The size is standard 5.5 x 3.5", printed on unbleached but fine-quality paper. This is one of many special-issue postcards printed by Russian printing shops during WW1 for correspondence to, from, and between POWs - without covers to allow quick and painless military censure. The verso shows a pre-printed warning stating that correspondence is allowed only in Russian, French, and German languages. Somehow, that did not stop the sender from writing his message in Czech. The postal cancel on the obverse is dated 29 July 1916 and shows the name of the city, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part

The size is standard 5.5 x 3.5", printed on unbleached but fine-quality paper. This is one of many special-issue postcards printed by Russian printing shops during WW1 for correspondence to, from, and between POWs - without covers to allow quick and painless military censure. The verso shows a pre-printed warning stating that correspondence is allowed only in Russian, French, and German languages. Somehow, that did not stop the sender from writing his message in Czech. The postal cancel on the obverse is dated 29 July 1916 and shows the name of the city, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of the Russian Empire. The obverse also has two military censure stamps, Russian in purple ink and Austrian in red ink. The message on the verso is dated 18 June 1916.

In excellent condition. The paper is unwrinkled and supple, the soiling is minimal, the printed and handwritten text is crisp and perfectly legible.
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