Catalog archive | Auction 188

1 September - 3 September 2022

FIELD POST WW I
Lot 3564
Lot 3564
Opening bid
80
BF
November 1918, envelope franked with spanish 25 C. Postage stamp, blue, from Barcelona to Stuttgart and thence to Berlin, handwritten inscription \"Nouvelles de family\" (births and marriages and deaths), to German French agreement from January 1917 over the postal service traffic from and to Spain because Spain in the first world war a neutral country was, the transit from correspondence through France permitted, as far as only births and marriages and deaths with inscription \"Nouvelles / Affaires de family\" on the cover stand, military or war correspondence was prohibited, reverse French censor tape and stamps from Lyon (censorship number 203) on front- and reverse side. On face further French censorship \"*\" and number 69 in violet colour, reverse German censorship from Stuttgart, very rare and interesting cover.
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