Saturday, September 6, 2014

A matched pair

This pair of cards is probably unique in the postal history of the Civil War. On September 7, 1919, a mother in Simferopol' wrote to her daughter in Evpatoriiskia Dachi, the card arriving the next day. The daughter wrote back to her mother on the day it arrived, and her reply got back to mom in Simferopol' on September 9. Both cards are franked at 35k: the postcard rate for the Denikin regime during this period.
I defy anyone to find a similar matched pair of postal items from the Civil War period.