COMMERCIAL, PHILATELIC, CENSOR & OFFICIAL COVERS, ETC; Box file with the 1945-1980s range of covers for Gilberts & later Kiribati, a few Tuvalu. Better earlier covers incl. c.1945 Japanese Navy Postal Stationery card bearing KGVI defins. with feint NZ Expeditionary Force cancel and Censor (no. 45) mark, Jun. 1945 env. ex Tarawa to Curacao having boxed Tarawa No. 5 Censor mark & manuscript Tarawa No. 565 Reg. mark. Also 8 Nov. 1951 pilot signed First Flight cover ex Lae to Tarawa, etc. (c.120 cards/covers) Cross Reference: MILITARY - WWII (Image)

GILBERT & ELLICE, KIRIBATI, CHRISTMAS ISLAND WWII, ETC: Box file containing a collection of modern commercial mail from both Gilbert & Ellice group & Kiribati (c.47 covers). Also a collection of WWII period covers from the US base on Christmas Island along with later, mainly Wilding frankings from the BFPO on the island, all of these being mounted on display pages. (total c.100+ cards/covers)Cross Reference: MARITIME MAIL, MILITARY - WWII (Image)