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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2352

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Tokyo Camp - Outgoing Mail
1942 (23 Dec.) first type card from sgt. Earl Hassler in Shinagawa Camp to his mother in California, bearing framed Tokyo Prisoner of War Camp Censored handstamp in red with Ichimura seal below, straight-line "Sce Des Prisonniersde Guerre" (small letters) in mauve and circular Red Cross Geneva handstamp in violet. The message includes the fact that he had not received any messages from the family since October 1941; some creasing and wrinkling. Tett fig. 6-2-36. Photo

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