Chile c. 1855 5c brown-red Colon Foldd Cover CHILLAN Straight-Line to San Carlos
Folded cover, without contents, franked with 5c brown red on blued paper, Second London Printing, tied by black target cancel, struck with choice black CHILLAN straight-line, to San Carlos, a most attractive usage of the pre-philatelic marking, scarce and fine.
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Chile c. 1858 10c dark blue Colon Bisect Folded Cover CONSTITUCION Straight-Line
Folded cover, franked with 10c dark blue Colon, diagonally bisected, tied to cover by CONSTITN (Constitucion) straight-line in black, to Valparaiso, a desirable example of this rare pre-philatelic cancellation, particularly so tying the adhesive. (MPF8).
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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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Germany (Wurttemberg) 1859 4-Times Used Turned Cover 2x 3kr Printings Tubingen
3kr orange-yellow, used in combination with three 1859 3kr yellow-orange, on turned cover used four times; twice from Tubingen to Ohringen and twice from Ohringen to Tubingen, adhesives with the odd fault, but chiefly sound and fine, a dramatic and unusual usage of two different printings, with tremendous visual appeal, scarce and fine; with Thomas Heinrich BPP certificate.
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Great Britain 1808 Ireland MERMAID Free Frank Stampless Folded Cover Drogheda
1808, folded cover, postmarked with red DROGHEDA 24 straight-line, to the Honourable John Foster, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ireland), Dublin, with red crowned "FREE" double-framed "Mermaid" datestamp (Sep 30), manuscript"8" charge fee applied in error and cancelled upon arrival in Dublin, light vertical filing fold, a fine example of this scarce and desirable "Mermaid" marking.
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Great Britain 1840 1d Mulready Lettersheet Maltese Cross Romsey to Southampton
1840, 1d. Mulready lettersheet, Forme 5, Stereo A243, neat central strike of Maltese Cross in red on front, presumably Romsey despatch backstamp (Sep 21), Southampton c.d.s. receiver, a remarkably fresh and attractive Mulready. (S.G. Spec ME1k).
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