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Auction: 15016 - David Tett's Collection of Prisoner of War Mail in East Asia and Dutch East Indies
Lot: 2099

Prisoner or War Mail
Hong Kong
Civilian Mail - Stanley Internment Camp - Incoming Mail
From U.K.: 1942 (27 June) stampless envelope to George Gerrard bearing South Shields machine postmark, sent Prisoners of War Post, British censor seal at left, Military Internment camp censor handstamp in purple with Sekiguchi seal, pencil notation on the reverse "Recd Friday 27th April 1945" (nearly three years in transit). Tett fig. 4-4-7. Photo

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HK$1,600