Russia 1916 Tiflis Province Kazbek Village on Military Road - Rare

CAUCASUS VILLAGE KAZBEK, TIFLIS PROVINCE : RARE

Kazbek, Tiflis Province 1916 (10 June) - Postcard sent to the daughter of a French military attaché in Petrograd, postage paid with 3k Arms (3 kopek: tariff of 20 march 1879) and tied with the very scarce double circle handstamp "KAZBEK TIFL. 10 06 1916" (∅ 25mm, Ashford Type 2). Arrival Petrograd 17 June 1916. Very Fine.

Interesting arrival postmark of the Imperial mail section of the Petrograd post, which handled diplomatic mail as well.

Very scarce mail from that Georgian postal station. 

Provenance: ex collection Howard Weinert

Michel 65

Standard 96

Note: Kazbek was located close to Mount Kazbek on the Georgian military road, which was an important stop with, in the XXth century, also a Grand Hotel with a view terrace and a restaurant (Ashford, Imperial Russian Stamps USed in Transcaucasia, page 172). This is from that hotel that the sender wrote her message "Now the sun is shining but we do not see the top of the Kazbek that we had seen last evening. Very good inn here."

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