Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

Russian P.O. in Alexandria 1874 (Jan 22): Lettersheet with forwarder 'HESS & Co' from Trieste via Alexandria, despatched there at the Russian Post and directed to Beirut, bearing 1872 1 kop. brown on vertically laid paper and 5 kop. blue on horizontally laid paper, tied by rhomboid '785' numeral of Alexandria in blue, on reverse ALEKSANDRIYA (Tchilinghirian fig 260) arrival and despach cds's (Jan 18 & 22) in blue as well as BEIRUT arrival cds (Tchilinghirian fig. 208) in black. An interesting cover, a combined usage of forwarded and Russian Levant mail.
Note: Covers from the same correspoindence are known from the Pavlovsk and Peter Smith collections.