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Austrian Lloyd Lines to Greece & the Levant 1835/1860: Exhibition Collection. A substantial and extensively researched exhibition collection of 22 covers, attractively mounted and written up on album pages, documenting the maritime postal history of the Austrian Lloyd services to Greece, the Levant, Egypt, and the Black Sea. Levant Line; Constantinople to Trieste (1837–1842). Includes disinfected correspondence such as the
letter dated 8/20 February 1842 (Julian/Gregorian), endorsed “Colla Navigazione a Vapore del Lloyd Austriaco”. Also London to Nostizza, Greece (4 January 1842) with similar Lloyd endorsement, and Austrian transit mail from France
(A.T.F.) with associated markings. Greek & Adriatic Routes: Trieste to Athens (1838), Livorno to Corfu (1841) with “AGENZIA DEL LLOYD AUSTRIACO, ANCONA”, 1842 disinfected cover with Sanitaria Ancona markings, D.P. (Dikaioma
Pleromenon – porto pagato) and oval “Via di Mare”, Cefalonia to Ancona (1843) with decorative CEFALONIA / 22 AGOSTO 1843 and oval “Via di Mare”, Trieste to Corfu (5 February 1846) addressed to the Consul General of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, with decorated CORFU arrival (6.2.46). Albanian Line from Curzola to Zara with manuscript “Col Vapore” and possible vinegar disinfection, Orebich to Cork, Ireland (19 May 1861), registered to the Austrian
Consulate in Cork, later Levant & Black Sea Services, Constantinople to London (1866) via Trieste with “LETTERE ARRIVATE / COL VAPORE / DAL LEVANTE”, Greece postal stationery card Corinth to Germany (29 April 1893) with “VAPORE
/ DAL LEVANTE”, Black Sea Line (Constantinople–Varna–Kustendje), 1874 cover with boxed “LETTERE ARRIVATE / PER MARE / VARNA”. Also included: Lloyd Postal Agency of Varna – single circle "LLOYD AGENZIE / VARNA" cancelling 2 × 10
soldi on arrival at Constantinople. Lloyd Postal Agency of Constantinople-Galata – Austrian Levant stationery card cancelled CONSTANTINOPEL / LLOYD, with Paris arrival 14.8.1885. A rich and scholarly maritime postal history
collection featuring disinfected mail, rare agency handstamps, consular correspondence, boxed maritime cachets, and literature-recorded material. A fine and rare assembly from this classic and increasingly elusive field of Austrian
Lloyd maritime postal history. Provenance: Ex John Pitts. (Image 1)
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