It is a registered cover sent in 1920 from Heydekrug to Olmütz, today Olomouc, a city in Moravia (Mähren, written on the cover is the german name ), in the east of the Czech Republic. The french stamps overprinted "MEMEL" were stamps of Memel Territory, a Prussian region north of Memel River (Nemunas in Lithuanian) which was cut out from the rest of Germany after WWI. In 1920, it was put under temporary French Administration. Heydekrug, today Šilutė, Lithuania, was the second largest town in the Territory.
Acquired in 2006 in Brno, Czech Republic, in an antique book store, ridiculously cheaply.
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