Worldwide Stamps and Covers WORLDWIDE MILITARY POSTAL HISTORY
Sale No: 855
Lot No: 146
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1900-02 ANGLO-BOER WAR COVERS FROM ORANGE FREE STATE TO AFRICAN DESTINATIONS inc. 1 Aug 1900 env. registered from Bloemfontein to Cape Town bearing V.R. I. 1d & 2d (2). 25 Aug 1900 env registered from Bloemfontein to Kimberley at the 2/½d rate with a good "MIDLAND/UP" cds on reverse. 11 Jan 1901 env registered from Bloemfontein to Cape Town with V.R.I. 1d (5) and "OPENED UNDER MARTIAL LAW" label. 18 Jan 1901 env to Transvaal with "ARMY POST OFFICE/S. AFRICA" cds Also four cover with "OPENED UNDER MARTIAL LAW" labels. Plus 31 July 1900 official pass taken from a Boer prisoner near Ladybrand. (15 covers) (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 147
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1900-02 ANGLO-BOER WAR - P.O.W. MAIL: A selection of covers (4) & fronts (5) inc. 27 Sept 1900 env. from Cape Town bearing Orange Free State ½d pair forwarded to Ceylon. 1900 (Jan) env from Bloemfontein with ms "Prisoner of War". 1900 env. from Kroonstad to a prisoner aboard the prison ship "S S Manila" at Simonstown, with censor hs and label. 1901 env from Durban to Ahmednagar Camp, Bombay, India with oval censor cachet. An interesting group. (9 items) Cross Reference: INDIA, ORANGE FREE STATE/RIVER COLONY (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 148
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1900-02 ANGLO-BOER WAR - MAIL TO OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS FROM ORANGE FREE STATE inc. 25 July 1900 patriotic card from Bloemfontein to Sydney. 26 Nov 1900 env registered from Bloemfontein to Brisbane with various adhesives at the 2/3d rate. 1901 env from Harrismith to Germany with "PASSED CENSOR" hs 15 April 1901 env from Bradfort to Germany with a fine "*Passed by Censor L.G.*" & "H.P.Y." hs 1901 env to Austria with "PASSED CENSOR/O.W. AUG 16" & "N P R" hs 20 Jan 1902 env registered from Winburg to India with eight Orange River Colony values to 5/- with "P.B.C." h.s. Mostly fine. (6 covers + 2 cards) Cross Reference: ORANGE FREE STATE/RIVER COLONY (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 149
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1900-02 ANGLO-BOER WAR COVERS TO UK FROM ORANGE FREE STATE inc.13 Aug 1900 env registered to Liverpool with various V.R.I. values to 5/-. 29 Oct 1900 envs. registered from Boshof to "Ewen's Weekly London" with V.R.I. values. 9 Feb 1901 env. registered from Bloemfontein to Cumberland with V.R.I. 6d and "H.P.Y." censor hs 23 Dec 1901 env from Edenburg to Dundrum, Ireland with V.R.I. 1d and "PASSED CENSOR EDENBURG R.C." hs 20 July 1901 env. bearing GB 1d lilac from F.P.O. No 54 Bloemfontein to Manchester. 3 Aug 1901 env headed in ms "Stamps not Avail" from F.P.O. 38 to Richmond. A fine lot. (11 covers). Cross Reference: ORANGE FREE STATE/RIVER COLONY (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 150
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1900-02 ANGLO-BOER WAR COVERS TO P.O.W. GREEN POINT CAMP: An interesting group of envs. (9) and a registered front to Green Point P.O.W. camp bearing Orange Free State adhesives paying the 1d and 2d letter rates, all with circular "CENSOR/PRISONER OF WAR" hs. The registered front (rare thus) franked at the 4d registration plus 1d postage rate. Cross Reference: ORANGE FREE STATE/RIVER COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 151
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1900-01 ANGLO-BOER WAR COVERS TO BELLE VUE P.O.W. CAMP: A group of five env. from the Orange Free State to Belle View camp inc. 20 Dec 1901 env. bearing 1d with five censor hs, 11 Oct 1900 env from Winburg with oval "Resident Magistrate's Office/WINBURG" hs, 3 Dec 1900 env with a clear circular "CENSOR/BELLE VUE/PRISONER OF WAR" hs, 1900 mourning env. from Simonstown re-directed to Ceylon. Generally fine. Cross Reference: ORANGE FREE STATE/RIVER COLONY (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 152
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1900-02 ANGLO-BOER WAR - DIYATALAWA P.O.W. CAMP MAIL: An interesting selection of covers to Diyatalawa P.O.W. camp inc. 29 Nov 1901 & 3 Feb 1901 envs. from Natal, one with large pink "E. Crown R./OPENED UNDER MARTIAL LAW" torn label. 18 Jan 1901 env. from Orange Free State with a good pink label. 27 May 1901 env from Winburg with three censor hs inc "Pr of War" 23 April 1902 env. from Germany. 18 May 1901 env. from the camp to Holland with a fine oval "DIYATALAWA CAMP/PASSED/* ..........*/CENSOR" hs (9 covers) Cross Reference: ORANGE FREE STATE/RIVER COLONY (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 153
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FIRST SERBIAN WAR & WWI: Small group of envs. and cards all to/from/via Turkey. Inc. 23 Nov. 1912 (first Balkan War) env. to Adrianople, Turkey ex. Paris, with boxed dual language (Arabic/French) "RETOUR" hs over the address on front and v. fine large "CAUSE DE GUERRE" hs on reverse; 16 Sept. 1918 PC to Beirut ex Dresden, with fine "CAUSE DE GUERRE/RETOUR" hs on address side; 16 June 1920 env. to Constantinople ex London with v. fine "RECEIVED FROM/TURKISH AUTHORITIES" hs's (2 - one on each side) and fine boxed "RETENU PAR LA CENSURE/RETOURNE A L'ORIGINE" hs on front; and 16 May(?) 1925 PPC to Constantinople with v. fine purple Hungarian "Vissza!/Kuifoldre latkepes lapol [???]/tovabbittatnak." hs over address, and v. fine (slightly blurred) purple "FELUL VIZSGALVA/ UBERPRUFT/BUDAPEST [??]" hs over message; plus other related returned/censored items from the period. (10)Cross Reference: IRAN/PERSIA, TURKEY, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, RETURNED MAIL (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 154
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BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA WWI RED CROSS LABELS: A fine display of Red Cross charity labels on mail mainly tied by military cancellations inc. 1914 PPC to Bohemia franked two "B H/[cross]/4 4" labels tied by v. fine "K. und K. MILIT. POST/27 8, 14/6-7N/SARAJEVO" barred machine cancel; 1915 8h p. stat. parcel card to military prison in Arad, Hungary up rated 10h + pair 25h + 5 x charity labels (rare thus) all cancelled with "K. und K. MILIT. POST/STOLAC" cds's; plus other PCs, PPCs & envs. with labels on front/back usually cancelled. This collection has been assembled over 35 years indicating how scarce this material is. (19 items)Cross Reference: RED CROSS, CINDERELLAS, MILITARY - WWI (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 155
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WORLDWIDE DETAINED/INTERRUPTED MAILS - SOUTH AFRICA, SERBIA, BULGARIA, RUSSIA, ROMANIA, FINLAND & KUWAIT WAR, ETC.: A group of envs./cards inc. 21 Aug. 1941 Prisoner of War PC to Serbia ex Oflag XIII B, Nuremberg, with purple "Retour ! Service suspendu" hs highlighted in blue crayon over address; 8 Apr. 1916 PPC to Austria ex Russia, with purple "PART OF A MAIL CAPTURED/BY GERMANS AND [DELAYED]" hs's (2 - one over address and one on reverse); 6 Jan. 1915 American 2c P. Stat. env. to Morogoro, German East Africa ex Minneapolis, with purple/blue Registration hs on front and blue "Retour" (2) and "UNDELIVERABLE - WAR./ONBESTELBAAR - OORLOO." hs of Cape Town on front; and 26 July 1914 env. to Belgium ex Sofia, Bulgaria with ms "Via Constantinople" in bottom left corner, with red "Hadiallapot miatt nem tovabbithato./Benvoye a cause de guerre" hs over address; plus other related examples from the same period up to 1990s. (14)Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, MILITARY - SERVICE SUSPENDED (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 157
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WWI/WWII SERVICE SUSPENDED, STOPPED BY CENSOR & CAPTURED MAILS: Small group of 1915-45 envs./cards, all to/from Europe (plus one ex India). Inc. 25 June 1915 env. to Miechow via Vienna & Krakow ex Lausanne with Lausanne Registration label and German return to sender label reading "*ZURUCK* Der Postverkehr nach/den Kriegsgebieten ist gesperrt." over address, tied by Zurich cds; 3 Dec. 1917 env. to "Rerol/(Rufie)" (Oryol, Russia?) ex Thun with purple "Retour/service postal suspendu" hs over address; 19 Jan.17 env. to USA ex Amsterdam siezed from the captured SS 'Prins-Hendrik' with Amsterdam Registration label attached to front and large "AANGEHOUDEN./DOOR DIUTSCHLAND,/1916-17" hs on reverse, along with "militarischerseits unter kriegsrecht geoffnet" censor tape; etc. (12)Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, MILITARY - SERVICE SUSPENDED, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 158
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SERVICE SUSPENDED - EUROPEAN TO/FROM MAIL GROUP; Range with 1944 unsealed env. to Belgium franked Liechtenstein 5c with framed bilingual "ZURUCK - Retour/Postverkehr eingestellt/Service postal suspendu" h.s. on front, 1945 FDC to Germany franked Sweden 5ore with Swedish label (type E-10) affixed to front indicating mail returned due to no postal communication, 1943 censored airmail env. to Rhodes (Greek Is.) with Bulgaria philatelic franking and Sofia reg. h.s. on front and other related examples. (9 covers & 2 slips) Cross Reference: BELGIUM, MILITARY - SERVICE SUSPENDED, LIECHTENSTEIN, SWEDEN (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 162
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1939 FRANCE - BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE MAIL: Binder with a collection of censored B.E.F. mail from France with FPO nos from 1-100. Date range Oct 1939- May 1940. Presented in order of FPO number. (c.160+ covers)Cross Reference: FRANCE, MILITARY - WWII (Image)
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Sale No: 855
Lot No: 163
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WORLDWIDE WWII REDIRECTED/RETURNED MAIL; Range with 1941 censored env. to Iceland ex San Francisco franked 3c + 2c with "RETURN TO SENDER", framed "REBUTS" and framed "Non reclame" h.s. on front, 1943 twice-censored airmail env. to French Equatorial Africa franked S.Africa 1/3d, redirected to Brazzaville with Port Gentile, Libreville, Leopoldville and Elisabethville cds on rear, 1943 env. to 'Canadian Army Overseas' franked 3c tied by Winnipeg machine cancel with framed "RETURN TO SENDER...." and framed "UNABLE TO LATE...." h.s. on front, 1944 airmail env. to 'British Fleet Mail' ex Montreal and franked Canada 20c + 10c, redirected to Texas, London and Scotland and other related examples. (10 covers) Cross Reference: MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, AIR MAIL COVERS, FRENCH COLONIES, CANADA (Image)
