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
- 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)
- Type
- Postage Stamps
