
RUSSIAN LEVANT: 18/4 (June): Entire from Constantinople to Odessa franked with 1872 1 k. brown in two shades and 3k., these on horizontally laid paper and 5 k. on vertically laid paper, CONSTANTINOPLE company cachet at base, the stamps themselves cancelled on arrival only (June 15). Provenance: Collection 'Cihangir', Corinphila sale 121, May 2000, lot 370.