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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2197

Prisoner or War Mail
D.E.I.
Sumatra - P.O.W. Incoming Mail
Palembang Camp: 1942-43, a group of "Prisoner of War Post" envelopes from U.K. with 1942 (5 Oct.) envelope to Robert McGee bearing Glasgow machine postmark, British censor seal "6327", "Not Thai" in blue crayon and "PAL" in pencil, Censored handstamp with Miura seal; 1943 (17 May) envelope bearing Cambridge machine postmark, censor seal "9301", "Pal" in pencil and, on the reverse, small boxed Censored handstamp with Miura seal; 1943 envelope to Vincent Slavin; and 1943 (29 July) envelope to G. O'Donovan bearing Worksop machine postmark, censor seal "1742", "Pal" in pencil and the small boxed censored handstamp with Miura seal. Good to fine. Tett figs. 2-6-1, 4 to 6. (4 covers)

Sold for
HK$1,200