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1900, 5 s. scarlet and deep green, wmk. V over Crown, perf. 12 x 12½, mint hinged with large part og. Fine SG £ 250

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1900, ½ d. dull scarlet & pea-green, wmk. Crown over A, perf. 12 x 12½, an unused block of six, marginal from right of sheet, fresh and very fine, unmounted og.

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1893, 1 d. in pair and 3 d., tied by barred oval "F" with adjacent Freemantle c.d.s., to registered envelope to New South Wales with transit – and arrival marks. Minor transportation marks. A fine and scarce entire.

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1892, cover to Bushire, franked on reverse with India ½ a. green, tied by squared circle "BAHRAIN OC 6 92", frontside boxed "POSTAGE DUE / ONE ANNA", arrival mark of October 9th next to the stamp; fine and rare, the earliest of 2 recorded entires recorded with this postmark.

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1893, British India postcard ONE ANNA on 1½ a. blue,  dated "Bahrein, Persian Gulf, July 9th 1893" and posted at "BUSRAH JL .. 93" to London with frontside "SEA POST OFFICE JL 28 93"; fine and very scarce early mail

1903, British India postcard 1 a. + 1 a. blue, used with text from "BAHRAIN 27 DE 03" via "SEA POST OFFICE JA. 9 04" to Berlin with arrival mark on front. Very fine and rare.

1908, British India envelope ONE ANNA on 2 a. 6 p. orange with return address "Mason Memorial Hospital / Bahrein, Persian Gulf" and clear postmark "BAHRAIN 17 OC. 08",  to 'Seaman Hospital, Greenwich, S.E.'. The writer expected to benefit of the soldier's concessionary rate, but since the envelope was not countersigned by an officer it was taxed, showing 2 strikes of "T" in circle, struck in Bahrain, plus British "3d/F.B.". The envelope opened out for display with slight toning at the edges. Unique usage of this envelope at Bahrain and to our records only recorded use of the "T"-tax stamp at Bahrain

1912, India, Edward 3 a. orange-brown, tied by cds. "BAHRAIN 18 FE. 12" to reverse of registered envelope with provisional registration label to Bombay with adjacent arrival mark; cover opened on 2 sides, very fine. Rare early registered mail.

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1933/37, George V. 1 r. with 3 p. (12) and George VI 1 a. (2), used on reverse of airmail cover from "BAHRAIN PERSIAN GULF 27 NOV 39" to Copenhagen, Denmark with white label "OPENED BY CENSOR", fixed with staples and tied by the cds., leaving 4 stamps underneath the label uncancelled. A most attractive and very rare censored letter

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George V. 2 r., tied by cds. "BAHRAIN 2..AUG 34" to registered airmail cover via Cairo to Germany with transit- and arrival marks. A fine and rare cover.

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5 r., horizontal marginal pair tied to commercial airmail cover from "BAHRAIN 17 NOV. 45" to San Francisco with adjacent red "O.A.T." (Onward Air Transport). A very rare usage of this high value and highest recorded franking of this issue

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1938/39, George VI. ½ a., 4 copies, tied to reverse of cover to Tchahbahar, underpaid by ½ a. and taxed on arrival, franked with 2 copies Iran 1938, 50 d., tied by Tchahbahar cds.; a very rare combination cover

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1948/49, ½ a. (2), 1 a., 1½ a. and 2½ a., tied by 3 strikes of cds. "EXPERIMENTAL P.O. K-121" (Muharraq post office) to airmail cover to England; one ½ a. slight transportation marks, otherwise fine. The experimentals K121-postmark is the rarest postmark of Bahrain, according to Donaldson just one further cover has been reported.

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1934, Registered envelope 3 a. + 1 a. 3 p. used abroad with cds. "C-POST OFFICE 2 .. JUN 47" (Basra Margil) with adjacent violet "R No. "c" base P.O." to England, little roughly opened. Very rare

1904/1979 (ca.), extensive collection with approximately 200 covers, cards and postal stationery, plus some single stamps, proofs and multiples, including many interesting and scarce frankings, high values on cover, air mail, registered mail, India used abroad, incoming mail, etc., etc.

1919, 10 r. on 1 k. orange and 10 r. on 3 k. red-brown overprinted two imperf stamps on local letter tied by BATUM 25/11/19 c.d.s., addressed to "Mr.M.A.Kastorsky 12, Petrowsk Passage Herc" (Batum), very fine and scarce (Scott 7, 8, $ 1450) 

Provenienz: Dr. Grigoleit (Köhler, 2019)

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BATUM "1", "2" & "3" turkish armed forces cancellations on three pieces, mounted on exhibition page, fine and scarce trio

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1871, BATUM all arabic hexagonal part cancellation on Turkey 1 Piaster brown, very scarce, fine

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"OCEANA”, violetter L1 mit handschriftlicher Datumsaufgabe "2/11/1911" auf Bermuda Ganzsachenkarte 1P. rot via New York mit "N.Y.P.O. HUD. TERMS PAQUEBOT FEB 13 1911” nach Berlin, rückseitig mit gemaltem Bilderrätsel über ein Explosions-Unglück, welches am 1.2.1911, im New Yorker Hafen passierte, eine sehr seltene und attraktive Karte von der wohl einzigen Fahrt der "Oceana” im Liniendienste der Hapag nach Westindien, winziger Eckbug, sonst gute Erhaltung

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1853/1921 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used group with 3 covers, including Cape of Good Hope Triangulars with SG-Nr. 2 used pair, Boer War mail, Somaliland, some specimen overprints, etc., together with a small selection of German Togo, except for the occasional fault overall in good condition

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