Sunday, October 28, 2018

1945 SPLIT, Excellent & unique item

This is one of the most interesting postal items of that time...

1945 Split local provisional issue, stationery of type St.1, correctly franked with 20kn for abroad, sent from Šibenik (22.VI.45) to Josefov, Czechoslovakia, censor cancellation No. 6, Šibenik. The stationery travelled via Bari, where it was censored by the Allied Military Censorship No. 0105. Since postal traffic with Czechoslovakia was suspended (handwritten "SERVICE SUSPENDED" and marked with "AL MITTENTE") the stationery was returned by airmail to Belgrade, where it was censored for the third time (by the Yugoslav military censorshipand finally dispatched to Czechoslovakia. Certificate Vilfan.