File:St Petersburg - Bordeaux 1858 Dob0102307b front.jpg

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English: Front of a Russia stampless folded paid letter to France. 'St. PETERSBOURG 1856 I 24' lozenge shape cancel, boxed 'Aus Russland' (T.P.O.) transit, blue 'PRUSSE/3/VALENCIENNES 12 FEVR 58', Paris and Paris to Bordeaux transits, arrival backstamp Bordeaux.

Provenance: Arthur White.

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  • January 24 (Julian) 1858 paid letter posted at St. Petersburg. Sender or post office clerk wrote on upper corner right 'Franco', this is not restated by handstamp. '1858 - St. PETERSBOURG - I 24' postmark applied.
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.
  • February 12 (Gregorian). Blue 'PRUSSE 3 VALENCIENNES 12 FEVR 58' 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) 12 FEVR 58', and 'PARIS A BORDEAUX 10 A 12 FEVR 58' applied which is a marking of the Paris to Bordeaux T.P.O. transit backstamp, night train (circular center).
  • February 13. Bordeaux arrival backstamp. 'BORDEAUX (32) 13 FEVR 58' applied.
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  1. ↑ Dobin, Manfred (1993) Postmarks of Russian Empire (Pre adhesive period), St. Petersburg: Standard Kollektion
  2. ↑ Noël, Gilbert (1956) Catalogue des oblitérations des chiffres-taxe carrés de France, 1859-1878, Paris, E.H. de Beaufond

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