Description

The Postal Issues of Hejaz, Jeddah and Nejd is a descriptive catalog of the postage stamps issued by the Arabian jurisdictions noted in the title. The work is generously provided with analytic photographs and engravings of calligraphic and ornamental detail, including overprints, misprints, variations in ornamental borders and calligraphy, paper, and perforation, and notes on forgeries. According to the author, the stamps were designed in Cairo and most were printed there at the Survey of Egypt facilities. The catalog is preceded by a brief introduction to the political and postal ...