(Pictured) A postage delivery notice from: Josef S. Ventura[1] (Jewish) of Wien/Vienna Austria to: Schenker & Co. [2] (Mordehai S. Cohen) Mavi Boncuk | From Josef S. Ventura[1] in Vieena to Mordehai S. Cohen at (Omer) Abid Han [3]in Galata, the location of the first Ottoman Stock Exchange.[4]
[1] Ventura was a family of rabbis and scholars prominent in Italy and Greece in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
[2] Gottfried Schenker founded Schenker & Co. in Vienna, Austria, in 1872 as a transportation company and is now a logistics subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company.
[3] Alexandre Vallaury (1850-1921) was a French-Ottoman architect, who founded architectural education and lectured in the School of Fine Arts in Istanbul. He was born 1850 into a Levantine family in Istanbul. His father, Francesco Vallaury, was a renowned pastrycook, respected much in the court circles. [4] Ottoman Central Bank (originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange (Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866)