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Lots (1024)
1903 (Circa) Postcard (Sagacho Street, Tsingtao) bearing Japan 1½s purple tied Japanese CDS cancel, unwritten on reverse, nice card.
1909 PPC of The Great Pier Dairen bearing Japan 4s rose tied DAIREN / I.J.P.O. cds in violet addr to Belgium.
1948-49 Postal Week both 5y brown and 8y violet each with top and bottom selvedge from the sheet of 5, both unmounted mint on the stamps, 5y has hinge on margin, SG 514 & 556.
Post Offices in China: 1909 4s brown postal stationery card to Switzerland cancelled local Japanese cds and KOBE cds alongside in violet, sent from Taihokoe North Formosa, this was Japan's first colony taken in 1895.
1932 (17 Aug) First All Air Feeder Service three covers in three special blue printed folders each showing the mail route on a map, with the air cover 20c yellow-brown P/S env uprated with 15c red GV adhs tied NAIROBI cds for Nairobi to Zanzibar, Mombasa or Dar Es Salaam. Some pen ink smudges otherwise intr trio.
1933 (1 Sept) Airmail cover typed Mombasa to Berlin bearing GV 50c grey and 1922 1s green tied MOMBASA d/r cds cancels and airmail etiquette obliterated with large boxed X framed in black probably underpaid so took surface mail route, mainly fine.
1935 (4 Nov) Registered airmail cover to Luxembourg bearing GV 5c, 10c & SJ 1s tied KAKAMEGA d/r cds cancels, with five further cancels and transit / arrival backstamps. Unusual destination.
1941-42 Pictorial pairs of S. Africa 70c on 1s brown and grey-blue in attractive block of 30 giving 15 pairs, SG 154 Cat £270.
1945 Printed Victory in Europe covers sent regd philatelically to Stamp Dealer in Dar es salaam, each being different V, V2 or V3 dated 8th, 9th & 10th May 1945 bearing a multitude of 5 or 6 different vertical pairs or singles making a very attractive combination. (3).
1948 (1 Dec) Royal Silver Wedding set over two covers sent locally in Nairobia, £1 scarlet has small pen ink stain at top left. SG 157/8.
1952 (1 Apr) First Day Cover for 10c, 15c, 25c, 30c & 40c pictorial defins, typed addr to Mombasa sent locally, very fine.
1952 (1 Apr) First Day Cover for 10c, 15c, 25c, 30c & 40c pictorial defins, typed addr to Mombasa sent locally, very fine. (Three examples).
