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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 1100

Burma
Shwebo
1919 (6 Aug.) envelope bearing ½a. and 1a. pair, and (29 Oct.) 1a. stationery card, both addressed to Switzerland, cancelled by "shwebo" double-ring d.s. (Type KD8; the latter the latest recorded date) and manuscript "Passed by Censor", initials and date. Photo for both

Note: This camp was originally created to house citizens of the Central Powers living in Burma, who however were sent into camps in India. After that, the camps was transformed to a recreation camp for Turkish officers in the Thayetmo camp. Later on, there was only one civilian left, a German called Patzert, married to a Burmese woman.

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