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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: 1560

Borneo Prisoner of War Mail
Incoming Mail
1943 (6 Oct.) envelope from Canada to British civilian internee Agnes Keith in Kuching, showing dumb despatch d.s. and censor label at right, "prisoner of war mail/c/o Japanese Red Cross/tokyo" h.s. at lower left and violet arrival censor chop with red seal of Kubo. Marked on the envelope is receipt date of 18 August 1944, 10½months after the cover was mailed. Photo

provenance:
Neville Watterson

Sold for
SG$1,000