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Scott #667 [1982 1.10 mk Gardening] Used with VF centering, along with four examples of a 4 kop Russian definitive stamp on a piece of picture post card, all canceled with a RUSSIAN 11 August 1982 cancellation (I cannot read Cyrillic text well enough to read the town name). This is the only example of a Finnish-Russian combination franking that I have seen after the Russification era that ended in 1918. It is very likely that this was a tourist post card that a Finnish tourist pre-franked and brought along on a trip through Finland and into Russia, but when the tourist wanted to mail a card from Russia, the tourist had to add Russian postage to send the card -- of course the Finnish postage had no franking value in Russia. However, universally internationally, in such cases, the mailing post office normally "marks out" or "boxes out" the invalid postage and does not cancel the invalid postage. In this case, it appears that either a Russian postal worker did not know the regulations or ignored the regulations. While this is in the "curiosity" category, if I have not seen anything like it (Finnish-Russian after 1918) in 51 years, it is very special. ACTUAL item. |
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