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Auction: CSS22 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2738

Japan
Covers and Cancellations
Sakhalin Island
1908 (17 Aug.) picture post card of a railway station sent from the government office in Karafuto to Italy "Via Siberia" bearing Chrysanthemum ½s., 1s. (2) and 1½s. tied by the three-character c.d.s. Photo

South Sakhalin became Japanese territory after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Civilian mail was handled by the military from March 1905

Sold for
HK$5,800