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Lot 194

Opening: 200 €

1884, 1 kopek orange, Second Printing, a vertical block of six of fresh colours and good perforations, used with cds “ROPIT AFON 15 OCT 1900” to reverse of an envelope to Mount Athos, originally posted at Samara with Russia 7 kopek blue paying the domestic rate, endorsed on front “via Odessa and Konstantinople” with all appropriate transit cds, taxed “T”, envelope opened on two sides, fine. A very scarce usage

Provenance

Mail underfranked by 3 kopek, the 6 kopek Levant adhesives acting as postage due stamps representing the taxation of double the amount missing