Disinfection at Baku
A postcard sent from Astrakhan via Baku to Khunzakh in Dagestan. Postmarks: (1) Astrakhan, dated sometime in Dec. 1914, (2) Khunzakh Dagest. Obl.
dated 2 Jan. 1915, (3) Obezzarazheno. (43mm) applied in Baku. This mark, introduced in 1897, was brought back into use when plague broke out in 1914.
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