£440
WEST AFRICAN AIRMAIL - IMPERIAL CENSORSHIP IN GAMBIA: 1942 cover quartet inc. July Gambia to GB via Lisbon rated 1/3d (1/- + 3d) airmail rate with fair blue "[crown]/PASSED/INN / 7219" cachet applied at Bathurst; Oct. Gambia to GB rated 5d (2d + 3d) surface rate with Imperial censor "EXAMINER 5453" tape applied; Oct. Gambia to Sierra Leone rated 1/3d (1/- + 3d) airmail rate with P.C. 90 Imperial censor "EXAMINER 7219" tape applied (the only recorded use of this Examiner on mail to Sierra Leone to date?); and Dec. Gambia to GB rated 1/3d (1/- + 3d) airmail rate with octagonal boxed "[crown]/PASSED/INN / 5524" censor cachet applied in Bathurst, the only recorded example of this mark. A scarce group. (4 covers) Cross Reference: GAMBIA, SIERRA LEONE, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, GREAT BRITAIN
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