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English: Front of a Russia stampless folded paid letter to France. 'St. PETERSBOURG 1856 IX 4' lozenge shape cancel, boxed 'Aus Russland' (T.P.O.) transit, blue 'PRUSSE/3/VALENCIENNES 20 NOV 56', Paris and Paris to Reims transits, arrival backstamp Reims.

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  • November 4 (Julian) 1856 a paid letter inside datelined 1/13 November (Julian/Gregorian calendar) posted by CHs. Krohn Cie at St. Petersburg. Sender or post office clerk wrote on lower corner left 'Franco', this is not restated by handstamp. '1856 - St. PETERSBOURG - IX 4' postmark applied, the setting was wrongfully 'IX' instead of 'XI'.
Dobin: 1.02 type 3.07. Transit postmark, used 1854-1859, Rarity 4.[1]
  • Red 'Aus Russland' postmark applied. Used as a German entry/transit mark aboard the Coeln-Verviers T.P.O.
Vandervelde: type CV5, 39x10mm.
  • November 20 (Gregorian). Blue 'PRUSSE 3 VALENCIENNES 20 NOV 56' French entry mark, mail from Prussia (Prusse) entering France at the border town of Valenciennes. The small 3's show this mark was struck at Paris.
Noël: #1021[2]
  • Same day Paris transit 'Paris 3 (60) 20 NOV. 56', and Paris transit marking (unreadable).
  • November 21. Reims arrival backstamp. 'REIMS (xx) 21 NOV. 56' applied.
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Russia stampless folded unpaid letter to Reims

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  1. ↑ Dobin, Manfred (1993) Postmarks of Russian Empire (Pre adhesive period), St. Petersburg: Standard Kollektion, p. 49, 61
  2. ↑ Noël, Gilbert (1956) Catalogue des oblitérations des chiffres-taxe carrés de France, 1859-1878, Paris, E.H. de Beaufond

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