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Is This A Hong Kong Censor Marking? (China To Canada)

 
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Posted 03/19/2021   07:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Anthraquinone to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
This is a WW2 air mail cover from China to Canada that was opened for censorship in Canada and resealed with a transparent censor label. There is a Victoria, Hong Kong transit mark on the back dated 04/11/1941. I cannot read the dates in the Chinese cancellations.

I am interested in the purple boxed "Not Opened by Censor" cachet that is partly covered by the Canadian label. I am assuming that it was applied in Hong Kong but I do not have any reference books for that area and have not found anything on the web.

Any info about this cachet would be most welcome.


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Posted 03/19/2021   08:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Same mark on a cover from Hong-Kong to the States


And on a cover from the Philippines to Hong-Kong


(not mine)
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Edited by vayolene - 03/19/2021 12:30 pm
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Posted 03/19/2021   09:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joy Daschaudhuri to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The examples showed are not the same marks what John posted.

Both the censor stamps above are very common Morenweiser type 7C marks which are characterized by the break in the upper frameline between T and O whereas John's is way scarcer Morenweiser type 7F mark which is characterized by the longer left vertical stroke of N of CENSOR than the right one.
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Posted 03/19/2021   09:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joy Daschaudhuri to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
@Anthraquinone

Quote:

I am interested in the purple boxed "Not Opened by Censor" cachet that is partly covered by the Canadian label. I am assuming that it was applied in Hong Kong but I do not have any reference books for that area and have not found anything on the web.

Any info about this cachet would be most welcome.


The oblong NOT OPENED BY CENSOR violet rubber stamp is Morenweiser type 7F censor mark of HK Censor Station which functioned from Sep 1,1939 to Dec 24,1941.

Ref. British Empire Civil Censorship Devices World War II (Section 4: British Asia)
Konrad Morenweiser .
The Civil Censorship Study Group, England 2011 6th Ed.
Hong Kong
Handstamps; pp.112-3
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Posted 03/19/2021   12:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joy Daschaudhuri to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ha ha. The word same is now edited out.
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Posted 03/19/2021   12:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ha ha.It's back,and here to stay !
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Edited by vayolene - 03/19/2021 12:37 pm
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Posted 03/19/2021   1:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joy Daschaudhuri to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good. It will remain as an exemplification of your ignorance.
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Posted 03/20/2021   12:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Anthraquinone to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for the replies and confirming that this cachet is from Hong Kong

AQ
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