373rd Auction
23-27 June 2020 in Wiesbaden
- (-) Remove Private Ship Letter Stamp Issuing Companies up to 1900 – The Jan Berg Collection filter Private Ship Letter Stamp Issuing Companies up to 1900 – The Jan Berg Collection
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1866/78, interesting accumulation including 10 kreuzer green type I used on 1872 entire, in addition revenues, reprints etc.
1875, Ancre green, fresh colour and good embossing, used with black cds. "REV-FÜLÖP 11 8", a fine and very rare stamp with less than 15 copies recorded of which several reside in the Hungarian Postal Museum
Provenance: The Jim Czyl Collection Hungary (Grosvenor 2014)
1869, Thomas B. Morton & Co. Letter Post, "FRANCO" handstamp seal in red adhering on large part of cover from Thessaloniki to Genova with two-line "SALONICH 31 AOUT" and red "D.A.a.L" handstamp alongside, reverse with SEMLIN Disinfection cachet and transit- and arrival marks, an attractive and very rare cover being one of two known examples of this issue used on cover, signed Sloane
Provenance: The Julius Steindler Collection "Shipping Companies stamps" (Robson Lowe 1972)
depicted in S. Ringstrom and H.E. Tester "The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World - Part 2" page 90