Ref: DR12620
- £350.00
Fiji. (Air Mail). 1941. Registered New Zealand 'On Active Service' Air Mail envelope written from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force cancelled by circular 'N.Z.E.F./Field 2' hand-stamp in violet with framed 'Censored/ Signature' in crimson on face, endorsed 'Hold' and sent on the Fist Trans-Pacific Flight Auckland bearing Fiji SG 254, 2d green and brown, SG 257, 3d blue and SG 262, 1s black/yellow tied by Suva-Fiji/ Registered date stamp '9 No 41' with hand-stamp 'First Transpacific Airmail/ Suva, Fiji to Auckland, N.Z.' on face in violet and forwarded on arrival to Wellington. Superb item of registered mail from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force held for the First Air Mail Service. Unique.
