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1991/2023, seemingly complete mint never hinged collection in good condition. 

Ganzsachenkarte 10 Ø grün ab "KJØBENHAVEN 20 7” nach Helgoland, Karte mit winzigem Eckbug, sonst tadellos

1921, 5 ö. brown and 10 ö. green in blocs of three with se-tenant "CHEVROLET", GMC", "OAKLAND" and "BUICK" advertising labels, tied by cds. "NAKSKOV -2.3 29" with 1 ö. , 7 ö. and 12 ö. to registered cover to Frankfurt am Main, reverse arrival cds. and "FEMERN RUTEN" colourfull vignette, some toned perfs, fine

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1788, folded entire with full content dated "St Martin May 28 1788”, addressed to "Mr Thomas White, Berwick", forwarded by British merchant vessel "Edwards”, handed over to the Lancaster post office where it received a fine strike of the black straight-line ”LANCASTER", forwarded to Berwick and charged "6” on delivery. Some transportation trace and normal aging, a fascinating and very early document from the Waite correspondence

Note: interesting content where the sender writes to his brother, mentioning "this letter is by the ship Edwards, Capt. Damien who sails for Lancaster some time tomorrow. There will be another conveyance in a short time, a brig belonging to capt. James Jacksen will depart from this Island in ten or twelve days by which vessel I should write…”

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1858/1962 (ca.), Rumania and Russia with Related areas, interesting large mint never hinged/unused and used balance of a collection, incl. Postage Dues, strength before the 1930s, with many duplicates, cpl. sets and some better items, together with a few large multiples and souvenir sheets, a few forgeries noted, somewhat mixed condition, in one stockbook 

Post Office Negative Seals: group of four double Post Horn handstamps, with Popovo in blue,  green, and red, Yambol in green (recorded only in 1880), and two crossed-arrow "Eastern Rumelia Telegraphs”  handstamps used for telegram receipts, with examples from Sliven and Yambol, some light creasing in places, but a scarce group.

1880 (October 6), stampless cover, struck with black FRANCO in Latin characters, postmarked with Burgas c.d.s. in black, received at Varna on October 8, undeliverable and noted "Retour” in blue crayton, with second Varna c.d.s. (Oct 13) on reverse, some overall wear, but a rare returned cover following the withdrawl of Russian troops.

Note: Eastern Rumelia’s only shipping link to international shipping was at Burgas, where Russian and Austrian vessels connected the country to the Black Sea port of Varna. 

1881, 1pre on 20pa green, through 5pia, overprinted "R.O.” in blue, used set of four, with 1881 10pa overprinted "R.O.” and "ROUMÉLIE ORIENTALE” in blue, usual small perforation flaws, the 2pi with creased perf at lower right, 5pi with thin at top, the 1pre and 20pa signed Mikulski, 2pi with 1997 Holcombe certificate, of overall fine appearance.

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1881, 1/2pre on 20pa green, overprinted "R.O.” in blue, block of four, cancelled with two strikes of circular grid cancel in blue, fresh colour, partially trimmed along top perfs, else a scarce and visually-appealing multiple.

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1881, 1/2pre on 20pa green horizontal pair, overprint "R.O.” inverted, centrally-struck with circular grid cancel in blue, nicely-centered and fresh colour, light central wrinkles not detracting from the pleasing appearance of this scarce variety.

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1881, 1/2pre on 20pa green, overprinted "R.O.” in blue, vertical pair, cancelled with multiple strikes of circular grid cancel in blue, some small perf flaws as commonly found, else a fine and scarce pair; with 1996 Holcombe certificate.

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1881 (July), 1/2pre on 20pa green, overprinted "RO”, tied to piece by circular green grid cancel and blue Pleven c.d.s. (3 July), with partial Stara-Zagora despatch and Gabrovo transit marks, an uncommon franking.

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1881 (July 4), 1pre on 20pa green, overprinted "R.O.” in blue, tied to cover to Koprivtschitza by blue railway c.d.s., reverse with blue Tartar Pazardschik (Jul 6) and Karlovo (Jul 8) transit backstamps, underpaying the 1pi rate for the second weight class by 20pa, thus struck with blue "T” due mark, cover reduced at right, various small edge tears, heavy vertical fold at right, but a rarity of Eastern Rumelia, one of only a few genuine RO overprinted covers recorded by Hitzler; with 2022 Hitlzer certificate.

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1881 (January / February), two 1/2pre on 20pa green, horizontal pair and single, tied to piece by Plovdiv c.d.s.  in red (Jan. 16), and and 2pi single, tied to piece by Plovdiv c.d.s. in blue (Feb 20), the former with some toned perfs, else a fine duo of early usages of these adhesives, which were received in Plovdiv in late December, 1880.

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1881, 20pa violet & green, overprinted "R.O.” in blue, cancelled with circular grid cancel in blue, well-centered and without the usual perforation flaws seen on multiples of this issue, fine and scarce.

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1881, 20pa "R O” overprint, three used singles, one each cancelled with blue grid, blue c.d.s., and red c.d.s., the odd perf flaw as often seen, else a fine trio illustrated the cancellation types in use during this provisional period.

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1881 (May 25), 2pi overprinted "R.O.” in blue, diagonally bisected and tied to cover by blue circular grid cancel, neatly-struck Plovdov c.d.s. alongside, the bisect paying the 10pi foreign letter rate, large portion of piece missing from back, trivial given the cover’s exceptional rarity, the only recorded usage of a bisected RO overprint, certificate Hitzler (2022)

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1881, 10pa black & lilac, overprinted "R.O.” and "Roumélie Orientale” , block of four, cancelled with several strikes of blue circular grid, some perforation flaws, small thin at top, yet a rare multiple, with few genuine examples recorded; with 2004 Hitzler certificate.

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1881 (November 27), 10pa black & lilac, overprinted "R.O.” and "Roumélie Orientale” in blue, tied by crisp circular grid cancel in blue to bilingual newspaper "Maritza”, Vol. 4, No. 340, published in Plovdiv, adhesive damaged, torn in half prior to being affixed to paper, the newspaper itself with trivial edge flaws, a late usage of any denomination of this printing, uncommonly found used after July, 1881.

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1881, 10pa black & lilac, overprinted "R.O.” in blue, overprint "Roumélie / Orientale” omitted, lightly corner cancelled in blue, stained at left side, but a rare used example of this scarce variety.

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