Cover from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Ellice_Islands" class="extiw" title="en:Gilbert and Ellice Islands">Gilbert and Ellice Islands</a>, 1949 UPU issue. The scratchout of the "first day of issue" seems to derive from a confusion in the Scott catalog, which reports the first day as 10/1 rather than 10/10, in contradiction to other catalogs.
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