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Auction: SW1018 - The Collectors' Series
Lot: 426

Telegrams, Telegraph & Telephone Stamps - The Professor Shaul Ladany Collection, Part IIFinland1860, 5k. dark greenish blue, very fresh, boasting intact perforations, delicately tied by framed "Uleabor 27 Aug 1864" datestamp on telegram cover headed by Russian coat-of-arms (small portions of upper back flap missing, mentioned for accuracy); manuscript docket of receipt at bottom. The cover was addressed to Brahestadt, with its nearest telegraphic office being Uleaborg, from where it was posted for final transmission and franked for the short-distance inland rate. A very rare usage of important significance for the advanced collection, in very fine state of preservation. Cert. Tuori. Facit 3C1LKb. Ex "Sibelius" collection. Photo

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