Description

1916 (Jan) Plain envelope with wear to bottom right registered to Rewa Kantlea & forwarded in blue ink to Shiraspur bearing strip 3 x 3r violet from Vasco da Gama tied unclear cds mostly obscured by rare black on green Opened /By /Censor label (Baker BML 1b) tied by 4 x 19mm incomplete Censor /Belgaum wax seals (Unrecorded Baker) & with ink R No 29 registration alongside violet boxed 15 Jan 1916 hand stamp & with on reverse smudged Shirapur (20 Jan) arrival cds.
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Baker rates the censor label Rare to possibly unique & does not mention the Censor Belgaum wax seal & despite overall appearance this combination of WW1 registered, censored mail with unrecorded Censor belgaum wax seals is probably unique