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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2305

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Fukuoka - Incoming Mail
1943 (4 May) "Prisoner of War Post" envelope to D.W. Collins of 84 Squadron, in Java bearing Leighton Buzzard machine postmark, British censor seal "3087", "Fukuoka" in blue crayon with "2" (camp 2 at Nagasaki) in red crayon and a good strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp, Headquarters Censored handstamp in blue with unidentified seal; 1943 (26 Nov.) "Prisoner of War Post envelope to L.A.C. Wicking, bearing Eastbourne machine postmark, British censor seal "3123" and addressed to Java; redirected to the Japanese Red Cross in Tokyo, with pencil "FUK", "11" in red crayon and a good strike of Fukuoka P.O.W. CampCensored in blue with Nakamura seal. Good. Also 1943 (1 Sept.) a similar envelope to W.H. Casely bearing London machine postmark, British censor label "6,013", Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Censor handstamp in violet with Nakamura seal and "3" in red crayon; vertical fold. Tett fig. 6-3-8, 9, 10. (3 covers). Photo

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