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Postal History from Finland 1889 - 1918 |
Censorship in Finland during WW1Viipori - Wiborg2nd October 1914 - 26th November 1917Neutral tapes of both type A and type B were used were used at Viipori and also a trilingual tape with city name - in Swedish spelled Viborg, was used in 1917  Viipuri censortape with city name - here early use in February 1917  Censortape type A, blue paper, used in 1914 19 different censor stamps found used at Viipuri, here are examples:  Parcelcard from Russia to Viipuri May 1915 with censorstamp nr. 4  Stationary postcard with censorstamp nr 5, card sent to Sortavala in October 1915  Censorstamp type 6 used in June 1915, and top of censortape type A, white paper.  Censorstamp type 12 on cover used 1915  Censorstamp nr. 14 and nr. 18 on card sent from **** to Reval, Estonia in May 1917  Cover from Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, February 1917, to Viipuri with censorstamp nr. 16, cover also bearing censortape from Helsinki |
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