Sunday, July 11, 2021

1945 SPLIT, Censorship numbers

After the liberation of Dalmatia, the partisans established a censorship service in most major cities. Uniform (but not identical!) censorship rectangular framed rubber stamps with the inscription "CENZURIRANO / Br. No." were used. All known numbers are listed below:

  1 Drniš (RR)
  2 Hvar (R)
  3 Split
  5 Vis (RR)
  6 Šibenik
  8 * Biograd na Moru (RR)
  9 * Obrovac (RR)
10 Dubrovnik
11 * Omiš (RRR)
12 Zadar (RRR)
13 Knin
15 * Novigrad (RR)
16 Korčula (R)
17 Sinj (R)
18 Makarska (RR)
19 * Preko (RRR)
20 * Vrgorac (RRR)
21 * Supetar (RRR)

* The identification of the location of the censorship office is uncertain and based on a limited number of preserved items.

Except for 3 Split, 6 Šibenik, 10 Dubrovnik and 13 Knin, all other censorships are rare. According to my knowledge, the rarest are No. 11, 12, 19, 20 and 21. Whether the numbers 4, 7 and 14 were in use is unknown.

Forerunner of the 1945 Split provisional issue, letter sent from Obrovac (13.III.45) to Dubrovnik, free of charge as the sender was a military person, censored in Novigrad "CENZURIRANO / Br. 15" .