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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2320

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Hakodate Camp - Incoming Mail
1943 (21 Feb.) stampless "Prisoner of War" envelope to Private V. Ball of the 5th Suffolk Regiment in Singapore, bearing Great Yarmouth machine postmark, Examiner's 3,261 seal, manuscript "HAK" and "1420 6" in red crayon, boxed censored handstamp in purple with Hirate seal. Also 1943 (22 Sept.) another stampless envelope from the same correspondence, bearing Horsey, Gt. Yarmouth despatch c.d.s., "examiner 3123" censor seal Censored handstamp in purple with Hirate seal and manuscript "1420 6" in red crayon; there is a patch of gum where an adhesive was taken off before the letter posted. Originally addressed to "Malai" but corrected to Hakodate, presuming that the first letter home had recently been received. Tett fig. 6-3-18. (2 covers)

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HK$650