Militaria
Lot 4439 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday 20th November) Militaria
Estimate $1,500
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INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER, between Japanese Armed Forces and the Australian Military Forces, signed at Morotai on 9 September 1945, representing Japan are the signatures of Lt General Teshima, Commander of Japanese 2nd Army, and Japanese naval officers, Captain Toru Oyama and Captain Minoru Toyama, and accepting for Australia the signature of General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief of Australian Military Forces, a facsimile of an historic document that ended the war in the Pacific, the document (approx 45x27.5cm) is professionally framed under perspex in a timber frame (approx 56x40cm). A few areas of paint loss on frame, otherwise extremely fine.
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