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Auction: 8032 - Stamps & Covers of Asia
Lot: 306

x Hong Kong Japanese Occupation Pre-Occupation Mail — 1941 (5 Dec.) air mail envelope to India bearing $1.50 franking tied by Victoria c.d.s. (6.30 time code) with boxed "c.n.a.c. air/via rangoon" handstamp in red and boxed "detained in hongkong/by japanese/from december 1941 to september 1945" in violet and Rawalpindi 1945 (9 Oct.) backstamp; fine. This is one of the earliest covers to miss the last westbound C.N.A.C. flight to India via Rangoon which departed Hong Kong on the 5th. Photo Estimate £ 600-800

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£480