Auction 265th - 273rd - Day 4

Danube Steam Navigation Co in Romania: 1867 10 kr. green, Type I, a used example on October 1870 lettersheet from Braila to Turnu Severin, the cover endorsed "Anbei ein Säckchen enthaltend eine Gerstenprobe" (barley sample), the adhesive tied by superb oval framed Ship Sailing Number handstamp "FRIEDRICH / 15" in blue (Tchilinghirian fig. 292). The adhesive with good perforation for this issue, an attractive cover with decorative firm's cachet at top right, a rare and desirable item. rnNote: Receiver of the letter was Emanuel van Meerbeck, a Belgian engineer who served as an officer in the Austrian Army and originated from a family of brewers in Hasselt-Limburg. In 1857 he founded the brewery 'Trajan' in Turnu Severin which explains the need to sample barley from Pauli Jarchow in Ibraila.rnProvenance: Collection Dr. Anton & Elisabeth Jerger; Dorotheum, Vienna, Nov. 2003, lot 54.