Watch List notes:

JAPAN, a unusual and interesting collection of postcards and selected envelopes from the 1960s, all housed in a First Day Cover Album mostly relating to Japanese maritime ships some are involved with weather reporting for the World Meteorological Organization, ships include M.S. Mukoharu Maru, Yomiuri Maru (illustrated), Eiken Maru, Hoeisan Maru, Hague Maru, Hakone Maru and many others, some fixed with stamps others as pre-paid cards, some with pictures or images on the back, all suitably notated as to despatched post office, all with additional added special cachet for the specific named ship; these mostly postcards etc posted from Japan, a few are posted in the US and several in Australia. Used. (114)

Ex J.P.Melick Collection.