Austrian Levant
An accumulation of stamps, pieces, covers and cards with Austria 1850 3Kr. + 6Kr. on piece cancelled by superb "BELGRAD/10.MAI" straight-line d.s., 1864 perf. 9½ 15s. "L" shaped strip of five on piece cancelled at Smyrna, a thorough range of mint and used (good variety of cancellations), stampless entires bearing a variety of handstamps including "AGENZIA DEL LLOYD AUSTRIACO/ALEPPO" in blue, disinfected entires (7, 1781-1837) with h.s. or annotations of Semlin, 1855 entire from Bucharest to Syra with Rothenturm disinfection cachet on reverse, postal stationery; well worth examination. (hundreds)
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An accumulation of stamps, pieces, covers and cards with Austria 1850 3Kr. + 6Kr. on piece cancelled by superb "BELGRAD/10.MAI" straight-line d.s., 1864 perf. 9½ 15s. "L" shaped strip of five on piece cancelled at Smyrna, a thorough range of mint and used (good variety of cancellations), stampless entires bearing a variety of handstamps including "AGENZIA DEL LLOYD AUSTRIACO/ALEPPO" in blue, disinfected entires (7, 1781-1837) with h.s. or annotations of Semlin, 1855 entire from Bucharest to Syra with Rothenturm disinfection cachet on reverse, postal stationery; well worth examination. (hundreds)