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1943 (Feb 16) Printed Airmail envelope with some thinning to reverse to Bleadon, nr Sunderland bearing Lyre Bird 1/- & Queen Elizabeth 1d making a 2/1 rate tied Mosman Park / West Aust. cds & with red on white 5 Opened by Censor label (L5 – 8a) tied violet framed PASSED BY / CENSOR 1 (H5-2b) plus 0n other side transparent US EXAMINED BY 5563 tape applied at New York…2/1 airmail rate instigated in January 1942 due to the Japanese disruption of airmail to the UK by providing a service by sea to USA entry port then by air across the US to New York where it picked up the clipper flights to Lisbon & thence by BOAC or KLM to London