Egypt

Quality: ✉

1865 pre-philatelic folded letter (complete, in Arabic) sent from Mansura to Cairo on July 29th, during the transition period between the acquisition of the Posta Europea private postal enterprise by the Egyptian Government (which was, in effect, the nationalisation of the postal services in Egypt) on April 15th of 1865 and the introduction of the first Egyptian postage stamps on January 1st of 1866, departure and arrival postmarks on front and back respectively, both of them in blue, signed Gregory Todd, a scarce cover from the transitional period in 1865, vf