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  • Lot# : 2093 Turkey

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    Catalogue# : 1/IIIy
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    20 pa. black on yellow on thick surfaced coloured paper, very fine horizontal pair paying the 1 piastre rate (between Aleppo and Damascus) used on October 1864 cover from Marseille to Damascus cancelled by bold strike of battal in blue. A delightful and very rare cover. Illustrated in Basaran II on page 121.
    Provenance: Collection Alfred H. Caspary.
                            Collection 'Cihangir',  Corinphila sale 123 (Oct 2000), lot 4876.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,800 CHF