from Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), uprated Russian postal stationery
card with red imperial double-headed eagle and inscription
from Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), uprated Russian postal stationery
card with red imperial double-headed eagle and inscription ПОЧТОВАЯ
КАРТОЧКА (POSTCARD in Russian), bearing local black surcharge 20
Pf., cancelled DORPAT 28.5.18 with additional manuscript marking,
German-language message requesting pickup of a parcel, issued
during short-lived German military occupation of Estonia in late
World War I after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, transitional use of
revalued Russian postal stationery in German-controlled zone
outside of the formal Postgebiet Ob. Ost, rare example of local
provisional overprint from Dorpat, ex Kugel, XF!
