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Auction: 5018 - Stamps of Hong Kong & China
Lot: 1429

China World War 2 Mail Service Suspended 1937-45, a small selection of covers with 1937 post card from Oregon bearing unframed "Service Suspended/Return to Sender", sent during the Sino-Japanese War, 1941 envelope from Jamaica to Hong Kong, commercial cover from Kansas to Shanghai, 1942 commercial entire from Philadelphia to Honan and 1945 3d. and 11/2d. G.B Prisoner of War Post cards to Shanghai, one bearing boxed "returned in undelivered mails/from territory formerly occupied/by japanese forces."; also 1940 envelope addressed to Batavia, 1949 envelope from England to Shanghai (H.M.S. Amethyst incident) and 1977. (9 covers) Estimate HK$ 2,500-3,000

Sold for
HK$4,000