1919 MILITARY QUARTET, unfranked & with contents, all being 1919 ex Prague or Paris (1) to Toulouse with military cachets "MISSION MILITAIRE FRANCAISE PRAGUE/LE GENERAL" (3) in blue or purple or "MISSION FRANCAISE EN BOHEME - AERONAUTIQUE/LE COMMANDANT" (1) in black . These are the 1st, 4th, 18th & 19th items of mail from the French Legion 'Mission Pelle a Prague' correspondence (4 covers) Cross Reference: FRANCE, MILITARY (Image)

1930 5k Red-Brown Airmail Perf 12 mint. Max Mahr (Dusseldorf) expertising mark and another unidentified in pencil both on rear and a small '12¼' h.s. also on rear. Scarce and fine. SG £1900 Cross Reference: AIR STAMPS (Image)

TOMÁŠ BAT'A AND HIS SHOE MANUFACTURING EMPIRE: A beautifully presented and well written-up 15 page display of PPCs & covers flown during the 1930s & 40s (10) from three different Bat'a enterprises to destinations in Europe, Puerto Rico, UK, USA, inc. a 1938 registered env. from the factory at Batanagar (near Calcutta) to Czechoslovakia via Athens & Prague with a v. fine "CENSUROVANO" handstamp (censorship of foreign mail during the Munich Crisis) and a 1943 registered env. postmarked "CSPP/B/14 SP/43/CZECHOSLOVAK FIELD POST" for the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade in Northampton addressed to the Belgian Congo. Much supporting material in the form of contemporary pictures & unused PPCs. (19 items + pictures) Cross Reference: BELGIAN COLONIES, PUERTO RICO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AIRMAILS (Image)

2004 - THE YEAR OF CZECH MUSIC: A small box containing a beautifully presented and well written-up 93 page display of stamps, mini-sheets, postal stationery, PPCs, official souvenirs, and non-philatelic material commemorating the life and works of Antonin Dvorak & Bedrich Smetana, as well as some pages on Leos Janacek & Bohuslav Martinu. Inc. postally used pre-war & WW2 occupation material, some material signed by members of the composers' families and design & performing artists, and a mourning letter from Smetana's son-in-law. A display well worth viewing. (Qty.) Cross Reference: COMPOSERS & MUSIC (Image)