WWI AUSTRO-HUNGARY FELDPOST COLLECTION: The collection of Feldpost cards & covers in 5 volumes. Arranged in order of FPO number from 2-220. (c.480 items) Cross Reference: AUSTRIA, MILITARY - WWI (Image)

WWI AUSTRO-HUNGARY FELDPOST COLLECTION: The collection of Feldpost cards & covers in 5 volumes. Arranged in order of FPO number from 221-650. (c.550 items) Cross Reference: MILITARY - WWI, AUSTRIA (Image)

WWI AUSTRO HUNGARY FELDPOST: Three binders with the diverse collection of cards & covers with an emphasis on censor marks incl. some stamped civilian mail with military censor marks. Many cards with boxed "Von der Armee/Im Felde" cachets. (c.380) Cross Reference: AUSTRIA, MILITARY - WWI (Image)

WWI AUSTRO-HUNGARY FELDPOST: Binder with the well written up collection of 1916-18 Feldpost cards & covers. Mainly associated with the 7th Army and the Eastern Front esp. Bukowina. Many attractive coloured PPCs and some scarcer handstamps noted. (c.48) Cross Reference: AUSTRIA, MILITARY - WWI (Image)

WWI AUSTRO-HUNGARY FELDPOST: Binder with the collection of almost exclusively 'Official' envs. addressed mainly to Vienna, Graz or Innsbruck, many of them Registered and all bearing apparently different Regimental handstamps/cachets. Presumably originating from Regimental bases/HQs. (80) Cross Reference: AUSTRIA, MILITARY - WWI (Image)

WWI AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (A.E.F.) WELFARE ORGANISATIONS - THE POSTAL STATIONERY: The collection of mainly 1918/19 printed cards and covers (all used) with the logos of the American Red Cross (5), the Young Mens Christian Associations (9), Knights of Columbus (4) and the Salvation Army (1). Includes early example of ARC env. inscribed "SOLDIERS MAIL" & "NO POSTAGE NECESSARY" enclosing card inscribed "THE SHIP ON WHICH I SAILED HAS ARRIVED SAFELY OVERSEAS". Several different examples of the triangular YMCA logo, incl. examples with the addl. wording "AMERICAN", "WITH THE COLORS" or "OFFICERS CLUB" (this latter cover ex Camp Dix, New Jersey). Lot also incl. an American music sheet of the period entitled "Salvation Lassie of Mine" and articles from the Postal History Society journal written by David Trapnell providing more information on these Organisations. (c.27 cards/covers plus various other items) Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MILITARY - WWI, RED CROSS (Image)

WWII - CZECH / POLISH FIELD FORCES IN GB MAIL: a range of 14 items inc registered covers, vignettes / labels etc. Some mounted on pages with registration marks in Polish and Czech, inc. Polish cover to England from Egypt, c1947 with local Polish Forces sticker to reverse; Active Service cover 9c1945) in green with Czechoslovak Field Post cancellation in black; 1/2d KGV newspaper wrapper with Czechoslovak Field Post illustrated DC cancellation in red c1943 etc. (14) Cross Reference: MILITARY - WWII, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND, MILITARY (Image)

WWII US FORCES MAIL, EX UK WITH UK ADHESIVES, REGD. MAIL: Binder containing c.1942-46 covers inc. 1942 (Feb.) "AMERICAN EMBASSY" printed env. franked 2½d tied "WASHINGTON D.C. 26" cds wavy line cancel with ms 'Via Pouch' at left, (Mar.) env. franked 7d & 8d (paying 1/3d US Army air mail rate to USA prior to April 1942) tied APO 813 cds, 1944 pair of envs. franked 3d & 2½d tied large 'O' reg cancels with blue GPO "U.S. FORCES 6" or blank "R/18" registration labels with US Army h.s. & former additionally with Base Examiner h.s.'s bottom left, 1945 (June) env. to Sweden franked US 6c Air (2) tied APO cds, returned to sender for GB postage (as non US destination) franked 2d (4) over US adhesives tied new APO cds's, etc. (c75 covers) Cross Reference: REGISTERED MAIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MILITARY - WWII (Image)

WWII ITALIAN RED CROSS MESSAGE SCHEME INCL. ITALIAN SOMALIA & ERITREA: May-Nov. 1944 group of 5 Red Cross enquiry forms (4 Italian, 1 French). Includes 28 Sep. 1944 form from Mogadishu to Savona, censored in Cairo (nearest Red Cross Censor office) with purple 'hexagon in circle' h/s, arrival date 26 Dec. 1944. Also, 31 Aug. 1944 enquiry form inscribed "CROCE ROSSA ITALIANA/COMITATO DELL' ERITREA" sent from Asmara to Modena. Lot includes a French Red Cross enquiry form with a Palermo address, possibly an Italian POW from the occupying force in SE France. Also 2 other Italian forms and an unused PPC. Scarce items. A relevant article from 'Fil-Italia' by David Trapnell accompanies. (5 forms plus 1 PPC) Cross Reference: ITALY, ITALIAN COLONIES & P.O.s ABROAD, RED CROSS, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL (Image)

LITERATURE - MIDDLE EAST POSTAL AND MILITARY HISTORY: Group of six texts incl. 'Postal History of British Palestine 1918-1948' by Ted Proud, 'Postal Censorship in Israel 1948-1978' by N. Gladstone (1978), 'Iraq - Postal History 1920s to 1940s' by Douglas.B.Armitage & Robert I.Johnson (2009), 'The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force - Jul. 1917 to Oct. 1918' (reprints from Official Sources, Naval & Military Press Ltd.), 'The "D" Force - Mesopotamia in the Great War' by J. Fitzgerald Lee (reprint of 1926 edn., Naval & Military Press Ltd.). Also 'Red Cross Civilian Postal Message Scheme with the Channel Islands, 1940-45' by David Gurney (1992).Cross Reference: CHANNEL ISLANDS POSTAL HISTORY, PALESTINE, IRAQ, ISRAEL (Image)