1916 Chemins de Fer de l'Etat Chinois, Ligne du Lung-Hai cover to Australia with Junks 1c & 3c x3 tied by 'SUCHOWFU' cds, 'NANKING' and 'SHANGHAI' b/s, censored in transit at Hong Kong with chamfered-boxed 'PBC' [Passed By Censor] cachet in violet on face, a few blemishes.
1931-49 commercial airmail covers comprising 1931 to China at 55c rate, 1937 to Germany at $1.05c, 1937 internal at 15c, Hyper-Inflation 1946 to USA at $2600 and $3500, and 1949 to USA at $20,000, fine to very fine; plus a few stamps & 1937 Clipper illustrated cover to USA via Hong Kong.
(Qty 7 + stamps)
1950 (Dec 5) airmail cover from a Baptist missionary at "Sichang Sikang/China", to California with excellent Three Issue franking of Foundation of the Republic $2000, Surcharges on NE Provinces '50' on $50 orange pair & Peace Campaign (Dove) $400 tied by Chinese-language cds, bilingual 'CANTON' transit cds, on arrival redirected to Australia with superb 'GLENDALE/CALIF' d/s. A ripper!
GERMAN POST OFFICES: 1915 printed Prisoner of War envelope with 'Hilfstation / fur Deutsche u. Osterr-Ungar Gefangene / in Siberien' imprint on the flap, to Pomerania with 4c on 10pf & 10c on 20pf tied by 'TIENTSIN' cds, red & black/white R label, 'WITZMITZ' arrival b/s, light vertical fold. [From late-1915, all POW mail was sent unstamped]
TAIWAN: 1942 Japanese Occupation British unstamped postcard to "2078653 Sapper MA Rooney, 288th Field Coy Royal Engineers, Singapore...c/- Japanese Red Cross, Tokyo" with 'NORWICH/NORFOLK' cancel, crowned 'PASSED/P.W.5917' British censor cachet in magenta, on arrival in Singapore endorsed "OVS 27/10/42" by the Bureau of Records & Enquiry at Changi for forwarding to an overseas camp, censored with Japanese boxed Sazawa Unit censor cachet in violet and marked "1 Ei" in red crayon characters to indicate Camp 1 English for Kinkaseki Camp in northern Taiwan, couple of minor blemishes. [Most next-of-kin were not advised where POWs were held until late-1942, but from January 1943 onwards mail from Great Britain was usually addressed directly to Taiwan]
