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Lots (1270)
1899 Registered cover Yokohama to Shanghai bearing 3s x 3 tied YOKOHAMA JAPAN cds cancels with SHANGHAI / I.J.P.O. cds on reverse.
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.
1950 Air 59y red unmounted mint, SG 577.
1951 (3 Sep) Opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Talks: double signed USA commemorative cover to Maryland signed by Dean Acheson (51st Secretary of state to Harry Truman), and Earl Warren the host Governor of California. The treaty was signed withdrawing allied forces from Japan. Interesting.
1952 Bandai-Asahi National Park Miniature sheet fine hinged mint, SG MS 694.
1953 Shitkotsu-Toya National Park Miniature sheet with original folder, fine Unmounted mint, SG MS 706.
Japanese P.O in China: 1909 China postcard of Tientsin (view of Grand Cheminee) bearing 3s red tied three violet PEKING CDS cancels on obverse, unwritten on reverse, mainly fine.
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.
1953 (7 Dec) Mau Mau Uprising: Typed H Hare envelope bearing GB 2½d tied FIELD POST OFFICE / 256 cancel from the military at the peak of its conflict with Kenya against British Rule. FPO 256 was based in Nairobi serving the British Army and colonial forces during the height of the Mau Mau uprising.
1922-27 Wmk MSCA £10 black and green, handstamped SPECIMEN in violet (Samuel type K4), small tear at the right, otherwise fine mint, SG 100 s. Cat £1200.
