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Auction: SW1018 - The Collectors' Series
Lot: 553

Telegrams, Telegraph & Telephone Stamps - The Professor Shaul Ladany Collection, Part IIRussian Post Offices AbroadMongolia1881, Dec. 29. Telegram folded form from St. Petersburg to Peking, initially sent to Toizkossawsk in Transbaikal, from there being forwarded to the Frontier P.O. of Kyakhta, situated on the border between Siberia and Mongolia, where the franking, with 7k. black and carmine, paying part of the 30 kopeks fee stated inside, was tied with single c.d.s. (subtype of fig. 438 in Tchilinghirian). The form was finally transmitted to Peking on 6.1.1882. A very rare and fascinating usage. Cert. Mikulski. Mi. 25. Ex Mehrtens. Photo

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