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Lot #5134
BULGARIA First Balkan War Military Mail
1913 Second Macedonian Brigade and Third Army cachets used as postmarks, two picture postcards to Plovdiv and Sofia, the latter with a small negative "Chemins de Fer de la Turkuie D'Europe / Tcherkeskeui" (Railways of European Turkey) and two diff. HQ of the Third Army cachets, fine and extremely rare marking, one of only two recorded (On October 27th, the Railway Bridge at Tcherkesskeui, 50 Miles from Constantinople was blown up by the Bulgars, blocking the Turks' retreat. The railway from Constantinople to Lule-Burgas had been broken at Tcherkesskeui, only twelve miles northeast of Tchorlu, the Turkish headquarters, and fifty miles from Constantinople. The strength of the Turkish forces in the region was estimated at four army corps, about 150,000 men)
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$525.00
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Lot #5135
BULGARIA First Balkan War Military Mail
1913 picture postcard with "Telegraph Postal Station / Tchorlou" cachet (Bulgarian Lion astride the Ottoman Crescent) cachet, addressed to Sofia, also 5st stationery card with a large cachet "Empire of Bulgaria Port Authority Dedeagatch" with Anchor in the middle, with Sofia arrival cds, fine and extremely rare military marking, one of only two recorded
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$450.00
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