1878 Turkey Serbia Montenegro HMS Sultan cover

Code: B04824

Ottoman – Serbia – Montenegro: 1878 (22 August). Turkish & Serbo-Montenegro War. Cover with HMS Sultan logo on flap and letter franked with circular 70 canceller and London S.W. datestamp. Enclosed four pages letter written at Smyrna, parts of which state “We left Bashika Bay last Monday for a bit of a cruise around here. On Tuesday morning we found the Russian and Italian Fleets together with an Austrian ship & a French man. The Russian Fleet consists of 3 vessels, one of which has the Grand Duke Alexis aboard …”. On May 1876 Ottoman Empire went to war with Serbia and Montenegro on 2nd of July. Rare item from this conflict.

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