Auction #25

Levant, Greece. Important censured letter departing from Rhodes on 4 December 1916 to St. German En Laye, France. Exceptionally franked with a stamp of the French Levant overprinted "1 PIASTRE 1". The French post office of Rhodes, an island in Aegean Sea at the time occupied by the Italians, was the only one in the whole of the French post offices still open during the war. Reminding us that with the entry into the war of Turkey the French Levant offices and the related stamps, ceased to be used from October 1914, making this cover an exceptional case for the use of French Levant postage stamps in a very late date. The stamp was killed with the french postmark "RHODES TURQUIE D'ASIE". B. Longo photoexpertise. VERY RARE.