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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2435

Prisoner or War Mail
Manchuria
Hoten Camp - Incoming Mail
1943 (10 May) printed envelope to Sgt. Leland M. Andrews, previously in the Philippine Islands, bearing Stockton, California machine postmark, manuscript "HOT", with Hoten Prisoner of War Camp Censor handstamp with Murata seal, "379 aug 45" (prisoner number and date of receipt); with U.S. censor tape at left but part of the printed cover has been removed (offensive to the Japanese censor?) with "Air Conditioned Throughout" remaining in the lower corner. Photo

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HK$2,200