Bidspirit auction | Lourenço Marques * 1914/16 –

Lourenço Marques * 1914/16 – Ceres + Postal Tax “War Tax”. Cover sent from Lourenço Marques (July 30, 1917) and subject to censorship in Lourenço Marques on August 1, 1917, with a horizontal strip of 3 stamps of 2 cents, crimson, chalky paper, perforated 15x14, MF121, to pay the first rate of a letter to a foreign country weighing up to 15g (5 cents) and excess rate (1 cent) + postal tax stamp of 1 cent, green, dashed border, creased lines, MF IP1, due during the period. Doubly censored, in Mozambique with a double-circle stamp in red “PASSED CENSORSHIP / LOURENÇO MARQUES” and in South Africa with censor band 99 and linear stamp in violet “PASSED CENSOR”.