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    Catalogue# : 217
    1935: Mt. Fuji after Kazan Watanabe 1½ S. carmine, compl. miniature sheet with 20 stamps in mint condition MI = € 1'400.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 380 CHF

    Lot# : 2566 Japan

    1871/45c.: Collection with early forgeries (entire first page), genuine from Koban issue, largely used.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 150 CHF

    Lot# : 2567 Japan

    1876/1940: Japan collection in small stockbook, containing many unused stamps, including 1899 definitives to 50 s., 1929 Aeroplanes with full og., 1929 Mt. Fuji definitive 8 s. olive brown with full og. and many other better stamps.    
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF

    Lot# : 2568 Japan

    1964/82: Lot 15 yearbooks and special booklets issued by the postal administration of Japan, in addition a presentation folder for the UPU congress in 1964, all in perfect condition and housed in a box.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2569 Japan

    1900/40: Interresting Lot 240 old picture postcards b/w or in colour, used and mainly unused, noteworthy topographic views, artistic cards, personalities, leisure time, military scenes and more, furthermore a rather heavyly plundered old private photo book showing family members and kids, mostly in traditional costumes, in addition few cards as well as seven stereo photocards about 1900 from China, a large bunch of modern tourist cards joins the lot, all housed in a box.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2570 Japan

    1900/20: Important collection with 500 picture postcards s/w and mostly in colour, used and mainly unused, showing a large variety of handpainted cards (partly in sets), commemorative cards franked on picture side and showing special cancellations, street scenes, some items regarding the sino russian war, few photocards of the Emperor and his family, Japanese fashion and much more, a lot that has been kept under the roof for decades and which nowadays can't hardly put together again with such a number of phantastic items, mainly in good conditon (few have age stains) and arranged in a large postcard album.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2571 Japan

    Japanese Occupation of Cambodia 1941: Group of four picture postcards with Airmail to Japan, despatched between October 10 and November 30, Shōwa 16 (1941), written from the 'Expeditionnairy Corps of French Indochina / Section M. Nakajima / Group 3804" and directed to Saitama nearby Tokyo, franked with 1937 definitive issue 5 s. blue & 10 s. red (Gi 318+322), tied by FPO cds, framed Control handstamp in violet and censorship cachet 'Sato' in red alongside. The only four known cards from Cambodia, French translation for one card included.rnNote: In August 1941 a Japanese garrison of 8'000 servicemen occupied the French protectorate of Cambodia.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 480 CHF

    Lot# : 4306 Japan

    1920 (July 30th to August 7th): Picture Postcard 'Scouts Thanksgiving Service Olympia, London 1920' with yellow special label 'I am off to the Boy Scout Jamboree' on picture side with portrait of Toyomatsu Shimoda the representative Commissioner of Japan and signed by his own hand, together with Japan 1 s. stationery card showing Japan's special Scout cancel. Fine.rnOwing to difficulties of transport it was not possible for Japan to send a party of Scouts to England, but they delegated Mr. Koshiba and Mr. Shimoda as their official representatives. After returning from the Jamboree, he established the Nihon Kenjidan ("Japan Stalwart Youth Troop") in 1921 and worked as Japan's first Chief Scout.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF
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