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Auction: SW1018 - The Collectors' Series
Lot: 461

Telegrams, Telegraph & Telephone Stamps - The Professor Shaul Ladany Collection, Part IIGerman States Bavaria1882, postage due, 10pf. grey, used on telegram envelope from Lichtenfels to the nearby town of Langheim, neatly tied by "Lichtenfels/14 Aug. Vor 5-6 86" c.d.s., repeated adjacent. Vertical fold and tear to envelope at top right clear away of the franking, in no way detracting. A significant rarity of Bavarian postal history, being the only known telegram envelope using postage-due stamps instead of postage adhesives for franking. Cert. Schmitt. Mi. 9. Photo

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