The Twenty-five-cent Prexie

Airmail to Africa

Airmail letters were twenty-five cents per half ounce to Africa, other than Mediterranean North Africa, from November 1, 1946 until July 1, 1971.

Shortly after the new rates went into effect this cover was sent to French Equatorial Africa.

A cover sent to Haille Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia in 1947.

Airmail to the Gold Coast, British West Africa, in February of 1948.

A cover sent to Cameroun in 1954. I do not know what effect the notation "VIA PARIS" would have had on the routing of the letter.

Airmail from New York to Madagascar in 1951.

Airmail from Puerto Rico to South Africa in 1951.

This cover went from Nigeria to the United States in 1948. It does not appear to have gone by diplomatic pouch or through an APO - just the regulat Nigerian postal system.

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