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Auction: 23110 - The Philatelic Collector's Series - e-Auction
Lot: 6859

(x) Turkey
1787 (3 July) entire letter from Smyrna to London via Constantinople, paid 8kr. in Constantinople and 1/- in London with "constan:/tinopal" and London Bishop Mark transit handstamps alongside "netto di foura e sporco di dentro" [Clean outside; dirty inside] quarantine cachet; filing folds and light foxing though appealing example of the first type handstamp of Constantinople.

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£500