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Lot# 7209 - Auction 234-243

  • Lot# : 7209 Austrian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 1
    1867/74: 2 s. yellow, a used horizontal pair on 1872 Printed Matter entire letter from Constantinople to Trieste tied on arrival by LETTERE ARRIVATE / COL VAPORE / DAL LEVANTE in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 99). The entire disinfected with chisel slits (due to a Cholera epidemic that particularly hit Hungary, with 190'000 deaths in the one outbreak), one slit into the right hand adhesive, with part Trieste (17/1) arrival at left. A rare franking.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 300 CHF