This is an interesting registered cover i have bought this week, sent in 1925 from Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Douala, Cameroon in Africa. The sender's address is Ulica Teatralna/Teatro gatvė which is one of the very few street names that haven't changed until now. The destination is very unusual: Douala, formerly called Kamerunstadt until 1902 under the German rule, is now the largest city of independent Cameroon.
In short, an envelope which travelled from "Poland" (Wilno, at that age) to "France" (Cameroon, at that age).
ReplyDeleteDouala was and is a very important town in Africa, because of its geographical situation and the petroleum. In article of "The Guardian" (2010) Douala is included among the top 50 most expensive cities all over the world and the first in Africa:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jul/07/global-economy-economics
Best wishes.