DARTMOOR PRISON - FRENCH P.O.W. COVER TO FRANCE WITH RARE HA...

Hammer

£360

DARTMOOR PRISON - FRENCH P.O.W. COVER TO FRANCE WITH RARE HANDSTRUCK "Exd JM" CENSOR MARK; 4 Aug. 1813 EL to La Rochelle? (part address bleached out & town name inside cut out) from "Jean Braux" in "Dartmoor [Prison] a Angleterre" seeking news of his family after months of silence (since April 1812?) while he has been a prisoner. having been taken on board the American ship 'La Comete'; charged "8[decimes]" and having a mainly very fine small handstruck "Exd JM" censor mark of Dartmoor Prison's John Moore (only recorded 1813-15). [An example of this Exd JM mark sold for £1,140 in Cavendish, June 2015, lot 697. This example priced according to condition.] [Illust. in Renollaud, p.167.]Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, MILITARY - NAPOLEONIC WAR, DEVON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA