A single impressive stamp was chosen to honor King Fouad on his 58th birthday. This unusual choice of anniversary may have been based on the lunar Muslim calendar according to which it would have been the 60th anniversary of his birth (AH 1284-1344).

Printing was done by photogravure by Nederland Rotogravure Maatschappij, a Dutch subcontractor for Harrison & Sons Ltd., London.

King Fouad’s mother (Princess Ferial) was the third wife of Khedive Ismail. When Fouad was seven years old, his father entered him into Abdeen Palace School, set up for his children’s education, where he continued for three years. Afterwards he traveled to Italy, then to Turkey to meet Sultan Abdul Hamid to ask for his permission to return to Egypt. The Sultan commanded that he go back to Egypt to join the Egyptian Army.

After his arrival to Egypt in 1890, Fouad watched over cultural affairs and headed a committee responsible for founding and organizing the Private Egyptian University in 1906. In the wake of the death of his brother, Sultan Hussein Kamal, in 1917 he acceded to the throne while it was supposed that Kamal El-Din Hussein, the son of Sultan Hussein Kamal, would succeed his father on the throne, but the British authorities intervened to install Fouad instead.