HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale

Postwar air mail from Belgian Congo: 11-10-1945 registered airmail family correspondence cover from LEOPOLDVILLE to HAIFA, franked 32F & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark; as manuscript marked "via Lagos", cover transported via BOAC to LAGOS, then probably to LONDON (as no Egyptian censor marks on cover) & from there to Palestine; backstamped 2[8]? OC 45 REG HAIFA transit & same day HADAR HACARMEL Branch Office arrival; as cover not locally censored (as was done during war), this may be early post-war mail after censorship period; wartime censorship in Palestine ceased at end Sept. 1945. Opened at left, right flap-tip missing, repaired top left front corner.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $119. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: Belgian Congoan, Congoan, Mandatory Palestinian, Nigerian, Philately - Postal Covers, WWII era Postal Links and Postal History from Belgian Congo, Congo, Palestine Mandate, Nigeria, and from World War II, 20th Century, 1940s, 1945-1949 Postwar era, which are Philately - Censored Mail, Philately - Air Mail, Philately - Significant Route, Philately - Unusual Origin, Destination or Postal Link, Philately - Earliest/Latest, First/Last & Proving dates or places