An Old Envelope For Identification

Any info for this envelope will be appreciated.

I guess that it's: Austrian Empire PO in Kandia, Crete, using stamps of the Italian-speaking areas of the AH empire; hence, the face value in "soldi". The letter, seems to be adrressed to Wien, Austria.

Something is not right with the greek stamp over it's own cancel

Thanks Cursus what year you estimate it? Hey perf12 what is your opinion.

My opinion is that it is a tampered with cover...The two halves of the cancel no.1 & no.2
are not on the same tangent.No.3 is the corner of the stamp on the cancel.So somewhere
along the line the stamp was removed or lost and replaced with another (clumsy job).
value 10 euros.

Well spotted ! I would agree. (also the parentheses around "67")
Nice work.

Thanks again perf12.

I believe perf12 has summed this up nicely.

I can't read the address but would expect it to be in Greece.

I used to have a number of covers like this with this combination of an Austrian Post Office stamp applied in Crete and a Greek Hermes Head stamp applied on the island of Syros (Greek post office #67).

An Austrian Lloyd steamer would deliver the cover to the Greek post office on Syros which would forward it to its destination.

For much of the nineteenth century Syros was the shipping hub in that part of the Mediterranean.

Here's an earlier, pre-stamp cover that I still have in my collection that was sent from Crete to Marseille again via Syros and then on to Trieste etc:



I've posted this cover here before so I won't repeat the routing details but they are in the following thread which might be of interest if you haven't seen it before:

Austrian offices in Turkey
https://goscf.com/t/57575

Wow! I have almost the same cover,except mine have greek stamps.

perf12 and nigelc your info rocks !

Haha...

Time travel by Hermes head stamps.

Perf12, You have given me a good laugh tonight.

And of course neatly taken us back to the original topic.