21 JUNE 1943 / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to the ‘G & C Merriam Company’ in Springfield, Massachusetts. This airmail cover endured triple censorship: first in Brazil, sealed with cellophane tape and tied by purple ‘D.F. / 167’ handstamp; then at Trinidad with P.C. 90 label ‘4193’; and finally in the U.S.A. with cellophane tape marked ‘4298’. Handstamped ‘RECEIVED / AUG 16 1943’ the letter took 34 days to complete its journey despite traveling by air. Franked with 5000r (Scott 525). A vivid illustration of wartime postal delays under layered Allied censorship. Fine to Very Fine.

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