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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2056

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Incoming P.O.W. Mail
From U.K.: 1942 (17 Nov.) stampless envelope to Driver Boughey, Royal Engineers, Kowloon, sent "Prisoners of War Post" with Bognor Regis machine cancellation and British censor seal at left. Marked "HQ#262" in pencil (Headquarters Camp) and with a fair strike of Tokyo Prisoner of War handstamp in carmine-rose with Ichimura seal alongside and pencil "O". With the original letter from his mother besring Tokyo handstamp and seal. Tett fig. 4-2-11. Photo

Sold for
HK$750