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1939 | Hungary

Ref: DR20478
  • £225.00

Hungary. (Kenya - Uganda - Tanganyika). 1939. Hungarian postal stationery card 6f green upgraded with 4f brown and 40f turquoise (pair) tied by Budapest date stamp '1sr Jan 1940' , endorsed 'Air Mail' with 'Legipost' Air Mail label addressed to Lushoto and forwarded to Tanga endorsed 'via Dodoma' with 'Passed By Censor/ Nairobi/ 3' hand-stamp in violet with framed 'Passed/ By Censor No 7'' adjacent in violet.

Lovely War Time Air Mail cover flown perhaps via Marseille and Khartoum to Nairobi and carried to Tanga via Dodoma (Tanganyika).

The Nairobi censor hand-stamp (3) is only known '6 Je 40' by John Little and the boxed Tanganyika No 7 known '11th Mar 40.'