Heinrich Köhler Auction 377 - Day 4

SAXONY-INDIA, 1862, Cover from Dresden to Peshawar, Punjab, fully prepaid with 16½ neugroschen. In Trieste by mistake marked on reverse with "15" for prepayment to Alexandria only instead of correct "15/52" for the prepayment to the port of landing. The British post office in Alexandria consistently treated the letter despite the ovious correct prepayment as unpaid for the rest of the way and marked "1/-" in black, the Indian post followed in...

SAXONY-DUTCH INDIES, 1863, Entire letter from "LEIPZIG-BAHNH. 24/VII 63" to Batavia, Java, endorsed "Per Land Mail via Triest", fully prepaid and franked with 1855/63, ½ neugroschen on grey and 2 copies each 3 neugroschen on yellow and 5 neugroschen vermilion. One 5 neugroschen slightly touched at right, otherwise all with good to large margins and in fresh colour. On reverse Trieste handstamp "15/52", at Alexandria marked "1/-" in red crayon...

THURN AND TAXIS-CHINA, 1864, Lettersheet from Offenbach to Canton, prepaid with 57 kreuzer, franked with 1859/61, 30 kreuzer orange and 15 orange brown-purple and 1862/64, 3 kreuzer rose and 9 kreuzer brown, all tied by clear numeral "142" with adjacent cds. In Trieste the tax mark "15/52" unusually applied on front and revrse, at Alexandria rated "1/-" in red crayon for the paid British share beyond Alexandria. The  postage is noted on the...

NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION-EGYPT, 1871, Double rate lettersheet from Annaberg in Saxony to Cairo, franked with 10 copies 1869, 1 groschen rose, tied by cds. "ANNABERG 12 JAN 71", addressed to the German Vice-Consulate, showing on front straight line "Franca" and on reverse transit and arrival marks of the Egyptian post offices of Alexandria and Cairo. 2 stamps with small faults, otherwise fine; a very scarce and impressive franking to Egypt...

NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION-PHILIPPINES, 1869, Envelope from "ODENKIRCHEN 27 7" via Trieste and Alexandria to Manila, correctly prepaid with 1868, 1 groschen rose and 5 groschen brown-olive and 1869, 2 groschen blue. The foreign share is noted with "7" groschen, the total amount additionally as "24½" kreuzer in red; "2" reales for the postage beyond Hongkong had to be paid by the recipient. On reverse transit marks of  Vienna, Trieste and...

GREAT BRITAIN-IONIAN ISLANDS, 1856, Lettersheet with part of contents from "PRESCOT DE 30 1856" to Cephalonia, franked with embossed issued 1 shilling green in vertical pair and line engraved 1 penny red-brown on bluish, tied by numeral "626" and partly by red "AUS ENGLAND PER AACHEN FRANCO". In Germany marked with "3¼" in blue ink and "3" silbergroschen in red crayon, indicating that the letter fell into first German and second British...

HUNGARY-TURKISH EMPIRE (ALBANIA), 1869, Lettersheet from Pest via Trieste, Antivari and Scutari to Prizren, franked for the distance to Antivari with 3 copies 1867, 5 kreuzer rose, tied by cds. "PEST DÉLELÖTT 3/10 69". In Antivari franked for the remaining way with Turkey 1869, 20 paras green (2) with blue all Arabic double circle, sent to forwarding agent And. Muhsani at Scutari, who forwarded the letter to it's final destination; frontside...

LOMBARDY-VENETIA-IONIAN ISLANDS, 1846, Entire letter from Venice to Corfu, prepaid with 18 kreuzer c.m., noted on reverse as "6 12/18" (6 kreuzer Ionian and 12 kreuzer Austrian postage). On front red "VENEZIA 26 GIUGNO", oval "VENEZIA FRANCO" (both in red) and Corfu arrival mark, very fine
1846, Kompletter Faltbrief von Venedig nach Korfu, komplett bezahlt mit 18 Kreuzern, diese rückseitig vermerkt als "6 12/18" (12 Kreuzer...

SARDINIA-INDIA, 1855, Part-paid entire letter from Genova via Trieste and Alexandria to Calcutta, franked with 1854, 40 centesimi in horizontal pair, tiny touched at upper right, otherwise good to large margins, and 20 centesimi dark blue with good to large margins including 2 mm sheet margin at top, all neatly cancelled by cds. "GENOVA 7 LUG. 55". On reverse transit marks of Trieste (10.7.) and Alexandria (17.7.), also boxed "CALCUTTA STEAM...

NORWAY-TURKISH EMPIRE, 1857, Lettersheet from Farsund to the Swedish-Norwegian Consul at Constantinople, correctly franked for a single rate letter via Marseille with 1856/57, 2 skilling orange and 4 copies 8 skilling carmine, tied by numeral "63". For some reason the letter was instead transported via Hamburg (5.10.) and Trieste (9.10.) with Constantinope arrival mark of 16.10. Although the transportation via Trieste was 2 skilling more...

ROMANIA (DDSG)-GREECE, 1869, Lettersheet from Oltenitza to Syros, franked on reverse with DDSG 10 kreuzer green, type I, tied by blue oval "AGENTIE DDSG OLTENITZA" for the transport to Giurgevo with frontside cds. of 5.3. here taxed in blue with "5/30" (5 kreuzer for an unpaid letter till the Hungarian border, 10 kreuzer Austrian postage, 8 kreuzer sea post postage for the Austrian Lloyd and 7 kreuzer Greek share), noted in Greece with "90"...

RUSSIA-IONIAN ISLANDS, 1845, Unpaid entire letter from Odessa to Cefalonia with frontside transit mark of Corfu and arrival mark on reverse; charged with a total of "1/3" (shilling/pence) to be paid by the recipient