Russia 1822 St Petersburg Rare Usage of Both Domestic & Foreign Departures - Certificate
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ST PETERSBURG 1822: EXCEPTIONAL USAGE OF BOTH DOMESTIC & FOREIGN DEPARTURE POSTMARKS
St Petersburg 1822 (20 December) - Folded commercial entire to Pernau (current Pärnu, Estonia), with BLACK foreign departure handstamp in French "ST PETERSBOURG" applied by mistake by the office for FOREIGN outgoing mail; re-directed to the office dealing with inland mail where a second strike in RED of the DOMESTIC departure was applied. Very Fine.
An exceptionally rare item showing both colours used (black & red) by both inland & foreign sorting offices.
Expertize: certificate Dobin
Provenance: illustrated in Ratner & Dobin "From the History of the St Petersburg Post" (page 25)
Dobin 01-02/3.03 & 01-01/1.07
Note: since 1821 mail to the Baltic provinces as well as Finland was handled by the office for accepting domestic correspondence. Some letters written in German could accidentally be accepted by the office for foreign correspondence.
Note: since 1821 mail to the Baltic provinces as well as Finland was handled by the office for accepting domestic correspondence. Some letters written in German could accidentally be accepted by the office for foreign correspondence.
Product Code: 1556
Product Condition: Used
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