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1903, BUR. AMB. BEYROUTH-DAMAS no.2 - 2/10/903 (Isfila no.507, CW unrecorded, Sam-Beyrut Seyyar Merkezi 2) violet on postcard bearing 20 pa. rose-carmine, adressed to Vitteaux France with arrival mark 12/11/03 on front, fine and very scarce railway cancellation and Lebanon / Syria postal history.

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1843, entire folded letter from "SMYRNE 4.Fevr.1843”, boxed "P.P.' in black alongside, sent to Constantinople with arrival cds. and rate ”8" décimes on reverse, fine and scarce origin.

1858, Turkish Admiralty Steamship Co:  Admiralty adhesive (-) in deep claret shade, imperforate with large margins on three sides and close but clear at upper right, a used example endorsed "1" (piastre) in ink manuscript alongside the Po. Pe. (Porto Piastre) in the central vignette. Fine and Rare, signed Schlesinger

Provenienz: ex Gregory Frantz (Corinphila 2021)

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1858, Admiralty adhesive (-) in deep claret shade, imperforate with large margins on three sides and close but clear at upper right, a used example endorsed "3" (piastres) in ink manuscript alongside the 'Po. Pe.' (Porto Piastre) in the central vignette, on large irregular piece of cover addressed to Smyrne with framed 'P-Anchor-P' cachet in black at left. Very Rare. Cert. Behr (2009).

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1867,  Ship Mail entire letter from Constantinople (14/Dec) to Malta, showing extremely rare strike of framed «Valsamachy and Co / steam ship agents / and ship brokers / Constantinople» in blue, inside endorsed "Through”, same company blue oval cachet alongside, addressed to Golcher Esq. Malta and forewarded by Agent "EYNAUD & PARIENTE / SENSALI DI NELECCIO / ED AGENTI / VALETTA MALTA” with blue oval cachet (PROFI archive unrecorded type) on reverse. Two Mediterranean Forewarding Agent cachets on one cover are extremely scarce, tiny ink spots and file fold, otherwise fine and very rare.

1876, "SAKIZ VAPUR SUBESI" (Chio Island, Isfila no.1, RRR) blue cancellation on cover with 1 pia. yellow, few tiny spots, fine and very rare Greece & Turkey postal history. In PROFI archive only two covers recorded.

Provenienz: C. Arsman (Feldman 2010)

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1882, Receipt showing violet circle "G.O. JOLY COURMOULI VICTORIA & CO / METELIN" seal mark, vertical crease and tiny flaw, apparently unique Greece forerunner and attractive showpiece, ex Arsman

Provenienz: C. Arsman (Feldmann 2010)

1883, BELL'S ASIA MINOR S.S.Co SYRA AGENCY blue oval cachet on agents bill, vertical file fold, very fine and attractive steam ship document, scarce Greece & Turkey naval postal history, certificate du Vachat!

1883, "G.O. JOLY VICTORIA & CO / CHIO” violet circle cancellation on envelope from CHIO bearing Duloz 20 para green single, tiny vertical fold, scarce and attractive. In Profi archive only this Chio cancel on cover recorded.

Provinenz : ex Arsman Coll. (Feldman, 2005)

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1974/99, seemingly complete mint never hinged collection in album including proofs ('örnek' overprints), miniature sheets and WWF issues. 

1974/99, Large stock in album, mainly mint never hinged, including blocks of four and part sheets, miniature sheets and in some cases with high quantities.

1918, Parcel card for a sending to Taganrog weighting 40 funts (about 16 kg), endorsed "11 (roubles) 80 (kopeks)" and accordingly franked with Kiev Tridents 5 r. and 50 k.  (block of ten and strip of three) in mixed franking with Russia 15 k. (vertical pair), all tied by cds "FUNDUKLEEV KIEV 2 10 18”, reverse ”TAGANROG 22 9 23"; fine and very scarce

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1 hr., imperforate printer´s trials with a double print including one inverted and a bloc of six (creased horizontally between stamps), all printed on reverse on map, together with a single printed only on map on reverse, fine to very fine, scarce

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1920, Vienna Series, unissued Trident 1 hr., large printer´s trial bloc of 50 printed on reverse of map, fine and scarce

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unissued 3 hr., imperforate printer´s trial bloc of 20 printed both on reverse and on map, without gum, very fine and scarce

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unissued 5 hr. and 40 hr., imperforate printer´s trial on maps, each as a single and bloc of 8, without gum, very fine and scarce

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unissued Mazepa 15 hr., complete imperforate proof sheet with double printing on reverse of a Polish map, slight peripheral wrinkles as to be expected, very fine

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unissued, imperforate printer´s trials without gum, with 60 hr. with inverted centre (minor tone spot at top margin), 100 hr. printed with misplaced centre vignette of the 80 hr., also 30 hr. two singles, all printed on map, fine to very fine, scarce 

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unissued 60 hr., colour proofs of the centre with double printing on German paper, a vertical pair and single pulls, the pair with tiny corner crease of no importance, very fine

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1918 BOOKLET: 1913, Imperial Russia booklet for 2 roubles on black on buff cover, specially issued for the "KIEV POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE”, originally containing nine panes, each of six adhesives for three values of 7 k. (3), 3 k. (3) and 1 k. (3), overprinted in 1918 with violet trident single rubber handstamp (Bulat Kyiv Type 2), only one pane of 7 k. intact, the others either missing or incomplete, 31 adhesives remaining in total, of no importance for this extremely rare item, unrecorded by Bulat (who mentions only one example of the 80 kopek booklet), fine

Provenance: Dr. Ron Zelonka (169th Corinphila auction, 2011)