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XIX. New stamps for the Duchies Period with no postal agreement, paid to border and charged 6 Skilling
Mixed S Silbergroschen franking

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9ttt August 1864, Cover sent to Herningsholm franked with Holstein I 'A Schilling Courant,
cancelled with Danish three ring numeral 146 and datestamped with eds Ant Ill W ANDSBECK.

Sent during the period with no postal agreement between Denmark and the Duchies, paid to the
border and charged 6 skilling as a letter unpaid within Denmark. On reverse transit marks St.P.A.

HAMBURG, boxed Schleswig railway SCHLESW.POST.SPED.BUR. nordlich, and Ant IV
AARHUUS: earliest recorded, and known only to 6th October 1864, and Prussian occupation forces
straight line BERNING, being the only recorded use of this mark.

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The second armistice began on 2om July 1864, and on 24 h July the Prusslan field post took over the post in Jutland.
Herning was not one of the main post offices which used Feldpost-Relais eds with numbers.

4th December 186?, FLENSBURG-ALTONA
Prussian railway postmark cancelling 4 Schilling
bistre issued by Austria for the Duchy of
Holstein with a pair of I I /3 Schilling rose issued
by Prussia for the Duchy of Schleswig. This 5
Silbergroschen mixed franking was possible from
6th November 1866 to 3 pt December 1867.

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