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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

EXPEDITION MAIL from BASE C, SOUTH ORKNEYS
UPU CENSORED MAIL

UPU rate was 3d for the first ounce, and applied from 1 September 1940 to 30 June 1953

1945 Censored cover to USA at 3d UPU rate, datestamp C1, 12 FEB 1945; the post office operated on board
SS Fitzroy off Coronation Island; circumstances again frustrated the construction of the base hut,
eventually achieved by the successor organisation Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946

A commercial, censored example of foreign rate Operation Tabarin mail is one of the rarest rates

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