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1940 (Jul 10) longer Fairchild Aviation Corporation printed envelope with vertical crease & creases from heavy contents to The Airport Manager, Tamatave cancelled For Photography from the Air / Jamaica N Y US Postage 5c & 6c meter & with on face violet framed Passed by/CENSOR & with on reverse Tamatave (7 May 1941) arrival cds…Madagascar was Pro Vichy until they surrendered on 5 Nov 1942, this item 301 days in transit censored with a device I do not recognise it is not a USA ( did not enter the war December 1941) device & is not a known UK or South African marking. I have another item dated 4 Sep 1940 from Zanzibar to Australia with an identical marking that is not listed as a Zanzibar device, however the CCSG do state little is known about WW2 Zanzibar censor handstamps with only one device currently recorded with an earliest recorded date of 26 Oct 1943 so I invite comments and opinions as to this being an unrecorded Zanzibar device on ingoing mail to Madagascar..