Lot 40403 – 1868 Cover from Mersina to Taganrog with mixed Ropit – Imperial Russia franking

1868 (March 2, Julian calendar) Cover from Mersina (Turkey) to Taganrog, franked by Russia 1866 10k brown and blue on horizontally laid paper, used in conjunction with Ropit 1866 2pi blue and rose, tied by “retta” blue cancellations, showing superb strike of “Ropit/Konstantinop. Agent.” cds in blue on reverse (27 February, Gregorian calendar), an extraordinary Ropit – Imperial Russia mixed franking, with fewer than ten examples recorded in the whole Levant territories; signed Mikulski; ex Mikulski and Herry W. Schäfer.