Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

Austrian Consular P.O. in Beirut 1866ca: Undated Envelope to Jaffa bearing Austrian 1864 Arms 10 kreuzer blue perf. 9½ tied by clear “BERUTTI 15 / 11” cds (Tranmer fig. 3) in brown. The cover lightly wrinkled due to its thin paper, nevertheless a fresh cover with astonishing and very rare usage of the 10 Kreuzer value paying correctly the port-to-port rate.
Provenance: Collection Cihangir, Corinphila sale 121 (May 2000), lot 1895.

Austrian Consular P.O. in Beirut 1866ca: Entire letter to Jaffa bearing 1864 Arms 5 so. rose (2) and 10 so. blue perf 9½, three fine and fresh single example tied by „BERUTTI 7 / 3“ cds in brown (Tranmer fig. 3). The cover's reverse heavily spotted, nevertheless an appealing double port-to-port rate cover with a rare combination to pay the 20 soldi rate. Ferchenbauer combination unrecorded.
Provenance: Corinphila sale 83 (Sept 1991),...

Austrian Consular P.O. in Beirut 1868 (Feb 8): Entire letter to Jaffa bearing 1864 Arms 10 so. blue perf 9½, a fine and fresh example tied by „BERUTTI 20 / 2“ cds in red-violet (Tranmer fig. 3). A fine and fresh port-to-port cover with the adhesive cancelled in a rare red shade. Signed E. Diena & Raybaudi.

Austrian Consular P.O. in Beirut 1869 (Dec 23): Letter sheet to Genova, bearing 1867 Coarse Whiskers 10 so. blue, three fine and fresh single examples, tied by „BERUTTI 23 / 12“ cds in black (Tranmer fig 3), "P.D." in blue adjacent, in Brindisi a framed „PIROSCAFI POSTALI AUSTRIACI“ was struck aside. Reverse with ALEXANDRIEN and BRINDISI transit as well as GENOVA arrival (Jan 9, 1870) cds's. A late presentation of the wrong 28 soldi rate,...

Austrian Consular P.O. in Beirut 1873 (Feb 24): Letter sheet to London, bearing a three-colour franking of 1867 Coarse Whiskers 3 so. green, 5 so. red, and 15 so. brown, tied by „BERUTTI 24 / 2“ cds in black (Tranmer fig 3), framed "P.D." and LONDON arrival cds, both in red alongside. An attractive franking from the correspondence of the Tabet Brothers, the weiterfranko of '8x' is noted nearly invisible below the arrival datestamp.

Austrian Lloyd Agency in Beirut 1882 (July 27): Stationery envelope 1867 5 soldi Type IV directed to Bruges, Belgium, bearing an additional franking with pair and single of 1867 Coarse Whiskers 2 so yellow, adhesives and imprinted stamp cancelled by clear “BEIRUTH 27 / 7 82” cds (Tranmer fig. G) in black, reverse with oval ALEXANDRIEN transit cds in black and BRUGES arrival cds (Aug 8) in bluish black. An extremely rare usage of a stationery...

Austrian P.O. in Beirut 1912 (Sept 30): Picture postcard to Jaipore, Rajahstan, India, bearing 1908 Franz-Joseph Anniversary issue Crete 5 centimes green, tied by “BEIRUT / OESTERR. POST” cds (Tranmer fig. M) in black, "PORT-SAID" Egyptian transit, and three British JAIPUR arrival (Oct13/14) cds's, all in black alongside. An appealing card to an unusual destination.

Austrian P.O. in Alexandretta 1904 (March 22): Picture postcard depicting an Alep motif directed to Berlin, bearing at right Turkey 10 pa. green tied by "SEVKILHABIL (ALEP) 19 3 904" bilingual despatch cds, at left in transit Austrian Levant 1903 10 pa. slate green, tied by "ALEXANDRETTE 22 / 3 04" cds (Tranmer fig. 3), Berlin distribution cds (April 27) alongside. An interesting combination franking.
Provenance: Collection Cihangir,...

Austrian Lloyd Agency in Aleppo, Ingoing 1857 (Jan 24): Entire letter from Alexandretta to Sig. Marcopoli in Aleppo, struck upon arrival with clear rare "AGENZIA DEL LLOYD AUSTRIACO / ALEPPO" sunburst handstamp (Müller 2024b = 750 points / Tranmer fig. 2) in bluish black. Vertical file fold through the clearly struck and rare handstamp.

Austrian Shipmail, Ingoing to Triest from Beirut 1873 (May 5): Letter sheet to Gera, Germany, endorsed “Par Autrichien !”, bearing 1867 Coarse Whiskers 15 so brown, cover despatched directly at the vessel, the adhesive cancelled by pen cross, transit "LLOYD AGENZIE SMIRNE 10 / 5" transit cds on reverse, upon arrival in Trieste the stamp was tied by decent three-line "LETTERE ARRIVATE / COL VAPORE / DAL LEVANTE" (Tchilinghirian fig. 99), oval...

French Postal Services in Lebanon 1857 (June 22): Unpaid envelope with full content from US missionary in Constantinople with French services to the US consulate in Beirut, struck in transit by "SMYRNE TURQUIE" cds, upon arrival on reverse by "Beirut, July 6, 1857" datestamp of the US consulate. The cover was taxed upon arrival with '10' décimes. Very rare US consular datestamp, only four covers known, all from 1857, signed Nakri.
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French Post Office in Beirut 1858 (Oct 4): Letter sheet posted at the vessel in Beirut and directed to Lyon, dated inside, bearing Napoléon imperforated 20 c. blue, a fresh and fine example with fair to good margins, tied in transit by bold Petits Chiffres '1869' numeral of Marseille, clear framed "PAQUEBOTS DE LA MÉDITERAANÉE" in red alongside, reverse with MARSEILLE transit and LYON arrival (Oct 16) cds in black. Interesting cover paid at...