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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2324

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Hakodate Camp - Incoming Mail
1943 (Mar.) (c.) Australian Red Cross Prisoner of War envelope to Keith Edmonds, addressed to Java, bears Australian "407" diamond censor handstamp in purple with censor seal on the reverse. Manuscript "HAK" and "MAR. 43" in pencil, red boxed censor handstamp with seal; with original letter from his girlfriend. 1943 (4 Nov.) similar Red Cross envelope, this from his mother and bears Melbourne machine postmark, Australian diamond "257" censor handstamp with seal on the reverse, Japanese Red Cross Tokyo circular handstamp, boxed red censor handstamp with seal. 1943 (Nov.) a similar envelope bearing Australian "195" censor handstamp, manuscript "NOV.43" and "HAK", with censor seal. Also outgoing mail with 1944 (16 Jan.) first type printed card from Keith Edmonds to his mother in Camp 2-B with straight- line "sce des prisonniers de guerre" in red, a fine strike of Hakodate Prisoner of War Camp Censor handstamp with Okayama seal and part "111" Australian censor handstamp and, on the reverse, Peterborough arrival c.d.s. (3.1). A good group. Tett figs. 2-3-7, 6-3-20, 21, 6-2-18. (4 covers). Photo

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HK$1,600