Biafra - Show Your Carried In The Mails Covers

Biafra was established 30 May, 1967 and faded away in January 1970.

I would welcome examples of your Biafra covers during that period, commercial, philatelic, official or any cover carried in the mails with stamps of Biafra or Nigerian stamps used in Biafra during the war during or prior to January 1970.

I do not care about source, your own, ebay copy and paste, or from other retail or auction venues.

I will be passing the images to a club member friend of mine. Also after a deep search on SCF, adding such covers will allow such covers to be found on SCF, if any are added here as I could find none.

Okay, I will start with a war cover:






Tom Gates describes it as, "Nigeria SG#95(x6)-BIAFRA WAR-SOLDIER-SEE REVERSE-F.COY CAMP, HQ.2 DIV....EWOHIMI-PURPLE MILITARY OVAL-EWOHIMI UBIAJA-19/SP/69-REGISTERED(label)-COMMERCIAL AIR MAIL TO USA"

Can some explain if it was used from the geographic area of Biafra or just from Nigeria by a soldier during the war.

Not in Biafra. It attempted but failed to capture the Ewohimi area. The use of Nigeria or Biafra stamps was a political statement and the sender would not have gotten that wrong.

The addressee was a notorious seller of occult and magic goods that targeted Africa and the Caribbean; though defunct, its products are still banned by Jamaica customs regulations. It's unlikely that a soldier on active duty would wait for a parcel of potions from America, so maybe the sender was a local who used the camp for convenience.

See this preso, slide 17, for a true Biafra cover.
https://www.collectorsclub.org/wp-c...der_mojo.pdf

Thank you for that, cjpalermo1964.