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Egypt Italian Post Office 1863, March 10. Cover from Alexandria to Leghorn (Italy), bearing Sardini
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EgyptItalian Post Office1863, March 10. Cover from Alexandria to Leghorn (Italy), bearing Sardinia imperforate 1855 20c., six singles, 40c. (bottom right corner with imperfection) and 1858 80c., all with mainly wide margins, tied by "Alessandria d'Egitto" c.d.s.'s in blue, repeated alongside, showing framed "Piroscafi Postali Francesi" marking at right denoting carriage by French vessels, following disembarkation in Sicily, with corresponding transit and arrival on reverse. Addressee's panel restored, and some reduced tone spots, of no importance for this key rarity. A unique franking, being the highest known on cover of this early issue used in Egypt, with its desirability being augmented by the fact of representing the earliest recorded date of use of the highest denomination, the 80c., as well as of the 10c. The most significant cover of the Italian post office; it must be considered as one of the most celebrated covers of Egyptian postal-history. Cert. A. Diena. Sassone 15, 16, 17. Photo
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EgyptItalian Post Office1863, March 10. Cover from Alexandria to Leghorn (Italy), bearing Sardinia imperforate 1855 20c., six singles, 40c. (bottom right corner with imperfection) and 1858 80c., all with mainly wide margins, tied by "Alessandria d'Egitto" c.d.s.'s in blue, repeated alongside, showing framed "Piroscafi Postali Francesi" marking at right denoting carriage by French vessels, following disembarkation in Sicily, with corresponding transit and arrival on reverse. Addressee's panel restored, and some reduced tone spots, of no importance for this key rarity. A unique franking, being the highest known on cover of this early issue used in Egypt, with its desirability being augmented by the fact of representing the earliest recorded date of use of the highest denomination, the 80c., as well as of the 10c. The most significant cover of the Italian post office; it must be considered as one of the most celebrated covers of Egyptian postal-history. Cert. A. Diena. Sassone 15, 16, 17. Photo
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