227: Europe & Overseas | 228 : Chile - The Joseph Hackmey Collection (part 1)

Holyland Incoming mail, France 1871/75: Cérès 30 c. brown and 80 c. rose used on attractive 1873 cover endorsed 'Voie d'Autriche' addressed to the French Consul in Jerusalem, the adhesives neatly tied by '1015' gros chiffres with corresponding 'Clermont de L'Oise' cds at right (March 22) and two strikes of red 'PD'. Reverse with 'Paris / Étranger' cds in blue, Trieste oval datestamp and Austrian P.O. GERUSALEMME datestamp of receipt (April 7). An extraordinary cover: the route was slower, the rate more expensive - the first example of such a usage to Jerusalem we have recorded.
Catalogue 227: EUROPE & OVERSEAS