Great Britain and British Commonwealth County Postal History World War Two Red Cross Message Scheme
Sale No: 53
Lot No: 308
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World War Two Red Cross Message Scheme. Unused British message forms (5, three types); Instructions for sending messages (5, four types, one issued by the British Legion Office in Aberdeen); and "Instructions for Reply" (32, eight types), very unusual. (42).
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Lot No: 309
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1940-43 Forms, selected items including form signed in manuscript by George Bradshaw, "TIMBRE-REPONSE" cachets (3), Isle of Man Red Cross Message Bureau cachets (2), etc. (40).
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Lot No: 310
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German Red Cross Form Errors. 1942-44 Forms from Guernsey all with errors, with the address details printed on both sides (the answer details therefore omitted), red printing omitted (3) and red printing misplaced (7, five miscut as a result), a very unusual group. (11).
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Lot No: 311
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1941-44 British or German forms to or from Jersey (22) or Guernsey (53) all with large circular "BRITISH RED CROSS AND ST. JOHN WAR ORGANISATION" cachets with a central Red Cross, various cachet types, all fine. (75).
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Lot No: 312
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1942-45 Forms comprising 1943 German forms from Guernsey with return message received in September handstamped unframed "Deutsches Rotes Kreuz / 14 SEP 1943"; 1942-44 German forms from Guernsey with replies sent in 1945 (Feb. 26/Mar. 1) and a 1945 (Feb. 24) British form to Guernsey all delivered several months after the war with unframed "Recu au Comite International / Croix - Rouge Geneve, le" with separate "10 DEC 1945". Two rare cachets, both only recorded on one single date. (4).
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Lot No: 313
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1942-44 Forms to or from Guernsey (24) or Jersey (5) all with parts of the message deleted or excised, eighteen with attached P.C.11 British Postal Censorship slips "The British Examiner is not responsible for the mutilation of this letter", seven differing formats with some on blue paper, very unusual. (29).
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Lot No: 314
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1941-45 German forms from Guernsey (43) or Jersey (9) to members of the British forces, including forms to T.D Luscombe on H.M.T Welland c/o G.P.O London (21, also four forms to Luscombe at R.C.M.B 201, St. James's, London), 28 with cachets on reverse explaining that the form was not to be used for a reply (in two types, four or six lines), unusual. (52).
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Lot No: 315
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German Censorship. 1943-44 Forms to or from Guernsey (61) or Jersey (3), all censored in Berlin with censor cachets in black applied by the Gestapo (38) or Wehrmacht (26), four of these sent between June 29th and July 1st 1944 with additional boxed "833" censor. (64).
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Lot No: 316
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Fortress Period. 1944 Red Cross Message Bureau forms each with a typed "Summary of Civilian Message in suspense at Lisbon, Portugal. Destined for the Channel Islands", all sent to Guernsey with a typed address on reverse, the original forms dated 1st-29th March. Carried to Guernsey on the Red Cross Ship S.S "Vega" (after normal communications were severed after the capture of St. Malo in August). (8).
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Lot No: 317
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1940-41 Swiss Red Cross forms (84, dated 6 Nov. 1940 - 23 Jan. 1941) and British Red Cross forms (32, Dec. 3-30 1940, the first probably the earliest recorded use) from G.B. to Guernsey, all with replies on reverse sent in early 1941, ten signed in manuscript by George Bradshaw. (116).
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Lot No: 318
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Canada. 1941-43 German forms from Jersey (6) or Guernsey (18) all to Canada, all censored upon arrival, 23 with replies on reverse. (24).
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Lot No: 320
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Ceylon. 1941-44 Forms (3) comprising very scarce Swiss Red Cross enquiry form (number 189) sent to Alice Fuller (via the Red Cross office in Paris) on behalf of her husband Gunner F.D Fuller with reply on the reverse dated 21 June 1941, and two German forms sent by Alice Fuller to her husband, a 1943 (Apr. 5) form sent c/o R.C.M Bureau 35 in London, a 1944 (Jan. 10) form sent to R.C Office, Ceylon Branch, Colombo. Also a 1943 3c postal stationery postcard to L/Bdr Fuller, 23rd Lt. A.A Regt, Base Post Office, Colombo, from the Red Cross Office in Colombo with printed message acknowledging receipt of a Red Cross Message for despatch to enemy occupied territory. A scarce and unusual correspondence. (4).
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Lot No: 325
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Ireland. 1942-44 German forms from J.B Thuillier in Jersey (3) or Guernsey (2) to his mother in Kinsale, the first three forms sent from Jersey in 1942 all with replies on the reverse, the forms all with cachets of the Irish Red Cross Society on reverse, four types of cachet comprising unframed bilingual three line handstamps with address of 20 Merrion Square, 21 St Stephen's Green or without address, or circular bilingual cachets without address (2). Also two summary forms for messages from Mrs Thuillier sent on 8th May 1944, held in suspense at Lisbon. A very scarce correspondence. (7).
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Lot No: 327
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Switzerland. 1941-43 Swiss Red Cross form "61" apparently from Hove to Guernsey but with the cachet "Mission Catholique Swisse / en favour / des prisonniers de guerre / FRIBOURG (Suisse), believed to be from an escaped P.O.W in Switzerland; and Swiss Red Cross enquiry forms numbered "958" sent from Geneva to the German Red Cross in Paris seeking news of named individuals in Guernsey, two sent on behalf of an enquirer in Canada and three sent on behalf of the British Red Cross, four forms with replies from Guernsey. (6).
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Lot No: 328
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USA. 1941-44 American Red Cross forms to Guernsey or Jersey, and German forms from Guernsey (22) or Jersey (5) to the USA, 24 with replies on the reverse, various German, Swiss and U.S Red Cross cachets, one with an accompanying American Red Cross envelope and letter, one form incorrectly addressed and returned to Guernsey with an attached "Retour Postaux" slip. Also a 1944 summary message form for a letter from the USA to Guernsey held in suspense at Lisbon. A scarce group. (30).
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Lot No: 329
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USA. 1941-44 German forms all from Alice, Laura or Julia la Ray in Guernsey to relatives in the USA, all (except one) with replies on the reverse, eleven with dated American Red Cross cachets. (22).
