Lot# 9265

The 2022 Winter Auction - Sale 339   17th to 20th December 2022, Hong Kong

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Lot# 9265
Starting Price: 1,500 HK$
Hammer Price: 13,000 HK$
1919 (Feb 17) WWI POW censor cover, from Nanking POW camp to Germany, stampless, bearing Nanking bilingual cds., oval Internierungslager Nanking censor mark, framed rectangular Nanking censor mark in English, Shanghai transit and two circular censor marks. Nanking POW camp was established to contain the captured crew of German torpedo-boat SMS S90 which sank the Japanese cruiser Takachiho and deliberately run aground in China on 17 October 1914.
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