360 / Mai 2015 London

1879: Double eagle definitives, lithography 10 kr. dark-blue, 15 kr. brown, 20 kr. olive green (corner wear), and 25 kr. lilac in diff. perfs., fresh colour, normal line perf., tied by neat "K. UND K. MILIT. POST XIV BIHAC 13/3/93" to registered envelope (vert. fold), sent to Birmingham with Austrian "RECOM." mark and British arrival handstamp in red (18 MR 93) alongside. Early use of the 20 Kr. definitive, an attractive four colour franking of the highest lithographed values. Signed Ferchenbauer, cert. Puschmann (2014) Ferchenbauer = € 6'250+.

1893: Double eagle definitive, lithography 20 kr. olive green, perf. 11½, fresh colour, normal perf. (corner wear), tied by neat "K. UND K. MILIT.FILIAL-POST SARAJEVO 27/5/93" to registered envelope, sent to Vienna with "R Nr. 393" registration mark alongside. Signed Ferchenbauer, cert. Soecknick (2008) Ferchenbauer = € 2'750.