Auction #29

Lebanon Ottoman Offices. Cover sent from “BEVABET-Ű L-FAVKA” (a suburb of Saida) to Beirut, underfranked with red 20Para stamp cancelled by the UNRECORDED negative seal “SAIDA BEVABET-ŰL-FAVKA BOSTA SHUBESI ١٣٣١“ (a suburb of Saida that has octagonal postmark recorded in the Turkish postal museum). To signal the underpayment, bilingual sign “T” for taxation was handwritten, on arrival ten stamps of 2paras were applied as tax due stamps, regularly canceled with the CPO Beyrouth#11 postmark on 11/24/1913. B. Longo photoexpertise. UNIQUE, POSTAL SEAL UNRECORDED BY ANY CATALOG.