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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2315

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Fukuoka - Outgoing Mail
1944 (Dec.) (c.) first type card from private M. Rufi in camp 20 to his wife in Soerabaja bearing a good strike of Fukuoka Prisoner of War Camp, Headquarters Censored handstamp with large Takashiki seal, the reverse bears Tobimatsu and Ohtsubo seals. On arrival Mrs Rufi could not be traced and the card is stamped "no record"; minor age faults. Camp 20 is not recorded in other literature, scarce thus. Tett fig. 6-2-11. Photo

Estimate
HK$1,000 to HK$1,500