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1909 postcard to Germany landed at Viipuri where the port's 'ship outline' maritime
postmark was applied. This postmark was used at the port postoffice on uncancelled
mail arriving by sea from 1910. The postcard was probably posted on one of the
coastal steamers that operated a regular service along the Finnish coastline from
Tornio in the north to St. Petersburg in Russia and linked all the major Finnish ports.
The City of Viipuri, also known as Wyborg, Wiipuri and Viborg; but now known as
Vyborg is sited at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland and was lost to Russia at the
end of the Second World War. The city had been a major Finnish port since the early
19th Century and was at the southern end of the Saimaa Canal that links the Finnish
lakes to the Gulf of Finland.
