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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2136

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Civilian Mail - Outgoing Mail
1944 (10 May) Prisoners of War Mail card from the Pengellys and sent to Plymouth, the incorrect Japanese censor box has been carefully overstamped with Military Internment Camp censor handstamp in purple with Takamatsu seal; no other censor markings. Also 1944 (18 Aug.) another card from the same correspondence but this card has the corrected censor box reading Military Internment Camp, with Kawauchi seal. Tett figs. 4-5-14, 17. (2 cards). Photo

Sold for
HK$4,200