1920 (1 Feb) registered cover to Warszawa, franked with seven different "ODESA" overprints, including red and black 10f and 50, 20f, 25f and 1M, each canceled by red ODESA handstamp, Registry box at right, departure name and number filled in by hand, backstamped on arrival in Warszawa (13.II.120), v.f. (a Polish consulate functioned at the Black Sea between January 1919 and the beginning of February 1920, with almost a 5-month-long break, during the first Bolshevik occupation of Odessa. The consulate functioned in Odessa until March, 3, 1920 when it was evacuated along with a large group of Polish citizens because of the inevitability of the Bolshevik takeover of the city). Only 50 of each of the red overprints were issued (Mi.1-5, €12,060 as used off cover)
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