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I.A.4               Russian Ship Mail at the Caspian Sea
            An Enzeli departure mark & a  Russian ship cancellation used as "Transit"
      Persian p st
      card canselled
      at Enzeli
      From Enzeli
      8 XII  12
      At sea the
      card received
      the Russian
      ship can-
      cellation,
      Baku-Enzeli
      type II, dated
      26 11  12
      (Julian)
      addressed to
      Belgium
      arriving
      17 12  12
      No
      explanation
      yet found for
      this rare
      combination


                                          Rates: 6  chahis to abroad
                    Paquebot used on Russian mail from Baku. The only recorded










































             Russian cover posted at sea on 24 April 1914 (in Hijra 24 Jumada al Ula 1332, as perm/son
                        front), via Recht 22 IV  14, Teheran  27 IV  14 to Isfahan arriving 2  V  14
                                          Rates:  10 kopek to abroad
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