Lot 1073 SOUTH WEST AFRICA

1916 (27 Nov) Opened by Censor 99 cover (faults) with 2½d blue GV defins x 2 examples cancelled with German SWAKOPMUND oval cancels each with DEUTSCHE erased from the postmark slug leaving just POST addr to Berne Switzerland and PASSED CENSOR 16 / 99 h/s in blue-black. Scarce use of doctored datestamp to cancel South Africa Union adhesives.