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Medium:
paper; ink
Dimensions:
Height x Width (stamp): 1 x 1 3/4 in. (2.54 x 4.45 cm) Height x Width (page): 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (29.21 x 24.13 cm)
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
EGYPT (arab republic)
Date:
1942
Description:
This is an essay (trial design) from a series of stamps that were never issued. The stamp was intended to honor the millennium of Cairo's first mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque. Formerly in the collection of Egypt's King Farouk, the essays were seized and sold during the 1952 revolution that deposed him.
Topic:
International Stamps & Mail  Search this
Object number:
0.233849.1.21.3
See more items in:
National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm84a2aca60-bf84-443a-9a25-913b28af2940
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_0.233849.1.21.3