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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2172

Prisoner or War Mail
D.E.I.
Java - Incoming Mail
From U.K.: 1943-44 a group of covers to British prisoners with 1943 (22 Apr.) envelope to Clifford Beales bearing British censor seal "571", large boxed Censored handstamp in red with Suzuki seal and small boxed Java HQ handstamp with prisoner's number (ex Crabb); 1943 (18 May) envelope to 2nd Lieut. W.W. Hodgkinson, Java, with Derby machine postmark, British censor seal "1583", large boxed Censored handstamp with Suzuki seal, boxed Java district 1 handstamp and Java III handstamp, both with prisoner's number; 1943 (14 June) 2½d. stationery envelope to G.E. Thomas cancelled by Neath machine postmark, British censor seal "4027", large boxed Censored handstamp in red with Suzuki seal, boxed Java III crossed through with boxed HQ handstamps; 1944 (8 Feb.) envelope to E.R. McDaniel with Kensington machine postmark, British censor seal "4181", boxed Censored handstamp in red and Permission in violet with Tanaka seal and boxed HQ handstamp with number, pencil "R 9/10/44"; 1944 (17 Mar.) post card to Frederick Tulley with Stratford machine postmark, British censor handstamp "P.W.4768", boxed Censored with Ujiie seal and Permission with Tanaka seal, both in red, boxed camp III handstamp with number; 1944 (8 Oct.) 3d. Prisoner of War Post air mail card to Frank Graham, X Camp, despatch c.d.s., British censor handstamp "P.W.2709", boxed Censored handstamp in red with Suzuki seal and boxed camp I handstamp with number. A good group. Tett figs. 2-3-25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31. (6 covers). Photo

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