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 This cover arrived this morning. British Indian Ocean Territory cover posted from Diego Garcia in 1974. Rare commercial usage. |
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Tanganyika air mailPosted at Dar es Salaam on January 19 1933, proceeding by rail to Dodoma (arrival backstamp January 20 1933), and from there travelling by air, arriving in London on January 30 1933.  |
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A small curiosity: Morvi in India to Zanzibar, with a Zanzibar Postage Due:  Very nearly as BOB as you can get! |
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Well, English wasn't the writer's first language - and maybe 'Jangbur' is the Gujerati equivalent ...  |
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btw its another of thos elanguages that I can understand very fluently speak very badly read like a baby and simply cannot write. if you read it out to me I could tell what was said in the letter. |
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gujrati my dear tony gujrati I'm afraid, my dear Spock, that I live in the past, in the days of the British Raj. I don't wish to acknowledge change. |
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 I heard this very evening, "if you want things to remain as they are, you need to change" "things left as they are, deteriorate" |
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As that nice Mr Yeats said
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
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Bedrock Of The Community
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That's an interesting one, Prabhakar. Do you know why the extra 3 Pies stamp was needed? |
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ah the truth is out Dear Tony,
the age of the states is over but hopefully we will let you have one final hurrah. as a true lover of indian states you deserve that and only emperor spock can make sure you get it and he sure will. |
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It would have been 3 Pies also, which suggests why it was uprated (of course). At some point, in the 1920s from memory, the postcard rate did go up to ˝ Anna/6 Pies.
Must have an example of this usage somewhere in my Convention States shoebox, but I don't recall it. |
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