rescents each enclosing a star, instead of the Turkish flag with the
single "crescent" and star. Thus although a new form of watermark may
not be deemed necessary, a change to the "multiple" (or as
printers term it, the "all-over") watermark of similar device would
appropriately denote the new regime.

[Illustration: 387 388 389 390]

The designs on the fine series of stamps (_Figs._ 388-397) now current
in Egypt are:--1 millieme, sepia: gyassas or sailing-boats on the
Nile; 2m., green: Cleopatra in the garb and head-dress of the goddess
Isis; 3m., orange-yellow: the Ras-el-Tin Palace in the Muhammedan
quarter of modern Alexandria; 4m., vermilion: the Pyramids of Giza;
5m., lake: the Sphinx of Giza; 10m., cobalt: the two Colossi of
Amenophis III. on the banks of the Nile at Thebes; 20m., olive: the
Pylon or Gateway to the Karnak Temple; 50m., lilac: the Citadel at
Cairo; 100m., slate: the Rock Temple at Ab[^u] Simbel, Ipsambul; 200m.,
marone: the Asw[^a]n Dam, at the first cataract of the Nile.

[Illustration: 391 392 393 394 395 396 397]

In view of the great future now opening up for British philatelists
in the study and collection of Egyptian stamps, the present writer has
completed a full illustrated history of these stamps for publication
in the "Melville Stamp Books series," published by Messrs. Stanley
Gibbons, Ltd., 391 Strand (_see_ page 2). This will be issued almost
simultaneously with the present volume.

[Illustration: 398]

An Egyptian stamp which might have been included in the body of the
present work is _Fig._ 398, a postage-due stamp issued in 1898. At
that time the Egyptian postal regulations charged 3 milliemes for
prepaid letters but double that sum (6 milliemes) for unpaid letters,
from or to non-commissioned officers and men of the Egyptian Army in
garrison on the frontier, as well as at Suakim and Tokar; the same
tariff was applicable to soldiers taking part in the Expedition to the
Sudan. In consideration of the fact that such soldiers would be most
frequently in places where they would be unable to get postage stamps,
the authorities decided that unpaid letters sent by them should only
be liable to the single rate of 3 milliemes instead of the double rate
of 6 milliemes. But as there was no postage-due stamp of 3 milliemes
to use in collecting this sum, it was temporarily permitted to use a
2 millieme stamp, with half of another 2 millieme stamp divided
diagonally, until the surcharged s