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).