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Auction: 6016 - Stamps & Covers of the World/The D J Norris Collection of Ceylon
Lot: 1085

x Mauritius 1941 (2 Mar.) 10c. red card from an internee at "Post Box 1000" to London, cancelled with Cable and Wireless slogan d.s. and showing a fine strike of the triangular fancy-framed "passed by censor /b2/mauritius" handstamp in violet. Photo Estimate £ 150-200Note: P.O. Box was the postal address for a detention camp set up at Beau Bassin for so-called illegal immigrants into Palestine who were deported from there to Mauritius where they arrived n 16 December 1940

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