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  • Lot# : 40705 Australia

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    Concentration Camp Mail 1918: 'Service des prisonniers de Guerre' Prisoner of War / Free printed envelope mailed to the Concentration Camp at Holdsworthy, NSW cancelled by fine strike of "MOLONGLO DEFENCE CAMP / N.S.W." cds (June 15) with Censor cachet at left signed by one Capt. Leo G. Casey. Sender's details on reverse "Grete Mueller, Molonglo Concentration Camp, via Queanbeyan, Federal Territory". The Molonglo Concentration Camp was built in just three months to house 3'500 German and Austrian nationals being expelled from China. However they never arrived at the Camp and 150 inmates of the Internement camp at Bourke were housed here along with some families from Berrima Jail. Rare and a most historically interesting cover.rnrnProvenance: Prestige, Melbourne, 14 Aug 2010, lot 194.
    Starting bid : 1,200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,200 CHF