Lot 60056 – Ottoman Post Offices

Samokov – Samakov: Pre-philatelic folded letter from Samokov to Constantinople with fine strike of Arabic large circular negative “An Canib-i Postahane-i Samakov 1274” (On behalf of Samakov Post Office 1858) struck in black (Coles & Walker fig. 62), alongside showing weight 3 Dirhem / postal charge 2 piastres 20 paras in manuscript, cert. Nakri