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Help With Rare Batum Stamp

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Posted 10/07/2018   8:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Willwood42 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Galata is an area of Istanbul (Constaninople at the time), it is where the Golden Horn meets the Bosphorus
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Posted 10/08/2018   03:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add manosp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Nigel and Willwood.
Nigel, happy that you are a crete's collector. I have some nice pieces to share with you.
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Posted 10/08/2018   03:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonyc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The writing in French translates roughly as follows:
Envelope originating in Batum with a Russian 10 kopek stamp of the 1889/1904 issue postmarked BATUM 18.VII.95 ODESSA. Transit mark CONSTANTINOPLE 29 JULLIETT (July) 1895.Arrival mark CANDIA illegible
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Posted 10/08/2018   04:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add manosp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thanks for the translation tonyc
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Posted 10/08/2018   10:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sorsh to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
also remember that russia used a different calender at that time, so the dates won't match unless you convert to gregorian calender.
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