£900
TEIA MARU & "GRIPSHOLM" EXCHANGE SHIPS - UNRECORDED JAPANESE PAQUEBOT MARK - Sep. 1943 env. posted aboard Teia Maru from four children to their parents (still in Chapei camp) after the childrens' repatriation in a prisoner swap in Goa harbour onto the ship Gripsholm; placed in the mail in Yokohama with Japanese censor tape & unrecorded unboxed PAQUEBOT above [4 Japanese characters] mark, similar to the very rare Hosking type 3472 but 40mm in length; cover illustrated in Tett Vol 4 Pg 224. Also 1942/4 censored envs. to Sweden from crew members of Gripsholm franked with US or Mozambique adhesives. (3) Cross Reference: MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL
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