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cover A fine assembly of covers and cards from the Levant including a selection of merchant's entires or entire letters - 1655-1849 (8) including 1655 from Smyrna to London, 1681 from Aleppo to London, 1776 from Smyrna to London showing London Bishop mark and "QUEEN/BOROUGH" h.s. struck in black, 1818 from Smyrna via the Austrian post addressed to Scotland, disinfected by fumigation at Semlin (circular framed cachet in black), and forwarded through Vienna; the various European Post Offices include Austria 1865 entire letter to Vienna showing "BERUTTI" despatch c.d.s., 1896 cover from Beirut to Melbourne bearing 8pa. (5), 1914 20pa. stationery card to Ragusa cancelled by segmented "SCUTARI IN ALBANIEN/ÖSTERR. POST" d.s. in blue; France with four stampless entires, 1858 entire from Smyrna to Amsterdam bearing "Empire" imperforate 20c. and 80c. (2) and cancelled by small figures "3709", 1864 entire to Lyon bearing 10c. and 40c. cancelled by large figures "5082" of Beirut, 1871 entire from Andrinople to Marseille bearing 1870 Bordeaux 20c. (2, both cut-into) and cancelled by "ancre" in blue; German with 1910 Reich 5pf. postal stationery card to Germany, uprated with unoverprinted 5pf. and both cancelled by "BEIRUT/DEUTSCHE POST" c.d.s., also fronts (3, 1875-77); Greece with 1870 entire from Galata to Greece bearing 1l. and 5l., 1873 envelope from Smyrna to Greece bearing 40l., various Large Hermes head values (9) cancelled at Constantinople, and 1912 Greek Occupation of Thessalonika cover (26 Oct.) from Salonica to Athens unusually bearing British P.O. K.E.VII 30pa. on 1½d. and tied by Hellenic Postal Administration intaglio seal in black; also various items including a little Russian, Italian and Roumanian post. An extremely interesting assembly which has until recently been part of a renowned collection of Levant. (101 items)