Lot no. 599

TOMSK Money Transfer form used to send 1000 roubles from TOMSK 8 10 20 to another office within the guberniya with receiver cancel and recipient’s signature. Charged at the correct 2% rate, the franking provided by the well-known Tomsk provisional k 20 k stamp revalued x 100. The overprint is supposed to be a postal forgery previously confiscated by the authorities and pressed into use as a regular stamp. Its use in Tomsk is well-documented