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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2312

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Fukuoka - Outgoing Mail
1943-44 two type 1 cards from Jan van Lingen, a coastguard in number 2 camp, to his family in Batavia and bears a fine strike of boxed Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp censor handstamp, with three additional characters obliterated, in carmine-red with unidentified seal, the reverse with Kitano and Akiyama seals; fine. The second card dated 1944 (21 Apr.) is from the same correspondence from camp 2 and bears a fair strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Headquarters Censored handstamp in purple with Kitano seal and on the reverse, Kitano and Watanabe seals; fine. Tett figs. 6-2-7, 13. Photo

Estimate
HK$1,800 to HK$2,200