Auction #22

Levant Lebanon. Sardinian Consular mail, sent from Alexandria on 24/3/1837 to Beirut, under Muhammad Ali, Khedive of Egypt. In arrive at the "Quarantine" of Beirut, the letter was subjected to disinfection by two piercing vertical slits. Important witness of the operating Lazzaretto in Beirut, installed by Ibrahim Pasha in 1834, as the primary apparatus of sanitary prevention for the entire Syrian coast. Even now, the area is called Quarantine. VERY RARE EARLY DISINFECTED MAIL WITH THE FOOTPRINT OF PIERCING BLADES USED IN THE LAZZARETTO OF BEIRUT.