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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"
Condition: Used.
Type: Censorship, Censor, Postal History
Lot sold:
$80
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Rare Stamps and Postal History Auction #41
Auction 41
December 10 - 13, 2024
United States United States , Black Mountain , NC

Oldlouis Auctions presents the largest auction of Russian Postal History in recent decades. It features more than 3,000 lots of rare and valuable postal history items and mint postal stationeries. Russo-Japanese War, Russian Offices Abroad and Steamship Mail, Russian Civil War, Foreign Armies in Russia & Czechoslovak Legion, Medical Military Covers in WWI, Russian & European Caricature Propaganda Postcards in WWI, Russian Censorship in WWI, Russian and Worldwide Airmail, Odessa Postal History and Red Cross Covers, and much more..

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