This Soviet postal stationery P 1, with additional franking Michel nos. 233 I and 244 IA, was sent from ГУДАУТЫ СУХ... (Gudauty Sukh...) to Czechoslovakia on 10 (or 18?) March 25 and charged with 80 h postage there, by Michel nos. P 5b and P 26 / Pofis nos. DL 16 and DL 37, cancelled at the destination Teplice-Ŝanov. Unfortunately, the postmark date is not clearly recognisable: ()2. III. (2)5 cannot be correct; unless a first 2 of the day indication on the postmark is also illegible, as is the necessary 2 in the year indication. In any case, the recipient's receipt note on the reverse shows 23 March 1925. This would then make sense: sent on 10 March 25 according to the information on the reverse "No.87 10/III.25", 22 March, postmarked at the Teplice-Ŝanov 1 post office with postage paid and received on 23 March. It is also interesting that, despite the postage stamps, the transitional "T" postmark was also applied at top right. The pencil marking "80" is also correct. The 60h postage stamp was applied sloppily, so two corners are neatly folded over on the back. An oblique pencil note between the "T" and the value stamp is unclear: "4 June" makes no sense.
The text in German can be partially read: "Please kindly send me the magazine "Die Briefmarken": Will you accept used & unused stamps of Russia in payment and at what price & course. Th. Lindtrop". This is followed by a more detailed address, which is obviously difficult for the recipient to decipher. This is why there are pencil notes, possibly in two handwritings: The text probably reads: "Th. Lindtrop town of Gudauty own villa Abkhazia Caucasus ....(despite pencil notes cannot be determined...... With respect Th. Lindtrop. Gudauta is located on the Black Sea and belongs to Abkhazia, the part of the country fought over between the "protecting power" Russia and Georgia. At the time the postcard was written, Abkhazia was an independent part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and thus of the USSR. The capital of Abkhazia is Sukhumi, whose name can be partially deciphered in the date stamp. A beautiful Art Nouveau company cancellation at top left.
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