Moluccas. Cover from Amboina showing red ´10 SEN´ with written ´ongkos kirim soedah terima´ (= postage has already been paid) with paraph from postmaster The and date 14/1-´03, to Djakarta with ´Per Luchtpost´ crossed out, censor chop of Iwagami and violet censor mark ´Soedah Priksa/Ambon´ type Bu.JC7a. Wonderful exhibition piece!

Malaya. Definitive issues, 18 different perforated and imperforated colour proofs

Japanese Military fieldpost card type ´Dove and Helmet´ Bu. F22 from Unit 10283 (North Australia Expeditionary Force) in occupied Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea, to Kyoto. Card is censored with Minami chop. Message is from son to his parents saying he is well but broke the frame of his glasses. He asks if they would send him a new frame which he has in a drawer in the living room. They should pack it in a small wooden box and send it by mail. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military fieldpost card, unlisted type similar to Bu.F23 but orange on brownish yellow paper with picture of Nihonbashi Bridge on reverse (military picture postcards are rare) from occupied Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea (North Australia Expeditionary Force, Se Unit 2864), through Yokosuka navy postal department se 23 to Anakamachi, Japan. Card censored with Ueda chop. Card was written January 30th by soldier to his mother stating that he is fine, in a tropical country far away, an inconvenient place where he can no longer write as before. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military field reply postcard Bu.F3 from the North Australia Expeditionary Force, Lightning 1999 unit, Watanabe group, in occupied Dutch New Guinea to Tochigi, Japan. Two part violet censor mark Ken Etzu Zumi in rectangle with censor chop Watanabe. Unit listed to have been on New Guinea late in the war. Message is from soldier to older sister asking how she is. He writes he is fine and works hard at the war. Asks to send him newspapers and magazines. Gives regards to other family members. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military fieldpost reply card Bu.F24 from Kaimana, occupied Dutch New Guinea (Se 47, Se 92 Yamada group, 232nd construction unit) through Yokosuka navy department # 29 (navy office mail which was at Kaimana from 16 Sep 1943 until 21 March 1944) to Nagano. Two part censor mark Ken Etzu Zumi in rectangle with censor chop Yamada. Message from father to sons wishing a Happy New Year and saying he is fine. Mail from Kaimana is extremely rare. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military fieldpost card Bu.F23 (2 very small pinholes) from occupied Dutch New Guinea (North Australia Expeditionary Force, Carp unit 5177, Utsumi group) to Yamaguchi prefecture, Mihogun District, Shing Nagata Mula (village). Censor chop Dooby. Message reads in part: this is the worst place. The people here have nothing. They have very curly hair and they don’t care what they look like. They drink water from the rain. Letter is written to an old man whom the sender tells not to worry and that he is working for his duty. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military fieldpost reply card Bu.F3 from occupied Dutch Timor (48th Division, code UMI, Unit 7015 thought to be the 109th Line of Communication Hospital) to Kyoto. Censor chop Maluyama. Text says there is quite some breeze in the mornings and it is cool in the evenings. There is a lot of meat and vegetables

Japanese Military fieldpost reply card Bu.F3 from occupied Dutch New Guinea (North Australia Expeditionary Force, Carp Unit 5170) to Tokyo. Unlisted censor mark with chop Yamazumi and Kasuya. Text includes he heard about the fierce battle at Leite and the bombing raid on Tokyo. He hopes all are well and writes he received a letter saying his uncle had passed away. Also writes he sent his salary to his wife on January 20 and hopes they receive this card before April 12th. Card was written begin 1944. Ex Jennings

Japanese Military. Lesser Soenda Islands. Cover (roughly opened envelope including letter) from the Navy headquarters at Singaradja, Bali, sent by field post. Rare

Japanese Military. Celebes. Anchor and cherry blossom postcard Bu.283b used as field postcard, sent from Se 45 (Makasser), Se 55 (Kenkyo Jo Makasser Research Station) to Kyoto, received 13 Dec 1944. Censored by Azuma, cancelled with the Gunji Yubin field postmark. Unusual

Field postcard from a Heiho to his family in Bogor, Java. The Heiho (Indonesian soldier in Japanese Army) was part of Intendance Duty unit 11970 which performed duty on Flores, Soemba and Soembawa in 1943-44. The meaning of the pink mark also sometimes seen on stamps from the Moluccas is still unknown

POW. Env. Bu.PW39 uit 1944 van Luitenant-Generaal Hein ter Poorten, ex commandant van het KNIL die op 8 maart 1942 de capitulatie tekende, krijgsgevangen in het Karenko-kamp (´generaalskamp´) in Taiwan, naar zijn dochter J.M. ter Poorten p/a RK-ziekenhuis in Den Haag. Japanse stempels voor krijgsgevangenenpost, censuur, ´Service Des/Prisonniers De Guerre´ en Duits censuurstempel Ag in cirkel. Unieke envelop met grote posthistorische en historische betekenis. Tentoonstellingsstuk. Ex Hiegentlich POW. Cover Bu.PW39 written by lieutenant general Hein ter Poorten, ex Commander in Chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, from the Karenko Camp in Taiwan (so-called ´Generals Camp´) to his daughter in The Hague, showing Japanese, international and German censor marks. Exhibition item of great philatelic and historical value

POW. Portvrij verz. bk. uit Utrecht 2-8-1943 door een moeder aan haar zoons in Java, over Berlijn, daar gecensureerd en gest. ´Kriegsgefangenenpost.´, ook in Egypte gecensureerd (lichtviolet censuurstempel) en via het Japanse Rode Kruis in Tokio, voorzien van POW-nummer 6555 en stempel ´Jawa Hon´ (= Java Algemeen), Bu.JC53b, omcirkeld, gecensureerd (censor Umegaki, zie Tett fig.2-12-103). POW. Dutch postcard written at Utrecht on Aug 2nd, 1943, from a mother to her sons somewhere on Java, via Berlin and the Japanese Red Cross at Tokio, with German, Egyptian and Japanese censors. Interesting route

POW. Ned. RK-bijsluiter voor correspondentie met burgergeïnterneerden, uit de tijd dat alleen nog RK-formulieren waren toegelaten. POW. Dutch Red Cross form to be used for correspondence with civilian internees, from the period that only Red Cross forms were allowed

POW. American lettersheet bearing 6c air mail from Rock Falls, Illinois, 19 Sep 1944 to a POW in Camp No. 1, Tokyo, with American and Japanese censors, and received on 21 Mch 1945