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    1916 Russian army postal stamp?


    Noor

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    Hi all,

    I picked up that letter because I haven't seen this kind of postal stamps before. Does any of you have seen them? I presume these were common enough or was it used just from the special formation upwards?

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    Blue one reads "From front-line forces"

    It was used between 1914 and 1917.

    All letters from army to Empire were free of charge.

    During official registration of letter these stamps were used to indicate that ;)

    "From front-line forces" can be in purple, blue or red ink.

    Of course there were unit stamps in Russian Imperial Army during WWI.

    Actually around 20 000 of such stamps!

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    Additional info about russian postmarks during WWI can be found in this article

    O.Farafontov, P.Florenskiy. "Postmarks of WWI". "Philately of USSR", 1971, №7, pp. 41-42 / О. Форафонтов, П. Флоренский. "Почтовые штемпеля первой мировой войны". "Филателия СССР", 1971, №7, стр. 41-42

    Full-text of this article (in russian)

    http://stampsportal.ru/great-russia-stamps/russian-empire/mail/postmarks/829-pochtovye-shtempelya-pervoj-mirovoj-vojny

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    Thank you so much!

    I don't start new one but here is a photo that I found as well. I presume imperial Russia religion awards and badges are almost different story but its still looks really beautiful on the picture! Any ideas what badge it is?

    Noor

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