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DENMARK
POSTAL HISTORY
LETTER BOX DROP MAIL WITH COMPASS CANCEL
& RURAL DELIVERY CHARGE
1855 - ATTRACTIVE KASSEBREVOR
LETTER BOX DROP LETTER WITH COMPASS CANCEL
FROM COPENHAGEN TO LANDLYST
SHOWING ADDITIONAL 2 SKILLING CHARGE FOR PRIVATE RURAL DELIVERY
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Handstamp 1855 Letter Box Compass Cancel
Kassetømningsstempel med Kompassstempel
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4 margin 4 skilling
Facit 4b -Type II 1855 issue
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Private Rural Delivery Fee
2 Skilling
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NOTES: Attractive Kassebrev or Letter Box (Drop Box)
cover from Copenhagen (Kjøbenhavn)
with appropriate 4 Skilling stamp Number "1" Numeral cancel and Compass
Cancel (Kassetømningsstempel med Kompassstempel) to small rural
town of Landlyst outside of Elsinor (Helsingør),
long since absorbed by Elsinore proper. Cover also includes a red crayon
"2" skilling rate as the fee for the local private carrier postman. Nice
combination and cover with JKE 1992 expert certificate.
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DANISH NOTE INCLUDED
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ROUGH TRANSLATION:
Regulations stated that: All letters should be picked up at the post
office, letter collection site or exchange spot which is why the post
office called for rural populations to agree on a common pickup and
delivery point for mail and local private carriage to the rural people
themselves who would pay a fee.
The letter is on 27.01.1855 sent by stagecoach from Copenhagen to
Elsinore. The charge is the usual 4 SK per weight. Since "Landlyst" is
located 1/2 mil outside Elsinore, it privately employed rural postmen
with a calculated fee of 2 SK for rural delivery. The local postmaster
could bypass the post office responsible for the district delivery, and
sometimes the postmaster even paid the rural postman.
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ROUGH TRANSLATION:
Letter Box letter from Copenhagen to Landlyst outside Elsinore, franked
with 4 sk. 1854 which was canceled NUM-1 (Copenhagen). Letter Box
Clearing Stamp with Compass Stamp 27/01/1855. Endorsed 2 (sk) in red
chalk corresponding to fee for rural private local delivery. The stamps
are genuine and consistent with the known time of usage. Letter, label
and stamps are all known to have been used with one another on cover.
Farum, November 5, 1992
Fee 100 kr.
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