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Postal History of South Georgia, 1937 ~ 46
CENSOR MAIL
“PAQUEBOT” CENSOR MAIL to NORWAY
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1940 Censored Whaling ‘Paquebot’ [Hoskin No 323] cover,
to Norway, datestamped on arrival in Norway at Bergen, 27.2.40;
sent by E Edvardtsen, a South Georgia whaler working on FF Vestfold (her last whaling season) to his wife
FF Vestfold worked pelagically for her last season in the South Atlantic between longitude 0° and westward
towards South Georgia / South Shetlands with some expedition mail taken to Bergen, bypassing Grytviken, perhaps
by a returning tanker transporting refined whale oil
A unique combination of markings, another similar Paquebot cover not known to the exhibitor
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