Ref: DR19910
- £350.00
Netherlands East Indies. (BALI VELDPOST ELEPHANT). 1946. Envelope addressed to Batavia bearing Netherlands Indies 'Dutch Rule Restored' SG 470, 5c blue tied by circular '(Elephant) Eersie Veldpost lucht Dienst/ Bali 13 Mei 1946' in carmine, forwarded to Bali.
Superb item from the Bali Brigade during the Indies War of Independence.
The Dutch Indies declared independence from the Netherlands at 10am, 17th August 1945. There followed four years of armed resistance and bloody conflict until the Dutch recognized Independence on the 27th Dec 1949.
