Auction: 4012 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring the E.W. Ingram Collection of E. Africa
Lot: 801
French Colonies French Post Offices in Egypt 1858 (23 July) stampless entire letter from Mardin in Turkey to Lyon, carried to Alexandria where Balfante forwarding agent's cachet was applied on the reverse, front with handstruck "10" and "alexandrette" c.d.s., both in black, the reverse with Marseilles transit and Lyon arrival; light horizontal filing crease, otherwise fine
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