Description
2 x $1, 50c, 30c Presidents Series on long envelope to Calcutta, cancelled s/r cds Washington DC 31 May 1944; opened and resealed by US & British censors; violet h/s DHA/138; red financial control cachet ‘Board of Economic Warfare/Office of Export Control’, May 31 1944; ‘License No 189466 (in m/s), COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS’; ‘LICENSE COVERS MAILING OF 6 (in m/s) Packages’; red ‘Approved for British Empire only’ h/s; on reverse large red rosette seal, cancelled ‘US Patent Office Licensing Division’; b/s Calcutta, 5 July 1944 + BHA/282; rare combination of markings