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401481 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Finland Scott #164, 205 [1932 50 penni green; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 11 July 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to POURTILA, with bridge-style receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail KENTTÄPOSTIA (violet, boxed, under the stamps) [soldier mail / field post / military mail] with KPK #24 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with violet straight-line "KIRJATAAN" (registered) under the stamps and with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "5058 / 2.KPK". KPK 24 was assigned to the 4th Division (4. Divisioona). This division was actively deployed in East Karelia along the Maaselkä isthmus sector until they were ordered to retreat back toward the pre-war border in the summer of 1944. Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards! ACTUAL item. |
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401478 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Finland Scott #164, 173B, 205 [1932 50 penni green, 2 mk yellow M-30 Lion; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 15 February 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to PUOLANKA, with bridge-style receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail (KENTTÄPOSTIA) [soldier mail / field post / military mail] with KPK #11 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "KPK 9 / 5569". This card appears to have been attached to a package as a tag. TWO CENSORSHIP HANDSTAMPS on the reverse. Having two Finnish censorship handstamps is "scarce" on any WWII-era Finnish mail. In 53 years, this is the only WWII-era parcel card that I can recall having that had ANY indications of censorship. Very scarce! KPK 11 served the 11th Division (11. Divisioona) and associated border jaeger battalions. Throughout 1943 and mid-1944, this division was entrenched in East Karelia (specifically along the Svir River / Syväri front). Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards! ACTUAL item. |
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