Chile c. 1865 5c red Colon Folded Cover LIGUA Straight-Line to Santiago
Folded cover, without contents, franked with 5c red 1865 Santiago printing, large margins at top and left, showing small part of adjoining stamp at top, else touched, tied to cover to Santiago by black target cancellation, postmarked with pale greenish-blue LIGUA straight-line despatch, a scarce usage, fine. (Sc. 14).
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Colombia 1860 T.R. Cowan FORWARING AGENT Stampless FL Barranquilla to USA
Stampless folded letter from Barranquilla to New York, carried outside of the mails, struck with superb oval “From / T.R. COWAN / SHIPPING & COMMISSION AGENT / Colon. New Granada.” forwarding agent marking, exceptional quality; ex Brian Moorhouse Estate.
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Ecuador 1853 ALAUSI / DEBE on Stampless Folded Cover to Quito
Stampless folded cover, internally dated 1853, struck with scarce two-line ALAUSI/DEBE in red, to Quito, with legal docketing on reverse, signed "Rivadeneira", light wrinkles, fine; ex Leo Harris.
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France (Offices in the Levant) 1874 2x 30c Ceres Cover Salonica Turkey to Italy
Folded cover, franked with two 30c Ceres, centrally-struck 5095 "Gros Chiffres" of Salonica, adjacent "Salonique / Turquie" c.d.s. (18 Nov), endorsed "Par Messageries", to Turin, Italy, with Messina transit (26 Nov) and Torino c.d.s. arrival backstamp (28 Nov), light filing folds, scarce and extremely attractive.
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France (Offices in the Levant) 1863 Ship Mail Cover Constantinople to Lyon
Folded letter, with contents, franked with 10c bistre and 40c orange Napoleon III, perforated, tied by dotted anchor cancellation, struck with black PD and red boxed "PAQUEBOTS / DE LA / MEDITERRANEE", postmarked Neva (19 Feb), to Lyon, with Marseille, Marseille a Lyon TPO, and Lyon (26 Feb) backstamps, piece trimmed from back outer sheet to remove wax seal, trivial filing fold, else fine and scarce.
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France (Offices in the Levant) 1870 Turkey Mixed Franking Cover Aleppo
Folded cover, without contents, franked on reverse with 1pi and 20pa Turkish adhesives, tied by Arabic cancel of Aleppo, postmarked with Aleppo (12 Sep) c.d.s., likely carried via camel caravan over the desert to the French Post Office at Alexandretta, where it was postmarked on 13 Oct and franked with 10c bistre and 30c brown 1863 Laureated Napoleon, cancelled with 5079 "Gros Chiffres" and carried onwards to Marseille via the paquebot "S/S Tanais", struck with boxed red "Paquebots / de la / Mediterranee", reverse with Smyrna (17 Oct) and Marseille (24 Oct) c.d.s. backstamps, light wrinkles at lower left, adhesives with some toned perfs, a scarce mixed franking and early use of the coast perforated 20pa Third Duloz issue; ex Cihangir.
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