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Air Mail Services
Elders Colonial Airways Service to Bathurst to connect with German Service to Europe
22 June 1938 - Freetown to Zomba, Nyasaland. Woermann Line imprint on back, alongside undated Zomba arrival mark.
Carried by Elders Colonial Airways Flight FB1 (25 Jun). Connected with Deutsche Lufthansa Flight L358 from
Bathurst (25 Jun) to Frankfurt (26 Jun). Once in Europe, it would have been routed down the Imperial East African
Service to Nyasaland. The postage rate to East Africa was 2s per half ounce.