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This registered cover was sent by The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. in Tokio to Switzerland.
It is stamped by the sender with a large REGISTERED handstamp
and a preprinted Tokio registry label was added at the post office.*
Note also the English corner card.

The cover was cancelled with a single Tokio western foreign mail CDS.

The English backstamp indicates the sender was the Inward Bill Department of the Tokio Branch.
The destination was Basel where it was given a BRIEFTRACER (registry) backstamp on its arrival on September 11.

The cover is franked with a pair of 1925 rotary press 13 sen bister brown Chrysanthemums (Scott 138a).
The stamps are perfins although the design is not legible.

*Thanks to Mike Lau for reminding me to identify the source of the REGISTERED handstamp.

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