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Auction: SW1013 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 276

1878, Aug. 27. Entire letter from Turnu Magurelle to Orsova (Austria-Hungary), bearing First Bucharest print 10b. blue (3), tied by two superb strikes of "Medea/27" oval handstamps in blue and annotated date "27/8" in violet ink, backstamped at Orsova (Gregorian date). The "Medea" was a small steamer which was into use by the Austrian Lloyd, from 1888, on the slow Mediterranean Trieste-Levant line. This, probably one of the boat's earliest journeys and along the Danube, must have been under the auspices of the D.D.S.G. (See the "A hitherto unrecorded DDSG cancellation" article by Paul Hirsch, "Der Rumäniensammler" no. 119, March 2003). An extremely rare cancellation with, at most, three covers recorded. A fascinating and desirable usages for both collectors of Romania and D.D.S.G. Signed Pascanu. Mi. 45a.

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