Lot 445
Solomon Islands 1942 'Blue Crayon' cover to NZ

Timed Sale: The Academic Collection Part 6 | ES26015
Auction: 2026-03-20 16:00 GMT - 2026-04-10 10:00 BST
£197
Description
1942 airmail envelope (8½ x 4") to New Zealand, franked at 8d (2d plus 6d airmail). Sent from Gizo to Tulagi, whence to Auki where the Postmaster cancelled the stamps with a blue crayon ‘Tulagi 16.3.42’ (the earliest recorded use of the ‘Blue Pencil’ cancellation). It was routed via Port Vila and Sydney, thence by air to Auckland; doubly censored at Auki and Sydney. On Stan Jersey's display page

