Austrian Levant 1867 soldi

Description

• Issue Date: 01 June 1867
• Designed by:
• Printed by:
• Print Process: Typography
• Perforations: various 9 to 13
• Watermark: BRIEF-MARKEN

Image of Franz Joseph will be refined in the 1876-1882 issues.

Unused stamps

2 soldi orange	3s	File:Austrian Levant 1867 5s.jpg 5 soldi red
File:Austrian Levant 1867 10s.jpg 10 soldi blue	File:Austrian Levant 1867 15s.jpg 15 soldi brown	25s

Large format 24x27 mm

50 soldi brown shade

Used stamps

There are colour shades!

2 soldi

The coarse issue is in use until at least 1882. Valued 65 times unused!

2 sld (lemon) yellow circle in GALLIPOLI NEL LEVANTE in Turkey.	2 sld orange, small circle (20 mm) at Alexandria (EG) in Egypt in 1875.	Orange, circle at Thessaloniki (GR), genuine cancel?
Orange circle at DARDANELLEN in Turkey.	Deep orange, clearly dated at BEIRUTH (Lebanon) in 1879.

3 soldi

Ornamented DC at CONSTANTINOPEL.

Grotesk circle at CONSTANTINOPEL in 1876.

5 soldi

Normally before November 1878.

Blue circle at ANTIVARI in Montenegro.

Rare linear at Thessaloniki (GR) in Greece.

Antiqua at GERUSALEMME

Ornamented DC in Constantinopel.	Antiqua circle with year at BEIRUTH (Lebanon) in 1871.	Fingerhut in 1871 at Varna (BG) in Bulgaria.
Fingerhut in 1875 at Vidin (BG) in Bulgaria.	In 1878 at Beirut (LB) in Lebanon.	Type cancel at CAIFA since 1875, now Israel

Brick-red

5 sld brick red, rare brown linear at RHODES in Greece.

10 soldi

10 sld circle at Bucharest (RO) in Romania.

10 sld, fingerhut in 1874 at Izmir (TR) in Turkey.

15 soldi

Circle at GERUSALEMME	Grey-brown, decorated DC at ;;in Turkey.	Blue circle at CAVALLA in Greece.
15 sld at Sulina (RO) in Romania.	ARIVATE PER MARE VARNA 1870 at Varna (BG) in Bulgaria.	Circle at Constantinopel in 1874.

Dark, deep brown

Decorated DC at CONSTANTINOPEL in Turkey.

On fragments

With year 1869 at GALATZ in Romania.

Oval COL VAPORE DA BERUTTI at Beirut (LB) in 1874.

25 soldi

25 sld grey-lilac DC in Constantinopel.	25 sld used at FILIPOPOLI in Bulgaria.	25 sld violet plume cancelled, Yv6bB
25 sld grey used at CONSTANTINOPEL Mi6Ia

50 soldi

50 sld circle in Constantinopel.

Covers

10 sld & 5 sld at RETTIMO (Crete) in 1869.	15 sld at RHODUS (Greece) in 1871. Sold 200 SF in 2000.
10 sld & 25 sld brown-violet in 1872 with circle in Constantinopel. From a cover to France, sold 260 SF in 2000.