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IV. The Fredericia post office                                 The Fredericia post office - in Fredericia again
                                                                            The Fredericia post office - In Strib again


















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                                                     23rd April 1864, Entire letter sent to Odense from
                                                      Fredericia in Jutland. Franked with  1863 4 Skilling
                                                       cancelled with target numeral canceller 17 and
                                                            datestamped Ant Ill FREDERICIA.






                                                      The Fredericia post office had returned to the city on April
                                                     20'\  where this letter was cancelled, only to abandon the city
                                                    and return to Strib across the Little Belt on the island of Fyn on
                                                        28th April, where it remained until the $tart of the first
                                                                armistice which began on 12t11  May.
























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            2nd  May 1864, Entire letter sent from S0nder Aaby pr Assens to Vordingborg via the Fredericia
               post office located temporarily at Strib on Fyn. The letter is marked with manuscript 6 and
                          bears a eds Ant Ill FREDERICIA. The month slug is an inverted 2.

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