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Lot# 6170 - Auction 257-264

  • Lot# : 6170 Russian Levant

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    Russian Company for Steam Navigation & Trade 1861: Prepaid cover front from Mersina to Beirut struck with framed COMPAGNIE RUSSE / MERSINE datestamp in blue-green (Tchilinghirian unrecorded) with dates sideways (March 21) and framed P.P. in same ink (also unrecorded by Tchilinghirian). File fold but a superb strike of this marking, in conjunction with the P.P. almost certainly unique.rnProvenance: Collection Lipschutz; Collection 'Cihangir', Corinphila sale 121, May 2000, lot 537.rn 
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF