The Ten-cent Prexie

Airmail to Central America

The airmail rate to British Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador was ten cents per half ounce from April 1, 1945 through June 30, 1961.

This cover was mailed to San Salvador, El Salvador on April 9, 1945, shortly after the ten-cent rate was effective.

A cover sent to Guatemala in 1956.

A cover to Honduras from 1955. It is postmarked October 6, and there is a receiving postmark on the back saying it was in Tegucigalpa on October 11. Thus it took another six days to reach Guinape.

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