Postal History continued...
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| 41 |
 1943 DAMAGED BY SEA
WATER violet boxed handstamp on cover Nevada to New York, redirected to London with RETURNED LETTER SECTION / LONDON POSTAL REGION. Interesting unknown wreck cover.
(ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 42 |
 1950-72 Six balloon
covers includes Pan American Berlin-Hamburg-Berlin, 1972 Mali Tombouctou x 3, 1955 Austria Vienna to East Germany and 1954 Vienna to Bernburg DDR. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 43 |
 British Commonwealth
areas from turn of the 20th century to 1950s commercial rates many to USA incl Canada, India censors, Australia censors (same correspondence), Bahamas censors and postcards, Bermuda, S. Africa, Kedah, Kuwait, Jamaica, Burma, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, etc
approx. 65. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 44 |
 CRIMEA WAR: 1855
August. Four page letter from a French soldier (to his mother and brother)camped at Devant, Sebastopol. Mentions army life and is easily readable (in French) with some peripheral wear and filing creases. Nice Military item. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 45 |
 CRIMEA WAR: 1855
August. Three page letter from a French soldier (to his mother and brother)camped at Devant, Sebastopol. Mentions army life and is easily readable (in French) with some staining but only to be expected under the conditions the letter was written.
Nice Military item. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 46 |
 CRIMEA WAR: 1855 July.
Double sided letter from a French soldier (to his mother and brother) camped at Devant, Sebastopol. Mentions army life and is easily readable (in French) with some peripheral small tears and filing creases. Nice Military item. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 47 |
 EUROPEAN CENSORS: 1947
PPC from Italy to Germany with 3L strip of 3 all tied with boxed HELD PENDING AUTHORISATION OF SERVICE and MILITARY CENSORSHIP/CIVIL MAILS circular h/s in violet. Difficult marking to find. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 48 |
 Fieldpost Postcards
used mainly from French, German, Austria or Hungarian soldiers in 1916-17, mostly FELDPOST unstamped but nice range of different handstamps and postmarks many fieldpost numbers, Debreczen Portofrei, incl IV ARMEE, boxed SB . 5 Komp. Rus., Battalion
West Pioneer Regt 24, KGL Reserve Lazarett II, KUK Infanterierie Feldpost 228, KUK Platzkomm, red Feldpost label tied, plus dozens more, PPCs mainly topographical, but includes some military groups or related. Approx 330 cards. Low estimate. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 49 |
 Foreign areas from turn
of the 20th century to 1950s commercial rates many to USA incl South & Central America, Japan, Israel, Tunisia, odd censor etc approx. 35. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 50 |
 Maritime: Moveable Box
1906-28 Two postcards and one cover (faults) to UK bearing France adhesives each tied by LONDON / M.B. or SOUTHAMPTON / M B cds cancels. Moveable Boxes (or boite mobile) on board private ships we used through a special agreement between France and
Britain for mails since 1856 and the service became so successful that moveable boxes were employed to process the mail carried by private ships at a cost of One Penny. 1928 is late usage. (3). (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 51 |
 MILITARY MAIL: WWI &
WWII selection of covers and cards all from Military personnel with WWI Germany Felpost cards and lettersheet all with different handstamps of the various regiments (10) & Belgian card with Military cds; then two Third Reich items from WWII with
Feldpost letter sheet endorsed with Eagle and Swastika cds and a 1939 attractive official looking envelope with cachets/ Handstamps and an attractive Eagle and Swastika seal in red on the reverse (faults). Useful lot ( 13) (ImageA) (ImageB)
(ImageC)
(ImageD)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 52 |
 P.O.W. MAIL:WWI
Accumulation of covers sent to Copenhagen,Denmark, ALL stampless with group of small envelopes bearing TOLNA (Hungary) cds and triangular censor marking in purple (18), larger envelopes with 'K.U.K. OFFIZIERSTATION / KRIEGGEFANGENE / THERESIENSTADT'
handstamp and triangular censor in shades of purple (8) and another with red censor, group of fronts with Osnabruck (Germany) special cancel (4) and further envelopes with postmarks of PRAGUE (2), LUGOS (Romania), ZYWIEC (Poland) & BUCZACZ
(Ukraine)all with censor markings. Very good lot in better than average condition (32, plus 4 fronts) (ImageA) (ImageB)
(ImageC)
(ImageD)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 53 |
 POSTAGE REFUNDED -
Violet handstamp on four 1949 Covers Bath to China to same correspondence bearing 1s & 3d adhs tied Bath wavy line machine cancel each addr to different town in China incl Peiping, Nanchang, Tsingan & Igfeng, Some creases, most unusual and
interesting group. (4). (ImageA)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 54 |
 Russo-Japanese War:
1904 PPC of Druskieniki Niemen to Petrograd and 5th Squadron sumi Hussar Free post cachet in violet, Light age tones otherwise good strike. (ImageA)
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Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 55 |
 Russo-Japanese War:
1904 PPC of Kharben Church to Kiev and 10k Mountain East Siberian Regt Military Camp cachet in violet, Kiev TPO part cancel, sound. (ImageA)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 56 |
 Russo-Japanese War:
1905 (20 Oct) Native Japanese coloured printed card for Japanese Forces in Siberia showing Military Camp scene from soldier of the Expedition Force, soils, stained and torn badly, creased but scarce use. (ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 57 |
 Russo-Japanese War:
1905 PPC of Harbour scene with Russian Military Train / Her Majesty Alekandrova cachet in violet, OSTRANDE KV6 cds of 1906. Mainly fine. (ImageA)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 58 |
 SCANDINAVIA AIRLINES &
LUFTHANSA First Flight covers collection written up on leaves in loose-leaf binder with over 95 different covers from 1954-56 includes mostly German flights to dozens of destinations incl 1954 to Buenos Aires, Frankfurt to Manila, Dusseldorf to
Sofia, to Madrid, many internal German flights, to London, Paris, 1955 press flight New York to Hamburg with five special cancels on reverse for Manila, Ramna, Dambulla, Murree & Oslo. Fascinating lot in very fine condition. (Approx 95). (ImageA) (ImageB)
(ImageC)
(ImageD)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 59 |
 Scotland Maritime: 1911
Official illustrated MACBRAYNE printed postcard RMS showing Columba paddle steamer used with ½d green tied good strike of GK & ARDISHAIG PACKET / B / COLUMBA cds, very attractive.
(ImageA) (ImageB)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
| 60 |
 Selection of thirty
unused postal stationery postcards including a couple of covers. Includes St. Pierre et Miquelon 10c, Tunis 15c, Japan 2 sen, Cuba 2 pesos and Turkey 2 paras. (ImageA)
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CLOSED
Closing..Mar-21, 08:00 AM |
