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Auction: 8021 - British Empire Stamps and Covers
Lot: 766

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Covers and Cancellations U.S. Forces 1943-62 an attractive, mounted and fully annotated, collection of U.S. Field P.O. cancellations, both Army and Navy, from a wide range of P.O.s with franked or embossed envelopes, showing censor marks, Official Free etc. from Abemanda, Makin, Tarawa, Nanumea, Nukufetau, Funafuti, Palmyra Is., Canton Is., Baker Is., Fanning Is., Christmas Is. and includes many of the very rare items of WWII Pacific postal history with "V-Mail" letters, slogans etc. A most attractive collection. (59) Estimate £ 600-800

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£500