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Request For Assistance: Deciphering Handwriting and Translation

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Jed Dorman
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I thought it would be helpful to have a single thread to post items for which you need help in deciphering old handwriting and/or in translation.  So feel free to use this thread for that purpose.



   
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Jed Dorman
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I'll start.  This is a postcard from Kamerun with a Hamburg-Westafrika postmark.  I have most of the text on the reverse, but there are some bits in the second line that appear to be abbreviations or something other than dictionary words I might recognize.

Here's what I have so far:

Hieres zu sich eine mit
Jst[?] Ir.[?] Ir.[?] IV[?] schon in
das ?rav? Rostock mit.
251016 Kam SeeCxl HWAL XXo Fr SPI ArGe DSLHWA XXo AlexandraWoermann 010308 01 xrSchiffLinienHWAL xrKamSeeAux front 800H
251016 Kam SeeCxl HWAL XXo Fr SPI ArGe DSLHWA XXo AlexandraWoermann 010308 01 xrSchiffLinienHWAL xrKamSeeAux rear 800W
251016 Kam SeeCxl HWAL XXo Fr SPI ArGe DSLHWA XXo AlexandraWoermann 010308 01 xrSchiffLinienHWAL xrKamSeeAux rear excerpt


   
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