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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4407

Gold Coast
A group of censored mail (9) comprising 1915 (16 Feb.) KE ½d. stationery card, uprated with KGV ½d., from Coomassie to Switzerland and censored on arrival, 1906 (21 Apr.) picture postcard 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", 1916 (16 Sept.) envelope registered from Winnebah to London bearing KGV 3d., 1916 (3 Sept.) envelope to Switzerland, bearing KGV 2½d. tied by indistinct datestamp, showing "opened by/censor./accra." label (Type L4) and blue "passed by censor" h.s. (Type 2), 1916 (4 Oct.) envelope to Switzerland, bearing KGV 2½d. tied by Accra c.d.s., showing "opened by/censor./accra." label (Type L4) tied by violet "passed by censor" h.s. (Type 2), 1917 (5 Apr.) picture postcard from Accra to Switzerland, bearing KGV 1d. tied by light c.d.s. and showing fair to fine circular "passed by censor/Crown" handstamp in black (Type 2), 1918 (9 Jan.) ½d. stationery card uprated with KE ½d. from Accra to Switzerland and then re-addressed to Germany, showing smudged "passed by censor" h.s. (Type 2) in black, Basel c.d.s. (15.4) and two German censor h.s., in blue and faintly in violet and 1918 (25 Mar.) unstamped envelope from Accra to New York, showing despatch c.d.s., circular-framed "T", New York "due/10/cents" duplex, British Censor label tied by New York Censor h.s. in purple and bearing pre-cancelled US Postage Due 10c. on reverse


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Estimate
£150 to £250

Starting price
£110