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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2313

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Fukuoka - Outgoing Mail
1944-45 two second type cards from Fredd Fieldhouse in camp 12 to his parents in Gillingham, Kent, the first bears a fair strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp censored handstamp in blue with Kitajima seal and British censor "P.W. 2509" handstamp in red, the reverse with a good strike of boxed Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Headquarters Censored in red with large Nomoto seal and Amakubo seal alongside. The second card is dated 1945 (8 May) from Hiroshima (one of the Fukuoka camps) and bears a light strike of boxed Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp Censored handstamp in purple with Kondo seal, Japanese c.d.s. (21.5) and British censor "P.W.3210" handstamp in red. Mail from camp 12 is very scarce. Tett figs. 6-2-8, 15. Photo

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