Today in Postal History
This postal card was sent from Singapore at the south end
of the Malay Peninsula to Rosario
de Santa Fe, Argentina.
Rosario is about 240 km northwest of Buenos Aires.
It comprises the Rosario district of the province of Sante Fe,
one of 23 Argentinean provinces and the independent city of Buenos
Aires.
Singapore provided a single, simple CDS, standard at the
time.
There are two mostly illegible transit/receiving marks on
the
message side.
One appears to have an August 8 date.
The 3c. indicia is similar to stamp designs of 1872.
This particular postal card was issued in 1893.
The UPU post card rate had increased from 2c. to 3c. in March, 1894.*
The message appears to be commercial.
Can someone provide the gist of the content?
*Thanks to Paul Barsdell for the added information on the
postcard and the CDS.
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