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General Category => Members Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Ingo Egerlandt on January 25, 2020, 03:16:05 PM

Title: Bombay Foreign Paquebot from September 1940
Post by: Ingo Egerlandt on January 25, 2020, 03:16:05 PM
Hi members,
I received a envelope with a Bombay foreign paquebot handstamp, not opened by censor, oas canceled, but postage free handstamp. K6 in BEF is to late!
Bournemouth is Foreign? German occupation half day?
Can one member write about this item, please? Thank you
Ingo
Title: Re: Bombay Foreign Paquebot from September 1940
Post by: Peter Harvey on February 05, 2020, 09:31:09 PM
Hi Ingo,

Assume this was posted from a  ship passing through Bombay, mailed free of charge with the violet cachet POSTAGE FREE, cancelled to reverse with the Paquebot as merchant shipping mail (possibly a troopship) to Bournemouth in England. The Not Opened By censor cachet applied in India.

Peter