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Les Congolâtres

                                         QUESTIONS – REPONSES

                                         QUESTIONS – ANSWERS


          Two Questions – from Alan Morvay (USA)

          Question 1:


                                                                                 Question 1:

                                                                                 Do you have any information
                                                                                 about the typed “Censure Congo
                                                                                 Belge” censor tape shown on this
                                                                                 cover ?





                                                                                 Réponse / Answer
                                                                                 By Thomas Lindekens


                                                                                 No information about this
                                                                                 “emergency” censor tape never
                                                                                 seen before. Probably unique.

          Or, we can suppose that this censor tape was applied in Albertville because stamps was cancelled in this
                                                                                town and the censor tape had the
                                                                                cancel of Albertville on it. But
                                                                                strange because Albertville had the
                                                                                “Aa” tape since March 1942.

                                                                                (the Aa type is the usual censor
                                                                                tape type available in almost all
                                                                                censor offices).

                                                                                Or, we can suppose that the letter
                                                                                was sent from another place of
                                                                                Albertville and cancelled in transit
                                                                                and so opened by an
                                                                                unapproved/unofficial censor
                                                                                office where no censor material
                                                                                was available.






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