<p>German Empire; genuinely postal used letter cover from <b>Hirschberg</b> (Silesia) (contemporary <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jelenia_G%C3%B3ra" title="Category:Jelenia Góra"><b>Jelenia Góra</b></a> in Poland) to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dessau-Ro%C3%9Flau" title="Category:Dessau-Roßlau"><b>Dessau</b></a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principality_Anhalt-Dessau" title="Category:Principality Anhalt-Dessau">then Principality Anhalt-Dessau</a>) from <time class="dtstart" datetime="1880-09-11" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap">11 September 1880</time><br><b>Postmark</b>: Hirschberg (in Schlesien), <time class="dtstart" datetime="1880-09-11" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap">11 September 1880</time><i>(rare chest-stamping)</i><br><b>Stamp</b>: Michel No. 41a (1880, without "...e" at the currency name); (dark) rosy; with embossed printing <br><b>Postage validity</b>: from 1880 until 1891-01-31<br></p>
<b>Text</b>: <i>An die Administration der fürstlichen A[melires?]stiftung zu Dessau in Anhalt</i>
Deutsche Reichspost <i>(stamp)</i>
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