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25 Cents Naivasha Camp
| Issuer | P.O.W. Camp No. 2, Naivasha (D.A.P.S.S.) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Reference(s) | Camb#5436 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a pink underprint; a central square vignette bears the large numeral '25' above the word 'CENTS', framed by a decorative border. The inscriptions 'P.O.W. CAMP / No. 2 / NAIVASHA' appear in bold black type within the vignette, while 'D.A.P.S.S. – 1941' is printed vertically along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CENTS P.O.W. CAMP No. 2 NAIVASHA D.A.P.S.S. - 1941 |
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D.A.P.S.S. — the Director of Alien Prisoners and Surplus Stores — issued scrip through a network of camps in British East Africa following Italy's entry into the war in June 1940. Naivasha, on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley, held predominantly Italian civilian internees rather than military prisoners, a distinction that shaped the camp's internal economy and the relatively high denominations its scrip ran to.
Locally produced in Kenya rather than sourced from a metropolitan printer, the physical execution is appropriately rough. These camp issues were never intended to outlast the war, and most didn't.