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Auction: 8021 - British Empire Stamps and Covers
Lot: 727

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Covers and Cancellations Hull Island 1944 (21 Aug.) envelope to Fanning Island, bearing 1/2d. vertical pair cancelled by Type 23, showing large double-ring "gilbert and ellice islands colony/post office/hull island/(orona)" h.s. at left partly obscured by sealing tape with manuscript "opened by censor" in red ink and Censor cachet initialled by the scribe, Areti; the envelope with some very minor fox spots. Photo Estimate £ 100-120

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