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Europe Norway and Finland

Rate redu tion to Scandinavian countries increased mail olurnes, from 1850s 9d, and 1860s and earl 1 0
4d, and further reduction to the_ Yzd rate in 1875 under the GP

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To Frederickstad, Norway, 12 August, 1859
9d unpaid: manuscript accountanc , 6 urren con ersion. Carried Dundee to London b train,
transit 13 ugust, London. 1 S ugust Hamburg Stadt Postamt arri al marking and on ard to I on a
f-Re erse Markings:
CR London - Charles Rideout Machine Cancel
Oval ST PA - Stadt Postamt Harnburg arriva1 postmark
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1 • KDOPA Hamburg - Koenigliche Daenische Ober-Postamt
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Hamburg - Imperial Danish Main Post Office at Hamburg

UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE
ld paid GREAT

Id postcard to Abo, Finland
Aberdeen duplex numeral l cancel
THE ADDRESS ON LY T

Routing via Russia
ANK 9/10: Ankonst, Sweden 9 October
Receiving marked St. Petersburg
Reverse Russian rail to Abo, Finland
25 October, 1879.
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From 1809 until 1917, Finland remained
a part of the Russian Empire.

Commercial card related to timber pricing. To Abo, Finland, 2 October, 1879-23 days