Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 6

Ottoman Post Office in Smirna 1884: Empire 1 pi. blue, a single example used on 1889 cover with full contents to Chios, Greece tied by good strike of octagonally framed arabic "Izmir Kordon Vapur Subesi / 1293" (The Shipping Agency on the Quay / 1877) in violet; sold together with a piece from the same correspondence to Chios bearing 1880 20 pa. black on rose similarly cancelled in blue. Scarce.