Sekondi - Gold Coast / Ghana: Beach Dugout / Ethnic - Censor Mark - UTC (Vintage RPPC ~1939)

rare original vintage real photo postcard - no reprint! 

publisher: METHODIST BOOK DEPOTS, GOLD COAST

matte sepia toned gelatin silver print

local youth with a traditional dugout canoe on the beach at sekondi, ghana. marked "no 75. sekondi."

origin/date: written in accra on november 18, 1939.

destination: celerina (graubünden, engadin), switzerland.

franking: two king george vi gold coast stamps, canceled in accra.

postal history highlight: features a clear, red triangular "passed by censor" stamp from the early months of world war ii.

the postcard is written in german by a swiss expatriate named walter zumbrunnen. notably, the sender's return address is listed as "c/o u.t.c. p.o. box 543, accra". the union trading company (utc) was a prominent swiss trading firm linked to the basel mission, heavily involved in the west african cocoa trade and retail sector during the colonial era.

size: ~ 9 x 14 cm (1 cm ~ 0.39 inch)

postally unused in 1939 from GOLD COAST to SWITZERLAND

condition: very good...please also refer to scans which show complete front and back of postcard

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