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Auction: 20033 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia
Lot: 1624

Prisoner of War and Civilian Internee Mail from Burma, Thailand and Indochina
Mail to Prisoners of War on the Burma-Thailand Railway
1943 (7 Jan.) and (5 Apr.) Dai Nippon 3½c. stationery cards to Dutch POWs, both from Malang and written in Malay; the former addressed to Tjimahi and redirected, firstly to “No 3 Hosp” (deleted) and then “6 Gr”, showing Japanese “Thailand Prisoner of War Camp Censored” h.s. in violet and Japanese seal of Choshi in red; the latter, with stamp impression partly covered by piece of paper) addressed to Djawa D Camp, showing red crayon “Militer Tawanan” (Military Prisoner), unboxed Japanese (transferred to Thailand), manuscript “Not in Thailand or Burma” and red crayon “Try Singapore”. Photo

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Estimate
£150 to £180

Starting price
£110