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"1914 Registered Postcard franked with 14 Kop. Postage, postmarked by Black Warsaw ""Obliterator"" Cancel on 20.VII.1914 (Julian Calendar) / 02.VIII.1914 (Gregorian Calendar). WARSAW Censorship: black 2 line marking (51 mm/ 28 mm) reading"

Russia & Soviet Union / Russian Empire (1857-1917)
"1914 Registered Postcard franked with 14 Kop. Postage, postmarked by Black Warsaw ""Obliterator"" Cancel on 20.VII.1914 (Julian Calendar) / 02.VIII.1914 (Gregorian Calendar). WARSAW Censorship: black 2 line marking (51 mm/ 28 mm) reading Mailed 1 Day after the German Declaration of War on Russia. A second Warsaw Cancellation in Red-Violet dated 23.7.14 (Julian Calendar) / 05.8.14 (Gregorian Calendar) indicates that the Postcard was not forwarded to Zoppat, Danzig, but returned to the Sender under new Procedures imposed by Russian Military Censorship Additional markings: Censorship: red-violet 3 line marking (83/78/73 mm) in script reading Postal instructions: red-violet straightline marking (62mm) reading, return to sender"
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Russian Postal History
Auction 41
December 10 - 13, 2024
United States United States , Black Mountain , NC

Ten sessions of Russian postal history: airmail, Odessa Red Cross covers, steamship mail, offices abroad, the Russo-Japanese War, foreign armies and the Czechoslovak Legion. World War I is covered in depth through censorship, medical military covers, mute covers and caricature propaganda postcards.

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