By: Heinrich Koehler Auktionen
lot # 6193 - europe Turkey, Ship Mail
Sixt Issue 10 para black and red Journal stamp tied by manuscript with adjacent numeral "1" in combination with Greece Large Hermes Heads 10 lepta orange and 80 lepta red, tied by cds. "CORFU 21 APRIL" to folded lettersheet from Galatz to Corfu in Greece. The letter stamp applied at edge, a very attractive entire. Only 8 covers bearing T. B. Morton adhesives are recorded and just 4 with the 'Letter' adhesive, this being the only known combination of stamp from another country
Provenance: The Julius Steindler Collection "Shipping Companies stamps" (Robson Lowe 1972)
depicted in S. Ringstrom and H.E. Tester "The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World - Part 2" page 111
depicted and described by Eugene Klein in "Morton Danube and Black Sea covers"
Michel XII, Greece
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