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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2358

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Tokyo Camp - Outgoing Mail
1944 (18 Mar.) third type envelope, with letter on official sheet with camp and date, from Nelson Busch to his aunt Tillie in Detroit bearing boxed Tokyo Prisoner of War Camp Censor handstamp in rose-carmine with Hirota seal in rose; without U.S. censor and marked on the reverse "Received Sept. 20 1945". The camp code has been scratched off both the letter pages and envelope. Tett fig. 6-2-46, 47

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