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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 504

Covers and Cancellations
1916 (6 June) picture postcard of Para, Brazil to Victoria, Australia, bearing Arms ½d. green pair sharing "all forces postage free/victoria" datestamp, large "passed" in violet and boxed "passed by /naval censor" handstamps. A rare and unusual card from the vessel Melbourne on patrol in the West Indies and with notes on the patrol included. Photo

Note: Between January 1915 and August 1916 "Melbourne" made a series of patrols in and around the West Indies with Jamaica as the central point. The vessel operated north as far as Halifax, Nova Scotia and south as far as Para, Brazil

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Estimate
£250 to £300

Starting price
£200