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Instructional Marks

Non réclamé / Not called for

5 July 1938 - Ibstock, England to Poste Resante, GPO, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Air mail letter taking just four days to reach Freetown but was Backstamps
never collected by the addressee. Handstamped ‘Non réclamé.
/ Not called.’ for and ‘Returned Letter Branch / Freetown’,
with a blue crayon ‘Retour’.
Held in Freetown for approximately ten weeks prior to being
returned.

Types 728.02 and 719.01