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V. The Austrian field post office With manuscript Fredericia
With manuscript Viborg
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0 I 2th May 1864, Austrian army cover to Vienna sent from Fredericia in the period when the
Danes abandoned the city during the two weeks from 29th April. Marked with manuscript
Fredericia and bearing Austrian field post office K K FELDPOST Nol.
The rate until 20"' May 1864 was ISKr + SKr for unstamped mail and ISKr for stamped letters. After this date
there was no fee. There was only one Austrian field post office established on Danish soil during the 1864 war. The
others were in Hamburg and Husum.
0 28th July 1864, Mixed military and domestic cover to BUckeburg in the Principality of
Schaumburg-Lippe, marked with manuscript Viborg and bearing Austrian field post office K K
FELDPOST EXPOS. No 3. Endorsed Feldpostbrief and sent free through the Austrian field post to
Hamburg. Endorsed 3 for the postage from Hamburg to BUckeburg. (E)
A letter of complaint about the occupation and behaviour of Austrian soldiers from Fru Konradsen, the vicar's wife, to
her Austrian mother, sent during the second armistice, from Nautrup vicarage near Viborg in northern Jutland.
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