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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2098

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Civilian Mail - Stanley Internment Camp - Incoming Mail
From U.K.: 1942 (23 June) stampless envelope to Pengellys bearing Plymouth despatch postmark without date, sent Prisoner of War Post and with British censor seal at left, Maejima seal, "A1/5" in blue crayon and pencil "11/6/43 Received". With the original two page letter from their mother, each page with Japanese censor seal. Fine and one of the earliest items of mail from the U.K. Tett fig. 4-4-6. Photo

Sold for
HK$1,300