29c Rate
Registered Printed Matter!
Wasserbillig
20 Nov 1916,
Trier Censor,
to Eisenach, Germany
22 Nov 1916
Handstamp:
Drucksachen
Einscriben
4c Printed Matter Rate to Germany
(but Basien-Hoffkamp shows the 4c rate
increasing to 5c on 1 Aug 1916)
25c Registry Fee
What purposes were served by registering printed matter? One can only speculate. Perhaps to be sure the recipient (here a seller of construction materials [Baumaterialien]) received the information, and certainly a registered letter would not go unnoticed in the incoming mail.
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