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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2408

Prisoner or War Mail
Taiwan
Outgoing Mail
1944 (13 Nov.) typed envelope from Trooper J. Oldcorn to Workington, Cumberland, bearing the usual prisoner of war mail handstamps, Taiwan Prisoner of War Camp censor handstamp with Mizushima seal. Also undated envelope from Major General Macrae to London with the two prisoner or war handstamps (one in red) and, unusually, two strikes of Taiwan Prisoner of War Camp censor handstamps with Ishii and Murakami seals; neither with British censor marking as both were received after the end of the war; soiling. Tett fig. 5-6-5. Photo

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HK$1,800