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Auction: 1016 - Important Stamps & Covers
Lot: 145

x Turkey - Liannos´s Post, Constantinople 1865 (Oct.) Perkins, Bacon & Co. composite essays (4), each with printed circular vignette with handpainted Star and Crescent in centre, hand-drawn or handpainted rectangular background outlined in pencil, each on piece of card numbered "1" to "4". A magnificent and unique group Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 Note: This post was begun at the suggestion of the Turkish Government, which admitted itself incapable of organising a satisfactory postal service in Constantinople and its environs. The post was authorised by Imperial Decree, dated August 15 1865 and the service was begun on December 1, chiefly as as inter-city service, although letters were also collected and forwarded abroad. literature: Perkins, Bacon Records, Vol. II, page 636

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