1918-19 collection of 22 covers or cards, neatly arranged and written-up on album pages, from various small towns and villages in Western Ukraine, franked with Austrian adhesives, origins include Drohobycz, Sniatyn, Horodenka, Rosilna, Nove Selo, Polove (Polove to Radekhiv), Podkamien, Brody, Kolomyia, Radekhiv, Stanyslaviv, Ternopil, Terebovla, Zolotnyki, with some additional pages with Austrian stamps canceled in Western Ukraine, good showing of censor handstamps, including Military and double (Ukrainian and Austrian), generally fine-v.f., scarce group from the Dr.Kulczycki collection

Est.$7,500

1919 (3 May) cover from Brody to Vienna, franked with Austrian 40h green, tied by departure cds, with Ukrainian "Opened by Military Censor in Brody" boxed two-line cachet in Cyrillic letters, fine cover, signed Mikulski (Image)

Est.$500

1919 small cover (inlaid advertising "Wyrob Galicyjski S.W.Niemojowski Sp. Lwow") to Vienna, franked with Austrian 10h magenta and 2x15h red brown, canceled by two-line "Pochtowyj Uezd Chernelytsya" handstamp, showing return address of "Czernelisa bei Herodenka", small cover tear at right, censor seal removed from left, fine cover from Chernelytsya, ex-Dr.Kulczycki ("the only known cover with this seal" as of 1973) (Image)

Est.$500

1919 (15 May) registered cover from Kuty to Vienna, franked on reverse with single and block of four of Austrian 10h magenta (small faults), tied by departure cds ("KYTN"), boxed "Censored Kuty" in violet, censor tape removed at left, rare usage (Image)

Est.$500

1919 (23 Apr) registered cover from "Przemyslany" to Vienna, franked on reverse with Austrian 10h Postage Due and 30h violet, tied by Polish cds, with straight-line "Cenzurowano" in Cyrillic, additional censor tape removed at left, rare usage from present-day Peremyshlyany (Image)

Est.$500

1919 (14 Apr) cover from "Khorostkiv" to Hungary, franked with eight Austrian stamps (few minor faults) paying the required 40h rate, all canceled by Ukrainian Cyrillic, with "Ukrainian Post Office in Chortkiv" round handstamp alongside, fine and attractive usage from Khorostkiv (a city in Ternopil Oblast. In the Second Polish Republic, Khorostkiv, then known as Chorostkow, belonged to the County of Kopczynce) (Image)

Est.$500

1919 (22 Feb) large cover with trilingual Provincial Court corner address, franked with two Austrian Postage Dues used as postage, paying 40h and tied by Ternopil in Ukrainian Cyrillic, addressed locally, with corresponding court seal at left, re-addressed and returned to sender, fine (Image)

Est.$250

1919 (29 Apr) cover from Drohobycz to Vienna, franked with Austrian 10h and pair of 15h, tied by departure cds, paying 40h rate, also 5h "P.O.S.D. Galicui I Slaska" label at left, with red violet Ukrainian "Provireno Drohobycz" censor handstamp, plus Polish Censor Krakow label ("Kontrola Listwo Zagranicznych w Krakowie") on back, additional censor label removed at left, rare usage, signed Mikulski (Image)

Est.$750

1919 (30 Apr) cover from Kosiv (return address reads "Kossow bei Kolomea") to the International Red Cross in Geneva, franked with pair of Austrian 20h green (faults) tied by indistinct but complete "Kosiv 30.IV.1919" cds in Ukrainian Cyrillic, boxed Kolomyia Censor (Ukrainian) and "K2" (Austrian censor), with additional Ukrainian State Censor two line handstamp on back, some cover wear, rare usage from Kosiv, signed Mikulski (Image)

Est.$750

1919 (1 Apr) cover from Boryslaw to Karszag, Hungary, franked with Austrian 4x10h Postage Due, tied by "Wolanka 1.IV.19" departure cds, with red violet Ukrainian "Provireno Drohobycz" censor handstamp, additional "Borislaw" in blue crayon at bottom, censor label removed at left, some staining, rare usage from Wolanka, signed Mikulski (Image)

Est.$750

1919 cover to Vienna, franked with Austria pair of 15h red brown and 10h Postage Due, tied round "Ukrainsky Uryad Pochtowyj w Chortkowy", supported by two-line Ukrainian State Censor handstamp (seal removed at left), filing fold away from the stamps, fine usage from Chortkiv (Czortkow in Polish) (Image)

Est.$500

1919 (23 Apr) small cover to Vienna, franked on back with Austrian 6h, 12h and 2h Special Delivery, paying only 20h, tied by "Grimaliv" in Ukrainian Cyrillic, repeated on front and supported by Ukrainian Military Censor in Ternopil handstamp in violet, fine and rare usage from the small village of Hrymailiv (Grzymalow in Polish) (Image)

Est.$500

1919 (4 Mar) cover from Zhovkva to New York, franked on back with Austrian 10h magenta and 40h olive green, each tied by Zhovkva in Ukrainian Cyrillic, with manuscript "Censurovano" in red crayon on front, handstamped "kein verkehr" (non deliverable) on front, two different types of "Misdirected, address not correct" on both sides, probably sent back to sender, rare usage (Image)

Est.$750