2nd Pan-Arab Jamboree, Aboukir

Egypt issued three semi-postals at Cairo on 25 July 1956 for the second Pan-Arab Scout Jamboree, held at Aboukir near Alexandria — the stamps and sheets carry the venue as ALEX. - ABOUKIR 1956, with the Hegira year ١٣٧٥ beside the Gregorian one. Domfil catalogues the stamps as 956.1/3 and the souvenir sheets as 956.4/5, describing every design as «Emblema / Emblem».

The three values each carry a Scout emblem within an Arabic-lettered frame: 10 + 10 millièmes green, 20 + 10 navy blue and 35 + 15 blue. Sadek Rafel designed them, Samir Amin Ibraham executed the artwork, and the Survey Department printed them in photogravure, perforated 13½ × 13. The printings were small — SOSOW records 134,813, 134,129 and 131,522 copies — and the stamps stayed valid for postage until 24 July 1957.

The two souvenir sheets are the rarities of Egyptian Scout philately. Both are 65 + 35 millièmes, one perforated and one imperforate, headed 2ND PAN-ARAB JAMBOREE 1956 and footed ABOUKIR - ALEXANDRIA. SOSOW puts the printing at just 1,037 copies, and explains why: a set of the two sheets was released only to buyers of 200 complete sets of the stamps. Domfil prices the pair at several hundred times the three-stamp set.

Catalogue references are Scott EG B13–B15 and B15a, Michel EG 490–492 with Bl 8A and Bl 8B, Yvert EG 379–381 with BF 8, and Stanley Gibbons EG 510–512 with MS513 and MS514.