Clean 1932 maritime mail cover carried aboard the Sanu Maru, showing a bold purple Japanese circular maritime cancel “SANU MARU / I.W.T.O. / 7.3.32” at left. U.S. 2¢ Valley Forge stamp tied by Terminal Island, California MAR 8, 1932, machine cancel. Matching Japanese transit strikes on reverse.

A very attractive Japan–USA paquebot item from the pre-war period, unusually crisp with excellent strikes. Scarce example of 1930s Osaka Shosen Kaisha (O.S.K.) steamship mail.

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