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XVI. Redirected and rerouted mail Smuggled from Amsterdam via K0benhavn to Randers
"Two wars letter" from Denmark, through the US civil war to California
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0 29tti June 1864, Wrapper sent from Amsterdam and smuggled to Randers by sea.
3 Silbergroschen for Dutch and Prussian rate (=I 3Sk) plus 9 Skilling for Denmark, making 22Sk due.
From the end of the first armistice on 25m June until a week after the preliminary peace treaty on In August, 1864 there
was no official postal service between the islands of the Danish Kingdom and Jutland. This letter was carried from
K0benhavn by ship to the coast of Djursland, taken ashore by small boat, and forwarded to Randers.
0 3 I st January 1864, Unpaid envelope sent from NORBORG on the island of Als to San Francisco,
California via AABENRAA Is\ HAMBURG 9t11, AACHEN 1ot11, NEW YORK 29t11 February.
Charged 4 Silbergroschen (=I O~) to Aachen, (2 due to Denmark and two to the German Austrian Postal
Union, 20~ to New York, 5~ to California, making 35~ in all. Equal to 54~ in depreciated US currency.
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