1945 inter-Camp usage of Japanese Occupation 5s Postal Card from an internee at Camp Tjimahi in West Java to another at "Kamp Halmaheira" near Semarang, Central Java withpre-occupation 'BANDOENG/-2.10.45' cds, contemporary annotations & minor blemishes. [Dutch POWs and Internees continued to be held in camps after the Japanese surrender on 15.08.1945 and were not liberated until four months later and on the condition that they leave Indonesia; under the terms of their surrender, Japanese troops were to re-establish authority and in October 1945 they drove Indonesian Independence forces out of Bandoeng and handed the city over to the British]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1946 airmail cover to Sydney from "Lt. JA Jettinghoff, Techn Batln Balikpapan, c/- GPO 1386R Brisbane" (return address on flap) with Pictorials 5c & Wilhelmina 10c tied by boxed 'NEDERLANSCH INDIES/PTT/16-FEB-1946/BALIKPAPAN' d/s, 'Passed by/RNF Censor/[signature]/No.[ ]' cachet in violet on face, light horizontal fold. [After Indonesia declared independence on 17.08.1945, the Dutch landed Forces stationed in Australia at major cities including Balikpapan on Borneo in an attempt to re-take their former colony]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1946 1946 inter-bank airmail cover to Sydney endorsed "6gr" with Wilhelmina 15c & 20c tied by 'BATAVIA/12 VIII/1946' cds, per KLINM via Dutch Forces in Queensland with scarce 'NETHERLANDS/POST/20-AUG-1946/OFFICE/ BRISBANE' transit b/s in green, small repaired tears at the base.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250