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Lot 539

Mail to Finland 1918 cover to Finland, franked 70 kop and cancelled with a hammer and sickle seal reading in part PETROGR[ad] OBL[ast] UPRAVA.  Mss. markings front and back indicate arrival in Finland in October. Notable for a rare Finnish Censor mark on front used at the border point of Rajajoki after the end of the Finnish Civil War with maybe ten examples recorded