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Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG

lot # 9502 - Malaiische Staaten - Penang

Monday Feb 19, 2018 09:00 Europe/Berlin
Last date for bids: 
Feb 19, 06:00 GMT

Malaiische Staaten - Penang: 1941. Air Mail envelope written on the Thai/Malay border addressed to D
1941. Air Mail envelope written on the Thai/Malay border addressed to Denmark bearing Thailand SG 289, 15s blue (uncancelled) endorsed ‘via Bangkok, Japan, Manchukou, Siberia, U.S.S.R., Finland and Sweden’ cancelled on reverse by Hat Yai railway date stamp, routed then via Penang with censor tape tied by boxed ‘Opened by/11/Censor’, framed ‘Retour’ and hand-stamp instructional ‘Postal Communication/Suspended’ with oval ‘Dead Letter Office/Penang’ (28 No 40) and returned via Bangkok with ‘Post & Telegraph of Thailand/Officially Sealed’ label tied by South Express railway date stamp in violet. Extraordinary item of Interrupted mail. Cannot be forwarded via Siberia because of the Russian/Finish War and the Pacific due to Pearl Harbour (8th Dec). Only three recorded of the hand-stamp ‘Postal Communication Suspended’.

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