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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2349

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Tokyo Camp - Incoming Mail
1943 (4 Sept.) U.S. 1c. stationery card uprated 30c. to Lt. J. McNaughton, marked "Prisoner of War Post" and "Air Mail where possible" with long typewritten message from his wife, cancelled by New York slogan cancellation, with circular U.S. censor handstamp, boxed Prisoner of War Post and boxed Tokyo Prisoner Of War Camp Censored both in red; Japanese script for Bunka Cultural College. Also 1943 (23 Sept.) Australian Red Cross envelope also to Lieut. McNaughton with letter from his aunt, with Melbourne machine postmark. Australian censor tape and handstamp "122" on the reverse with a further strike on the front, circular Tokyo Red Cross handstamp in red and boxed Tokyo Prisoner or War Camp Censored handstamp in red, manuscript "Bunka", the letter also with the camp censor handstamp. Both items addressed to Keijo Camp in Korea. Unusual mail to this scarce camp. Tett figs, 6-3-42, 43. Photo

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HK$1,300