Description
North Borneo Japanese Occupation 1943 (29 Apr) 4c red and 8c blue, matching lower marginal blocks of 4, SGJ18/19.
Brilliant quality, unmounted mint with full original gum.
Attractive and very fine pictorial stamps. The 4c depicts Mount Kinabalu and the 8c a typical Borneo scene.
The Stanley Gibbons catalogue value is £260+.
Japanese forces first landed in North Borneo on 15 December 1941. By 19 January 1942, the whole of North Borneo had been occupied. Brunei, North Borneo, Sarawak and, after a short period, Labuan, were administered as a single territory by the Japanese.
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