Auction 321 - 332 Romania – Special Catalogue, Worldwide Rarities – The ERIVAN Collection – 2nd Auction, Schweiz & Liechtenstein - Day 5

1839: Prepaid entire letter from Galatz endorsed internally "Dal Lazaretto" to Marseille, rastel punched for disinfection and struck on reverse with exceptionally scarce Cyrillic "CAY KYPЪЦbT" (S'AU CURATIT = Has been cleaned) with manuscript notation below and Rauten number RH30 alongside.  "JASSY" transit handstamp in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 753) and thence to Marseille with a variety of rate markings. A very rare entire, the disinfection handstamp used four years earlier than recorded in Meyer - sold together with an 1846 printed document with an even better strike of the rare "CAY KYPЪЦbT" in black (Kiriac fig. 149) on reverse. Ex collection Sassower.rnNote: Illustrated in Kiriac Dragomir "Stampilografie Postala" on page 49.rnrn