Russian Post Office 1862: Entire letter from Galatz to
Constantinople with blue sender's cachet on obverse alongside red
manuscript "11",
Russian Post Office 1862: Entire letter from Galatz to
Constantinople with blue sender's cachet on obverse alongside red
manuscript "11", the reverse showing fine strike of circular
cyrillic "GALATS" datestamp with fleuron at base (Feb 10) in blue
(Tchilinghirian fig. 49 = "Very Rare") with manuscript "15" above.
A few minor imperfections but an extremely rare entire: the
earliest recorded usage of this datestamp. Ex collection Sassower