North Borneo Japanese Occupation 1943 4c red and 8c blue, SGJ18/19 Egypt stamps type 2 overprint

type 2 overprint

1843 with a London dispatch circular date stamp for the previous day

holding olive

watermark w11 (sideways to right from back)

(13 stamps are unmounted mint)

North Borneo Japanese Occupation 1943 4c red and 8c blue, SGJ18/19 Egypt stamps type 2 overprintNorth 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.