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Auction: 18030 - Brunei, The Collection formed by Bill Toye
Lot: 167

Brunei
Japanese Occupation
Covers
Miri: 1944 (4 Apr.) unoverprinted Japan 2c. mounted warrior card addressed to Soerabaja, Java, uprated with 2c. green tied by Miri single ring Kanji c.d.s. with a good strike of the Miri censor handstamp; there is a vertical folding crease. An extremely rare and desirable card. Milo Rowell reported that only four of these unoverprinted cards exist, the others used in Brunei, Miri and Simanggang. Photo

literature:
Sarawak, W.R. Forrester-Wood. 1958 (illustrated page 371)

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£2,700