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 | Lot #5101 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Rajokovic Merchant Courier 1847 (In 1846, Spiro Rajkovic introduced a regularly scheduled service for carriage of letters and packages between Sarajevo and Bosanski Brod. Letters were stamped "SARAGLIO" (Italian for Sarai), with date below. In time, the Ottoman authorities objected to this unofficial service, banning the use of this postmark at the beginning of 1848 and shutting down the service entirely at the end of that year) A FL sent from Brod to Sarajevo by Rajkovic Merchant post, with "Saraglio 26 May" hs applied on arrival (Tchilinghirian handbook states that "about six stampless letters are known, all from 1847, with this handstamp")
| $2,300.00 Bidding Closed |
 | Lot #5102 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Rajokovic Merchant Courier 1847 (12 Nov) complete FL sent from Sarajevo to Pest, bearing Rajkovic Merchant post handstamps "Saraglio/12 Nov", disinfected at Slavonski Brod quarantine station where the Quarantine hs was applied. One of only two outbound letters recorded from Sarajevo sent abroad, with Rajkovic Saraglio dispatch
| $2,300.00 Bidding Closed |
 | Lot #5103 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Rajokovic Merchant Courier 1848 (18 Apr), complete FL sent from Sarajevo to Brod. By this time, the use of the "Saraglio" handstamp was forbidden. However, this letter was delivered to Slavonski Brod, where it was fumigated at the Austrian quarantine station and the backstamp was applied
| $290.00 Bidding Closed |
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