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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)
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