File:Riga 1856-11-08 Dob 40 1.19 to Bordeaux.jpg

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English: Front of a Russia stampless folded letter to France. Unpaid category 1. 'RIGA 8 NOV 1856' boxed cancel, manuscript '11' decimes rate, boxed red 'Aus Russland' (T.P.O.) transit, blue 'PRUSSE/3/VALENCIENNES 25 NOV 56', Paris to Bordeaux transits, arrival backstamp Bordeaux.

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French rates of July 1 1853:

Under 7.5 grams - 1.10 fr.
7.5 to 15 grams - 1.40 fr
15 to 22.5 grams - 2.40 fr.
  • November 8 (Julian) 1856 an unpaid letter inside datelined 8/20 November (Julian/Gregorian calendar) posted by JOH. RUD CAVIEZEI at St. Petersburg to Schroder & Schyler in Bordeaux. 'RIGA 8 NOV 1856' postmark applied. Sender or post office clerk wrote on reverse left side 'Pto 110', expressing the 110 decimes (1.10 fr.) rate. This is not restated by handstamp.
Dobin: 40 type 1.19. Foreign mail postmark, used 1850-1858, rarity 2, known in black and red.[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 25 (Gregorian). Blue 'PRUSSE 3 VALENCIENNES 25 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-Bordeaux transit 'Paris a Bordeaux 20 B / 25 NOV. 56', at reverse.
  • November 25. Bordeaux arrival backstamp. 'BORDEAUX (38) 25 (26?) NOV. 56' applied at reverse.
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Author Postal authorities
RIGA stampless folded unpaid letter to BORDEAUX

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  1. ↑ Dobin, Manfred (1993) Postmarks of Russian Empire (Pre adhesive period), St. Petersburg: Standard Kollektion, p. 290, 302
  2. ↑ Noël, Gilbert (1956) Catalogue des oblitérations des chiffres-taxe carrés de France, 1859-1878, Paris, E.H. de Beaufond

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