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I’ve been trying to figure out this cover, but have arrived at only a straightforward explanation:
It was sent from the small village of Studenitz (population 690 in 1939) in Brandenburg which didn’t have a post-office, and got a receipt mark. It is correctly franked with a 12pf Hindenburg and addressed to Marburg an der Drau in Lower Styria, which had been Maribor in Yugoslavia until a couple of months before the letter was postmarked. It was forwarded to the nearest post office, where it got a postmark dated 18/06/41, which didn’t cancel the stamp (and is unintelligible apart from the date). Somewhere along the way, someone cancelled the stamp with a blue wax crayon. It then arrived at its destination, but didn’t get a receipt mark, or indeed any other mark, on its way, apart from the number 26 in brackets. There is nothing on the reverse.
BUT: The envelope is still sealed, and there’s nothing in it. It is addressed to a published philatelist who was living in Maribor at the time, so surely must be philatelic in nature. What am I missing?
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