Kossoy Collection of Poland; U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
September 11-13, 2012
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #981 JAPAN Japanese Occupation of Mariana Islands 1919 registered cover from Saipan, sent via Yokohama to Switzerland, 20sen franking made-up with two 5s and one 10s, tied by Japanese datestamps (year 8), endorsed "Imperial Navy Post Office Saipan", with boxed chop in red and Basel (25.8.19) arrival pmk on back, fine (under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, Japan declared war on Germany on 23 August 1914. The Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with pursuing and destroying the German East Asiatic Squadron and protection of the shipping lanes for Allied commerce in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. During the course of this operation, the Japanese Navy seized the German possessions in the Marianas, Carolinas, Marshall Islands and Palau groups, mostly without resistance, by October 1914. After the end of World War I, as determined in the Treaty of Versailles, Japanese occupation of former German colonies in Micronesia north of the equator was formally recognized)  | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
