Description:

This is the Volume XI of a series of books dedicated to the Egypt Stamp Collection formed by Joseph H. Chalhoub.

This volume of 348 pages is presenting The Revenue Stamps, the earliest Issues in Egypt.

General Revenues and Revenue Stamped Paper, the earliest issued in Egypt, are the definitives of revenues and are presented first. They have been issued primarily to pay the various forms of the state Stamp Duty, regulations for their use have changed frequently over the years. The regulations, published comprehensibly only in Arabic, are lengthy, complicated and tedious

The collection is presented in two parts.