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Auction: 14024 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the Award-winning Collection of Province of Otago Postal History formed by Greg Francis, and the Cliff Wheatley Rhodesias
Lot: 1622

(x) British Occupation of Italian Colonies
Middle East Forces
1942 (16 July) censored airmail envelope from Asmara to Durban, bearing 1942 (2 Mar.) Type M1 3d., Type M2 square stops 2½d. and 5d. vertical pair with Types 2 and 2a se-tenant, all cancelled by Asmara c.d.s., censored at source with Crowned "548" handstamp in violet and subsequently with Italian label, Asmara Railway transit c.d.s. (17.7) on reverse; the envelope with tear at upper left and across flap, and minor faults in places though an exceptional franking with the 5d. se-tenant pair. B.P.A. Certificate (2012). S.G. M4, 8, 10b. Photo

Note: Only eighty-eight panes of sixty were overprinted with the combined Types M2+2a setting giving 1584 se-tenant pairs. The vast majority were separated with the survival rate of intact pairs very low

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Estimate
£3,000 to £3,500