227 : Europe & Overseas

1866: 10 pa. brown, single example and a horizontal strip of three (all Type I) in a deep shade, used on 1866 cover to Alexandria to pay the 1 piastre rate, tied by POSTE VICE-REALI EGIZIANE / CAIRO datestamps in blue (Oct 8) with information strike alongside. Reverse with no side flaps but with PVRE Alessandria arrival cds (Oct 2). A fine and scarce cover. Signed A. Diena. Todd AIEP. Cert. E. Diena (1978).rnrnProvenance: Collection Maurice Burrus, RL, Nov 1962, lot 1664; Collection Peter Smith, Corinphila sale 198, May 2015, lot 5110.
Catalogue 227: EUROPE & OVERSEAS