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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2388

Prisoner or War Mail
Taiwan
Incoming Mail
From U.S.A.: 1943 (1 Aug.) stampless envelopes to Colonel Harry Peck bearing Alberquerque machine postmark and marked "Via Gripsholm" (on the second voyage of this exchange ship) with boxed Prisoner of War handstamp in red, "Bei 4" in red crayon and handstamp "1284" in blue, the reverse with "Received Shirakawa, Taiwan, Feb.22 1944". Also a similar, 1944 (20 Feb.) stampless envelope, this one bearing a good strike of the Taiwan Prisoner of War censor handstamp with Murakami seal. Good to fine. Tett fig. 5-7-14 (first). (2 covers). Photo

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HK$2,800