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Auction: 6004 - British Empire Stamps & Covers, featuring Australia
Lot: 1129

x Tanganyika - Mafia 1915 (Sept.) "g. r./post/mafia" handstamp in italic type on India I.E.F. values Postal Stationery German East Africa Yacht type 4h. green card handstamped in black, written on 16 December 1915 and sent to London, redirected to Hamble and then back to London, showing superb "passed by/censor" handstamp in violet, Hamble c.d.s. (15/1) and Norwood machine d.s. (16/1). Very rare, being one of only two such cards recorded. Holcombe Certificate (1995). Photo Estimate £ 1,500-2,000Note: This is one of two cards, together forming a complete message, sent by the same person to Miss Fullerton who was almost certainly a relation of Capt. E.J.A. Fullerton, R.N. He was the Commanding Officer of the Monitor squadron and was himself the captain of H.M.S. Severn. The German cruiser Konigsberg was blockaded in the Rufiji Delta in 1915 and the shallow draft monitors were sent out to sink her which they did successfully in July 1915. Fullerton eventually became an admiral and was knighted

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