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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2095

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Civilian Mail - Stanley Internment Camp - Incoming Mail
From China: 1943 (1 Nov.) envelope from Free China to P. Hamilton bearing Sun Yat Sen $1 tied by Kweilin c.d.s. and bearing a good strike of the Governor General's Department censor handstamp in blue with Maejima seal and pencil "Recd 3/12/43". With the original letter addressed "c/o Refugee Relief Dept., 32 Fung Pei Road, Kweilin". Scarce mail from Kweilin. Tett fig. 4-4-31. Photo

Sold for
HK$8,500