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 | Lot #5100 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Tatar Courier 1842-45 (ca 1842-43) two covers and an official receipt from Sarajevo to Constantinople, showing negative intaglio marking of "Bosna" (Turkish for Sarajevo). The distance charge was based on route hours, which accounted for mileage and road conditions. These letters to Constantinople would have cost 217 paras (5 piaster and 17 paras) each, some edge toning, otherwise fine (the Imperial edict of 12 Ramasan 1256 (14 October 1840) led to substantial improvements in the Ottoman postal system, with a network of contracted dispatch rider (Tatar) routes. Some historians believe that the word "Tatar" comes from the word "Tartyr" (that which pulls)
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