Austrian Levant

20Pi/4K (SG 45) top value, mint block fo four (two stamps are u/m)

ADRIANOPLE (024114)
Austrian Levant 20pa/10h p.s. card with ADRIANOPEL / OESTERREICHISCHE POST cds, to Italy, 1908

ALEXANDRIA (025438)
Austrian Levant 1875-1883 range, all with ALEXENDRIEN cds plus couple of similar French issues (Egypt) (14 stamps)

Austrian Levant 1867 15s Franz Joseph coarse whiskers, with bluish ANTIVARI cds

BELGRADE (026120)
1867 2k Franz Joseph of Austria proper, with fully struck BELGRAD cds (consular office in Serbia, used for foreign mail)

Austrian Levant 1876 10s coarse whiskers with full CANDIA cds

Austrian Levant 1883 3s Arms (SG 15) with full CANDIA serifs cds, unrecorded in Tchilinghirian

Austrian Levant 1900 10Pi with full CANDIA / OESTERREICHISCHE POST cds (Crete)

Austrian Levant vertical pair 10s Franz Joseph fine whiskers (SG 11) with CANEA cds (Crete), on regd cover, "Chargé" cachet, transits of PIRAEUS cs, overland route with CHAMBERY A MACON cds, to MARSEILLE cds, 1882

Austrian Levant 50s Franz Joseph (SG 7a, Mi 7A) with CANEA cds (Tchilinghirian RRR)

range of Austrian Levant from 15s FJ to late 1800s, all with CAVALLA cds (Macedonia), also a couple French Levant with CAVALLE cds and two Turkey apparently with Cavalla cancels (14 stamps)

Austrian Levant 1888 1Pi on 10kr Arms, with JAFFA sans-serif cds

Austrian Levant 1867 3s Franz Joseph, part JA(FF)A fleurons cds

JAFFA (025373)
Austrian Levant 1875 5s Joseph fine whiskers (SG 10) with JAF(FA) cds

JAFFA (025582)
1883 3s Arms (SG 15), JAFFA cds

Austrian Levant 1867 50s Franz Joseph, with JANIN(A) cds

Austrian PO in Crete 1914 25c Jubilee (SG F24, cat £300) with JANINA cds

JANINA (025439)
1908 ¼Pi Due on small piece with JANINA / OSTERRIECHISCHE POST cds (Epirus)

JANINA (025440)
Austrian Levant 1875-1908 range of issues including higher values (but couple with faults), all with JANINA cds (Epirus) (16 stamps)

Austrian Levant 1867 25s grey Franz Joseph with blue JASSY cds, couple short perfs and tiny pinholes, but rare on this issue, as the Austrian Post ceased operating in Jassy in 1867

JASSY cds (Romania) (two part strikes) cancelling 15s Arms perf 10 (SG36, Mi 23)

1867 2s Franz Joseph coarse whiskers, with (GERUS)ALEMME serif cds

JERUSALEM (025441)
Austrian Levant 1875-1908 range of issues all with JERUSALEM cds (65 stamps) plus one French Levant on postcard

Austrian Levant 1888 5{i/5K (SG 26) with KER(ASSUNDE) cds

MERSINA (026355)
Austrian Levant mainly 1908 Jubilee range f issues, all with MERSINA cds (Turkey), also several France. French Levant also with MERSONA cancels (17 stamps)

METELIN (026354)
Austrian Levant 1867 to 1908 Jubilee range of issues, all with METELINE cds, mainly fait to good strikes, also two Russian Levant Meteline cancels (18 stamps)

12 stamps of Austria, Lombardy, Austrian Levant, all with various maritime cancels, incl boxed or straightline DI VAPORE, LLOYD AUSTRIACO, etc

Austrian Levant 1876 5s fine whiskers with part strike of (RUST)CHUK cds (serifs) (Bulgaria)

SALONICA (025530)
Range of Salonica cancels, with one Greece Hermes Head (used abroad status as used in the Turkish period for this city), then Austrian Levant various including blue straightline on 1864 15s Arms (total 20 stamps)

Austrian Levant 1867 10s Franz Joseph (SG 4) with (SAMSUN cds in blue

SMIRNA (025413)
prestamp SMYRNE straightline, and manus "Col Vapore" on entire (lengthy message in Greek), marked "12"kr to pay, to Trieste, 1852

SMIRNA (025412)
1867 15s dark brown Franz Joseph with SMIRNE thimble cds on cover to TRIESTE cds, 1871

SMIRNA (025581)
1867 2s Franz Joseph (SG1), SMIRNA thimble cds

Lombardy 1863 Arms 2s perf 14, with blue SULINA cds (two part strikes, but identifiable), faults (short corner, small thin) but a reasonable spacefiller for a rare postmark

Austria (not A. Levant) 1908 25h Jubilee on cover from the Austrian Consul, adhesive consular seal on reverse, TRABEZUNT/ OESTERREICHISCHE POST cds, to Vienna, 1909

1838 DISINFECTED MAIL (026292)
Prestamp entire from Constantinople, via Semlin on the Austro-Serbian border, where SIGILLUM SANITATIS SEMLINENSIS disinfection cachet plus similar red wax seal were applied, to Genoa, 1838

1838 DISINFECTED MAIL (026294)
Prestamp entire from Constantinople, via Semlin on the Austro-Serbian border, where SIGILLUM SANITATIS SEMLINENSIS disinfection cachet plus similar red wax seal were applied, to blue TRIEST straightline datestamp, 1836