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September 9-10, 2015

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Lot #1078
JAPAN Ship Mail
1911 Japanese Battlecruiser "HIJMS Kurama", correspondence from a young seaman Okazaki Naozo, on board the warship, writing to his fiance and her parents in the town of Date-gun in the prefecture Fukushima-ken, Japan. His letters start while still in port in Japan, then from many ports of call, including Singapore, Colombo, Port Said, Gibraltar, Barrow Naval Dockyard, England, Le Havre, Toulon, Civitavecchia, Malta, and back in Japan. A 20-page exhibit, plus introductory page, with covers, letters and post cards from the Royal Visit to Portsmouth, England, for the Coronation of King George V. An fascinating lot
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Unsold

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