PORTUGUESE INDIA 1942. Censored Wartime Cover Examined at Panjim

PORTUGUESE INDIA (Conselho de Bardez, Goa) to Bombay, India, 1942. Censored Wartime Cover Examined at Panjim

Wartime domestic cover from Conselho de Bardez, Estado da Índia Portuguesa, to The Central Bank of India Ltd., Fort, Bombay, bearing single 1938, 10 tangas carmine rose, Joaquim Mousinho de Albuquerque (1855-1902), Scott 443, tied by circular date stamp CONSELHO DE BARDEZ / 2 SET 42 (2 September 1942). At left is brown censor sealing tape inscribed “OPENED BY EXAMINER”, tied by octagonal censor handstamp “PASSED / DHC/21”, indicating wartime examination at Panjim. Manuscript notation at upper left reads “in English without enclosure,” likely a censor's note. Fine and highly desirable World War II postal history from Portuguese India. On the reverse hand stamp "DHC/349" and PC 90 printed on the sensor tape