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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2071

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
P.O.W. Mail - Camp 'S', Shamshuipo (Other Ranks)
1943 (c.) type 1 card from Albert Clapton to Oxon bearing small Hasegawa seal and a fine strike of the British censor handstamp "P.W. 1815" in rose. The message is 32 words and the date has been obscured by the censor's ink; vertical folding crease. Tett fig. 4-3-24. Photo

Sold for
HK$1,400