Le Havre / France: Boulevard Maritime Electric Tramway - Swedish Ship Mail (Vintage PC 1908)

vintage carte postale postcard from le havre france depicting le boulevard maritime with an early electric tramway streetcar number 17 passing along the coastal promenade with people and a kiosk on the right

the front has a handwritten swedish greeting reading halsningar fr wiggo

the back is divided and features a red 10c semeuse stamp cancelled with a le havre seine inferieure postmark dated 15 april 1908

the message is written in swedish by a traveler named wiggo to his sister froken lis nilsson in malmo sweden mentioning going ashore the previous night the back also displays a prominent circular swedish shipping line or steamer company transit cachet stamped over the top text

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

condition: very good...please also refer to scans which show complete front and back of postcard

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