Auction 265th - 273rd - Day 5

Post offices in the Danubian Principalities 1852 (March 2): Unpaid Entire letter from Bucharest via Hermannstadt to Brackenheim, Württemberg, struck by "BUKAREST 2. MAR." datestamp in black. Reverse with HERMANNSTADT transit cds and "BAHNP. HOF-NÜRNBERG" railway datestamp, both in black as well as "BRACKENHEIM / 13 MART 1852" arrival datestamp in blue. Cover punched in disinfection in Rothenturm. The receiver had to pay '6 9 /15' (kr. CM) which was identical to 16 kreuzer South German currency. An appealing porto entire from the first years of the German-Austrian Postal Union, in addition an early usage of this type of Bucharest datestamp which is described in Tchilinghirian not to be used earlier than in 1854.