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Auction: 23018 - The M. Tsuchiya Collection of Japanese Occupation Stamps in the Former British Territories
Lot: 4019

(x) Japanese Occupation of Burma
1942 (May) Overprinted at Pyapon
Cover
1942 (3 Sept.) envelope from Pyapon to "Ma Tahn Tin, Sub Post Mistress, Thonze" bearing, on reverse, KGVI 1a. purple-brown tied by "pyapon" double-ring d.s. with Rangoon G.P.O. transit datestamp (5.9) alongside. A major rarity. Ex Brigadier G.L. Roberts, and one of two such covers obtained by him from the addressee. Photo

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Sold for
£1,800