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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/74130| Title: | Odessa - Constantinople - Malta : British Post Office / Constantinople / A/FE 20167 : earliest recorded date |
| Keywords: | Handstamps (Philately) -- Malta -- History Postal service -- Malta -- History -- 19th century Postal service -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century |
| Issue Date: | 2005-08 |
| Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
| Citation: | Bonnici, A. (ed.) (2005). Odessa - Constantinople - Malta : British Post Office / Constantinople / A/FE 20167 : earliest recorded date. Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society, 34(2), 38. |
| Abstract: | Business entire written by Messrs T. E. MAVROGORDATO & CO in ODESSA, on the 4/16 February 1867 to Sig B TAGLIAFERRO etc in MALTA via Messrs AMBROSE. P. AMAVROCORDATO in Constantinople who franked the entire with U. K. Queen Victoria 1d pl 94, and 4d pl 7 (1865 issue) stamps cancelled "C", and sent through the BRITISH POST OFFICE / CONSTANTINOPLE / A/FE 20/67 - (Earliest recorded date) arriving A/ MALTA/FE 27/67. The 5d in manuscript was the new rate per 1/2 oz to Malta (4d+1d=5d) which had come into force on the 3 April 1854. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/74130 |
| Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 2005 - 34(2) |
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