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June 15-16, 2011

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Lot #1213
RUSSIA Ship Mail
1929 (17 June) cover from a sailor of the battleship “Paris Commune” at the Kronshtadt naval base (in the Gulf of Finland just outside Leningrad), to Leningrad, sent post-free, as denoted by cachet of the battleship in violet ("Dlya Paketov" and "Lineinyi (korabl) Parizhskaya Kommuna") and the black on white label “Bezplatnoe / Kr-Flotskoe/ Pismo”, signed by an officer. These labels are known from some ships in the Red Fleet around this period but are very scarce, some overall toning, otherwise fine, with arrival pmk
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Price Realized
$1,500.00

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