Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1873 (5 Nov) cover (with full letter in Polish) to France, franked on both sides with vertical pair of 10k (one stamp folded over) and single 1k, 3k (perf. faults), tied by numeral in triangle of dots, with corresponding Sterdyn (a village in Sokolow county, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland) departure datestamp, also Warszawa TPO (all in Cyrillic only), Bromberg (7.11) transit and Paris a Marseilles cds, Lyon arrival, endorsed on front "via Austria", round "Oplacheno" (paid) and French entry pmks, some cover adhesions and flaws, rare usage from a small town