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Postal History, Foreign Worldwide Military Postal History
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1234
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Australia Scarce 1939 Censor Cover from Hobart to Canada, mailed Hobart in 1939 (month difficult to read, but probably December, based on the "Best Wishes" and Christmas labels on back, see scan) to Brantford, Ontario, with Civil Censorship Study Group Type H6-1b censor handstamp in blue. CCSG reports only one known, this would be only the second. Some minor stains and a little roughly opened at right, still fine. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 30.00
Sold...C$ 30.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:39:32 EST
Sold For 30
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1235
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: British Cameroons
British Cameroons January 1944 Censor Cover to California, mailed from Buea ("Buea - Cameroons / Under British Mandate" c.d.s. canceling stamp) to Los Angeles. Back shows a "Victoria - Cameroons / Under British Mandate" c.d.s. transit dated JAN.4.1944. Front shows a Nigeria Type half circle censor handstamp in red (censored at Victoria), plus a British censor tape at left. A scarce cover with minor faults at right. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 50.00
Sold...C$ 50.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:40:10 EST
Sold For 50
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1236
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Fiji Group of 1940s World War II Censor Covers, with 3 covers to Canada, all with Civil Censorship Study Group labels L1. One has a H1d handstamp and the other two have Type H1e handstamps, the fourth cover is a registered cover to Australia with Type L2c-115 label (minor faults). Mostly very fine and scarce group, and 2 of the covers to Canada have their letters inside. (Image)
Est $ 200
Opening C$ 60.00
Sold...C$ 60.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:40:35 EST
Sold For 60
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1237
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Germany Group of 17 Displaced Persons Covers, 1946-1949, includes 3 covers going into camps from Austria and Germany, including one postal card going camp to camp. Also 14 covers either from displaced persons or organizations set up to help them, such as the International Refugee Organization. Note 9 covers to the USA and others to Sweden and Denmark and we note a good variety of censor tapes and handstamps. Scarce and seldom offered group, most with minor faults only. (Image)
Est $ 300
Opening C$ 325.00
Sold...C$ 325.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:40:57 EST
Sold For 325
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1238
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Gibraltar Group of 4 World War II Censor Covers to Canada, all four were sent at the 1sh4d air mail rate. Two have Lisbon transit backstamps. All 4 have F.P.O. 475 datestamps from Gibraltar, one is from a member of the RCAF and has an RAF censor handstamp. Two have "Passed Censor G1B" triangle military censor handstamps from censor #s 1 and 24. Fourth has an "Opened by Examiner A/6027" civil censorship resealing label at left. Some minor edge faults, still overall very fine and scarce. (Image)
Est $ 200
Opening C$ 160.00
Sold...C$ 160.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:41:34 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1239
Symbol: Cvr
Great Britain 1943 and 1944 Illustrated Military Air Letters, with a 1943 Royal Air Force Middle East illustrated air letter to Canada (tone spots) and a 1944 Naval air letter to England from Ceylon (minor opening faults). A scarce pair. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 40.00
Sold...C$ 40.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:42:09 EST
Sold For 40
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1240
Symbol: Cvr
Great Britain 1941 Return to Sender to British Guinea, mailed from Liverpool on OCT.24.1941 and sent by sea to Rabaul, New Guinea. Reached Sydney Australia some time after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor where it was censored and had a "Not Transmissible / Service Suspended" handstamp applied. No datestamps to show when it arrived back in Liverpool. Scarce, considering how far it travelled in this period, very fine. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 80.00
Sold...C$ 80.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:43:13 EST
Sold For 80
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1241
Symbol: Cvr/P
Cat No: Collection
Great Britain World War II Group of 3 Better Military Censor Items, with a 1916 opened by censor cover with a blue "opened by censor / return to sender" label addressed to Holland, an army post office SZ 14 registered cover to Egypt with a censor handstamp at bottom left and a censor re-sealing tape at top. Also a post card addressed to England with World War I naval censor handstamp used in Sicily. The blue triangle shaped handstamp originally read "Sicily" at the bottom, but was removed. Also note censor #"3" is reversed. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 70.00
Sold...C$ 70.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:43:47 EST
Sold For 70
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1242
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Great Britain Group of Two 1855 Crimean War Covers to Crimea, each paid with three 1d reds to Lt. Colonel C.L. Locks with the Coldstream Guards at Sevastopol in the Crimea. Blue envelope has a stamp with trimmed perfs, both have creases and other minor faults. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 170.00
Sold...C$ 170.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:44:30 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1243
Symbol: O/Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Great Britain Three Old Time Advanced Collections of WWI and WWII Military Postmarks, starting with a GB World War I F.P.O. collection of over 900 different postmarks on piece, all appear to be sorted in a stockbook. Also a publication by Alistair Kennedy and George Crabb "The Postal History of the British Army in World War I - Before and After, 1903 to 1929" (300 pages, 1977) which encloses 9 covers or cards. Lastly is a publication by Brigadier D.S. Virk AVSM "Indian Post Offices Locations and Movements, 1939-1947" (270 pages, 1973) which encloses 17 covers. An interesting lot not often encountered. (Image)
Est $ 300
Opening C$ 160.00
Sold...C$ 160.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:44:57 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1244
Symbol: Cvr/P
Cat No: Collection
Italy Group of 9 Displaced Persons Covers, 1946-1949, includes one each to Argentina, Canada, Italy and Palestine, plus 5 to the United States, mostly sent air mail, but also note 2 registered covers. Two postal cards have vertical folds at centre, otherwise overall fine. (Image)
Est $ 200
Opening C$ 170.00
Sold...C$ 170.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:45:25 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1245
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Kenya Uganda Tanganyika Group of 4 World War II Covers, Including Refugee Mail, note registered refugee camp cover from Masindi to Mombasa with stamps across all 4 edges plus on back, and a Kabale Uganda censored cover to Palestine with Uganda Type 1a (10 points in CCSG handbook) censor tape at left and an Egypt censor handstamp. Also a Kenya evacuee camp cover to Italy with censor handstamp "Passed by Censor / B.7" and a faint camp handstamp at bottom left. Also a Kenya - Broderick Falls cover to the USA with a CCSG Type IV circular handstamp that reads "N / Released / 11". Cover is missing its backflap. Some minor creases noted, still a fine or better group. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 90.00
Sold...C$ 90.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:46:18 EST
Sold For 90
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1246
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Mauritius 1941 Censor Cover to California, mailed at the Quartier Militaire on MAY.23.1941 and sent surface mail with George VI 3d stamps (x4) and 4c (x2) paying the 20c rate. Has manuscript "Permit / No/ DE03" in red bottom left, re-sealed at right with Civil censorship Study Group Type IIIA label. Also note "Q. Militaire" return address top left. Some minor edge creasing, otherwise very fine and scarce. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 40.00
Sold...C$ 40.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:46:49 EST
Sold For 40
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1247
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Collection
Norway Group of 39 Different World War II Postal Stationery Cards, includes one example of AW2, 14 different examples of AW3 and AW4, 2 different cards for both AW5 and AW6 and 3 each of AW7 and AW8. Most with nice Norwegian town cancels. Some with folds or minor creases, still overall a very fine group. (Image)
Michel € 259
Opening C$ 150.00
Sold...C$ 150.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:47:55 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1248
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Palestine Group of 5 Better Censor and Military Covers, with a 1918 cover from F.P.O. 6Y with the 6th Mounted Brigade in the Jerusalem valley, with an oblong shaped 3-line censor handstamp "Palestine Censorship No. 2", a 1919 incoming cover from the USA with a 3-line oblong shaped "Passed Censor 1" censor handstamp, an Oct. 1939 machine censor "Passed by Censor Jerusalem in 3 lines (only used 12/10 to 28/10, 10 points in Civil Censorship Study Group Handbook) - cover is grubby and missing its backflap and also its stamps. Also a 1940 cover from Palestine to Yugoslavia, registered, delivery attempted in 1945, not found and returned to sender. Received back in Palestine DEC.29.1945 with both Palestine and Yugoslavia re-sealing tapes. Also a 1945 air mail cover to Palestine with a violet handstamp "Headquarters No.2 Bn (Jewish) / the Palestine Regiment" plus handwritten "Concessional Postage Palestine Personnel". Back has FPO cancel and "Rehovot" receiver. Typical War time condition, with creases, etc. (Image)
Est $ 300
Opening C$ 150.00
Sold...C$ 150.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:48:32 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1249
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Philippines Group of 5 Better World War II Covers, all mailed between 1942 and 1948, two are first day covers for Victory issues, one is registered to the US, one has a Japanese Occupation censor, etc. We note some faults (two are reduced, one has a crease) still uncommon material. All scanned online. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 50.00
Sold...C$ 50.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:49:06 EST
Sold For 50
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1250
Symbol: Cvr
South Africa 1902 Boer War Cover to Canada, from #2143 Trooper W.G. Bradley, mailed at Elandsfontein to Hamilton with carrier markings on arrival, plus MAR.17.1902 Hamilton and Toronto backstamps. Franked with a GB 1d lilac tied by FEB.12 despatch. Trimmed slightly at right and some minor creases, still fine. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 50.00
Sold...C$ 40.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:49:31 EST
Sold For 40
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1251
Symbol: Cvr/P
Cat No: Collection
South Africa Group of 4 Boer Was Items, 1899-1902, includes censored covers from Pretoria and Johannesburg to England (one cover with tear on front and part of backflap) and a censored postal stationery card from Phabanchu to Capetown (stains on back). Also a faulty (tears, pieces missing and separated front and back) registered cover from Johannesburg to Poona, India. Except where noted a fine group. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 30.00
Sold...C$ 30.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:49:57 EST
Sold For 30
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1252
Symbol: Cvr
Sudan 1942 Registered Air Mail Cover to Palestine, franked with Scott #s 69 and 72, mailed from Khartoum, Sudan. Green on white "Opened by Examiner 1?" tape is trimmed slightly due to opening. Tape is tied to cover with a triangular "Passed Censor Sudan 4" handstamp. Back shows a JUN.7.1942 Rehovot receiver datestamp. Very fine. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 40.00
Sold...C$ 40.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:50:22 EST
Sold For 40
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1253
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Switzerland Group of World War II Internee Mail, with a nice group of 3 envelopes and 7 post cards from Polish civil and interned in Switzerland writing home. Some have minor creases and one has some sort of adhesion on it, otherwise a very fine group. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 70.00
Sold...C$ 70.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:50:45 EST
Sold For 70
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1254
Symbol: Cvr
Togo 1915 Anglo-French Occupation Censor Cover, mailed at Lome on JUL.8.1915 to Oxford, England, franked with a 1d scarlet Gold Coast stamp overprinted "TOGO / ANGLO FRENCH / OCCUPATION". Cover has a 3-line "Passed by Censor / at / Lome (Togo)" handstamp in purple. Very fine and scarce. (Image)
Est $ 150
Opening C$ 60.00
Sold...C$ 60.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 11:51:10 EST
Sold For 60
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1255
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Worldwide Group of 7 Refugee Camp Covers, 1944-1948, with 4 covers from camps in Egypt, all mailed to the USA, including one with a 2-line "M.E.R.R.A. / El Shatt' handstamp. Also two Polish refugee camps in India covers, one to the USA and one to Palestine. Also a Polish refugee camp Iringa in Tanganyika cover to South Africa (cover has parts of stamp lower left removed, as well as all stamps across the top, probably done by censors). A scarce group, with creases, staining, etc, still overall fine. (Image)
