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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2395

Prisoner or War Mail
Taiwan
Outgoing Mail
1943 (5 Feb.) type 1 Imperial Japanese Army card sent by Sapper M.A. Rooney to his mother in Norwich, bearing large boxed Prisoner of War Post handstamp in deep violet, Taiwan Prisoner of War censor handstamp with Kawaida seal; vertical fold. Also 1943 (14 Dec.) type 2 Imperial Nippon Army card from the same correspondence bearing Taiwan Prisoner or War censor handstamp in violet with Murai seal and note that this was received July 8th 1944. Tett figs. 5-6-21, 27. (2 covers)

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HK$1,800