Lot 20694 – 1919 (May 14) Postcard from Ekaterinodar from an Italian officer on the Black Sea

1919 (May 14) Postcard from Ekaterinodar (Krasnodar) to Rome, sent by one of the officials who travelled with Italian battleships to ports of the Black Sea to rimpatriate or give assistance to con-nationals after the fall of the Czarist Empire; the mail from these officials was franked by the sender (in this case “Leoni” 10c) and conveyed by ship to Constantinople where it was tied by the military P.M. 15 cds, also tied on arrival. The only example recorded.