Catalog: Drummond OS7, Feltus 5
Date issued: 1924, EKU May 4, 1928
Printing: Black on cream
Perforation: 10
Inscription: Bilingual English/Arabic "EGYPT./ FOUND / OPEN / OR TORN / AND / OFFICIALLY / SEALED."
Control Number: None
Description: Two type five seals, from the 2nd printing in 1925 of 200 booklets, reclose backflap of 1928 cover from Bulgaria (town not readable) to Cairo that was "opened by mistake" & "found in this condition."
Lone reported use of this seal on cover.
Courtesy of Jim Kotanchik by permission.
Catalog: Drummond OS9, Feltus 7
Date issued: 1927, EKU July 1, 1930
Printing: Black on off-white
Perforation: 10
Inscription: Bilingual French/Arabic "EGYPTE. / TROUVÉE / OUVERTE / OU / DÉCHIRÉE / ET / RÉPARÉE / D'OFFICE."
Control Number: None
Description: Registered 1930 locally sent cover from Cairo, Egypt returned to sender and reclosed along top edge with three 7th design Egyptian official seals, all tied by "POSTMEN CAIRO 17.SE.30" datestamps. Long reason for refusal to accept letter written in Arabic on reverse.
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Updated September 13, 2008