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Auction: 25020 - The Tom Gosse Collection of the Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia
Lot: 785

(x) New Guinea
1932-34 Bird-of-Paradise 1d. to £1 set of fifteen plus unissued ½d., each with forged Anchor overprint with Dai Nippon above, fine unmounted mint; and 1939 Bulolo ½d. to £1 set of fourteen similarly overprinted and on 1943 (18 Apr.) locally addressed Rabaul envelope showing circular red censor chop additionally tying the 1/-, also additional mint 2d. and 9d., and ½d., 2d. and 3d. with double or double, one inverted overprints probably forged in Australia in the 1990s. PhotoF

Note: This lot is accompanied by extensive articles from Japanese Philately, Vol. 46, No. 4 (August 1991) and by Bill Hornage in Stamp News Australasia, July 1990.
Further information and a picture of this forged cover can be found on page 362 of J.R. van Niewwkerk's book "The Postal History of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, and New Guinea during the Japanese Occupation and Immediate Aftermath 1942-1946".

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