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Ottoman telegraph office — Alexandros Mavros

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Written by: Esra KurtResearcher · Islamic & Ottoman Arts
Ottoman Art · Catalogue no. 270656
Alexandros Mavros

Ottoman telegraph office

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byOTE Museum of Telecommunications via Europeana
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Greek language telegram of Latin characters from Volos to Thessaloniki. The sender is asking Alexandros Mavros to pick up 21 barrels of olives and sell them at the most reasonable price. The telegram bears the following inscriptions in French and Ottoman

Artist / MakerAlexandros Mavros
Culture / OriginOttoman, Greece
DepartmentOttoman
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Image & data: OTE Museum of Telecommunications via Europeana · Licence: BY-SA 4.0.

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