Lot no. 619

August 1919 Registered cover sent from Ekibastukiya Kopi, Semipalatinsk to Australia., franked 1rouble 40 kop on reverse. Sent up to Omsk where censored with further censor on reverse probably applied in Vladivostok. Arrival mark SYDNEY REGISTERED NSW on reverse. Cigarette damage but a remarkable item. The cover originates from a coal mining area to which at one time Alexander Solzhenitsyn was condemned