Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Austrian Levant / Aegean Islands
(Chios) 1866 outer letter sheet franked three-margined 20 lepta tied native cds, at base straight-line FRANCO and Scio-Cesme cds of Austrian Post Offices, arrival backstamp.
£175
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Corfu / Postage dues
(Corfu) 1875 stampless mourning entire from Messina, Sicily with Napoli and Brindisi transits on reverse, bearing black handstamped ‘T’ on front and on arrival large ‘120’ handstamp and two 60 lepta Postage Dues applied and tied with numeral in lozenge; fine and scarce.
£575
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Corfu / Postage dues
(Corfu) 1875 stampless mourning entire from Trieste with despatch cancel on front and arrival backstamp, faint blue manuscript “70” and perf 12½ 70 lepta Postage Due applied and tied by numeral lozenge.
£275
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Austrian Levant / Crete / Italian Levant
(Crete) 1906 incoming postcard of Antwerp Zoo bearing Italian Office La Canea Uf. Postale Italiano/ Isola Di Creta and Austrian Offices Canea Oesterrechische Post.
£85
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Crete / Military
(Crete) 1906 picture postcard 'English Camp KANDIA' to England franked 10 lepta tied unclear cds with, at centre, fine blue framed CAMP POST OFFICE/ CANDIA handstamp
£85
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Crete / Postal Stationery
(Crete) 1910 10 lepta outward section of postal stationery card to Dresden, Germany cancelled by Sitia Harbour cds; some overall toning.
£75
Greece
Covers and stamps / Malta / Greece / Disinfected mail / Forwarding Agents
(Disinfected Mail) 1843 entire from Cania to France, forwarded by Cavalli & Sons of Syra, with horizontal slits and good PURIFIE AU LAZARET/ MALTE handstamp on reverse, Marseille arrival backstamp
£115
Turkey
Covers and stamps / Greece / Turkey / Censored mail
(Greek Occupation) 1921 envelope franked on reverse 1914 20pa red (10) tied by Brousse 2 bilingual cds, Greek censor cachet at top; two vertical filing creases and some slight perf toning.
£75
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Flags / Maritime
(Ionian Steam Navigation Company) 1900s envelope bearing good strike in blue Destouni Yannoulatos Edremit with image of company flag at centre; with contents, without backflap, a good quality strike.
£175
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Maritime
(Ionian Steam Navigation Company) 1900s envelope bearing good strike on reverse in dark blue Destouni Yannoulatos Edremit with image of company flag at centre; with conents, a good quality strike.
£175
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Aegean Islands
(Limnos) 1912 cover to Milano, Italy franked block of six 1 lepta and ten 2 lepta overprinted and cancelled for used on the island, two arrivals on back and one on obverse.
£95
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Maritime
(Maritime) 1898 picture postcard of Constantinople to Athens franked Austrian Post Offices 1pi. on 10kr tied by Constantinopel III Oesterreichische Post date stamp. At left fair strike in red of Greek maritime ‘Flag’ cachet.
£95
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Illustrated / Maps
(Mount Athos) 1867 very fine illustrated letter sheet, sent internally, showing fine stylized vision of the peninsula.
£175
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Maps / Olympics
(Olympics) 1780 Map of ancient Olympic site from a book ‘Pour le Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis’, a fictional work abouth the travels of the Scythian sage Anacharsis in Greece in the middle of the 4th Century, written by Jacques Barthelemy and published in 1788; with vertical fold
£85
Turkey
Covers and stamps / Greece / Ottoman / Maritime
(Ottoman Empire - Greece) 1900s commercial cover from Adramytte franked 20 para tied by double-ring Greek maritime handstamp. Fine and very scarce.
£395
Turkey
Covers and stamps / Bulgaria / Greece / Ottoman / Turkey / Returned mail
(Ottoman Empire - Greece) 1912 20pa. postal stationery card to Sophia, Bulgaria cancelled bilingual VODINA cds, not found and showing manuscript notations “parti” and “Retur”.
£195
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Picture Stationery
(Picture Postal Stationery) 1900s 10 lepta card with chromo-litho ‘Souvenir de Zante’ image, very fine unused.
£75
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Corfu / Picture Stationery
(Picture Postal Stationery) 1900s 5 lepta card with chromo-litho colour ‘Souvenir de Corfu’ very fine unused.
£75
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Picture Stationery
(Picture Postal Stationery) 1901 5 lepta card with unusual small image at top left of ancient gateway used to Italy
£55
Greece
Covers and stamps / Greece / Picture Stationery
(Picture Postal Stationery) 190210 lepta stationery card to Trieste with multi picture view on front of Zante; some slight toning