Lot 60105 – Ottoman Post Offices

Tutrakan: 1876 Official cover dated 20 Mart 1292 = 1st April 1876 sent from Tutrakan to the Governor of Shumen showing at top right the Arabic negative seal “Tutrakan Kaza Kaymakam” (Governor of Tutrakan) with Arabic small box negative ”Tahrirat-i Mühimme” (Official correspondence) greenish seal below with extremely rare and very clear Arabic double-circle Tutrakan 90 = 1873 greenish postmark (Coles & Walker fig.79), a great rarity of the Ottoman Offices in Bulgaria, the only recorded cover offered on the market for the first time, some minor repairs on reverse, signed Nakri