c.1874-1900s Cancellations on covers (77), pieces and stamps, including numerical cancels (with three 1875 covers), various datestamp types with 1890 printed handcoloured cover showing flowers, scenic cancels, New Year pictorial datestamps and machines, commemorative and exhibition cancels, machines, rollers, slogan handstamps, postage paid, etc., mostly written up on pages, also a quantity of loose nineteenth century stamps and pieces, stamps include 1872-76 Cherry Blossom issues (10), 1948 Osaka and Nagoya Philatelic Exhibition miniature sheets on cover, etc. An interesting lot. (100s).

1899 2s Postcard with small printed views on the reverse, to Germany, posted on the German naval ship "Grefion" cancelled superb "KAIS. DEUTSCHE / MARINE / SCHIFFSPOST / No 38" c.d.s with a second strike on the front, unusual. Photo on Page 182. (Image1)

1902-05 Experimental timed cancellations with the time at base changed every ten minutes, the written up collection on covers or cards (16), pieces or stamps (91) with a majority of 144 possible times represented, an unusual lot. (107).

1934-74 Covers and cards with paquebot or seapost cancels (8); T.P.Os (22, also 24 proof cancels on three pieces); and airmails, mainly first flights (15), also aerogrammes (12, one with Specimen overprint) and two commercial 1952-54 covers with airmail postage paid by meter marks on card. (62).

Explanatory Handstamps. 1874-c.1980 Covers and cards with various explanatory handstamps, cancels used on stamps found uncancelled in transit, registered and express mail, parcel post, undelivered mail, etc., including Japanese chops identifying particular boxes of posting (with 1875 5r postcard uprated with 1875 1/2s), official mail, rate or class of post or routing, registration handstamps and labels (including 1926 cover to Cyprus bearing 1921 Return of Crown Prince 3s and 10s pairs), 1948 censored cover to Germany with "AV2" handstamp, explanatory marks on returned mail, bulk posting handstamps, 1918 stampless "Department of Communications of Japan" cover to the Danish P.M.G with official seal and c.d.s, 1892 parcel post form bearing twelve 2s stamps, etc. An interesting collection. (46). Photo on Page 182. (Image1)

Registered Mail. 1895-1909 Covers and cards all redirected with flimsy pieces of paper bearing new address details added by the Post Office, including 1895 cover with seven such address labels and an Officially Sealed label, 1909 cover from Transvaal to London redirected to Japan with G.B stamps added and again redirected to Manila, etc., also a postcard with similar flimsy paper added to reverse by the sender to gain additional writing space. (6).

Postage Due Mail. c.1875 1s Postcards addressed to districts not covered by a postal agency, therefore charged 1s postage due, collected by 1872-75 Cherry Blossom issue 1/2s pair or 1s, minor faults but scarce. (2). Photo on Page 182. (Image1)

1897-1959 Covers and cards sent to or via Japan including 1909 registered cover from Sianctan to USA bearing six China stamps with boxed registration handstamp, 1923 picture postcard from Ethiopia, 1906 picture postcard from Barrow, Alaska with Nome transit c.d.s (25 days from Barrow to Nome), 1905 postcard from Hong Kong with "HONG KONG / K.B" transit c.d.s of Kowloon, etc. (24).

Postal Stationery. 1874-1968 Used and unused stationery including complete 1898 4s reply card commercially used from Kobe to Germany with the attached reply half posted back to Japan, cancelled by oval German T.P.O datestamp; also later postcards with Specimen overprints, New Year lottery postcards, etc. (60).

Picture Postcards. c.1904-1930s Picture postcards in an album including Russo-Japanese War (15, with Hospital Ship "Hakuai Maru", Red Cross, Peace Conference), 1918 forces in Siberia (7), 1906 Japan-U.S Cable, Red Cross, 1921 return of Crown Prince from Europe, 1934 Manchukuo postal treaty, playing cricket at Kobe, etc., also two c.1945 photographic cards of Hiroshima devastated by the atomic bomb, some used, a few with pictorial or commemorative cancels. (105).