1840/1891   Austrian Post Offices in the Ottoman Empire, Tenedos. Prephilatelic cover from Tenedos to Triest. Obv.: " Tenedos // 2 // 10 " (blue) Rev.: " TRIEST // 9 // 10 // Abends " (red)         " FRANCO " (blue, inverted) / " FRANCO " (blue) The Austrian Lloyd office on the island of Tenedos was opened 1837 and closed 1891. Official handstamps came in use in the 1840s. The Austrian Post Offices in the Ottoman Empire