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Great Britain. 1862-64. 9d. straw LC-MC vertical pair tied by
Glasgow ...更多 Great Britain. 1862-64. 9d. straw LC-MC vertical pair tied by Glasgow '159' duplex to 1864 (17 Nov.) entire letter to Malta "Via Marseilles", the reverse London transit and Malta arrival d.s. Fine and scarce. (Estimate £200 - £300)
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(68) 1861 10c green Washington pair and single tied by black ...更多
(68) 1861 10c green Washington pair and single tied by black cork
cancels on cover to Constantinople, Turkey. Red “New York Br. Pkt.
7 Paid Sep. 26” credit cds at left, with bold blue “Aachen Franco”
transit and boxed “Franco-Preuss. resp. Vereinsl: Ausg: Gr.” (paid
only to limits of German-Austrian Postal Union) handstamps at
center. Additional “Wien” transit backstamp and “Constantinopel”
arrival backstamp.
The 30c franking prepaid the Prussian Closed Mail rate via Vienna to Turkey, with carriage through the North German Union and Austria before entering the Ottoman Empire. Wrinkle at top of cover slightly affects stamps, but still a very fine appearing and rare usage via German mails to Constantinople with choice blue Aachen and boxed "Franco-Preuss" exchange markings.
The addressee, Rev. George Washburn (1833–1915), first arrived in Constantinople in 1858 as Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, where he managed the finances of the Board’s Ottoman mission. His earliest years coincided with the city’s transformation in the aftermath of the Crimean War, a period he later recalled vividly in his memoir Fifty Years in Constantinople:
There was a restfulness in life in Constantinople in those days which was refreshing to an American. No Turk was ever in a hurry. Time was of no account. If a Turk moved, it was with deliberation and dignity. If he smoked, it was a tchibouk or a nargileh, and it was the business of the hour. No modern improvements had come to disturb the peace of the city and complicate the simple life of the people. A few small steamers had begun to ply on the Bosphorus, but it was still picturesque with thousands of graceful caiques and hundreds of sailing craft. I remember one day when more than a thousand ships passed up the Bosphorus. I counted more than three hundred in sight at once, all under full sail.
In the 1860s, Washburn worked with Dr. Cyrus Hamlin during the formative years of Robert College (founded in 1863), later becoming a professor and eventually succeeding Hamlin as President of the College. Together, they laid the groundwork for the institution to become the leading American educational presence in the Near East. Today, Robert College remains the oldest continually running American school founded outside the United States
(68) 1861 10c green Washington horizontal pair tied by black ...更多
(68) 1861 10c green Washington horizontal pair tied by black cork
cancels with matching “Newark, N.J. Jan. 29” cds on yellow cover
with preprinted address to Rev. James S. Dennis, Beirut, Syria. Red
“New York Paid All Br. Transit Jan. 30” exchange cds on reverse,
with matching red “5” credit handstamp on front. Additional
four-line “Verviers A/12 2 III/Coeln Franco” (Feb. 12) exchange
handstamp at center, blue crayon "f 2" (silbergroschen) for credit
beyond North German Union plus Trieste Feb. 14 transit and Beirut
Mar. 2 arrival cds backstamps.
The 20c franking pays the North German Union closed mail rate to Syria, in effect January 1868 to July 1870. Cover with repair at top center with perfs of right stamp affected by edge placement, otherwise fine. A colorful and scarce usage of the 10c 1861-68 Issue to Syria, with a desirable sequence of exchange, transit, and arrival markings.
The addressee, Rev. James Shepard Dennis (1842–1914), was a prominent American Presbyterian missionary and author who spent much of his early career in Beirut, Syria (modern-day Lebanon). Arriving there in 1868 under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Dennis devoted himself to educational and evangelistic work in connection with the Syrian Protestant College (later the American University of Beirut). Over the following decades he became a leading interpreter of Christianity’s role in the Near East and a prolific writer on the global missionary movement, authoring the influential three-volume Christian Missions and Social Progress (1897–1906). His early years in Beirut, during which this cover was sent, marked the beginning of a career that helped shape American religious and intellectual engagement with the Middle East
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Glasgow ...更多 Great Britain. 1862-64. 9d. straw LC-MC vertical pair tied by Glasgow '159' duplex to 1864 (17 Nov.) entire letter to Malta "Via Marseilles", the reverse London transit and Malta arrival d.s. Fine and scarce. (Estimate £200 - £300)
130.00 GBP
(app. 149 EUR)
2026/01/22 08:00 GMT
(app. 149 EUR)
Cherrystone Auction
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The 30c franking prepaid the Prussian Closed Mail rate via Vienna to Turkey, with carriage through the North German Union and Austria before entering the Ottoman Empire. Wrinkle at top of cover slightly affects stamps, but still a very fine appearing and rare usage via German mails to Constantinople with choice blue Aachen and boxed "Franco-Preuss" exchange markings.
The addressee, Rev. George Washburn (1833–1915), first arrived in Constantinople in 1858 as Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, where he managed the finances of the Board’s Ottoman mission. His earliest years coincided with the city’s transformation in the aftermath of the Crimean War, a period he later recalled vividly in his memoir Fifty Years in Constantinople:
There was a restfulness in life in Constantinople in those days which was refreshing to an American. No Turk was ever in a hurry. Time was of no account. If a Turk moved, it was with deliberation and dignity. If he smoked, it was a tchibouk or a nargileh, and it was the business of the hour. No modern improvements had come to disturb the peace of the city and complicate the simple life of the people. A few small steamers had begun to ply on the Bosphorus, but it was still picturesque with thousands of graceful caiques and hundreds of sailing craft. I remember one day when more than a thousand ships passed up the Bosphorus. I counted more than three hundred in sight at once, all under full sail.
In the 1860s, Washburn worked with Dr. Cyrus Hamlin during the formative years of Robert College (founded in 1863), later becoming a professor and eventually succeeding Hamlin as President of the College. Together, they laid the groundwork for the institution to become the leading American educational presence in the Near East. Today, Robert College remains the oldest continually running American school founded outside the United States
2000.00 USD
(app. 1685 EUR)
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(app. 1685 EUR)
Cherrystone Auction
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The 20c franking pays the North German Union closed mail rate to Syria, in effect January 1868 to July 1870. Cover with repair at top center with perfs of right stamp affected by edge placement, otherwise fine. A colorful and scarce usage of the 10c 1861-68 Issue to Syria, with a desirable sequence of exchange, transit, and arrival markings.
The addressee, Rev. James Shepard Dennis (1842–1914), was a prominent American Presbyterian missionary and author who spent much of his early career in Beirut, Syria (modern-day Lebanon). Arriving there in 1868 under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Dennis devoted himself to educational and evangelistic work in connection with the Syrian Protestant College (later the American University of Beirut). Over the following decades he became a leading interpreter of Christianity’s role in the Near East and a prolific writer on the global missionary movement, authoring the influential three-volume Christian Missions and Social Progress (1897–1906). His early years in Beirut, during which this cover was sent, marked the beginning of a career that helped shape American religious and intellectual engagement with the Middle East
450.00 USD
(app. 379 EUR)
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(app. 379 EUR)
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