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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2178

Prisoner or War Mail
D.E.I.
Java - P.O.W. Outgoing Mail
Within D.E.I.: 1942-44, a selection of cards which includes 1942 (19 Mar.) Netherlands Indies 3½c. stationery card from Eskadron Cavalry Camp to Djokja, a very early date (about three weeks after the fall of Java) before a proper mail service had been set up and is without censor handstamp; 1942 (Sept. - Oct.) "ned. indies" and "dai nippon" 3½c. stationery cards from Kesilir Camp to Malang and Lawang bearing censor handstamps; Prisoner of War cards from Camp B2 (Tjilatjap) to Batavia bearing handstruck Response must be in the Indonesian language in rose-red; card from Camp D (Malang) to East Java and redirected bearing Pasoeroean c.d.s. (3.2); 1943 two cards from Camp Z to Soerabaia, one bearing boxed Headquarters Police Station handstamp (secret police); 1944 card from Camp W.N. from a stateless German to Bandoeng; 1945 card from Java C.P. to Java W.N. Several with vertical folding folds, a good group. Tett figs. 2-5-3, 4, 6, 9, 16, 19, 23, 2-3-43. (10 cards)

Estimate
HK$4,000 to HK$5,000