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Auction: 5006 - British Empire
Lot: 371

BURMA Prisoner of War Mail Incoming Mail 1944 (6 July) envelope from Kalaw to "Mrs G. Childers Internment Camp Tavoy", bearing Shan States issue 5c. ultramarine cancelled with double-ring d.s. and underpaid by 5c. as the letter rate had doubled in May 1944, showing Kalaw horseshoe-framed Postage Due handstamp completed for 10c. and with Japanese censor chop in red alongside, Tavoy Unpaid and Tavoy d.s. on reverse. A most unusual cover. B.P.A. Certificate (1997). Photo Estimate £ 400-500

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