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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2402

Prisoner or War Mail
Taiwan
Outgoing Mail
1943 (21 Feb.) type 1 Imperial Japanese Army card from Brigadier Rusher to his wife in Newquay, bears "Service Des/Prisonniers De Guerre" in red, a very fine strike of Prisoner of War Camp censor handstamp in violet with Nakajima seal, boxed Prisoner of War Post handstamp in violet and British "P.W. 1556" censor handstamp in red; vertical crease at right. He asks that his furniture and stamps are looked after and this was sent from Shirakawa Camp. Tett fig. 5-6-23

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HK$1,200