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401487 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #94, 85 [M-17 Saarinen Lions, Unwatermarked: 1917 40 penni violet, Perforation 14; 10 penni rose] (VF) on 14 August 1919 cover with a RAVANSAARI Russian-Text-Removed cancellation, followed the next day with a "TRANGSUND / UURAA" Russian-Text-Removed dated side cancellation. Sent to Stockholm, Sweden, with a faint 20 August receiving postmark on the reverse. Ravansaari was an island, port village, and fortress district located in the Vyborg / Viipuri Bay. Both Ravansaari and Uuraa were part of the same harbor complex; Trangsund / Uuraa being the supervising post office for Ravansaari. LOST TERRITORIES: The entire area, along with Vyborg / Viipuri was ceded to Russia after WWII. The Trangsund / Uuraa island/town area was renamed Vysotsk, while Ravansaari became Maly Vysotsky Island. BOTH POSTMARKS ARE EARLIER THAN THE PUBLISHED DATES for the Russian text removed type, in the 1997 handbook of the Russian text cancellations. The RAVANSAARI is also "quite scarce" (R4 in the Lost Territories postmarks book); the Finnish post office names book (published a few years earlier than the Russian text book) does not even seem to list it as having a postmark in 1919. The 50 penni postage paid the correct rate for a 20 gram foreign letter (the Nordic letter rate did not start until 1922), 12 March 1918 thru 31 January 1921. Beautiful beehive watermarked envelope. A very attractive LOST TERRITORIES cover. ACTUAL item. |
36.00 |
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246326 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
132a, 149 Pair [1926 50 p M-17 Saarinen Lion perf 14.25 x 14.75; 1927 3 mk M-17 Saarinen Lion perf 14.25 x 14.75] (F-VF, VF) on March 1928 registered parcel card. UNUSUAL SENDING / RECEIVING PAIRING: Karelian Lost Territories "VIIPURI 2" [Viborg/Wiborg] (posthorn at bottom) to Arctic / Lapland ROVANIEMI (posthorn at bottom) receiver cancellation on reverse. The watermark is visible (at extreme oblique angle) on the #132a. The watermark is not visible on the #149 pair, however, the perforation 14.25 x 14.75 does not exist unwatermarked and while the swastika watermark (Scott 137) does exist on this perforation, it can usually be detected, thus I believe it to be 149 (the posthorn watermark is extremely difficult to see on cover). Registered parcel cards are scarce! While parcel cards from/within EITHER the Lost Territories or Lapland are not unusual, cards going from one to the other are unusual and add "spice" to a collection. ACTUAL item. |
20.00 |