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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2359

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Tokyo Camp - Outgoing Mail
1945 (13 Mar.) third type envelope with letter on official paper, only the date at top, from Nicholaas F.J. Swarte, a Dutch soldier to his family in the Hague bearing boxed Censored handstamp in rose with Matsumoto seal plus Onishi seal below, manuscript "291" in violet crayon, without Dutch censor marks. The message notes that he had not received any mail from home. Tett fig.6-2-48, 49. Photo

Sold for
HK$950