Camps in Japan - Honshu continued...
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 1321 |
PSE |
 OSAKA (AMAGASAKI CAMP): 1945 (Aug 25) British 1½d red-brown Forces Letter (aerogramme) to "Amagasaki Sub-Camp/Osaka" with full
letter, pencilled "30.9.45" receival on the face. Posted after Japan surrendered so it's surprising that it was delivered to Japan. David Tett mentions Amagasaki only twice, with no details: it must have been a very small camp. (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1322 |
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 OSAKA (OEYAMA CAMP): 1942 (Aug 15) cover from Devon with British censor label, to "HMS Thracian/ .../Tokyo" but redirected to
"OSAKA" over Kanji for Oeyama. censor in violet & han of Hazama Gen in scarlet, pencilled "17.9.44" receival on reverse, minor blemishes. [The 'Thracian' was scuttled at Hong Kong but repaired by the Japanese & converted to a training ship. The POW
Research Network Japan states the Oeyama POWs were used in an oil refinery or in a nickel mine at Kaya-cho] (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1323 |
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 OSAKA (SAKURAJIMA CAMP): 1942 (Aug 30) cover from Canada with 6c Seaplane tied by 'WINNIPEG' machine & Canadian censor label, to a
private in "The Winnipeg Grenadiers/Taken Prisoner of war at Hong Kong/H Camp/.../Tokyo", pencilled "Arg St" (= Argyle Street Camp in Hong Kong) but redirected to "OSAKA" with camp censor but unusually without a han. The Canadian troops defending
Hong Kong suffered appalling casualties. Most survivors were held at Shamshuipo Camp but David Tett states about 200 POWs including some Canadians were moved to Osaka Camp 4B at Sakurajima: see also Lot 1323. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1324 |
PSE |
 OSAKA (SAKURAJIMA CAMP): Undated Japanese red & black/cream POW postal card with typed pro forma "letter" & "Osaka POW
Camp/Sakurajima Sub Camp" at upper-left, han of Tomita, superb British censor in purple, light soiling & minor corner bend. The POWs worked at Osaka Dockyard. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1325 |
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 OSAKA (TSUMORI CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP): 1943 (Mar 26) American cover with superb San Francisco machine with 'GIVE/ + /RED
CROSS/WAR FUND' slogan, to a US soldier at "Shanghai, Japan" [sic] but endorsed "OSAKA" and "Tsumori", minor blemishes. Tsumori or Camp 14D was a civilian internment camp that held some POWs. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1326 |
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 OSAKA: 1943 (Aug 24) American airmail cover to New York with 'AMES/IOWA' machine, to a Marine at "...Osaka Prison Camp/Honsha" &
endorsed at lower-left "via the Gripsholm ship" with American censor tape, stamps removed after Japanese censor applied in red, pencilled "100 Hoincho". Per the second exchange voyage of the 'Gripsholm' ex New York 2.9.1943; arrived Marmagao,
Portuguese India 16.10.1943; then per 'Teia Maru' to Singapore, minor blemishes. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1327 |
PSE |
 OSAKA: 1945 (Aug 24) GB 1½d Forces Letter to "O.S.A.K.A. Camp/Japan" with Victory Bells machine of Plymouth, on arrival endorsed
"Emplacable". Unusual: most mail posted after Japan surrendered was returned to the senders. The writer apparently thought OSAKA was an acronym! The addressee was repatriated on HMS 'Implacable', from Manila to Vancouver. With a PPC-size photo of the
ship issued to POWs as a memento of the voyage, minor bends & a bit soiled.
(2 items) (Image1)
(Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1328 |
PSE |
 TOKYO (KAWASAKI CAMP): 1942 (Dec 19) Japanese black/buff POW postal card with large box for the sender's details endorsed
"Kawasaki", two Japanese censors & han of Takeuchi and Red Cross at Geneva cachet all in rosine, on arrival in Canada small censor applied at base, War Effort 7c Plane affixed & flown to Manitoba with very fine 'TRANSCONA/SP11/43/MAN' arrival cds,
minor wear. Stated by Lindsay Chitty to be one of the three equal-earliest recorded cards from the Tokyo Group. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1329 |
D |
 TOKYO (KAWASAKI CAMP): 1944 (May 24) Australian airgraph to Canada advising that the sender of the previous lot was mentioned in a
radio broadcast from Japan as being alive & well, Canadian 'AIRGRAPH - AIR MAIL/JUN6/1944/POSTAGE PAID' machine & part 'TRANSCONA' arrival cds on the reverse. The sender states "...My husband is also in this camp...conditions seem to be as good as
any of the camps in the Far East...", despite which 16 POWs perished there. (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$220.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1330 |
PSE |
 TOKYO (KAWASAKI CAMP): 1945 (Jan 6) Canadian blue/white POW airmail postal card to ".../No 1 Prison Camp/Tokyo Area" with 10c
Parliament tied by 'VULCAN/ALBERTA' cds & Canadian censor, 'O.A.T' cachet of London, camp censor & han of Hirota and Emori all in rosine, bumped corners. Colourful. The war must have been in its final phase when this arrived. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1331 |
PSE |
 TOKYO (KAWASAKI CAMP): 1945 (Sep 16) Canadian formular Air Letter with War Effort 7c tied by 'HAMILTON/ONTARIO' machine, to 7th
Base PO in Ottawa with rubber 'OTTAWA MPO 318/DEC 12 1945/ONT' cds (on the reverse) & superb 'MAIL FOR L.P.W.' cachet both in purple, returned to the POW's home in Manitoba with 'TRANSCONA' arrival backstamp. Sent a month after Japan surrendered &
held for 3 months while a decision about handling such mail was made. (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1332 |
PSE |
 TOKYO (KITAYAMA CAMP 6B): 1944 (Feb 1) Australian blue/white POW Lettersheet from 'TWO WELLS' (SA) censored at Melbourne, to "The
Hakodate Camp 2/Hokkaido" but redirected to Tokyo Camp "6B" in red-pencil, Japanese censors in rosine & red, han of Hirota and Yoshida. Camp 6B was at Kitayama, opened only on 4.6.1945. A small camp with only some 250 POWs used by Nippon Steel Tube &
Mining Co. David Tett states they were mainly British American or Canadian: the addressee was one of only "6 other nationalities" held there.
(Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$360.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1333 |
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 TOKYO (NIIGATA CAMP 5B): 1942 (Aug 30) cover from Canada with 'WINNIPEG' machine & Canadian censor label, to a corporal in the
"Winnipeg Grenadiers/.../Camp Tokyo No 5", large Tokyo camp censor & han of Hirota both in rosine, blemishes. The Canadian troops defending Hong Kong suffered appalling casualties. Most survivors were held at Shamshuipo Camp but about 100 Canadians
were moved to Tokyo Camp 5: see also Lot 1323. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$240.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1334 |
PSE |
 TOKYO (OMORI CAMP): 1945 (Sep 2; the date of the formal Japanese Surrender at Tokyo Bay) use of British 'blue triangle' aerogramme
with letter headed "HMS Speaker/Sept 2nd 1945", to Yorkshire, the only postal marking being British 'POST/OFFICE - MARITIME/MAIL' machine in red, a few folds. The writer, formerly held at Omori, states: "...I have survived to see this day of World
Peace......I was released by American soldiers on 29th August, the first camp relieved in Japan...there are hundreds of my friends with their health ruined and many more dead...I can never think of the Japanese race again without hating the very
sound of their name. But I don't suppose such an animal exists in Yorkshire so I will be OK there...life in Japan has qualified me to be a first class thief..." David Tett in Volume 6 at page 334 lists the ships that repatriated POWs from Japan &
elsewhere. He states the 'Speaker' departed from Manila 4.10.1945, arriving Brisbane 17.10.1945. This letter indicates that at least some POWs were on the ship from Tokyo. (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1335 |
PSE |
 TOKYO (SHINAGAWA CAMP): 1942 (Dec 21) Japanese black & red/buff POW postal card endorsed "Shinagawa, Tokyo" at upper-left with
very fine large censor in rosine & han of Ichimura in scarlet, from an American officer to Minnesota with Red Cross Geneva cachet in violet. David Tett states in Volume 6 at page 54 that Shinagawa was a hospital camp for all the Tokyo camps. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1336 |
PSE |
 UNKNOWN CAMP: 1945 (Apr 19) usage of American Red Cross 'RECEIPT FOR PURCHASE OF WAR PACKAGE' postcard from a British POW
acknowledging receipt of a food parcel, no postal markings, small repaired tear. Thousands of food parcels were sent to Japan but delivery was often greatly delayed. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
Camps in Japan - Kyushu
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 1337 |
D |
 Original photograph (148x108mm) of a large number of POWs at Fukuoka awaiting repatriation, a few appear quite robust but many are
obviously emaciated, rounded corners. An important artefact. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1338 |
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 FUKUOKA (CAMP NUMBER 11): 1943 (Sep 14) plain postcard from Essex to "Java Camp" with British censor, in Japan redirected to "FUK"
Branch Camp "(11)" with Fukuoka censor in violet & unidentified han in scarlet, pencilled "Received 23.1.45" on reverse, bumped corners. The Japanese POW Research Network lists Fukuoka branch camps up to '27', but no '11', which presumably was
absorbed into another camp. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1339 |
PSE |
 FUKUOKA (CAMP NUMBER 19): 1945 (Aug 24) British 1½d red-brown POW Forces Letter to "Fukuoka Camp 19", posted at Eastbourne after
Japan surrendered so no British censor but no return markings so apparently received by the POW just before he was repatriated. (Image1)
(Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$175
SOLD for AU$135.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
| 1340 |
PSE |
 FUKUOKA (KOYAGI CAMP NUMBER 2): Undated simple Japanese POW postal card with printed 'IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY' on the reverse,
endorsed "Dutch/Mil Coastguard/Fukuoka No 2" with superb censor (partial obliteration) in rosine & unidentified han in scarlet, to an uninterned civilian in Java with superb hans of Kitano in rosine & Akiyama, slight corner bend. Camp Number 2 was at
a major shipyard. (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Aug-27, 08:00 PM |
