Lesser Soenda Islands. Soembawa. 4 Cent Anchor and Cherry Blossom postcard on thick blue paper Bu.271b, sent undated from Soembawa (Teikoku Seifu cancel type 300) to Soerabaja, showing the censorship marking from Soembawa with censor seal of Aoyama. This is the only item recorded with this censor. See: J.R. van Nieuwkerk, p.245-246. Very rare postcard. Cert. ´Van Dieten, 2019´

Moluccas. 10 Cent Van Konijnenburg with black Ambon anchor overprint no. 611z-43bg, cancelled Ambon. Cert. ´Van Dieten, 2019´. € 550

Moluccas. Ambon. 10 Cent on 12½ cent postal stationery envelope with black Ambon anchor overprint 612z with six different Kreisler adhesives all with Ambon anchor overprints affixed Bu.265 (RRR), cancelled Ambon (Teikoku Seifu cancel type 300). Censor Bu.JC3a. The cover is produced after the war by postmaster The. Illustrated in Bulterman Postal Stationery cat. on p.64

MOLUCCAS. TERNATE. 3½ SEN DAI NI HON POSTCARD WITH RED PENCIL RE-VALUED TO 4 SEN SHOWING IN RED THE TERNATE MINSEIBU AUTHORIZATION MARK, Bu.259b (RRR), UNUSED. THIS IS THE ONLY COPY KNOWN (USED IS ALSO NOT RECORDED). SEE: J.R. VAN NIEUWKERK, p.308. CERT. ´VAN DIETEN, 2019´ The card has a hardly visable vertical crease in the middle and a slight damage at the bottom right, which does not influence the uniqueness of the card at all

Borneo & the Greater East. 17 Postal stationery envelopes, letter sheets and postcards, some with minor faults, all unused

Borneo & the Greater East. 9 Bogus and fantasy items like circular overprints made by postmaster The of Ambon, philatelic NICA Soemba overprints, etc. Intended as reference material

POW. Australia. Liberated Allied Prisoners of War awaiting repatriation. Envelope bearing handstamped POW+RC+/SINGAPORE using an Australian field post office facility to NSW, and a postage free American Red Cross envelope bearing PASSED FREE/OF POSTAGE via an Australian Army post to Ireland. (Jacobs LAPOW1 and LAPOWX)

POW. British Borneo. Three different POW cards from 1943 to the UK with Japanese and British censors (Jacobs BB1, BB2 and BB3)

POW. Burma. Post from a romusha. Japanese picture postcard used by a Burmese laborer. The cds indicates postage free use (Jacobs BR12)

POW. China. Postcard from an American internee of the Weihsien Camp on 24 April 1944 to his White Russian wife in Tientsin, received 29 May 1944, showing red Japanese censor. See: Norman Jacobs, Allied and Japanese POW, p.34

POW. China. POW card from the Shanghai camp 15 May 1943 to New York 10 Dec 1943, addressee left and card returned to sender on 14 Jan 1944. Japanese and American censors (Jacobs CH2)

POW. China. 5 Sen Admiral Togo on envelope including letter from Kowloon (Hong Kong) 10 June 1943 to 181 Avenue Dubail in Shanghai 11 Aug 1943, a camp known to foreigners as the Columbia Country Club before the Great Pacific War (Jacobs CH35)

POW. Hong Kong. Mimeographed postcard from the POW Camp N, Hong Kong Aug 1944, to a Miss in the Military Internment Camp Stanley. Censor seal Hasegawa (Jacobs HK5). Rare

POW. Hong Kong. 2 Sen postcard Horse and Rider from the Marina House, Hong Kong 12 Sep 1942, locally sent to the British Internment Camp Stanley (Jacobs HK23)

POW. Japan. Envelope from dad in San Rafael 13 Feb 1945 via New York 15 Feb to his son, an American POW in the Sendai Camp near Tokyo, with on the American censor label the Tokyo Camp censor and in the middle the Sendai Camp handstamp (Jacobs SE1). Rare

POW. Japan. An unusual Christmas Greeting from the Prime Minister of Canada (card and envelope) to a POW in the Tokyo Camp, received 16 Feb 1945 (Jacobs UF75)