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LESSER SOENDA ISLANDS. EMERGENCY ISSUE FOR FLORES, USED ON SOEMBA. 10 SEN NIPPON GUN-SEI KITTE (= JAPAN MILITARY STAMP) ON HOME-MADE ENVELOPE (DUE TO PAPER SHORTAGE) TOGETHER WITH 5 CENT DANCER WITH RED BALI ANCHOR OVERPRINT, BOTH TIED WITH THE TEIKOKU SEIFU POSTMARK OF WAINGAPOE IN VIOLET, SENT TO SALIM BIN ABDOERAHMAN ALDJOEFRIE IN SOERABAJA. ON 1 JULY 1944 THE POSTAL RATE FOR LETTERS WEIGHTING BETWEEN 20-40 GRAM CHANGED TO 15 CENT, SO THIS LETTER WAS SENT MOST LIKELY AFTER 1 JULY 1944. IN FRONT IS A HANDWRITTEN CENSORSHIP MARKING IN RED INK 'Ken Sa Dzoe Mi' (= CENSORED), THE CENSOR NAME IS ISAKI, A JAPANESE OFFICER. THIS COVER IS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING ITEMS OF THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. SEE: JR VAN NIEUWKERK, 'THE POSTAL HISTORY OF THE SUNDA ISLANDS ETC.' (2008), P.223 (ILL.). INFORMATION ADDED TO THE LOT. ILLUSTRATED ON THE FRONT COVER OF AUCTION CATALOGUE NO. 571 OF SEP 1998 (COLLECTION VIC ESBENSEN) AND OF THE JR VAN NIEUWKERK BOOK. STUNNING EXHIBITION ITEM OF THE HIGHEST CALIBRE. EX VRIJDAG