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China (Censored Mail - Condemned) 1940s registered cover from Shanghai to Switzerland franked on reverse ‘Nanking and Shanghai’ Japanese Occupation $3 on 15c. (4) and $4 on 16c. (5), Opened By Examiner 5686 tape applied with pink CONDEMNED handstamp front and back and kept for the duration of the War, then with RELEASED handstamps and sent to Tegna and redirected from there to Ascona Lago Maggiore arriving 29.1.46. It was not allowed to send stamps by mail during WW2 and this is why this envelope was halted; fina and most unusual.China (Censored Mail - Condemned) 1940s registered cover from Shanghai to Switzerland franked on reverse ‘Nanking and Shanghai’ Japanese Occupation $3 on 15c. (4) and $4 on 16c. (5), Opened By Examiner 5686 tape applied with pink CONDEMNED handstamp front and back and kept for the duration of the War, then with RELEASED handstamps and sent to Tegna and redirected from there to Ascona Lago Maggiore arriving 29.1.46. It was not allowed to send stamps by mail during WW2 and this is why this envelope was halted; fina and most unusual.

(Censored Mail - Condemned) 1940s registered cover from Shanghai to Switzerland franked on reverse ‘Nanking and Shanghai’ Japanese Occupation $3 on 15c. (4) and $4 on 16c. (5), Opened By Examiner 5686 tape applied with pink CONDEMNED handstamp front and back and kept for the duration of the War, then with RELEASED handstamps and sent to Tegna and redirected from there to Ascona Lago Maggiore arriving 29.1.46. It was not allowed to send stamps by mail during WW2 and this is why this envelope was halted; fina and most unusual.

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