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Auction: SW1018 - The Collectors' Series
Lot: 577

Telegrams, Telegraph & Telephone Stamps - The Professor Shaul Ladany Collection, Part IISwitzerlandTelegraph Stamps1881, 3fr. brown and rose, block of four (upper left corner with one perforation missing), and four pairs, tyed by "Les Avants/Telegr." blue octagonal handstamp on 1885, 19 July folded submission telegram form to New York. Manuscript fee of 36,8 francs, with 80c. franking lacking. Vertical tear as a result of a fold in this fragile paper, as sometimes encountered, dividing the form into two parts (small portion of paper loss at right). An exceedingly scarce multiple franking on, rarely found, telegram form. SBK 18. Photo

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