Date: 1938, Oct 3
Est. price: £10.00
Category: Spain
Est. price: £10.00
Category: Spain
Description: Censored Spanish Civil War airmail, Palma Majorca to London, no arrival ds, bank corner cover franked 1P35 (foreign letter rate 50c, air fee to Rome 75c, unemployment tax 10c), canc Palma de Mallorca cds, fine strike purple "Par Avion Jusqu'a Roma" x3, purple two line "Censura Militar/Pama de Mallorca" censor mark, large 'Par Avion'hs's x2. Great Britain had no official postal relationship with the Nationalist (Franco) government and, hence, with Palma de Mallorca. But those in the know used the Italian Ala Littoria seaplane Cadiz-Mellila-Mallorca-Rome airmail route serving Nationalist areas of Spain.
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