Auction #35

Levant Austrian Offices. Folded letter sent from Constantinople on 15/3/1878 to Genova via Brindisi franked with 10 Soldi blue Austrian Levant stamps fine print. In Brindisi applied Italian steamer seal "PIROSCAFI POSTALI ITALIANI". Arrive on 22/3/1878. NICE.

Levant Austrian Offices. 1870/1878 Lot of six (6) folded letters; three from Smirne, two from Constantinople and one from SCIO-CESME. Four franked 23 Soldi (coarse print) and two 10 Soldi (fine print). NICE AND INTERESTING.

Levant Austrian Offices. Stationery card of 20p/5k red killed by C1 "RODI OSTERR. POST 10/12/98" sent to Schiedam Netherland. Arrive on 20/12/1898. Extensive abrasions on the back but CHARMING APPEARANCE AND SCARCE CANCEL USED.

Levant Austrian Offices. Lythographic Post card "Salut de Constantinople" sent from Cospoli on 20/10/1900 to Genova Italy. Franked with 10p/5h blue-green stamp, also applied Lloyd's paper seal. A NICE AND CLASSIC POST CARD.

Levant Austrian Offices. 1901/1908 Four receipts, three from COSPOLI III and one from "COSPOLI f". One for Registered letter, two for Postal Money Order and the last one for Insured Letter with AR. CERTANLY INTERESTING.

Levant Austrian Offices. Post card sent from CAIFA on 2/3/1907 to USA, franked with 20p/20h red stamp. INTERESTING.

Levant Austrian Offices. 1909 circa, piece with advertising of Hungarian Levant Steamship Company Danau Line, legalization to show paid by Ottoman fiscal stamp of 2p brown. VERY NICE.

Levant Austrian Offices. Big format post card with quadrilingual extolling Young Turkish Revolution of 11 July 1324 (14 July 1908) in Turkish, Greek, french and Armenian. Sent from Cospoli on 16/9/1908 to Gorizia Austria. Interesting content written in Italian about the fire in the Fatih neighborhood of Stambul. CERTANLY RARE POST CARD.

Levant Austrian Offices. Bank stationery card sent from Cospoli on 12/5/1914 to Paris franked using PERFIN STAMP of 20p red with WBV initials of "Wiener Bank-Verein". SCARCE PERFIN USED.

Levant British Offices. Incoming folded letter sent from London via Marseille on 20/3/1862 to Cospoli franked by Six pence deep lilac stamp (SG n 69). Red Cospoli arrive on 29/3/1862. INTERESTING.

Levant British Offices. Registered envelope sent to Wien via Cospoli (back cancel) from the Smyrna British Post Office on 2/9/1905 using 80para/5p purple & blue stamp and HANDWRITTEN REGISTERED LABEL "R n 49". Arrive on 6/9/1905. Signed P. Holcombe. CERTANLY RARE.

Levant British Offices. Cover sent from Cospoli on 5/5/1911 to England by "G.F. CRAWFORD HARBOUR & BOSPORUS PILOT CONSTANTINOPLE" (seal on the back). Paquebot seal use to fill rate at "one penny" sent from board of Crawford's tugboat considering British territory. A RARE WITNESS OF TUGBOAT ACTIVITY ON THE BOSPHORUS.