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Auction: 23018 - The M. Tsuchiya Collection of Japanese Occupation Stamps in the Former British Territories
Lot: 4065

(x) Japanese Occupation of Labuan
"Dai-Nippon Teikoku Seifu" One-line Overprint
Covers
1942 (13 Nov.) Straits Settlements 5c. stationery envelope addressed locally, uprated with Straits Settlements 3c., both with diagonal overprint in red and tied by "labuan" double-ring d.s.; the envelope a fraction soiled otherwise fine. Very rare and the only recorded use of the embossed envelope. Photo

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Sold for
£11,000