Values from Egypt’s early Sphinx and Pyramid series?
Sep 10, 2021
3 minutes
Today’s young Egyptian collectors take justifiable pride in their country and the accolade it regularly receives around the world for its status as the first to issue postage stamps displaying historical and archaeological subject matter rather than images of monarchs and heads of state.
The political, social and economic turmoil Egypt found itself embroiled in at the time makes these stamps even more remarkable. The powerful Ottomans, with an army encamped on Egypt’s eastern border, considered Egypt a province that gave the Ottoman Empire access to Alexandria’s thriving
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