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Lot# 5042 - Auction 218-221

  • Lot# : 5042 Turkey

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    1902/10: Madagascar UPU Archive specimens, a superb group of 46 stamps and 18 stationeries issued by the Russian, Italian and French postal adnministrations in the Levant, incl. Russia 1910 definitives and stationery postcard, Italy 1909 40 pia. on 10 l. ovpt. definitive for Constantinople, Janina, Jerusalem, Salonico and Smirne, as wll as from the three PO's in Albania, Durazzo, Scutari and Valona, in addition five diff. parcel cards, France 1902/03 definitives, partially ovpt. in Turkish currency. Three of each stamp, attractively affixed in a neat arrangement to eight complete ledger pages and handstamped with circular POSTES ET TELEGRAPHES / COLLECTION / DE BERNE / MADAGASCAR in violet. Some of the ledger sheets bears Post & Telegraphs audit certification at base. A spectacular group sent from the UPU in Berne to the Madagascar Post Office where they were mounted on the ledger pages and tied by the Madagascar handstamp. Rare and highly desirable array  which includes in addition three sheets with strikes of the postmarks used in the Turkish and Italian PO's in Rhodes.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF