The Autumn Auction Series #194

1868 40c Red in block of 10, types III-IV-I-II-III-IV-I-II-III-IV, top pair mint hr, others mint nh, a very fine large corner block (NP $2'100 )

1939 Army Post 3m yellow-green and 10m carmine with oblique perforations, mint nh, very fine

1935 Jubilee 1pi blue, mint nh block of four, fresh, very fine & scarce (NP $600 )

1918 Wreck cover from Cairo to London carried by SS Kingstonian, which, on April 11, 1918 was torpedoed by German submarine U68, towed into Carloforte, Sardinia, where the water damaged mail was removed. After repairs it left but was torpedoed by submarine U48 and sank, boxed DAMAGED BY IMMERSION IN SEA WATER, fine & scarce

1938 1m to 50m selection of 16 control number blocks of four, noted 50m A38 & A40, mint nh or mint hr, very fine (NP $83)

1893 Officials, no value, a block of 12 with inverted watermark, mint nh, slightly toned gum, very fine

1914-15 Officials 4m vermilion with inverted overprint, mint nh, grossly underestimated in the Nile Post catalogue as only a single and two pairs have been recorded, signed Hass

1922-23 Official 1m sepia in block of 4 showing plate errors of original stamps "broken frame on Arabic value at top right" (2nd stamp) and "dots on "Maleem" omitted" (4th stamp) (sheet position 90 & 100), mint hr for top pair, mint nh for bottom pair, cert. Hass

1922-23 Official 4m green with inverted overprint in marginal block of four (pos.41/52), mint nh, light horizontal gum creases, signed and cert. Hass (NP $1'000)

1922-23 Official 15m indigo mint og, one short perf, scarce

1924 Officials First Portrait 1m type II mint nh lower marginal block of 40, 2m type II mint nh lower marginal block of 48 and 5m type II left marginal mint nh block of 35, fine, great for the overprint specialist

1926-35 Officials 1m to 50m part set of ten, nh mint marginal blocks of four or six, showing oblique Royal perforations, very fine & scarce in blocks