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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 396

Togo British Occupation Censored Mail 1919 (21 Feb.) 1d.+2d. registered envelope (size H) to Switzerland, uprated with 1916-20 2 1/2d., cancelled by "lome/togo", showing Accra transit d.s. (26.2) and, on reverse, manuscript "Passed by Censor, Lome, E. Crabtree" with "district surveyor" h.s. in violet below and London transit c.d.s. (24.3); the envelope with some minor peripheral creases. The only recorded example by Martin & Walton. Photo Estimate £ 200-250

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