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939 1940’s An air mail censor cover form Chungking to Leicester, England, on reverse bearing SYS Central Trust print $5 strip of 4, tied by bilingual ‘CHUNGKING’ cds, date illegible, with ‘Opened By Examiner/3557/P.C.90.’ Crown type censor label. Photo HK$ 500 - 700 940 1940’s An air mail censor cover from Chungking reg. to Leicester, England, endorsed BOAC To Egypt Via Calcutta. Bearing SYS Central Trust print $3 in pair and Paicheng print $20, tiedby bilingual ‘CHUNGKING’ cds, date illegible. With ‘Opened By Examiner 2836/51/9911.H.B./P.C.90’ censor label. Photo HK$ 800 - 1,000

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941 1941 (12 Dec.) A censor cover from Dairen registered to Haifa, Palestine. Bearing Japanese 6s carmine and 30s deep blue green, tied by ‘DAIREN/I.N.P.O’ cds. ‘Opened By Censor/71/5233’ censor label, tied by ‘PALESTINE PASSED CENSOR/N H 21’ hexagon censor chop in violet, and ‘REGISTERED/HAIFA/7.3.42’ arrival oval cancel. lightly folded at right side, with contents, rare destination. Photo HK$ 5,500 - 6,000 942 1941 (14 May) A SYS 4c green stationery card with Martyrs HK print 13c in pair, both tied by bilingual ‘SHANGHAI’ cds, sent from Jewish Refugee Community in Japanese occupied Shanghai to Germany, via Siberia. With Germany roller Eagle type censor chop in red. Fine wartime Siberia usage before the Trans-Siberian Route was interrupted due to the Soviet-German war breaking out on 22nd June 1941. Photo HK$ 1,500 - 2,000

943 1941 (2 July) A window censor cover, bearing SYS Dah Tung print 8c, tied by bilingual ‘SHANGHAI’ cds, alongside ‘Not Opened By Censor’ frame chop. Photo HK$ 400 - 500

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