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Postal History of South Georgia, 1913 ~ 29
CENSOR MAIL
FIRST WORLD WAR
SOUTH GEORGIA CENSOR
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1917 WWI Censored at South Georgia, Whaling cover to Argentina, UPU Registered (label type SG2) rate,
2d + 2½d tied by datestamp SG2, MY 13 17; taken next day by SS Harpon, arriving Buenos Aires, MAY 23 1917
Sender, per flap, “O Kraul [German, per PESCA], Grytvicken (sic), South Georgia”
Whaling cover, uniquely receiving the attention of a South Georgia WWI censor, sent to Argentina
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