Auction 265th - 273rd - Day 4

1858 (Apr 29): Entire letter from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, bearing 1858 10 kop. brown & blue perf. 14½, a fresh and fine adhesive, tied by the second experimental numeral obliterator '1' of St. Petersburg with oval despatch datestamp in red alongside. Reverse with Warsaw arrival and distribution postmarks in red (May 17). An attractive cover. Cert. Mikulski (1991).rnNote: Numeral dotted obliterators came into use in St. Petersburg earlier than in the rest of Russia. At the beginning two types of experimental obliterators were used, this second type between February and June 1858.