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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2137

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Civilian Mail - Outgoing Mail
1944 (12 Aug.) 2s. stationery card from Mrs E. Koodiaroff to Mrs Smirnoff in the French Hospital in Causeway Bay, the boxed Military Internment Camp censor handstamp in violet was applied before the card was written and with Kawauchi seal; a 1s. stamp has fallen off and this had been tied by another strike of the Military internment Camp censor handstamp in black and Hong Kong c.d.s. dated 6th October, nearly two months later. Fine and an interesting card demonstrating the application of the boxed censor handstamp before the card was written. Tett 4-5-29. Photo

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HK$2,000