£420
U.S. COVER SENT "POSTAGE FREE" TO "CIVILIAN INTERNEE...KUCHING, SARAWAK...INTERNMENT CAMP"; Rare 13 Nov. 1943 stampless env. from Santa Monica (machine) endorsed "POSTAGE FREE" to authoress Mrs. Agnes Keith in "Kuching, Sarawak" Camp via New York & Tokyo with US Censor label and circular "Ag" of Vienna German censor on the front, but also having a fine purple boxed Japanese "Borneo POW Camp" censor alongside. Very rare US mail to an Internee. [The similar but less attractive cover in the Sept. 2014 Tett auction, lot 1561, realised £500.] [Illustrated in Watterson, 1989, p.108.]Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, MILITARY - WWII
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