Fascinating article from by Stephen J. Gertz - well worth a read - I haven't heard of this before - have these ever come up for auction? While he was going quietly nutty as a desk jockey in Cairo attached to Britian's Egyptian Survey in 1916 during World War I, T.E. Lawrence, not yet the legendary Lawrence of Arabia, worked on a project that became the symbolic first shot fired in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
He designed and printed postage stamps.
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