Other Steamship Companies
Bell's Asia Minor Steamship Co.
cover 1867 (c.) cover from Smyrna to Constantinople bearing 1867 10s. vertical pair and single (all applied sideways) cancelled by "LLOYD AGENZIE/SMIRNE" c.d.s., one additionally pen cancelled, and showing "THE ASIA MINOR/SCREW STEAMSHIP CO/SMYRNA AGENCY" handstamp in black struck at foot; arrival backstamp. Fine and exceptionally rare. Photo in colour
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cover 1867 (c.) cover from Smyrna to Constantinople bearing 1867 10s. vertical pair and single (all applied sideways) cancelled by "LLOYD AGENZIE/SMIRNE" c.d.s., one additionally pen cancelled, and showing "THE ASIA MINOR/SCREW STEAMSHIP CO/SMYRNA AGENCY" handstamp in black struck at foot; arrival backstamp. Fine and exceptionally rare. Photo in colour
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Note: This cover was illustrated in "The private ship letter stamps of the world" (part 2) by S. Ringström and H.E. Tester (1981).