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1941(Apr) Printed Airmail envelope Registered & Censored posted from Shanghai April 1941 to Holland franked China airmails issue 60c, 90c, $2 & $5, it reached New York 23 April 1941 but was not delivered until 12 Nov 1951…10 + years in transit because the British intercepted it in Bermuda & seized it with on reverse unframed 19112 Bermuda filing number held it until eventually COVEL (A Dutch committee for Detained Cargo) intervened & showing on reverse cachet of COVEL & a typed explanitory label Stuk Na inbeslagneming door de British Authoritity peiten Terugontvangen door Tussenkomst Van de Covel Commissie door aangehouden gadingen te Amsterdam (Piece After seizure by the British Authority, Received back through the intervention of the Covel Commission for detained Cargo in Amsterdam) which is nicely tied by Amsterdam Central Station plus other appropriate transit cds ……….A great item of detained mail that must be incredibly scarce.