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1914-19 Covers and cards, all selected items including multiple strikes or differing types of censor cachets on the same cover, incomplete censors, circular framed "P.C" (4), "DELAYED / NOT / FRANKED", parcel post labels, "IMPROPERLY / POSTED / DELAYED", undelivered and redirected covers to soldiers with various cachets, War Office cachets, provisional Field Post cards, mail incorrectly posted into civil offices, covers to neutral countries with "S" handstamps, covers and cards to Canada with Canadian stamps added, various cachets, unusual type censor cachets, use of French army cards, U.S forces mail, Southampton Paid datestamps (4), Portuguese "C.E.P / S.P.C11" c.d.s, etc. (112). £250-300
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Indian F.P.Os. 1914-17 Covers and cards with various Indian F.P.O or Base Office datestamps. (80). £120-150
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Portuguese Forces. 1917-19 Stampless covers and cards (8) and a cover to Brazil franked G.B ½d and 2d, all with "C.E.P. / S.P.C" datestamps numbered 3, 5-8, 10, 13, 14 or 18. Also 1919 O.A.S postcard with British A.P.O S.69, used by the British Mission with the Portuguese forces. (10). £110-130
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Portuguese Forces. 1917-19 Covers and cards from Portuguese Forces with "C.E.P / S.P.C" datestamps numbered 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13 or 15, and a card from Portugal to Holland franked 2E apparently missent with "C.E.P / S.P.C - 11" c.d.s. (16). £150-180
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1916-19 Covers and cards with various F.P.O and A.P.O datestamps including 1916 Base A.P.O W used by the British Adriatic Mission at Brindisi, skeleton "ARMY P.O / S.100" (unrecorded by Proud or Kennedy & Crabb), 1919 cover from A.P.O S100 to Dominica, card with A.P.O S.70 c.d.s endorsed from "R.A.F, Palestine Brigade", etc. (76). £350-450
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1916-20 Covers and cards written up on album pages, from British forces (72) mainly with British F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps including B.A.P.O W of the B.M.M at Brindisi, A.P.O L14 at Fiume, others from the Assiago and Piave fronts, also a few cards from Italian forces and picture postcards. (93). £200-250
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1917-19 Covers and cards with various A.P.O or F.P.O datestamps. (33). £120-150
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1917-26 Covers and cards (mainly 1917-20 period) with various F.P.O and A.P.O datestamps (some unrecorded by Proud and Kennedy & Crabb), also 1919 "B.E.F / MAIN LINE T.P.O DOWN", 1920 stampless card of Berlin with "ADMIRALTY WHITEHALL" cachet and a London Official Paid c.d.s, stampless O.A.S cards posted into the civil office at Cologne (3, one with circular framed "P.C" censor cachet), ingoing covers (4), card from a British soldier with a French F.P.O. c.d.s, U.S forces cards (2), also picture postcards depicting British forces in Germany (22, mainly fine real photo cards of Cologne, one with British Military Mission Berlin cachet), a fine lot. (185). £380-450
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1918-20 Covers and cards with various A.P.O or F.P.O datestamps numbered from "16" to "229" or "A.D.3" to "4.Z", many date extensions to the Proud or Kennedy & Crabb listings, also a number of datestamps not recorded in either work used in Germany. Virtually all different, one card with boxed cachet "Aeronautical Inter-Allied / 29 Nov 1919 / Commission of Control". A good lot. (157). £400-500
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1919-23 Postcards written up on pages with various F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps, also a few picture postcards. (69). £120-150
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BEF Main Line T.P.O Down. 1919 (Jan. - June) Stampless picture postcards to London all written by Sapper Downton, a worker on the T.P.O which ran between Cologne and Boulogne, with 28mm skeleton c.d.s (4), 30mm skeleton c.d.s (3), 36mm skeleton c.d.s (2) or double ring c.d.s (5, two types), the skeletons with various settings and code letters. Also a proof strike of the 28mm skeleton on piece (4 Feb. 1919) and two fine real photos of the outside and the interior of the T.P.O carriage. A fine lot. (17). Photo on Page 81. £600-700
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1921 Cover from Heligoland to Scotland franked 50pf + 75pf with cachet "HELIGOLAND SUB COMMISSION / 19 JAN 1921 / N.L.A.C.C", endorsed from Capt. Cunningham R.N; 1923 registered air mail cover from A.P.O S.40 backstamped with the cachet "BRITISH RHINE M.L / PATROL FLOTILLA", and two fine real photo postcards of British Motor Launches on the Rhine at Cologne. (4). £80-100
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R.A.F Air Mails. 1919 (July 22) Way bill for 15 sacks of mail flown by the R.A.F postal service from A.P.O S40 at Cologne to Lympne Aerodrome, Folkestone, signed by the pilot Lieut. Ramsay and by the mail guard L/Cpl. Haskell at A.P.O S106. The RAF postal service commenced on 1st March 1919 flying from Cologne to Hawkinge, but transferred to Lympne on July 22nd and ceased on August 31st. A unique way bill from the first flight to Lympne Aerodrome. £220-260
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R.A.F Air Mails. 1919 (Aug 11/18) Stampless O.A.S covers signed by Brigadier General Potter to his wife in England, both inscribed "By air mail", with F.P.O H6 datestamps of Duren and censor cachets. Flown by the R.A.F air service from Cologne to Lympne near Folkestone. Very few covers actually show such evidence of having been flown. The service ceased at the end of August 1919. (2). Photo on Page 81. £150-180
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R.A.F Air Mails. 1919 O.H.M.S bag label marked "Aerial Post" and handstamped "TO BE DROPPED AT / COLOGNE / HOME DEPOT NO (28) DATE (6.4.19)"; 1918 Mulready reproduction "Stamp Collecting Aerial Souvenir" postcard from A.P.O S20 flown to England; and 1923 air mail express cover from A.P.O S40 franked 9½d with "EXPRESS FEE PAID 6d" handstamp. (3). £100-120
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Plebiscites - Flensburg/Danzig/Saar. 1920 Stampless picture postcards written from H.M.S "Wild Swan" at Danzig or H.M.S "Strenuous" at Flensburg (2) with London Received From H.M Ships cancels; 1935 cover from Saar with G.B ½d and 1d tied by F.P.O 10 datestamps and a stampless picture postcard from the Italian plebiscite force with "COMANDO TRUPPE ITALIANE NELLA SAAR" c.d.s. (5). £130-150
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Marienwerder/Danzig Plebiscite. 1920 (May 8) Registered cover to England with violet cachet "ALLIED ADMINISTRATIVE COMMISSION / BRITISH / SECTION / MARIENWERDER EAST PRUSSIA" (see Feb 28 2014 Argyll Etkin auction, lot 203 for a similar example of this cachet clearly showing the word "Marienwerder"), the cachet partly covered by G.B 2d tied by "FIELD POST OFFICE H2" c.d.s of Danzig with a further strike on the registration label, backstamped with two further F.P.O H2 datestamps and A.P.O S4 (May 10) of Cologne. A few small opening tears to upper edge, otherwise fine and a scarce registered cover from Marienwerder sent via the plebiscite F.P.O in Danzig, treated as official free mail but franked 2d to pay the registration fee. Photo on Page 85. £200-250
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Upper Silesia Plebiscite - Tarnowitz. 1921 (Sep 8) Picture postcard of Tarnowitz headed from "1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, British Silesian Force, Upper Silesia" with G.B ½d and 1d each cancelled "ARMY POST OFFICE / S64" at Tarnowitz; 1922 cover from G.B franked 2d to "Captain D.L Campbell R.A.S.C, British Silesian Force, M.T Coy, APO 64, Tarnowitz, Silesia"; and six fine real photo postcards of the British plebiscite forces at Tarnowitz (3), Lublinitz (2) or Oppeln. (8). Photo on Page 85. £200-250
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Upper Silesia Plebiscite - Oppeln. 1921 (Nov 19) G.B 5d registration envelope to Cologne cancelled "ARMY POST OFFICE / S.120" c.d.s, two further strikes on the front and applied to the registration label, with A.P.O S40 arrival c.d.s. A fine and scarce registered cover from the plebiscite force at Oppeln. Photo on Page 85. £200-250
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Gallipoli. 1915-16 Covers and cards with various F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps (27) or a London Received From H.M Ship machine; a 1915 cover to Gallipoli returned unknown; 1915 card from H.M.S "Beagle" with large straight line "CENSORED" cachet and London Received From H.M Ship machine; and a picture postcard of the Gallipoli landings. (30). £300-400
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Gallipoli & Turkey. 1915 Cards from Gallipoli (6) and 1918-19 cards from Turkey (6) all with F.P.O datestamps. Also three cards from Malta with "ON ACTIVE SERVICE / MEDTN" Red Cross cachets, and picture postcards of Gallipoli (2) or Constantinople (2). (19) £120-140
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Turkey. 1919-20 Stampless covers and cards (10) and a parcel post label franked G.B 9d and 1/- all with various A.P.O or F.P.O datestamps including 1920 (Aug 19) A.P.O Y5 cover with interesting enclosed letter "Thanks for your note which was dropped over our lines by aeroplane four days ago ..... have been away from Izmid for 15 days in search of the Bolshies as far as the Black Sea & back"; 1919-20 covers with G.B stamps cancelled British A.P.O Constantinople (3, two registered); 1923 cover and cards with G.B stamps tied F.P.O 12 or 14 (2) c.d.s; and a picture postcard. (18). £240-280
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Turkey - T.P.O. 1920 (May 8) Stampless cover with "ARMY POST OFFICE / TPO1" skeleton, used on the T.P.O between Haidar Pasha, Ekishehr and Afium Karahisser, a little minor staining and creasing, a fine strike of this scarce T.P.O. £100-120
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Malta. 1914-17 Stampless O.A.S postcards with datestamps of A.P.O SZ7 (5), HD1 or Sliema all with circular "ON ACTIVE SERVICE / MEDTN" cachets; 1914 (Sep 16) stampless O.A.S card with Cospicua c.d.s and violet "Passed By Censor"; 1914 (Aug 11/22) cards with violet or black "PASSED BY CENSOR"; 1917 cover from G.B to a nurse at St. Elmo Hospital returned to G.B with A.P.O HD1 c.d.s; 1914 stampless Malta postcard with "Marine Francais" cachet; 1919-20 cards from Notabile with cachets of The Essex Regt Orderly Room (2); civil censors, etc. Also a German Feldpost card bearing "Malteser Lazaret" cachet containing a Maltese Cross. (21). £130-160
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1916-19 Covers and cards from Salonica or Greece with various F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps (55) including A.P.O SX14 used at Corfu and a cover to Barbados with a blank diamond shaped censor cachet, also ingoing mail (2) and a 1919 (Sep 2) stampless card from Brigadier-General Fortescue with A.P.O L16 c.d.s of Belgrade. (48). £200-250
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1915-18 Covers and cards with various F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps from Salonica, virtually all different, some scarce. (46). £200-250
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1915-18 Covers and cards from Salonica written up on pages with F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps, also a few picture postcards including Christmas and New Year cards from the troops. (34). £100-120
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1915-18 Covers and cards from Salonica with various F.P.O datestamps. (27). £70-80
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1898-1920 Covers and cards (22), a front and pieces (2), mainly 1914-20 period, including named A.P.O skeleton datestamps from Port Said (2), Mustapha, Kantara or Cairo (2); Military P.O Cairo (4) or Alexandria (5); British Camp P.O Maadi (3) or Heliopolis; Military Camp Heliopolis Aerodrome; or British Barracks Cairo (5), three cards from Australian forces with cachets. (25). £160-180
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1915-19 Covers and cards with A.P.O or F.P.O datestamps including F.P.O W1 skeleton with "FORCE IN EGYPT / 11" circular censor used by the Western Frontier Force. (25). £100-120
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1915-19 Covers and cards with various F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps (99) including "BRITISH CAMP / P.O / HELIOPOLIS", "ARMY POST OFFICE / KANTARA" skeleton, 1916 covers from the Western Frontier Force with F.P.O 22Y (2), DW or A.P.O SAM (2) skeletons, 1916 (May 9) A.P.O SZ 21 cover with scarce "PASSED BY CENSOR / FORCE IN EGYPT / 19" (this type issued to the Western Frontier Force), 1916 A.P.O SZ 15 on Honour envelope with censor seal tied by oval "BASE CENSORS OFFICE / ALEX., E.E.F.", 2d registration envelopes (6), etc. Also "Z AND W TPO" and "TAC / TPO" skeletons, incoming mail (6, two with Sudan sensors), 1918 stampless cover to an Officer in the E.E.F with red oval "RETURN TO SENDER" and boxed "AFFRANCHISSEMENT / OBLIGATOIRE", and forces mail posted into civil offices (10, three with hospital cachets). (118). £500-600
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Egypt/Palestine. 1915-20 Covers and cards written up on pages with F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps from Egypt (50) or Palestine (10), also British Barracks Cairo (2), N.Z and Australian F.P.Os, cards from British guards at the P.O.W Camp at Maadi with boxed "PASSED / BY / CENSOR" and a Maadi c.d.s (2), a few picture postcards and stamps. (76 covers). £200-250
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T.P.O. 1919 (May 5) Registered cover with G.B 1d pair each cancelled "UPPER EGYPT / TPO1" skeleton, a third strike applied to the registration label, backstamped with a further T.P.O datestamp and at A.P.O SZ10 and Cairo. A fine and scarce registered cover posted on the T.P.O which operated between Cairo and Aswan during civil disturbances (including a Post Office strike) in April and May 1919. Both Proud and Kennedy & Crabb only record the TPO 2 and TPO3 datestamp, this TPO1 skeleton unrecorded. Photo on Page 85. £200-300
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Indian F.P.O. 1915-20 Covers and cards with various Indian F.P.O or Base Office datestamps (32), also a stampless cover endorsed from I.E.F "D" with Heliopolis civil P.O c.d.s and hexagonal framed "PASSED / Chief Censor / MILITARY". (33). £140-180
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Siege of Kut. 1915 (Dec 17) Cover franked 1d from Bournemouth addressed to "Capt Commanding A Coy 2nd Dorset Regt, 16th Infantry Brigade, 6th Poona Division, Indian Ex. Force, c/o Indian Office, London", returned with the scarce violet cachet "UNDELIVERED THROUGH / CAPITULATION AT KUT". The Iraqi city of Kut-el-Amara surrendered to the Turks on April 29th after a siege of 144 days, over 6,000 Indian and 2,000 British troops becoming P.O.Ws. Photo on Page 85. £150-200
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General Townsend. 1915 Covers to Lady Peek or Captain Sir Wilfred Peek in Devon, both endorsed from "Charles Townsend, Major General, Comdng 6th Division, Expeditionary Force D" with datestamps of "BUSRAH" (May 1) or Indian F.P.O 55 (Oct 7), circular "PASSED / D / CENSOR". Townsend commanded the forces at Kut, surrendering in April 1916 after a siege of 144 days. (See lot 550). (2). Photo on Page 85. £200-250
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1915-20 Covers and cards with various Indian F.P.O, Base Office or civil P.O datestamps (76), some with additional cachets, Christmas cards, etc; undelivered or redirected incoming mail (5) including boxed "NOT WITH / I.E.F. "D"" and "R.L.O BASE D" datestamp; 1917 registered Week End Telegram containing a message from Mesopotamia; a picture postcard of Turkish prisoners and 1918 (Nov.) "Baghdad Times" reporting the Turkish Surrender. (85). £600-700
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1916-19 Stampless O.A.S covers and cards with various Indian F.P.O datestamps (8) and an unusual 1917 cover to Switzerland franked I.E.F 1a with a Swiss 30c postage due applied at Lausanne, the stamp cancelled "ANNULE" upon redirection and a 15c postage due pair then applied at Mont-Pelerin. (9). £130-150
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1917-25 Covers with Indian F.P.O datestamps comprising 1920 Iraq In British Occupation 2½a surcharge on Turkey 1pi registration envelope actually sent by ordinary mail from F.P.O 135, 1919-20 registered covers from F.P.O 85 or 102 each bearing 1a surcharge pair and handstamped registration labels, 1925 airmail cover bearing 3a pair tied by F.P.O 137 c.d.s (not recorded by Proud), and a stampless 1917 cover from F.P.O 55. (5). £150-180
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India and Persia. 1915-23 Covers and cards with datestamps of F.P.O 319 (3, Bushire), 381 (Karind, Persia) or F.P.Os used in India (5, including boxed handstamps "FIELD SERVICE / POSTAGE FREE" (3) or "N.W FRONTIER / POSTAGE FREE"), also covers and cards posted at sea or upon arrival at Southampton, picture postcards of soldiers in India, etc. (21). £100-120
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Persian Gulf. 1915 Stampless O.A.S covers with datestamp of "MUSCAT" and circular "PASSED / M / CENSOR" (3), and 1916 O.A.S cover from F.P.O 309 in Mesopotamia to Jask with arrival backstamp of Bushire. (4). £120-150
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Persian Gulf - Bushire. 1915 Persia 2ch on 5ch postal stationery picture postcard overprinted "BUSHIRE / Under British / Occupation", apparently written at Bushire on Sept. 19th, to London franked by a G.B ½d, the stamp and card both cancelled in London on Oct. 13th. Picture side with surface scrape and a little paper adhering, otherwise fine, a scarce item of postal stationery. £100-120
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British East Africa/Nyasaland. 1915-18 Covers and cards with various Indian F.P.O or Base Office datestamps (24) including 1915 Christmas card from H.M.S "Neuralia" showing its journey to and within East Africa; stampless O.A.S cards with civil P.O datestamps (3) including "ZANZIBAR"; also I.E.F block of four (2) and stamps (11) on two pieces, and Nyasaland N.F overprint stamps (21 with a block of six and 12 stamps on two pieces) all with F.P.O or Base Office cancels. (27 covers + 32 stamps). £300-350
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Nyasaland. 1917 (Feb 9) Stampless O.H.M.S cover to "Supply Officer, Tandala" with F.P.O / 4" c.d.s used at Wiedhafen. £80-100
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R.N.A.S. c.1915 Stampless picture postcard to England endorsed "On active service with Russian army" with a superb circular cyrillic cachet in violet which translates as "English Admiralty. Armoured Car Detachment", the picture side with a violet censor cachet. Minor staining and corner creases but an attractive and very scarce card; Units of 15 and 17 Squadrons of the R.N.A.S Armoured Car Division were sent to Russia in 1915 and fought with the Russians until 1917. Photo on Page 85. £150-200
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1918 Stampless postcards (2) and a cover from Bakhariza to England all with F.P.O PB44 c.d.s, two the narrow type datestamp, the third a wider type c.d.s, all with oval censor cachets. (3). £200-250
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1919 Stampless O.A.S covers both with wide type F.P.O PB 44 c.d.s of Bakhariza, one with oval framed "PE/C/21" censor, the other with circular violet "PASSED BY CENSOR / No. 44R", both fine. (2). £180-220
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1919 Stampless O.A.S covers with narrow type F.P.O PB55 of Beresnik or F.P.O PB66 of Oberzerskaya (2), two with oval framed "PE / C / 26" or "X5" censors, the other with circular Passed by Censor cachets numbered 27R in violet and 71R in red, the latter tying "OPENED BY / BASE CENSOR No. 16" label. A few minor faults though mainly fine. (3). £280-320
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1918-20 Stampless O.A.S covers and cards with A.P.O PB1 or F.P.O 80 of Batum, or with London Received From H.M Ship cancels written from Novorossisk, Tallinn or off Sebastopol. Also 1918 cover from London to "Lieut. J.D Hayes, British Intelligence Section, British Embassy, Petrograd, c/o Foreign Office, Whitehall, per favour of F.O bag" with boxed "Postal Censor"; a postcard of French Cruisers in action off Riga; a signed photo of the Cossack General Atamar Semionoff landing at Tsuruga, Japan, after resigning as Commander of the armies of the Far Eastern Siberian Republic; and a 1919 postcard with Polni Posta 5 Czech F.P.O. (9). £150-180
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Japanese Forces. 1919-20 Stampless cards from Japanese forces in Siberia with Japanese F.P.O datestamps, one YMCA card a little stained, otherwise fine. (3). £100-120
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