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This registered cover was sent from
Helsinki with three
Helsinki Helsingfors CDS.
Routing through Sweden and Denmark was requested.
The destination was Twello in the
Netherlands about
80 km east of Amsterdam between Apeldoorn and Deventer.
Registration was recognized by a neat
preprinted label.
There is an additional rubber stamp on the lower left front
which is illegible but probably has something to do with registration.
The cover also appears to have had a wax seal on the reverse.
The 369 in script is probably added to satisfy one of the other
nation's registry requirements.
The cover arrived in Twello on June 11 as
noted by the
receiver on the reverse.
The stamps are from the Vasa Arms of the
Republic issue of
1918.
The 30p. slate and a 70p. gray brown met the registry rate for
Netherlands.
There is also a script Rek (?) on the
upper right.
Could this have been the sender's reminder to register the item?
There is also a small segment of another
circular stamp at
the top edge of the back.
I don't know what that was except that it might be a mis-aimed transit
mark from somewhere en route.
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