CHINA, 2c Sun Yat Sen in pair and strip of three and 40c Huang Xing on cover from Shanghai 27 Apr 1940 ´via U.S.A.´ to Amsterdam, showing German censors and violet cachets ´Réexpédié après avoir été/retourné à Shanghai.´ and framed ´NO SERVICE/RETURN TO SENDER´ as well as a framed Chinese mark. Most interesting cover

CHINA, 5$ Sun Yat Sen and 90c airmail on cover from Shanghai 20 Aug 1941 ´By Pan American Airways Service via U.S.A.´ (violet straight-line route marking) further to Amsterdam and censored by the Germans

CHINA, 50c Chen Gi Mei as a single franking on a cover from Shanghai 16 May 1940 ´via Siberia´ and Madrid (backstamped with a machine cancellation on 19 July 1940) to Amsterdam, and sealed with two different censor labels

CHINA, 50c Chen Gi Mei as a single franking on a registered cover from Shanghai July 1939 ´via Siberia´ to Aerdenhout, the Netherlands. On the front a red cachet ´SAMPLE POST/OR LETTER PACKET/PASSED BY/CUSTOMS P.O.´ with date JUL - 7 1939

CHINA, 50c Chen Gi Mei as a single franking on cover from Shanghai 14 June 1940 ´via Siberia´ to Amsterdam sealed with two different censor labels, and 25c Sun Yat Sen in pair on cover from Shanghai 27 June 1940 ´via Siberia´ to Amsterdam showing framed ´RETOUR/A L´ENVOYER´ and ´INADMIS´ and a circular censormark Ab in blue from Munich

CHINA, 8$ on 20c Huang Xing in block of four and 1$ on 40c perf 13 Sun Yat Sen on registered cover sent by express from Shanghai 16 Dec 1948 to Amsterdam 24 Dec, violet cachet meaning the letter can be collected at the post office South

CHINA, Airmail cover bearing 15c, 50c and airmail 25c and 5$ from Shanghai 1 July 1941 written ´By Pan American/Airways/via U.S.A.´ to Amsterdam and on 7 Aug forwarded, cover censored by the Germans, and airmail cover bearing two different 8c, $5 and airmail 25c and 50c from Shanghai 23 July 1941 endorsed ´Pan Pacific Airways/U.S.A.´ and showing bluish green circular ´AIR-TRANSIT/3´ to Amsterdam, with Allied and German censor labels

CHINA, cover franked with six stamps, five different, in total 50 cents, from Shanghai 27 Apr 1940 ´via Siberia´ to Amsterdam, showing German censors and violet cachets ´Réexpédié après avoir été/retourné à Shanghai.´ and framed ´NO SERVICE/RETURN TO SENDER´, back to Shanghai 19 Aug 1940. Fascinating cover

CHINA, First Airmail Flight Shanghai to San Francisco 27 April 1937 via C.N.A.C. (China National Aviation Corporation) to Hong Kong & by U.S. Air Service. Two registered airmail covers with commemorative cachets, both via San Francisco 4 May and New York 5 May to Arveyes in Switzerland 17 May. News paper article included

CHINA, four nicely franked registered airmail covers from Shanghai Oct 1939 via Hong Kong onwards per I.A or K.L.M. to the Netherlands

CHINA, Incoming Mail. Censored cover bearing 2½d from London 7 Jan 1941 to Shanghai, insufficiently franked and on the back postage dues of 1c and 2c in block of eight affixed in Shanghai on 20 March 1941

CHINA, Incoming Mail. Censored cover bearing 2½d from Paddington (UK) 25 March 1941 ´By best route´ to Shanghai, insufficiently franked and on the back postage dues of 2c and 5c in strip of three affixed in Shanghai on 7 June 1941

CHINA, Incoming Mail. Censored cover from Japan franked with 5s Admiral Togo to a Dutchman in Shanghai from 18 April 1942. The printed letter is still enclosed: ´Dear Sir: In view of the present situation, we wish to know clearly the nationality of our foreign members. So, we shall be much obliged if you will let us know your nationality as soon as possible. If we have no information from you about the matter, we consider that you belong to our hostile countries. Awaiting your prompt attention to this matter, Sincerely yours, J.P.S.A.´ Historical!

CHINA, North East Province. National Assembly of 1947 overprinted with new values and the name of the province, complete series on registered airmail cover from Shenyang (6) 36.4.24.18 to Shanghai

CHINA, postcard of 1c H&G no. 34 with 30c Liao Zhong Kei from Shanghai 3 Aug 1940 ´via Siberia´ to Santpoort, the Netherlands, censored by the Germans

CHINA, Prisoners of War. Censored cover free of postage from Ottawa 17 Aug 1943 to a Dutchman in Shanghai, who was in the meantime taken prison in the Japanese internment camp ´Chapei Civil Assembly´ near Shanghai. The letter is still inside and begins with ´My dear John, I just see your name in a list of internees at Chapehol in a Dutch publication from New York, together with the names of your wife and kiddy.´ Up to now we have not come across other correspondence to a Dutch prisoner of the Japanese in an internment camp in China. Very rare