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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2292

Prisoner or War Mail
Philippines
Collections
1942-44, an interesting and varied selection of covers, cards and other items with picture postcards of Bilibid (3) and Santo Tomas (ex Garrett), 1942 air mail envelope to Donald McCann with Examiner's "1709" seal and "transatlantic route" in purple but apparently not delivered (Donald McCann worked for Pan-Am, he met a nurse in Santo Tomas, Dorothy Ludlow, whom he later married); 1943 (11 May) stampless Official envelope asking Herbert Bamberger to report to Santo Tomas Internment Camp - he was later liberated from Bilibid Camp; 1943 (26 Jan.) envelope to Iona Lupton in Manila but redirected to Santo Tomas Internment Camp with square boxed Enemy Country Person Internment Camp in red; 1944 (3 Jan.) Red Cross card seeking location of W.F. Zimmerman, Catholic Mission file cards (3), 1944 Family Aid Committee letter giving information about the MacGavin family; 1944 Family Aid Committee letter giving information about the MacGavin family, and 1943 ham radio message from Sacremento to Mrs Holmes in Oregon, with the original letter. Also some contemporary newspapers and other ephemera. A very good lot. Tett figs. 5-4-1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 5-5-2, 5-3-2

Sold for
HK$3,500