£140
CEPHALONIA 1729?/93 - RARE VENETIAN PERIOD MAIL INC. THE EARLIEST RECORDED INTER-ISLAND COVER - Rare 30 July 1789 (or 1729?) EL (in Greek) from "Keph[aloni]a" to Corfu (this is the only pre-1797 inter-island cover recorded by Zaphiriou - p.21 + Fig.18 - but the year date looks more like 1729 to us than 1789) [ex Kleiner]; plus very fine 29 Sept. 1793 EL (in Italian) from "Cef[aloni]a" to "Ven[ezi]a." [ex Protonotarios]. Rare early covers from Cephalonia. (2 covers) Cross Reference: ITALIAN STATES
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