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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2072

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
P.O.W. Mail - Camp 'S', Shamshuipo (Other Ranks)
1943 (c.) type 1 card from George Rowe to his parents in Manchester, with small Hasegawa seal and British censor handstamp in rose "P.W. 2545", redirected on arrival and with Stockport 8.7.44 machine postmark. The message of 27 words and the date had been scraped off the card. Good. Tett fig. 4-3-23. Photo

Sold for
HK$1,400