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I.A.1 Russian Consular Postal Service at Tabriz Pre-UPU

Route: via Julfa. Letter sent to Paris in 1877
Foreign rate 8 kopek. Reduc d f o 10 to op k n 77
The latest of the three recorded covers from Tabriz; Rusgian Consular P 0

Markings:
The boxed (in
Russian) Tavriz
marking
measunng
42,5 mm by
16.5 mm
Julfa circled type
Routes:
Tabriz June 1877
Julfa border
station 4 July
(Jul.tan)
Moscow 13 July (J)
Moscow-Warsawa
14 July (J)
Enquelines entry
to France
29/ JUIL/ 1877

Reduced part of the back

Map of postal routes Old Russian map of Kaukasus
(Cut out from a ppcl

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KA I KA 3 \. 'I'

Until 1864
Tifiis - Nachdjavand - Tabriz It shows clearly the position of
Nachdjavand
From 1864
Tillis - Julfa - Tabriz
Russum Julfa P 0 opened in 1864
(see BJRP No 10, 1952)