Falkland Islands: “POST OFFICE/(crown)/FALKLAND ISLANDS” in violet, two strikes, fine for this, cancelling 1904-12 5s. red in a rare block of four, also 3s. deep green and 5s. red singles, the latter with rounded upper right corner, otherwise fine. SH PSO.5, cat. £1,500. Photo. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: 1939 Battle of the River Plate, 1941 (Sept. 28), 1942 (Mar. 5), 1943 (Oct. 30) three Argentine Naval Ministry parole slips (‘furloughs’) individually signed by Stbs. Masch. Hans von Kopezinski, Ob. Feldw. Martin Jansen and Ob. Stck. Mstr. Ernst Hermann from the “Graf Spee” interned on Island Martin Garcia, each with “Kriegsmarine/Kommando Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee” cachet in blue-green, violet and black respectively. Between April 1940 and the end of 1941, all but six of the Graf Spee officers, and about 200 technical NCOs, absconded from internment and returned to Germany where the majority served in the U-boat Arm. Argentine naval connivance was suspected but never proved. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: 1946 (Oct. 2) two Vista Stamp Co. envelopes registered to Pennsylvania bearing 1938-50 £1 and 2s.6d. with 2d. respectively, both showing blue on white “AIR MAIL” label type B, type 12 registration label, transit and Oct. 18 arrival backstamps. Photo. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: 1947 (Aug. 6) envelope addressed to London bearing 1933 Centenary 2s.6d. tied by PS.3A c.d.s. with type 12 registration label and faked local airmail label at left. Photo. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: 1950 (July 29) unusual cover to Oregon, U.S.A. endorsed “REGISTERED/AIR (deleted)/MAIL” with type 9A registration label but bearing 1938-50 2d., 21/2d. and 1s. (1947 printing), an underpayment of the 1s.3d.+3d. rate and consequently sent by surface mail, with Aug. 2 despatch, New York transit and Springfield Sept. 9 arrival c.d.s’s on reverse. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: 1968 (June 3), Birds 1/2d. to £1 set on fifteen individual covers addressed to W.H. Clement in Fox Bay, each showing Hovercraft S.R.N. 6 cachet, PS.3B cancellation (gap over “R”) and arrival backstamp, the 1/2d. in block of four and 1d. in pair to satisfy 2d. inland rate. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: An extensive accumulation of stampless O.H.M.S. and other official covers, mainly from 1980s onward, most with Stanley c.d.s. and variously addressed incl. Goose Green, Sea Lion Island, etc., some registered, showing a wide range of cachets incl. Government House etc. (approx. 1,000) This lot is sold on behalf of the Stephen Jaffray Memorial Fund, the Falkland Islands charity established to assist the families of cancer sufferers.

Falkland Islands: 1982 Conflict, undated local commercial cover from early days of the occupation, addressed to the Rose Hotel in Stanley franked Mail Ships 5p. crossed by biro stroke, vertical folds clear of adhesive. Photo. (Image1)

Falkland Islands: Covers and Cancellations: A large accumulation of modern covers in binders, albums and loose in two cartons, incl. f.d.i, commercial rates, etc. (several 100s)

Falkland Islands: An accumulation of modern covers in a carton, with issues up to 2014, incl. f.d.c’s, British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia, definitive sets and Falkland mail from 1966, specially prepared group of 25th Anniversary of Liberation covers, also stockbook of used 1980s-90s Falkland island issues, etc. (100s)