Description and research notes
Original 1925 internal government certificate issued within an Egyptian ministry to document an irregularity or attempted fraud in an internal administrative process. The document is fully handwritten in period script with dated entries, clerk annotations, and formal internal case wording, including the 15 October 1925 date written directly into the manuscript text.
Its primary significance is the attached fiscal payment, represented by a complete pane of six King Fouad five milliemes revenue stamps taken directly from a booklet and affixed fully intact. Government and commercial users normally separated individual stamps for payment of fees, making the survival of a full pane on a working document extraordinarily rare. The pane shows clear full manuscript cancellation across all six stamps and is additionally tied with a complete purple ministry seal that overlaps both the pane and the document surface.
The underlying certificate addresses an internal verification or dispute, and the attached fiscal pane represents payment of a required fee for processing or certifying the matter. Internal ministry certificates from the Fouad era seldom survive because most were destroyed during later administrative consolidation. Combined with the intact pane, original manuscript text, and ministry seal impression, this document stands as a museum grade survivor and one of the strongest Egyptian fiscal artifacts from the 1920s period.