GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: Marvellous display of mostly locally-produced Picture Postcards in three sections: Part One German Colony 1898-1914 x59 at least half are early Undivided Backs with a few Gruss aus artist cards including a cringingly racist scene of a German soldier standing on the long pigtails of three locals, erection of the first homes & development, naval & military subjects including fortifications, two Japanese Geisha cards used from Tsingtau, 'Tsingtau Orchestra.../Now Playing at Riverview...' (a hotel in Tsingtau) etc, several multi-views and real photo types, Chinese occupations including fantastic 'Door & Window Market', a group of Chinese Officers, a dwarf selling "birds of good fortune", story-teller etc, about half are used from Tsingtau to Germany; Part Two 1914 Siege by Japan & Britain x20 including damage from naval bombardment & from the Germans destroying their cannons, three British cards of the South Wales Borderers & the gorgeous Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito card gifted to each of the Welsh troops; and Part Three group of scarce to rare German anti-Japanese propaganda & commemoration cards x19 including four racist artist cards depicting the Japanese as monkeys, six of the noble Governor Meyer-Waldeck, portrait of Pilot-Officer Pluschow who flew the last despatches from Tsingtau, multicoloured card inscribed '...7 Nov 1914' the day the Germans surrendered, etc; and a few strays. A wonderful social history collection that could be expanded, especially by adding cards from German POWs in Japan. [Kiautschou was an area of 550 square kilometers in northern China, "leased" to Germany after a German attack in 1897 in response to the murder of two German Catholic priests]  (103) (Image1)

Estimate AU$4,000

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1898 usage of German 10pf Postal Card with 'Nur fur Marine-Schiffsposten' Overprint * faint roneo'd 'Gruss aus China' illustration on the reverse, to Germany with very fine 'TSINANFORT/5 3/98/MARINE-FELDPOST' cancel & 'LAER' arrival cds. An important forerunner. Negotiations with China commenced 6.3.1898, the day after this was posted. A lease was rapidly agreed & ratified by the Reichstag 8.4.1898.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1900 (Apr 30) Gruss aus Berlin PPC ('Kaiser-Friedrich...Kirche') to "Tsintau/Deutsch China" with 2pf 3pf & 10pf x2 tied by Berlin cds & with 'Berlin 22' R label, full social message. Registered postcards are very scarce.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1900 'DEUTSHE REICHSPOST/Feld-Postkarte' endorsed at the top "...3/III Seebataillon", the brief message headed "Kaumi 15 11 1900", to Germany with 'WILHELMSHAVEN' arrival cds, a trifle aged, the cds Cat €750 on cover. Scarce Boxer Rebellion usage. [The cds recorded 26.9/00 to 1.1.01 only]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1901-14 group with local PPCx x3 (two with Undivided Backs: Railway Station and Kaumi Mandarin with his Sedan Chair), two Japanese PPCs (one to Turkey) & 2c Postal Card x2 (one written entirely in Chinese), fine to very fine datestamps of 'TSINGTAU' ("bridge" type), 'SCHATSYKOU', 'TAITUNGTSCHEN', 'TSINGTAU-TAPAUTAU' and oval TPO types 'TSINGTAU- KIAUTSCHOU/.../ZUG 2' & 'TSINGTAU-TSINANFU/...ZUG 2', very fine group.  (6)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1911 cover to Germany with scarce albeit philatelic franking of Yachts $½ red superb lower-right corner block of 4 (Cat €400+, for used singles) tied by 'TSINGTAU-Gr HAFEN' cds, 'Tsingtau-Gr. Hafen' R label, 'WILMERSDORF' arrival backstamp.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: Untidy selection with Vorlaufer on pieces with Shanghai cds including packet piece with 2mk pair  tied by the earlier Postal Agency cds & another with 2mk interpanneau strip of 7, 'China' Overprints on Arms to 50pf x4 & on Germania to $1 plus mint $2, Deutsches Reich $2½ on 5mk, a few mint Kiautschou to 3mk; also a few picture postcards including four-panel panorama of Tsingtau used to Germany (reinforced) & Boxer Rebellion usage with boxed '... /TRAIN-KOMPAGNIE' cachet.  (90+ & PPCs) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Forces cover with faint regimental cachet at lower-left, to Germany with 'China' Overprints 10pf x2 tied by 'KD FELDPOSTEXPED/DES/ OSTASIATISCHE/ EXPEDITIONSCORPS/28 5 b ' cds, superb 'WESTERLAND' arrival backstamp, the flap opened a bit roughly. Boxer Rebellion period.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 gorgeous 'Gruss aus Kastel' chromolitho PPC stampless Fledpost use to "9 Comp 4 Ostasiatische Infanterie regiment/China" with very fine undated 'SHANHAIKUAN/DEUTSCHE POST' transit and superb 'KD FELDPOSTATION/5 4/No 8' cds, minor corner imperfections. Boxer Rebellion period.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Boxer Rebellion usages of China 1c Postal Card with very fine 'KD FELDPOSTATION/No 2' cds & oval Peking bilingual datestamp (to Tongking) or similar '.../No 7' used at Paoting (to "Schatykau [sic] Kiautschou", and unstamped Tientsin PPC with sender's endorsement at the top also with the No 7 cds & large-part 'PAOTING' "dollar" chop, very fine trio.  (3)

Grade A A1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Boxer Rebellion usage from Germany of 'Feldpostkarte' with pre-printed part-address including 'Ostasiat' at lower-left slightly obscured by 'PEKING/16 3/01/DEUTSCHE POST' arrival cds, minor corner bend.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Boxer Rebellion usage from Germany of 'Feldpostkarte' with pre-printed part-address including 'Ostasiat' at lower-left, unusually affixed to a parcel - black fabric on the reverse - to serve as the address label with 'REICHSPOST' 1mk red tied by 'ELBERFELDE' cds, minor blemishes. A very unusual usage, showing that the free postage privilege did not extend to parcels.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1902 PPC (damaged on the viewside) 'TIENTSIN' to Germany with very fine 'Deutsche Abteilung/der Internat Polizei' cachet in blue; 1906 use of 2c on 5pf  Postal Card written entirely in Chinese from Tientsin with 'SCHANGHAI/...' arrival cds & superb '10' postman's handstamp; and 1906 inwards PPC from Japan with Japanese 'TIENTSIN/IJPO' & 'TIENTSIN/(CHINA)/ b /DEUTSHE POST' cds; plus 1901 Chinese 1c Postal Card to Germany uprated with Coiling Dragons ½c pair & 1c tied by oval 'PEKING' datestamp.  (4)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1910 commercial cover underpaid to Switzerland "via Siberia" with 4c on 10pf only tied by Schanghai cds, taxed with Swiss "30" in blue pencil, Postage Due 10c & 20c & tied by 'BERN/BRF DISTR' cds.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ITALIAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: Selection of Overprints with 'Pechino' 1917-18 20c orange U, Express 30c U, ½c on 1c *; Tientsin 5L SG 42 U, 1918 Postage Due Surcharges * (Cat £8000+); etc, some gumside blemishes, nothing expertised so necessarily offered 'as is'.  (36)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500