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Auction: 1027 - Autumn Collector's Series
Lot: 1509

Turkey The City Post of Constantinople - The Otto Hornung Gold Medal Collection Third Period - Stamps with Overprint 1878 (27 Aug.) envelope (slightly truncated at right) from Aksehir to Istanbul bearing on reverse 1876-77 10pa. mauve (block of twelve, 4x3) with red pen strokes and six strikes of the rare intaglio aksehir posta subesi 1278 cancellation, on arrival 1pi. yellow with faint blue type III Shehir overprint applied for local delivery and cancelled by oval "baghtche capussi"; fine. A spectacular franking. Signed Gilbert. Photo Estimate £ 700-800 provenance: Ex Passer

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