1871 48m brown, vertical pair, pos.28-36, full margins all around, tied to reverse of a native envelope, various chops, minor cover tears and creases, stamps v.f. A rare cover (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Est.US$2,500

1871 200 mon vermilion, Plate 2, pos. 8, privately rouletted 11, canceled by top portion of early framed "Kanazawa-kensazumi" pmk, stamp with official pinhole applied at upper right margin, with 2023 Florian Eichhorn certificate. A rarity, less than ten(!) copies of the privately perforated 200m are recorded (Cat No. 3) (Image)

Est.US$5,000

1872 1/2 sen reddish brown, Plate II, pos.16, brittle laid paper, right sheet margin example, vertically perforated 9, canceled by framed vermilion non-standard type pmk, with 2023 Florian Eichhorn certificate, stating "One of two recorded copies of the dragons 1/2 sen Pl.II vertically perforated 9" (Cat No. 5) (Image)

Est.US$12,000

1872 1/2 Sen brown, Cherry blossoms native paper, variety "upper character in the left label has two diagonal top strokes missing" ("ki-han-sent"), Plate 4, pos.23 (JSCA 9v-4-23), unused with gum, h.r., fresh and fine stamp, rare, with 2023 Florian Eichhorn certificate (Cat No. 9a) (Image)

Est.US$4,000

1872 1/2 Sen brown, Cherry blossoms native paper (JSCA 9), two horizontal pairs, canceled by three strikes of double circular type Yokohama (7.6.11 or June 11, 1874) on cover addressed to Tokyo, with additional departure pmk repeated below, with partial arrival cancel on back, overall toning and cover missing backflap, with 2023 Florian Eichhorn certificate (the addressee, Lyman, was a foreign advisor to the Japanese government, as chief geologist and mining engineer. Cherry blossoms used on inland mail are very unusual and appear almost exclusively on correspondence by resident foreigners) (Cat No. 9) (Image)

Est.US$7,500

1895 (19 Oct) registered cover to Austria, hand-illustrated (with contents), registered from Kobe, franked with 3sen, 8sen and 10sen, tied by cds, with Bologna transit and Graz (27 Nov) arrival pmks, fine and attractive cover (Image)

Est.US$200

1935 Mt. Fuji souvenir sheet of 20, hinged in margins, v.f., cat. $700 (Cat No. 222a) (Image)

Cat. $700, Est.US$150

1935 Mt. Fuji souvenir sheet of 20, n.h., v.f. (catalogued as hinged) cat. $700 (Cat No. 222a) (Image)

Cat. $700, Est.US$250

1934 Communication souvenir sheet, h.r. in margin, v.f., cat. $1300 (Cat No. C8) (Image)

Cat. $1300, Est.US$450

1934 souvenir sheet of four, l.h., v.f., cat. $1300 (Cat No. C8) (Image)

Cat. $1300, Est.US$400

1934 souvenir sheet of four, n.h., v.f., cat. $2000 (Cat No. C8) (Image)

Cat. $2000, Est.US$750

1929 Round the World flight, picture postcard (issued by Tokyo Air Mail Association), franked on both sides with both Regular Issues and Commemoratives (including 10sn), Tokyo departure and Lakehurst arrival pmks. Red Graf Zeppelin cachet, fine (Image)

Est.US$200