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Auction: 3032 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 1080

1916 (23 Dec.) 5c. postcard, uprated with overprinted 5c. and 40c. affixed on reverse, registered from Tabora "Via Mombasa" to Paris, cancelled with "b.p.c.v.p.k./no 1" double-ring d.s., Elisabethville and London Registered d.s. in red, the additional adhesives cancelled with "Tabora" double-ring d.s. with a further strike on face together with red registration label with typed "Postes Mil/Legerpost no 1", Albertville c.d.s. and French registration cachet in violet dated 15 March; an unsual item sent via the Congo route despite the manuscript directional marking. Photo Estimate £ 160-200

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