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Letters to the Editor

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My addresses are listed on the front page of all Cameo issues.

Frank Walton

just the example in the book was drawn from an
Passed By Censor Handstamp
over-inked example which showed them as dots.

Dear Frank,
Ted Proud
Heathfield
The article on page 222 of the January 2000
Cameo had me reaching for my library of books
published by the Civil Censorship Study Group.
As you may know a number of countries had a
MV Accra
straight lined handstamp "PASSED BY
CENSOR" in use in the early part of the war.
Dear Editor,
Having spent much time trying to work out the
rest of the route of the envelope illustrated I
looked at Section 2 of our series on British Members may be interested in some memorabilia
Empire Civil Censorship Devices (the United I recently acquired in relation to the maiden
voyage of Accra II in August 1926 to the Western
Kingdom volume) and found a similar mark.
Isles. I have obtained a serviette ring inscribed:
Ignoring the reference to a naval mark which is
"ELDER DEMPSTER LINES / SOUVENIR OF
unlikely to have applied to the cover in question
the handstamp listed as type H4 is recorded in use CRUISE MV ACCRA AUGUST 1926", together
only between 12 October 1939 and 1 November with a flag.
1939 struck in blue black. It does not answer the
Does anybody have any more information about
question of where precisely the mark was applied
but it appears that Britain is likely and I would this voyage?
guess Liverpool.
Roy Cooper
Chris Miller Trowbridge
Secretary
Civil Censorship Study Group
Reading
Gold Coast Shortpaid - Update

Dear Frank,

Ogoja Postmark
Since completing the article on short payment in
the Gold Coast (Cameo Vol 6 pp244-7) I have
Dear Frank,
continued to research the subject, and to gather
Regarding Robert Nelson's comment about the new short paid material. I now realise that part of
Ogoja postmark, type D2 does have crosses - it is my article was not quite correct. I had noted the