1911 Romania Levant Cospoli Sultan Reshad postcard to Germany
Code: B33165
Romanian Levant: 1911 (20 May). Postcard titled ‘S.M.J. Sultan Mehmed Khan V’ to Waldenburg, Germany franked with two pairs of 5pa. of 1910 issue for twenty paras postcard rate tied by COSPOLI PORT (Constantinople) datestamp. The Romanian post office attempted to create a postal service to Bucharest from a ship moored in the dock in Istanbul but it was rapidly closed down following Ottoman objection. The service, while it lasted, used Austrian Levant adhesives with a Romanian three line datestamp. Usage of Ottoman stamps are extremely rare and very few recorded.
