Auction #27

Lebanon Austrian Offices, stationery post card of 5 Soldi sent from "BEIROUTH" on 4/12/1878 to Leipzig, Germany, via Austrian Post Office of Alexandria on 7/12/1878. Showing the famous postmark recorded in the Cedar catalog as type D (fig 6) in the intermediate erosion stage of the "H" which made it type "E" (fig 7). Prestigious illustrating use of this rare postmark in intermediate's erosion stage of the "H". VERY NICE AND RARE.