World War Two. 1939-45 Covers and cards including patriotic labels, India air letter to Box 111 Bletchley (Bletchley Park), cachets used on forces mail within G.B, covers to Churchill, British Military Mission cachets, Red Cross forms, red Official Paid skeleton datestamps, aerial propaganda leaflets, etc., an interesting selection. (26).

Service Suspended. 1940-42 Covers returned to the sender with various cachets including items from G.B to Switzerland and redirected to Poland, G.B to China, Japan (3), Malaya, Philippines, Java (3, one with India Service Suspended cachet), British Somaliland (2), etc., New Zealand to British Solomon Islands, Chile to Germany, also 1944 (Oct 26) cover from Egypt to Greece detained until February 1945 when a letter service was re-established. (36).

1940 Covers from G.B to Estonia or Egypt, Spain or Switzerland to G.B, all with boxed "DETAINED IN FRANCE / DURING GERMAN / OCCUPATION", also another cover from Switzerland detained and delivered in 1945 but without the cachet, the Spain cover with a few faults, otherwise fine and unusual on mail from G.B, the registered cover to Estonia also with "No Service" cachet. (5).

USA - Detained Mail. 1941-45 Covers to or from the USA, all detained by the U.S Censors for the duration of the war, including 1941 (Oct 7) covers with U.S.S Algorab first day cancels (6) and other covers (2) all handstamped "RELEASED / BY O.N.J" and "SEP 5 1945" or "SEP 7 1945"; and covers to the USA from Senegal, Sweden, Barbados, Brazil, Belgium, Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, USA to Mexico or Sweden, or Alaska to mainland USA, all handstamped "THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN HELD / BY THE OFFICE OF CENSORSHIP" (various types), six with 1945 backstamps. (21).

P.O Box 506. 1940-41 Covers and cards from Germany, Poland (2), France, Hungary or Roumania all addressed to P.O. Box 506 in Lisbon, the Thomas Cook undercover address for forwarding mail from occupied Europe to G.B, one registered cover from Warsaw redirected to the Polish Consul General in London, the 1941 card from a Jewish man in Germany to Paul Mayer accompanied by a 1942 Red Cross form sent between the same two people. A few faults. (7).

Channel Islands. 1940-45 Covers and cards (18) and Red Cross forms (4) including 1940 covers from G.B to Guernsey, Jersey or Alderney with "SERVICE SUSPENDED" or "NO SERVICE" cachets; 1942 cover from Denmark to Jersey somehow intercepted by the British and handstamped "NO SERVICE", later crossed out and presumably delivered after the war; 1945 (May 9) cover from Guernsey to London forwarded to the Naval Office in St. Lucia; 1945 (May 17) covers from G.B to Guernsey (2); F.P.O 138 used on Guernsey; lettersheet from a German P.O.W in Camp 801 at Castel, Guernsey, etc. (17). Photo on Page 122. (Image1)

Civil Censorship. 1940-46 Censored covers and cards including Ascension, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Bermuda, Mauritius, Seychelles, British Solomon Islands, Trinidad, Zanzibar, covers from Vatican, Afghanistan, Luxembourg, 1939 (Sep 7) bilingual circular "3 / CENSORSHIP" of Egypt, 1940 Greenland cover to Denmark detained until after the war with "Released by / Prize Court", etc. (174).

Civil Censorship - Great Britain. 1939-44 Covers and cards including Returned by Censor labels (5), USA cover sent to the uncommon languages division, cut down WW1 cachets (4), "CHIEF POSTAL CENSOR / LIVERPOOL" cachet, Permit Branch cachets, Ministry of Information cachets, telegrams, etc. Also unused labels or explanatory slips. (33).

Civil Censorship - India. 1939-45 Covers and cards including 1939 (Aug 29) cover with "PASSED / CENSOR / BOMBAY / 2" (5 days before war declared, probably the first day of censorship, possibly the first censorship of World War Two?); September 1939 covers from Germany to Bombay received in November with very scarce "O.H.M.S. / PASSED BY CONTROLLER / OF / ENEMY TRADING" seals (2); cover to Mombasa by safe hand of pilot with 2a, 8a, 2r cancelled by violet crosses; covers from Afghanistan (4), etc. (12).

Civil Censorship - Malaya. 1939-41 Covers including 1939 postcard from Netherlands Indies to Germany with scarce boxed "OPENED BY BRITISH / NAVAL AUTHORITIES"; 1940 registered cover from Brunei with boxed "PASSED BY / 4 / CENSOR" (lower right corner cut away); 1941 registered cover from Sarawak with boxed "PASSED BY / CENSOR"; 1942 cover from North Borneo signed on reverse by the Governor C.R Smith with light triangular censor; 1941 Kedah postal service official cover with triangular "PASSED FOR / TRANSMISSION / 41", etc. (22).