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1766, June 30. Entire letter from St. Petersburg to Marseilles endorsed ''Via Memel'', bearing very fine straight-line ''St. Petersbovrg'' and Prussian ''Maseyck'' transit, manuscript charge ''40'' groszy, Dutch ''4'' stuyvers and ''34'' sous for the Maseyck-Paris-Marseilles section. Most of correspondence sent abroad in the XVIIIth Century show two manuscript numbers on reverse: the first was a figure registered in a list accompanying each mailbag; the second represented the transit postal charge via Prussia. The sender had to pay the rate to the border. Very rare, one of the earliest postmarked entires sent abroad.
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