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Auction: 167 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 447

S.G. #27, 1938 3a6p Light blue and blue, tied by "Falam/12 Aug 42" datestamp to Shillong, endorsed from "Naylor/D.C. Chin Hills/Falam", backstamped at "Aijal/Lushai Hills/21 Aug 42" and Shillong 28 August slogan receiver, Falam being one of four towns in the Chin Hills still occupied by the British after the rest of Burma had been occupied by the Japanese in May, 1942, a runner post was established in May, 1942 to carry official mail through Japanese occupied territory, between Aijal in the Lushai Hills in India and the four unoccupied towns in the Chin Hills, the service ceased in November, 1943, when the Japanese finally occupied all of the Chin Hills, a list of the 33 covers recorded from this service bearing Burma stamps was published in the spring 1983 edition of the only one cover (from Fallam, Sept. 8, 1942) was recorded that was not sent "On His Majesty's Service" and that bore ordinary Burma adhesives rather than "O.H.M.S. or "Service" stamps, the cover offered here is an additional example, very fine; a very rare and interesting item of WWII postal history.

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