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Double-Circle Postmarks with Thin Arcs

These five handstamps were all manufactured in the 1950s. Other than in the Post Office Impression Books, the
Gbangbama handstamp has not been recorded. The other four all remained in use until after independence.
Unusually Kenema had two similar, but definitely different, handstamps in concurrent use.

Type 040.02     Type 072.05       Type 072.07        Type 140.02      Type 124.02
Not recorded  Apr 1955 - Indep  Apr 1957 - Indep  Mar 1958 - Indep  Feb 1954 - Indep

                   Code C           Code *          Code * or A
              Right bar 11mm
                                Right bar 15mm

1 June 1955 - Pendembu to London, UK. Registered air mail rate 1s 3d per ½oz plus 4d registration. A 1s adhesive is on the front.
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