Lot 40397 – 1863 Cover from Constantinople to St. Petersburg, bearing 1858 10k brown and blue, perf. 12 1/2 pair

1863 (April 2) Cover from Constantinople to St. Petersburg, bearing 1858 10k brown and blue, perf. 12 1/2, vertical pair with each stamp cancelled by pen cross, showing neat blue “KONSTANTINOPOL” cds in blue (Tchilinghirian fig. 9) on the upper back flap which opens well for display, and receiving “Polucheno” cds in black adjacent; one stamp apparently missing at top of the pair, still though a very rare usage of this stamp in this office (Tchilinghirian ‘RR’, stamps being compulsory from January 1863).