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12330

stationary

1917, BRITISH OCCUPATION OF GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA, 1/2d King George V green postal stationery envelope, MARIENTAL 8.1/17 to KEETMANSHOOP, German bilingual circular datestamp MARIENTAL 8.1/17 S(UD) W(EST) A(FRICA) with colony name partially excised to denote South African control, exceptionally rare negative MARIENTAL P.O. handstamp recorded on only a handful of covers, violet PASSED BY CENSOR applied by the field censor at Windhoek, reverse with crisp MARIENTAL despatch and KEETMANSHOOP 10.1/17 arrival, carried over the vital Windhoek–Lüderitz Bay rail artery secured by the South African Expeditionary Force under General Louis Botha and General Jan Smuts after Governor DR THEODOR SEITZ capitulated on 9 July 1915, censorship supervised by Lieutenant Colonel John Ainslie while Brigadier General Sir Duncan Mackenzie administered the territory, item illustrates the deliberate effacement of German imperial identity and the assertion of British maritime strategy on the South Atlantic flank during World War I, combination of obliterated colony datestamp and negative MARIENTAL strike seldom seen together, envelope and markings EXTREMELY FINE, provenance ex Kugel, an exhibition-class artefact linking philately military history and colonial geopolitics, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 2.000€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12331

1917, British Occupation of German Southwest Africa, 1d+4d on registered prepaid censored envelope from WINDHUK to CAPE TOWN, cancelled with altered German WINDHUK 27.3/17cancel without colony name, aside violet PASSED CENSOR C 5/99 and boxed blue green Registration strike R/WINDHUK./No (245 by m/s), m/s not ON ACTIVE SERVICE at top, reverse with dispatch, ex Kugel, very scarce, desirable and historical referencing, additionally referencing the BRITISH MILITARY OCCUPATION following the SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN against the IMPERIAL GERMAN FORCES during WORLD WAR I, when GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA and JAN SMUTS led UNION FORCES into the former DEUTSCH-SÜDWESTAFRIKA, resulting in the surrender of WINDHUK in May 1915, this cover posted during transitional MILITARY ADMINISTRATION with civilian-military postal system integration, usage of provisional overprinted UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA stamps reflecting postal improvisation amid territorial reorganization, censorship marking PASSED CENSOR C 5/99 assigned to WINDHUK indicates functioning of BRITISH CENSORSHIP OFFICE in post-occupation environment, box registration marking in blue green with manuscript number exemplifies continued reliance on German-era postal infrastructure repurposed under British control, m/s not ON ACTIVE SERVICE suggesting correspondence of non-military nature despite prevailing wartime conditions, ex KUGEL provenance adds philatelic pedigree, cover an important postal artifact demonstrating wartime transition, occupation governance and military postal history, highly collectible, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 1.200€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12332

1917, British Occupation of German South-West Africa 1915 period, 1d red King George V definitive paying Empire concession rate, censored envelope from WINDHUK captured 12 May 1915 by South African forces led by Prime Minister-General Louis Botha with Chief-of-Staff Jan Smuts, addressed to WEST BRAYDON England, struck by the modified SWAKOPMUND-WINDHOEK Travelling Post Office datestamp in which one terminus name and the word BAHN were excised to erase German-language references, cancel applied aboard the strategic desert railway opened in 1902 and still vital to the occupying army, violet PASSED CENSOR handstamp and oval Office of the Secretary of the Protectorate cachet attributed to Captain C A Fairbridge aide to Military Governor Sir Edmund Howard Gorges attest to martial postal control during the South-West Africa campaign that forced Governor Dr Theodor Seitz to surrender, carriage likely via Cape Town convoy routes while Atlantic shipping faced German surface raiders, ex Kugel collection famous for occupation rarities, roughly opened yet exhibits Very Fine appearance, scarce combination of overseas destination TPO usage censorship and historical context involving Botha Smuts Gorges Seitz and Fairbridge, ex Kugel, VF! Schätzpreis 600€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12333

3, stationary

1917, British Occupation of German South West Africa WWI campaign led by Prime Minister General Louis Botha supported by Colonel J J Colman and Lieutenant Colonel P J Pretorius, 1/2d+1/2d King George V green on buff postal stationery uprated to the 1d concessional military rate, mailed from SWAKOPMUND coastal base to neutral BERN Switzerland on 20 May 1915 during the push toward Otavi, cancelled by the modified Travelling Post Office datestamp of the SWAKOPMUND-WINDHOEK line with the original town name and the word BAHN excised to obscure rail logistics, violet-red PASSED CENSOR handstamp attributed to Examiner Captain H L Craig and countersigned in pencil, Bern arrival 22 June 1915 confirms uninterrupted transit across wartime fronts, ex Kugel collection renowned for colonial material, scarce intersection of occupation postal stationery railway history and wartime censorship, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 800€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12334

1918, British Occupation of German South West Africa, World War I diamond field correspondence, 1/2d green King George V definitive on Union censorship wrapper paying printed-matter BOOKPOST rate, posted KOLMANNSKOP 11-2-1918 desert mining settlement born of the 1908 diamond boom near Lüderitz, addressed to WINDHUK seat of the South African occupation forces led by Prime Minister General Louis Botha and Jan Smuts after Governor Dr Theodor Seitz capitulated at Khorab 9-7-1915, German KOLMANNSKOP datestamp with colony name excised under the 1918 South African Engineering Corps defacement programme, violet PASSED CENSORS 100 A cachet of the Windhuk censorship board, manuscript BOOKPOST endorsement, reverse LUDERITZBUCHT transit confirming coastal rail route, ex Kugel collection, extremely scarce exhibit-quality union of altered canceller censorship mark and concessionary rate, outstanding survivor of colonial conflict postal history, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 800€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12335

1918, British Occupation of German South-West Africa, WWI printed matter concession, 1/2d green Union of South Africa King George V definitive, KUB 5 July 1918 blue datestamp, small railhead settlement at 24°14´S 17°30´E on the strategic Lüderitz-WINDHUK railway line seized by General Louis Botha’s forces in July 1915, manuscript BOOKPOST indicating the reduced rate authorised by Military Postal Notice No 10, violet commercial cachet DEUTSCHE AFRIKA-AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT the former German mining giant then under Custodian of Enemy Property Major H. M. Jackson, addressed to WINDHUK provisional capital of the British Military Administration commanded by Brigadier-General J. J. Collyer, reverse with GIBEON transit 6 July and WINDHUK arrival 8 July showing reinstated civilian communications, ex Kugel collection, mail of this class seldom seen due to wartime censorship and paper austerity, desirable WWI occupation postal-history item, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 900€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12336

1918, British South African Military Administration in former German Southwest Africa, prepaid registered censored envelope franked 2d King George V plus 4d registration fee, posted OTJIWARONGO 25 MAY 1918 to SWAKOPMUND, very fine OTJIWARONGO cds, reverse KARIBIB 27 MAY and SWAKOPMUND 28 MAY transit-arrival marks, opened and re-sealed with bilingual passed-censor tape initialled by Lieutenant J W Weston under Captain H T Goodwin, carried over the Central Railway engineered by Eduard Böhmke that linked the interior to the coastal port seized by South African forces, mailed less than three years after Oberstleutnant Viktor Franke’s capitulation to Prime-Minister-General Louis Botha at Khorab thereby illustrating continuity of civilian correspondence during the final campaigns of WWI, ex Kugel gold-medal collection, superb eye-appeal, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 800€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12337

1916, British Occupation of German South West Africa, World War I printed-matter rate, 1/2d green King George V imprinted wrapper, dispatched OKAHANDJA 25. AUG 1915 to WINDHUK, crisp OKAHANDJA double-ring c.d.s. tying the imprint, posted barely six weeks after Governor THEODOR SEITZ’s capitulation to General LOUIS BOTHA on 9 July 1915, Okahandja a strategic rail junction and former focal point of the 1904–07 Herero rising under SAMUEL MAHERERO, civil mails reorganised by Field Postmaster Major F. V. STURROCK, provenance ex Kugel, mail of this class seldom seen and greatly sought after by specialists, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 600€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

Estimate € 600

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12338

stationary

1914-18, British Occupation of German Southwest Africa, 1/2d green postal stationery card, dispatched WINDHUK 26 MAY 1915, addressed to SWAKOPMUND, circular WINDHUK datestamp, violet PASSED CENSOR handstamp, mailed during the Union of South Africa campaign led by General Louis Botha against Governor Dr Theodor Seitz and Colonel Victor Franke’s Schutztruppe, carried over the recently re-opened rail route linking the Khomas Highlands with the Atlantic port following the German capitulation at Khorab 9 July 1915, illustrates early occupation postal administration and internal military censorship, ex Kugel collection, scarce World War I occupation usage, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 300€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12339

stationary

1918, British Occupation of German South West Africa 1d King George V carmine postal stationery envelope, dispatched SWAKOPMUND 25 February 1918 during the occupation that followed the 1915 surrender of Governor Dr Theodor Seitz and Field Commander Oberstleutnant Victor Franke to Prime Minister Louis Botha and General Jan Smuts, addressed to DÜSSELDORF Germany, manuscript pencil endorsement addressee unknown, violet PASSED CENSOR handstamp applied at Swakopmund, preserved with full black-on-white routing label VIA SWITZERLAND/FRIEDENSBUREAU BERN enabling transmission through neutral Bern under the auspices of the International Peace Bureau directed by Nobel laureates Élie Ducommun and Henri La Fontaine after direct maritime and overland links to the Reich were suspended, an outstanding synergy of colonial occupation censorship and humanitarian mediation, provenance, ex Kugel, XF! Schätzpreis 600€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12340

/pair

86, 87, 105-108 (6)

1931, 1938, LPOG (86, 87), LPOG never hinged (105-108), very fresh and desirable, XF! Schätzpreis 230€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12341

/pair

86, 87, 105-108 (6)

1931, 1938, LPOG (86, 87), LPOG never hinged (105-108), very fresh and desirable, XF! Schätzpreis 230€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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12342

140b

1949, 3 d, SWA opt, variety lake in East Africa, pair, LPOG, very fresh and desirable, XF! Schätzpreis 100€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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Southern Rhodesia

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11651

1 var

1924-29, 1/2 d, blue-green, upper marginal block of twelve from junction of the left and right panes, original gum, six horizontal gutter pairs, R1-6/10-11 on sheet with plate marking top centre, showing partly blind perfs at right of gutter, stamps never hinged, splendid and remarkably scarce multiple in this format, XF! Schätzpreis 600€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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11652

1924-29, 1/2 d, blue green, perf at bottom missing for top stamp, vertical pair, MNH, some gum toning, desirable and interesting, VF! Schätzpreis 400€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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11653

piece/pair

1924-9, 1/2 d, green, IMPERF between horizontal pair from the right margin, with clear strike of double circle SALISBURY, on local letter front, CV £1500, very fresh and desirable, XF! Schätzpreis 1.800€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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11654

1931-37, used, verfy fresh and attractive, XF! Schätzpreis 100€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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Estimate € 100

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11655

/bof

1932, 3d., imperf block of 4, printers waste with lower margin and handwritten red reference marks of errors, discharged with punched holes, very interesting and attractive, XF! Schätzpreis 580€. (Image)

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11656

1951, postage due stamp, LPOG, very fresh and desirable, ex Besancon, XF! Schätzpreis 360€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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Estimate € 360

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12343

/pair

1924-9, 1/2 d, blue green, perf at top missing for bottom stamp, vertical pair, LPOG, desirable and interesting, VF-XF! Schätzpreis 400€. (Image) (imagea) (All Images)

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Estimate € 400

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