Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 5

Austrian P.O.'s in Beirut 1908 (Feb 8): Fraudulent usage of a stamp on Registered Envelope to Washington, DC, bearing on reverse single example of 1900 2 pi on 50 h grey blue, tied by "BEIRUT / OESTERREICHISCHE POST" type K cds and by "WAHINGTON DC / REGISTERED / FEB 26 08" cds in purple, another "WASHINGTON REGISTERED" cds in pink alongside. The 2 piaster adhesive clearly shows a cancellation of Beirut dated "7 July 190." which attests its fraudulent reuse, presumably by a postal clerk. Postal frauds in the Austrian office are extremely rare only two covers known.