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Auction: 25016 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 1020

Burma
World War I Censors
The Cachets
1914 (5 Dec.) envelope (fault top right corner) to USA, bearing ½a. and 1a. pair tied by "rangoon r.m.s./set 1" double-ring d.s., and 1914 (30 Nov.) picture postcard from Totok D.E.I. to "Burma Mines Ltd., Nam Tu, Northern Shan States" and bearing 1c.; both showing very fine and good to fine strikes of straight-line "passed censor" with stop (Type RCS2; the former the earliest recorded) in violet. Rare, only ten covers and three postcards recorded

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Estimate
£200 to £250

Starting price
£120