POSTAL HISTORY: 1918 usage of Helvetia 10c+10c Reply Postal Card to Australia with 'SPEICHER/17.VI.18' cds, Sydney '23AU18' arrival b/s, censored with boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR,S.D.' cachet in violet, minor creases & aging marks. [With lengthy message from a "Naturarzt" (= Naturopath) requesting price for delivery of 20 litres of Eucalyptus Oil]
POSTAL HISTORY: 1938 flimsy registered airmail cover to Peru rated "8gr" weight with Airmails 20c x3 & 2fr x2 tied by 'THUN 1/15.VII.38' cds and red & black 'R' label alongside, 'LIMA/27JUL38' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. [The rate was 30c foreign letter rate + 200c per 5gr South Atlantic airmail surcharge x2 + 30c registration fee = 4fr60c]
POSTAL HISTORY: 1941 Red Cross POWs Agency flimsy envelope to Australia by air with 'GENEVE 11/8.X.41' meter cancel paying '200'[c] rate for carriage by PanAm Trans-Atlantic & Trans-Pacific Clipper services, censored with red 'CCD' h/s and on arrival with Melbourne label & cachet, minor blemishes & sender's name excised from back flap.
POSTAL HISTORY: 1941 Italian flimsy envelope with red 'COMITE INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE' Red Cross h/s, airmail to an Italian Prisoner of War held in Australia with 'GENEVE 11/13.XI.41' meter cancel paying '170'[c] concessional rate (airmail surcharge only) for carriage by PanAm Trans-Atlantic & Trans-Pacific Clipper services, censored on arrival with Melbourne label & cachet, endorsed "PW/41023/M" in red pencil and forwarded with 'P.O.W.,/MURCHISON, VIC.' receiving h/s on face, a few blemishes.
POSTAL HISTORY: 1945 'Royal Hotel, Gstaad' postcard airmail to Australia with Scenes 20c x4 tied 'GSTAAD/-9.VIII.45/(BERN)' cds, carried via London where large red 'O.A.T.' (= Onwards Air Transmission) cachet applied alongside, minor creases & aging marks.
PICTURE POSTCARDS: Schmidt & Staub (Nurnberg Germany) chromolitho artist cards by E Nister set of 25 with all-different views of Chillon, Evian, Geneva, Lac Leman, Lausanne, Montreux, Montreux Territet, St Maurice, Sion, Thonon, Vevey & Vevey Latour, all unused, a couple of minor blemishes otherwise generally very fine unused.
(Qty 25)
