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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2367

Prisoner or War Mail
Japan
Zentsuji Camp - Incoming Mail
1943 (24 Aug.) "Prisoner of War/via Air Mail to New York/to board 'S.S. Gripsholm'" to Lieutenant Commander Orel Peirson, handstruck "via air mail" in purple, U.S. Air 6c. tied by San Francisco slogan cancellation, U.S. censor tape at left and boxed prisoner of war mail handstamp in red. Sent by his wife in San Francisco, light soiling. Carried on the second sailing of the 'Gripsholm' which left New York on 2nd September 1943. Tett fig. 6-3-51. Photo

Estimate
HK$2,500 to HK$3,000