SOUTH WEST AFRICA

Ref: 15902
  • £695.00

1914 censored envelope addressed to London. Franked vertical pair 10pf tied 'LUDERITZBUCHT' c.d.s. '29 7 14' Six days before the outbreak of war, this cover carried on the last peacetime mail. A manuscript notation on the reverse certifies that this letter was in on of the four bags of mail found in the prize ship "Gertrud Woermann" seized by the Brasilian
authorities. Forwarded in the spring of 1919. Five years in transit.