Highness Husein Emir and Sherif of Mecca and King of the Hejaz.

Stock Code 110231

El, Qahira, n.p., 1918

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Special edition for presentation. Rare. This publication was occasioned by the fall of Damascus on the 30th September 1919, and the consequent removal of Ottoman stamps from the Hejaz. The importance of the country having its own stamps cannot be overstated as it announced to the outside world its independence from Ottoman dominion. A very handsome production.

First edition, number 92 of 200 copies of a special edition for presentation; small folio, 22 pp., title and frontispiece within decorative borders, frontispiece consists of a complete set of the series of actual postage stamps, mounted, 12 plates within decorative borders, folding appendix, original stiff decorated wrappers, small discolouration where a label has possibly been removed, a very good copy.

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Provenance: Sgt. R.A. Watson (presentation sheet laid down dated 15th March, 1919).

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