Worldwide Stamps and Covers Austrian Offices in Turkish Empire
Sale No: 3010
Lot No:30
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1903 20pa Rose on granite paper, block of four overprinted/ cancelled «Safed 18-6-1908» at an angle downwards to right in black at a «Tourist / Collector»s Post Office» (also opened in Nazareth where examples are recorded and Tiberiade where none are known), further cancelled with a black «on the nose» «CAIFA / OESTERREICHISCHE POST / 19.6.1908» cds, Very Fine, a splendid multiple and the unique recorded use of two Safed hand stamps; the only other recorded example of this marking is a partial impression on a postcard; 1990 Sorani certificate (Image)