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  • Lot# : 1705 Russia

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    1914 (Oct 5): Russian 3 k. red postal stationery card sent registered to Brighton, UK up-rated with 1913 Romanov issue 1 k. and 10 k. tied by Warsaw cds's. Censor cachet at left and Registered label at right, card with extraordinary message: "I sent you a card from Petrograd. The GPO is open but the others are not, I suppose you read in the papers what is going on here. Poor Poland. Since 10 days a terrible battle is being fouight just outside (Warsaw). The noise of the Cannons is awful...the noise goes on night and day...last friday a bomb fell near the Station, several people were killed, the town is full of wounded". The German advance was halted by the Poles and Russians just short of Warsaw in the middle of October 1914.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold