Egypt 1912 - Compagnie des Bateaux Omnibus (Nile Steamer Illustrated Letterhead)
Administrative correspondence linking a private navigation company directly with a ministerial office-especially with routing stamps, dated signatures, and full vessel accounting references-is extremely uncommon. Most river transport records from this era were discarded during later bureaucratic reorganisations or lost to environmental conditions. Illustrated letterheads of the Compagnie des Bateaux Omnibus survive only in very small numbers. Full examples with unaltered mastheads, intact ministry processing marks, and complete typed text represent the highest tier of Egyptian river-navigation ephemera. Read more →