Auction #359

1875, envelope with original contents written in "Tauris le 30 octobre 1875", transported via Trebizonde and forwarded from Constantinople with boxed "MER NOIRE" (applied in Constantinople to letters from Black Sea harbours, transported with French paquebots without postal agents abroad), franked with Ceres 80 c. tied GC "5083" with adjacent cds. and boxed "PD" and red "PAQUEBOTS DE LA MEDITERRANÉE" to France with further French transit and arrival marks on reverse; a rare and attractive early letter from Persia