Camp Seven Bank, Internment Camp, Hay, 6D, 1 March 1941, serial no. C 40771, blue and white with black text, perimeter fence, kangaroo, emu and ram at centre, border of barbed wire, manuscript signatures of Robinson and Stahl, rev. blue and white, rams in background, also 1/-, 1 March 1941, serial no. E 40282, red and white with black text, design as last, manuscript signatures of Epstein and Stahl, and 2/-, 1 March 1941, serial no. D 20122, green and white with black text, design as last, manuscript signatures of Mendl and Stahl (Schwan-Boling 551c, 552b, 553a), together with a hand painted card of various allegorical vignettes and dated on reverse 20th November 1941 on board S.S. Ceramic, a very rare group, generally good extremely fine to uncirculated and two examples with rarer signature combinations (4)

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Camp Seven Bank, Internment Camp, Hay, 6D, 1 March 1941, serial no. C 40771, blue and white with black text, perimeter fence, kangaroo, emu and ram at centre, border of barbed wire, manuscript signatures of Robinson and Stahl, rev. blue and white, rams in background, also 1/-, 1 March 1941, serial no. E 40282, red and white with black text, design as last, manuscript signatures of Epstein and Stahl, and 2/-, 1 March 1941, serial no. D 20122, green and white with black text, design as last, manuscript signatures of Mendl and Stahl (Schwan-Boling 551c, 552b, 553a), together with a hand painted card of various allegorical vignettes and dated on reverse 20th November 1941 on board S.S. Ceramic, a very rare group, generally good extremely fine to uncirculated and two examples with rarer signature combinations (4)

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S.S.Ceramic was a ship of 18,713 tons and was torpedoed and sunk by U515 on 6th December 1942 off the Azores.