Lot 52484 – Amazing Non-philatelic Use of Rare « P.P.C. » Overpr

Amazing Non-philatelic Use of Rare « P.P.C. » Overprints 1920 5f, 25f & 50f values with well-struck overprints tied by single-circle Polish Post c.d.s. dated 2 XII 1920 to gorgeous hand-painted picture postcard sent REGISTERED to Warsaw, backstamped with (16 XII 20) and circled « Wr 1 » censor handstamp as well as bold registration box handstamp. Realised CHF 17’600 in David Feldman Auction in 1993. Perhaps the most outstanding, and certainly the most beautiful, item of the Polish Post Office in Constantinople, and a fantastic showpiece for the Levant Foreign Offices collector Note: the translated message reads, « Sending you a Constantinople beauty. Kissing you strongly. Towards seeing each other quickly. Your sister Janka », dated « 29/XI 1920 » and addressed to « Wlodzimierz Rachmanoff » (later a celebrated philatelist and author)