By: Heinrich Koehler Auktionen
lot # 6005 - thrace Turkey - Ship mail issues, Ship Mail
The "Admiralty" stamp with manuscript "3" in mixed franking with "Porto-Piastre" label with manuscript "2½" on folded letter from Constantinople to Chio (Kemlek) with black "POSTA DEI PIROSCAFI OTTOMANI COSTANTINOPOLI P.P." alongside, vertical fold affecting "Admiralty" stamp, some minor ageing, otherwise a fine and exceedingly rare entire with only one other "mixed" franking between "Admiralty" and "Porto-Piastre" recorded, certificate du Vachat (2009)
Provenance: Robson Lowe (1977)
extensively described and depicted in S. Ringstrom and H.E. Tester "The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World - Part 2" page 121-126
Michel I,II
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