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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2326

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Hakodate Camp - Outgoing Mail
1944 (23 Sept.) second type card from Robert Warren in Camp 1 (B) to his mother in London, bearing the straight-line "sce des prisonniers de guerre" in red, the Hakodate Prisoner of War Camp Censor handstamp in violet with Okayama seal and British censor "P.W. 2097" handstamp in red. Also a similar card from Ken Sayer-Poll, written on Christmas eve 1944 to his parents in Swindon; stating how their spirits have risen for Christmas; soiled. Tett figs.6-2-19, 20. Photo

Estimate
HK$1,200 to HK$1,500