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Auction: CSS40 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2120

Japanese Occupation of Asia
Military Patriotic Postcards
Magna Cards
New Recruits set: Numbers 1 to 31 (less 7 and 19), unused; good to fine. All different. (30)

These patriotic cards were isued to commemorate Japanese capture of more countries, to assure those at home that the soldiers well happy and well fed, to send cards home of the beauty of the local scenery (especially Indo-China), iconic cards of life in Japan and to assure the people of the places being acquired that the Japanese were coming in friendship (often depicting children) to establish the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere

Estimate
HK$1,500 to HK$2,000