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Incoming Mail Overland via Southampton 1867 (July 27): ...di più
Incoming Mail Overland via Southampton 1867 (July 27): Registered
cover from St. Petersburg, Russia to Melbourne, Victoria prepaid 38
kopeks: 30 kopeks for a 1⁄2 ounce ship letter plus 8 kopeks
registration to Victoria. Multiple postal markings include “30/8”
(kopeks) manuscript in red representing the prepayment and “8”
(pence) manuscript in red credit from Prussia to England for
onwards transmission to Victoria. “AUS RUSSLAND / FRANCO - TOUT”
handstamp in black representing the rail carriage from Russia
through France and “Recomandirt” registered handstamp in red
applied at the Eydtkuhnen exchange office. “PRUSSIA / ♚ /
REGISTERED” handstamp in red applied in London and “P.D.” handstamp
in red representing paid to destination. Some minor cover
reinforcement internally, otherwise very fine and an extraordinary
origin for a registered cover to the Australian Colonies. Believed
to be the earliest cover recorded from Russia to the Australian
Colonies. Route - Departed St. Petersburg 27 July 1867 by rail via
Eydtkuhnen, Konnigsberg and Aachen to London (14 Aug); by rail to
Southampton. P&O Line: Departed Southampton (20 Aug) per
“Ceylon” via Malta (29 Aug) to Alexandria (2 Sept); overland to
Suez; “Surat” (5 Sept) grounding on a reef in the Red Sea. Mails
transferred to “Nubia” (11 Sept) to Galle (24 Sept); “Bombay” (24
Sept) via King Georges Sound (8 Oct) to Melbourne, arriving 14 Oct
1867 (77 days). Note: Although postage stamps had been introduced
in Russia in 1858, the Russian postal regulations stipulated that:
"Postage stamps are only intended for ordinary letters, the postage
rate for sending money, registered correspondence and letters
destined for abroad to be paid in cash"
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