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  • Lot# : 1123 Russian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 4/I
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    1866: ROPiT 2 pi. deep blue & rose, a huge margined example in a deep shade, with outer frame lines at base and at right, used on 1866 cover from Latakia to Beirut, neatly tied by double ring RUSS. OBSCH: PAR i TORG. LATIJSK: AGENTSTV. handstamp in blue (Russian Agency for Shipping in Latakia / Russ. Gessellschaft für Dampfschiff und Handel, Agentur in Lattakia) with superb strike of single ring PORT LATTAKIA datestamp  (Nov 18) at right also in blue (Tchilinghirian fig. 207). Docketing of receipt inside of December 1. Small iron spotting in paper and file fold away from the superb adhesive. An astonishingly rare cover for the specialist. Signed J. Cividini, L. Miro. Cert. Mikulski (1999).

    Note: For the only similar usage we have found, see the Gordon Torrey collection, Corinphila sale 99 (June 1997), lot 8993.
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold