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HMS Vanadis Mediterranean voyage 1868–69 1868 Foreign paid letter Sweden - Trieste - Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece. Place Date *=cancel Notation in red crayon 67 öre paid letter –3 ort Sweden “67” “5½” (Silvergroschen, Sgr.), (=12.8g.) Sweden to Ionian (=67 öre) which was Sweden's credit Islands via Austria May 1, + Franco* to the North German 1865 - Mar. 31, 1869. Postal Union (NGU). Nota- Kiel- 4.12 Train via Hamburg* Vienna tion in blue crayon “3 NGU received 2½ Sgr and wtf” (Silvergroschen, Sgr.), 3 Sgr Sea postage Trisete- Trieste*, 7.12 Mail ship which NGU credited for Corfu, Ionian Islands. via Austria sea postage. Corfu, 20.12 Greece* 1869 Foreign paid letter Stockholm - Kiel - France - Cadiz, Spain. Place Date *=cancel Stockholm* 28.1 By Train via Helsing- Franco* borg - and PD* Helsingör =Payé Korsör - Déstination Flensburg Kiel- 31.1 Railroad Hamburg* postal com- partment Prussia - Closed Spain mail bag via France & Belgium Spanish Prusia* (on exchange mail in the PO with Prussian France mail bags) Notation in red crayon “6½” (Silvergroschen, Sgr.), Sweden received 2 Sgr, 76 öre, F12g + F14Bd x2+ 2 which was Sweden's credit to the North German NGU 2½ Sgr, France & Bel- F16b , paid letter –10g. 2 Postal Union (NGU) and in blue crayon “wtf 4” (Sgr.), gium 2½ and Spain 1½ Sgr. Sweden via Prussia to to show the transit fee beyond NGU was paid. Spain, Gibraltar & Portugal Oct. 1, 1865 - Mar. 31, 1869.