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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 181

Gold Coast Censored Mail 1914 - 1919 Non Gold Coast Censors 1915 (16 Feb.) KE 1/2d. stationery card, uprated with KGV 1/2d., from Coomassie to Switzerland and censored on arrival; also 1906 (21 Apr.) picture postcard (Kumasi. The Fort, view from south) used from Winnebah to London, 1915 unstamped picture postcard from Accra to Plymouth, marked "Active Service..." (rest of endorsement torn away presumably by censor) and showing London "received from h.m. ship/no charge to be raised", and 1916 (16 Sept.) envelope registered from Winnebah to London bearing KGV 3d. Estimate £ 100-120

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