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1875 FRENCH POST OFFICES. Degron-kun envelope to FRANCE cancelled with wooden hand-stamp (Degron-Kun

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1875 FRENCH POST OFFICES. Degron-kun envelope to FRANCE cancelled with wooden hand-stamp (Degron-Kun
1875 FRENCH POST OFFICES. Degron-kun envelope to FRANCE cancelled with wooden hand-stamp (Degron-Kun) in the French Military Mission Tokyo and posted in the letter box at Shimbashi railway station with rectangular hand-stamp SHIMBASHI in vermilion on reverse, sent by train to Yokohama where Cherry Blosom SG 55, 2 sen yellow is applied and tied by syllabic cancel and passed to the French Post Office bearing Ceres Yvert 53, 5 cents. green, Yvert 55, 15 cents bistre and Yvert 57, 80 cents rose tied by gros chifres 5118 of the French Post Office Yokohama and sent by Packet boat to France. Colonel Munier was Chief of the French Military Mission in Tokyo this cover is to his wife he spent 6 years in Japan and was decorated to the Order of the Rising Sun. Stamps have been removed and put back on envelope still a great rarity.