USSR Airmail 1933 Poste Restante & Trans-Siberian Khabarovsk - Irkutsk Route / Very Scarce
150,00 € inc. tax
SOVIET AIRMAIL & POSTE RESTANTE 1933 – VERY SCARCE MAIL FROM THE TRANS-SIBERIAN LINE
Leningrad 1933 (10 June) - Domestic Registered Airmail envelope to a POSTE RESTANTE in KHABAROVSK (“до востребования”), sent via the TRANS-SIBERIAN LENINGRAD - IRKUTSK – ULAN UDA - KHABAROVSK airline segment. 85 kopek franking paying the correct rate (tariff of 25 February 1933: 65 kopek for domestic airmail + 20 kopek registration) but the extra postal fee of 5 kopek for Poste Restante was levelled upon arrival with the handstamp DOPLATIT (tariff of 26 June 1926, although the new 10 kopek extra fee tariff of 1st June 1931 should have been applied). Khabarovsk receiver 24 June 1933. Very Fine.
Great commercial usage, the convergence of a very scarce and early Soviet Airline route and of a scarce Poste Restante postal rate. Specialist item.
Provenance: illustrated in G.A Ackerman (Via the Red Skies, 2002, p. 254, fig. 14.4)
Michel 369, 374, 375
Standard 232, 237, 238
Note: the first segment from the Trans-Siberian airline was opened in 1929, linking Sverdlovsk to Irkutsk; it then expanded further East via Ulan-Ude (Verkhneudinsk) and Chita until the major Siberian hub of Khabarovsk, with a few halts in between. Total travel to Leningrad to Khabarovsk is about 6200 km.
Product Code: 2230
Product Condition: Used
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