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1838/60, MARITIME MAIL: 13 envelopes including ship mail from Turkey, Austria, Great Brittain, many transit marks and cholera disinfection, mostly fine

1859/70 (ca.), 5 good entires with Tughra colour franking 1 pia.+ 2 pia., Romania cover to Constantinople, etc.

1893/1967 (ca.), 55 covers and cards, including Bavaria SFP 1 with special cancellation, six propaganda cards, also Switzerland Mi.-Nr. 62 single franking on registered cover to Munich and further Italy and Austria

1928/66, over 1000 meter marks as specimen prints on master cards of the "Francotyp” company. Many different countries, including Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Italy with the inscription "FAC SIMILE”, Hungarian, Netherlands, Romania, Scandinavia with early examples, Spain and a few overseas countries. From the original company archive

1880, Collection of 19 different postal stationeries unused, including six complete postal stationery answering cards (P2, P5-6, P11-13, P17), tiny hinge remains on reverse, otherwise fine.

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: "COMITÉ AUXILIAIRE DE STRASBOURG” Private formula card addressed to Mundolsheim with large red ornamented handstamp "SOCIÉTÉ DE SECOURS AUX BLESSÉS MILITAIRES / COMITÉ AUXILIAIRE STRASBOURG” (repeated on reverse) and blue cachet "PAROISSE DE ST PIERRE”, except for some peripheral toning, fine. A very scarce card, signed Calves and certificate Heckler (2016)

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR: "COMITÉ AUXILIAIRE DE STRASBOURG” Private formula card addressed to Eckbolsheim with large red ornamented handstamp "SOCIÉTÉ DE SECOURS AUX BLESSÉS MILITAIRES / COMITÉ AUXILIAIRE STRASBOURG”, dated in manuscript on reverse "le 21 septembre 1870”, some overall toning. Those cards have been printed by the Strasbourg Red Cross Auxiliary Committee during the siege of the city in August/September 1870. Signed Calves and certificate Heckler (2016)

"AUF MILITÄRISCHEN BEFEHL GEOEFNET”, blue two-line handstamp on small label (cut upon arrival) to envelope to Strasbourg with Napoleon 10 c. yellow-brown and Bordeaux 20 c. blue tied by GC "3981” with cds. "TOULON-S-MER 21 DEC 70”, endorsed "par Bale (Suisse)”, red "PD”, German blue crayon "30” and postage due "30”, reverse transit and arrival cds "STRASSBURG ELSASS 25 12 70”, fine. The attractive convergence of a rare military censor mark and an interesting route, signed Baudot and Scheller with the latter´s certificate (2025)

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"AUF MILITÄRISCHEN BEFEHL GEOEFNET”, superb blue two-line military censor handstamp to reverse of an envelope from "DOUERA 24 DEC. 70”, French Algeria, to Obernay with 20 c. Napoleon blue, German postage due "30” and arrival cds. "OBEREHNHEIM 11 1 71”, fine and rare cover with a delightful origin, signed Scheller 

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"VERSAILLES AUSWECHSELUNGS STELLE” in blue, excellent strike on entire letter from Paris with Cérès 20 c. blue tied by Dotted Star "18” and cds. "PARIS 10 FEVR. 71” alongside, sent to a French war prisoner in Hamburg, Prussia with reverse arrival cds., fine, scarce provisional censor mark, signed Roumet and Scheller

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PAPILLON DE METZ: small flimsy letter dated "Metz, 28 septembre”, addressed to "NOGENT LE ROTROU” with arrival cds., from there redirected to Nogent le Roi with final arrival cds. "NOGENT-EURE-ET-LOIRE 10 OCT. 70”, fine. A quite extraordinary balloon from the so-called Corps Franc, possibly unique as redirected with two different postmarks, certificate Brun (2025)

ARCHIMÈDE, entire letter with Napoleon 40 c. orange and Cérès 10 c. yellow-brown tied by Dotted Star "27” (Gros Caillou) with cds. "PARIS 19 NOV. 70” alongside sent to a French General prisoner of war at Wilhelmshöhe in Prussia, each adhesive with a tiny corner fault, still fine and scarce balloon cover, signed Scheller

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DENIS PAPIN (most likely), entire letter with Napoleon 20 c. blue tied by Dotted Star with cds. "PARIS 5 DEC. 70” alongside, sent to a French prisoner of war in Germany, endorsed "par la voie de Nerviers” (Belgium route) and "prisoner following the surrender of Metz”, tiny cover fault not distracting, still fine and scarce, signed and certificate Scheller (2025)

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LE DAVY (most likely), entire letter with Napoléon 20 c. blue and 30 c. brown tied by Dotted Star with cds. "PARIS 17 DEC. 70” alongside, sent to a French prisoner of war in Bonn, Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, no arrival as usual, fine and scarce, signed Scheller

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POSTE DE PARIS, entire letter with Cérès 40 c. orange tied by Dotted Star with cds. "PARIS 15 JANV. 71” alongside, sent to a French prisoner of war in Düsseldorf and endorsed "par Bruxelles” (Belgium route), fine and unusual destination, signed Scheller

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AGENCE HAVAS German edition, Siège 10 c. bistre-brown and 20 c. blue used on entire letter addressed to the "Badische Landes Zeitung" in Karlsruhe, Baden, lightly tied by Paris Star with adjacent "PARIS (60) 2 DEC 70" and red "P.D.", arrival mark of 3.1.71. Very fine. Also letter of the Havas-corespondence after the siege 29.1.1871 to Cairo.

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PARIS COMMUNE: entire letter with full content written on board the prison ship Arcole by a Commune prisoner, franked with Cérès 20 c. blue (faulty) and 10 c. bistre and sent to the mayor of St Légiers in Switzerland, alongside censor handstamp "VU BON A EXPEDIER” and departure cds. "CHERBOURG 15 AOUT 1871”, reverse arrival, fine. Interesting text with the sender requesting a birth certificate and arguing that he was not member of the Commune; Cherbourg harbour was the departure place for the Paris insurgents to be exiled to New Caledonia

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