72 Type I (Facit #57IC2) [1901 10 pen, First Letterpress Berlin Plate, perf 14.25 x 14.75] (VF) on 11 May 1905 picture post card [dramatic view of dam holding pond filled with floating logs] with rural letter carrier SQUARE #5 Numeral cancellation and dated side cancel "LIETO As." (bilingual with Russian text), to TURKU / ÅBO with tri-lingual receiver. The number in the square numeral cancel is faint, but does correspond exactly to the usage of the #5 cancel in the Lieto area. There are only a few (they are all early numbers) square numeral cancels and they are scarce (this is the first one I can recall having in at least 20 years).
39.00
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78 (VF) on 21 December 1916 cover from TURKU with trilingual machine cancellation. Unusual DATED violet double-oval Russian (in Finland) censor handstamp.
35.00
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78 (VF) on 6 January 1917 cover from PÄLKANE with bilingual Russian-text cancellation. Unusual DATED and remarkably clear violet double-oval Russian (in Finland) censor handstamp.
35.00
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78 Perf 14 (Facit #63C1) and 80 Perf 14 (Facit #65C1) x3 on 20 September 1913 cash on delivery parcel card for half-kilo package with 9.80 marks to be collected. From TAMMERFORS / TAMPERE to KOLARI (located in LAPLAND, north of the Arctic Circle) with Russian-text postmark receiver on reverse. Complete card with coupon still attached (unusual). Very unusual privately printed card with exceptional Germanic style headline text (I cannot recall seeing another example using such a font style). Attractive and not often offered type of item.
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