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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2353

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Tokyo Camp - Outgoing Mail
1943-44, a group of printed cards with 1943 type 2 cards (with "prisoners of war mail" printed at left) from F. Leach form Omari Camp to his mother in Gloucester and from Sydney Watts in no.7 Dispatch Camp to his parents in Brixton, both bearing framed Tokyo Prisoner of War Camp Censored handstamp in rose-red, Nemoto seal and British censor handstamp "P.W.155" in red; 1944 type 1 card from Percy Cooper to his wife in Coventry with unframed Tokyo Prisoner of War Camp Censored handstamp in rose-red with Hirota and a second seal, without British censor and probably arrived after the war. Various degrees of creasing and soiling. Tett figs. 6-2-37, 38, 39. (3 cards)

Estimate
HK$1,800 to HK$2,200