Sumatra. East Coast. Letter sheet without overprint Bu.S4 from Pematangsiantar 19.10.3 declared invalid and taxed with twice 7½c made of postage dues of 5c and 10c with Dai Ni Hon overprints 821z, cancelled at Galang 19.10.14. Censored at Medan with sewing machine and Bu.JC15, 17. Pre-war occupation stamps and postal stationery were declared invaled as of Oct 1944

Sumatra. East Coast. Cover (small tear) bearing 10c J10 tied by administrative straight-line cancel BRASTAGI and date 5 JAN. 1944, sent to Galang. Sewing machine censor and Bu.JC16. This temporary postmark was used only for a few months in 1944 awaiting the new circular date stamp. Extremely rare (illustrated in vNV. op p. 76)

Sumatra. East Coast. Hand-made cover insufficiently franked with 10c (faults), from Bangoenpoerba 19.6.27 (?) to Medan 19.6.28 where a postage due of 20c with Dai Ni Hon overprint 831z was applied. Scarce!

Sumatra. Tapanoeli. 3½ Cent postcard showing violet boxed Dai Ni Hon overprint Bu.164b from Balige 18.8.7 (type 200) to Pematangsiantar. Censor Bu.JC14a

Sumatra. West Coast. Postal stationery envelope with Padang cross overprint 332z Bu.148a (slightly smudged) from Padang 18.7.23 to Medan. No signs of censor. Rare

Sumatra. West Coast. Letter sheet in photogravure without overprint (not listed, RRR) from Padang-/Pandjang 18.5.2 to Teloek Betoeng (Lampong). Censor Vr.312 of Padang and brown label Vr.505

Sumatra. West Coast. Postal parcel receipt form Pp4 for four packets bearing 20c def. issue cancelled Soengeipenoeh 19.8.28. Rarely seen!

Sumatra. Riouw. BASERAH delivery house pmk in black on 10c Van Konijnenburg with Riouw cross overprint 381z-43bk via Taloek 19.6.14 to Padang. Censor Bu.JC15 from Pakanbaroe and censor label. Extremely rare and so far the only copy of this delivery house pmk on cover recorded (vNV.071, RRR). Ex Hiegentlich

Sumatra. Riouw. Complete Parcel post address card Pp2 bearing 80c van Konijnenburg with Riouw cross overprint 371v-53k tied by commemorative pmk ´First Anniversary of the Great East Asia War´ type 412 from Pakanbaroe 17.12.12 to Taloek 17.12.15. Rare usage of the commemorative cachet

Sumatra. Palembang. 80 Cent van Konijnenburg with orange-red IPL signet ring overprint no. 522o-53k, fine used. € 160 in italics

Sumatra. Palembang. 10 Gulden van Konijnenburg with violet Dai Ni Hon overprint in a straight frame no. 824v-57, fine used. € 325

Sumatra. Palembang. 3½ Cent postcard with medium IPL overprint without frame in black Bu.56 from Palembang 15.5.3. (type 010) to Malang, censors Bu.JC14c (Palembang) and JC36 (Java)

Sumatra. Palembang. 3½ Cent postcard with large IPL overprint in frame in black Bu.65 from Moearaenim 18.8.11. (type 010) to Palembang, censor Vr.201

Sumatra. Lampong. 5 Cent Numeral with Lampong overprint 611z-42 on cover from Tandjong-/Karang 4.11.2 via Palembang 6.11.2 to Kajoeagoeng 7.11.2. Unlisted censor label ´DIBOEKA OLEH PEMERINTAH NIPPON´ between red Japanese flag symbols (´Opened by Japanese government authorities´). For a short period between Oct 1942 and Jan 1943 the postal tariffs in South Sumatra were reduced, and the rate for letter sheets, imprinted envelopes and letters was only 5 cent. Covers with this 5 cent rate are extremely rare, a few are known to Syonan (Singapore), this item is the only one recorded from within Sumatra

Sumatra. Lampong. Special colourful postcard from the ´Javanen-Kolonie´, a Javanese agricultural settlement in South Sumatra, printed before the war by Kolff, but in this case used during the Japanese occupation at Metro, censored and cancelled by the Japanese Military Police Kempeitai on 18.3.14 at Telokbetong, sent to Klakah on Java (vNV.230, described and illustrated on p.97). Very rare! Ex Hiegentlich

Sumatra. Lampong. 3½ Cent postcard with blackish violet Lampong overprint Bu.102 (corner cut-off) from Telokbetong 6.3.3. to Talangpadang with seldom seen censor mark Bu.JC19c from Telokbetong