REFINE     Who What Where When     REMOVE Letter 1943 WHAT Emblems (Flags, Coats-of- … (4) Ephemera (4) Military (4) Pictorial map (4) More  WHERE World (3) WHO Daito Shoji (Big East Com … (4) WHEN World War II (3)

REFINE  Browse All : Letter from 1943 1-4 of 4 Daito Shoji (Big East C... Japanese World War II M... 1943 [Ephemera, Letter]   Author Daito Shoji (Big East Commercial Company) Note View of map from the side showing the versos of the flags. Daito Shoji (Big East C... Japanese World War II M... 1943 [Ephemera, Letter]   Author Daito Shoji (Big East Commercial Company) Note View of map from the side showing the front of the flags. Daito Shoji (Big East C... Japanese World War II M... 1943 [Ephemera, Letter]   Author Daito Shoji (Big East Commercial Company) Note View of map from above. Daito Shoji (Big East C... Covers and Text: Japane... 1943 [Ephemera, Letter]   Author Daito Shoji (Big East Commercial Company) Note A clever preprinted envelope for use by Japanese Imperial military, listing and illustrating the battles and victories of the Imperial forces. Printed February 1943 (Showa 18). A remarkable envelope in that as it is unfolded two sticks pop up with a string strung between them. Little paper flags hang from the string including those of Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Vichy France. The background is a map of the world with vignettes of battle scenes. Watermark on area reserved for writing a message reads, "Willing to keep shooting [fighting] until I die" - apparently a motto of the military. Label shows it is military mail. Text indicates where to put paste. Has the cypress figure of East Asia Messenger Army and patent application and design registration numbers. 1-4 of 4

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