World War One & Inter-War Years. 1914-18 Picture postcards (with a few earlier cards) including camps, naval ships, patriotic cards, silks, war damage, portraits of soldiers, Malta, India, Balkans, also a remarkable series of 43 real Photo cards taken by a German soldier which include aircraft in flight and aircraft crashes, tanks, dead bodies in trenches, Cologne from the air, returning troops after the armistice, dead bodies being collected, submarine, destroyed tanks with dead bodies, etc. (450+). (Image1)

1915-27 Covers and cards including 1914 (Oct 1) cover from London to German occupied Brussels somehow delivered in April 1915 with oval Brussels censor cachet; 1916 covers from Bulgaria to Canada sent via an accommodation address in neutral USA (2); covers with French or British occupation of Togo overprint issues (2); New Caledonia postcard with Red Cross stamp; patriotic labels; War Graves Wreath Co cover from Le Panne, etc. (15).

Civil Censorship. 1915-19 Covers and cards including covers from Paris to London strangely sent via Russia and censored in Petrograd (2); South West Africa (3); U.S censorship from various towns; Brazil censor labels and cachets (4); Bangkok censor label (one stamp removed); Gold Coast, Togo and Sierra Leone; postcards with oval "U.S CUSTOMS / LICENCED / EX. BY .... / PORT OF NEW YORK" (2); Aegean Postal Censor Syra (3); cover from Athens to Port Said bearing a Greek patriotic label with "STOPPED BY / DEPUTY CHIEF CENSOR", etc. (61).

Civil Censorship - Great Britain. 1914-19 Covers and cards, various censor labels including the previously unrecorded label with the unusual wording "OPENED / FOR THE / CENSOR" on a 1914 cover to Hampshire with KGV 1d applied over the censor label and cancelled at Chelsea (Dec 28); blue Returned to Sender labels (3, two types); cachets with boxed "Postal Censor" (2) and "RELEASED BY THE / BRITISH MILITARY AUTHORITIES"; wax seals; 1919 censorship in Germany; boxed "OFFICIAL SUPERVISOR / Direction der / Disconto - Gesellschaft" (2), etc. (32).

Service Suspended. 1914 (July/Aug) Covers and cards undelivered with various cachets comprising covers from G.B to Galicia, Austria to G.B, Bulgaria to France, Denmark to G.B, G.B to a French soldier in France or from the German P.O in Smyrna to G.B; July 31st cover from G.B to Russia detained in Germany until 1920 when it was finally returned; July 31st card to Austria received in September, marked as "not known" with German censor and return to sender cachets; and August 1st card from Austria to G.B with London Returned Letter Section arrival c.d.s (Aug 27). (9).

Service Suspended. 1915-20 Covers and cards including 1915 cover from G.B to Poland, 1916-17 covers from Greece to Italy (faults) or from G.B to Greece (3, one with part reverse missing), 1918 covers from G.B or Switzerland to Russia, 1920 registered cover from G.B to Lithuania (during Polish occupation of Wilno), etc., various cachets including boxed "MAIL SERVICE SUSPENDED" (4) or "SERVICE SUSPENDED". (11).

Detained Mails / Turkey. 1915-19 Cover and cards (2) from Turkey with a 1915 (June 14) card from Constantinople to G.B further cancelled in 1919 (Jan 17) at Field Post Office H12 with "CENSORED BY / MILITARY AUTHORITIES"; and 1916 (Mar 11) registered cover and card from Smyrna to Java both with 1919 (Sep 13) arrival datestamps and boxed "RELEASED BY THE / BRITISH MILITARY AUTHORITIES", a few cover faults, otherwise all fine and very unusual. (3).

Ceylon - Detained & Returned Mail. 1914-19 Picture postcards from Ceylon (5) or written by a German on a ship bearing a Ceylon 6c cancelled at Sabang, three postcards posted in July/August 1914 just prior to the war all addressed to Germany but detained until after the war when the German addressees could no longer be found, all returned to Colombo in 1920; three other 1918-19 cards to Latvia, Poland or Russia but all returned with differing Service Suspended cachets, two of the latter cards with stamps removed (possibly by the censor), another with corner faults, but a very unusual group. (6).

Captured Mail. 1916 Cover from Russia and postcard from Salonica both handstamped "PART OF A MAIL CAPTURED / BY GERMANS AND DELAYED", the Greek card probably carried on the "Erissos" which was stopped by a German submarine in November. (2).