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Auction: 20033 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia
Lot: 1630

Prisoner of War and Civilian Internee Mail from Burma, Thailand and Indochina
Mail to Prisoners of War on the Burma-Thailand Railway
1943 (12 Nov.) card from Leeds to Sgt. Blackburn in the Signals, showing despatch Censor cachet in red, manuscript “OVL/03/11”, red crayon “Hon 5” and Japanese censor seal of Adachi applied in Thailand; also 1943 (18 Nov.) envelope from Edinburgh, showing Censor label at left who rejected the letter and affixed “returned to sender/by the censor/for reason explained in/memorandum enclosed in this cover” green label

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Estimate
£150 to £180

Starting price
£110