Germany and German Colonies GERMAN COLONIES German East Africa
Sale No: 0923
Lot No:380
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1916 (27 Apr) cover sent to an internee (A.E. Deverell) at Tabora, from The East Africa Trading Company, a local firm with which Deverell was associated, with boxed cash franking "Fr. It. Einn. Nachw. in Dar-es-Salaam" handstamp, "7 1/2" by hand. Although no mail sent by civilians interned at the Tabora camp is known to have survived, there are rare examples of letters sent to the internees from friends and former associates elsewhere in the colony, this one with '"Mitellandbahn Bahnpost Zug 5 Deutsch Ostafrika" Railroad cancel and Tabora arrival (28.4.16), fine (Image)