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WEST AFRICAN WARTIME MAIL - IMPERIAL CENSORSHIP IN GAMBIA: 1942 quartet of covers inc. Dec. Gambia to USA rated 3/6d inclusive air fee (Gambia 2/6d + 1/- franking) sent via air (intended for carriage on FAM-22 first flight - as shown by boxed cachets on front & back - but instead by Pan American flight 482) and returned by surface route, with octagonal boxed "[crown]/PASSED/P.202" cachet on return from America; Jan. GB to Senegal via Bathurst rated 3d surface rate with "[crown]/PASSED/P.202" Bathurst cachet (the only cover recorded as passing to Vichy Senegal via Bathurst); May Gambia to GB via Lisbon rated 1/3d (6d pair + 3½d pair) with P.C. 90 censor tape of Examiner 6185 applied in Bathurst; and May Gambia to GB via Lisbon rated 1/3d (1/- + 3d) airmail rate with v. fine "[crown]/PASSED/INN / 5690" CCSG Bathurst Type IVB dated earlier than recorded. (4 covers) Cross Reference: GAMBIA, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN
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