£140
WWII "NO SERVICE" MAIL: Small group of covers all ex GB bearing boxed purple "NO SERVICE/RETURN TO SENDER" hs's. Wide variety of destinations; scarcer ones inc. Moravia, British Somaliland, Tunisia & Danzig; more common ones inc. France, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Austria & Belgium. Inc. 1 Oct 1944 env. to Dieppe ex Croydon, missent to Ottawa DLO with censor tape tied by dual-language Ottawa "INSPECTION DIVISION./DEAD LETTER OFFICE." ds on reverse; env. (date unreadable) to Luxembourg ex Warwickshire, opened and resealed by "Examiner 2512" P.C.90 tape, with typewriter ms "To await Liberation" at top left; 29 June 1940 env. to Nice ex Ipswich with boxed purple "WAR OFFICE/PERMIT No. B442" hs, sent and returned shortly after the German occupation of France; plus other similar examples inc. Registered Mail to Br. Somaliland, etc. (15)Cross Reference: MILITARY - SERVICE SUSPENDED, MILITARY - WWII, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE
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