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10m Millennium of Al Azhar Mosque essay
Object Details
- Description
- This is an essay (trial design) from a series of stamps that were never issued. The stamp was intended to honor the millennium of Cairo's first mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque. Formerly in the collection of Egypt's King Farouk, the essays were seized and sold during the 1952 revolution that deposed him.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1942
- Object number
- 0.233849.1.21.2
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- Height x Width (stamp): 1 x 1 3/4 in. (2.54 x 4.45 cm) Height x Width (page): 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (29.21 x 24.13 cm)
- Place
- EGYPT (arab republic)
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- International Stamps & Mail
- Record ID
- npm_0.233849.1.21.2
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