British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant / Great Britain Used Abroad / Postal Stationery
(Postal Stationery) 1883 Great Britain 1d. stationery card to Brighton cancelled by full and fine ‘C’ obliterator, British Post Office Constantinople index A cds at base
£65
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant / Great Britain Used Abroad / Via Varna
1875 (SP 7) cover to Manchester, endorsed "Via Varna" bearing Great Britain unoverprinted 2 1/2d. mauve on blue, JC, plate 1, tied 'C' obliterator with red British Post Office Constantinople code A cds in association,arrival backstamps; slight fault to envelope at top and opened-out for display.
£125
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant / Great Britain Used Abroad
1878 (SP 30) envelope of H.M.S. HELICON to Surrey franked Wmk Orb 2½d. rosy-mauve, plate 9, BK cancelled ‘C’ obliterator with red British Post Office Constantinople index A cds, redirected upon arrival from Twickenham to Isleworth. The “Helicon” was part of fleet operating during the Russo -Turkish War 1877-78.
£75
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant / Great Britain Used Abroad / Postal Stationery
1884 (FE 2) 1d. postal stationery card to Lake Superior, Michigan, USA, cancelled by barred'C' with very fine red British Post Office Constantinople code C cds; long message on reverse.
£55
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant
1886 cover to Wimbledon, franked vertical strip of three '40 paras' on 2 1/2d. lilac, GB-IB, tied barred oval 'C' with a black British Post Office Constantinople code A cds on reverse which is overstruck by the arrival.
£155
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant / Great Britain Used Abroad
1886 Great Britain 1d. stationery card to Sarajevo, Bosnia cancelled by ‘C’ obliterator, reverse with British Post Office Constantinople index A cds and an arrival cancel. Good condition.
£75
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant
1887 (MR 22) cover to Chelsea, New Hampshire, USA bearing single franking Great Britain overprinted '40 PARAS' on 2 1/2d. tied 'S' obliterator with British Post Office Constantinople code C cds in association, reverse with New York 'opera glasses' transit and Chester N.H. arrival cds.
£115
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant / Great Britain Used Abroad / Postal Stationery
1892 Great Britain 1d. stationery card to Esher, Surrey cancelled by fine British Post Office Constantinople index c cds that is repeated on reverse, with full message.
£55
British Levant
Covers and stamps / British Levant
1897 cover to Pernambuco, Brazil, franked '80 paras' on 5d. tied by British Post Office Constantinople code B cds, annotated to go via Southampton, London transit and arrival backstamps; some faults to envelope at top, a scarce destination.
£75
BRITISH LEVANT:
Covers and stamps / British Levant
BRITISH LEVANT: British Post Office abroad in Constantinople 1879 (Dec 28): Stampless official cover to Constantinople with printed "Correspondencia particular / del / Director Geneneral de Correos" and on reverse with printed seal, octagonal "CORREOS GUATEMALA" datestamp bottom left and in transit at London two 1873/80 1 s. plate 11 both with wing margin applied and tied by '10' oval barred obliterators, reverse with LONDON transit and fine "BRITISH POST OFFICE / CONSTANTINOPLE" code A arrival (5 Feb 1880) cds's, both in red. A fine cover from a rare origin to a rare destination.