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

CHINA, Prisoners of War. Cover franked with 25 on 5c overprint Sun Yat Sen in pair, issued in Central China during the Japanese occupation, from Shanghai 22 Feb 1943 to a Dutch prisoner in the Japanese internment camp ´Chapei Civil Assembly´ near Shanghai. 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

CHINA, Prisoners of War. Cover from a Dutch ex prisoner in the Japanese internment camp ´Chapei Civil Assembly´ near Shanghai (address on the back),sent by the U.S. Army Postal Service on 26 Oct 1945 to Amsterdam

CHINA, Prisoners of War. Cover from a Dutch prisoner in the Japanese internment camp ´Chapei Civil Assembly´ near Shanghai, showing a superb strike of the violet boxed ´Internee mail free/of postage/Shanghai P.O.´, set to Amsterdam, written date of reply 22 Oct 1945. Rare!

CHINA, two registered covers 1939-40 from Shanghai via the U.S. to the Netherlands, the first franked with 10c, 10 on 25c (2x) and 1$ from Dec 1939, the second franked with 10c, 15c, 17c, 40c, 8 on 40c and 10 on 25c from 12 Feb 1940 and having two different censor labels

CHINA, with 10c, 21c, two different 30c and 1$ colourful franked airmail cover from Shanghai 19 Sep 1941 to Amsterdam, endorsed ´Pacific and per/American Airways´ showing violet circular ´AIR:TRANSIT/2´ and sealed with Allied and German censor labels

CHINA, o/*/** enkele betere nrs. en series w.o. 736/38B **, 741/43 A + B **, 1565/80 ** en 1594 ** (luxe)

HAITI 1942, 286/99 en blok 1/3 A en B postfris, 298 is gebruikt en blok 1B licht getint

JAPAN 30-er en 50-er jaren, */** op insteekbladen waarbij diverse betere nummers

SHANGHAI, Michel nr.1x, 1 Candareen bleu on thin paper, VF unused € 600