Lot 1125
1874 (14/26 Mar.) small onion skin envelope from Constantinople to Paris (2.4) via Odessa (17/29.3), bearing Russian Levant 1872 3k (paying Levant internal postage) and Russia 1866 3k, 5k (6) and 1868 vertically laid paper 1k cancelled blue lozenges of dots and large Constantinople c.d.s., "Oplacheno" in circle, red "PD" and blue Erq. Paris French entry c.d.s., red manuscript "4"; faults due to the fragility of the paper, Fine appearance. Rare and quite spectacular.
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
Expertization: signed Holcombe.
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