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Postal History - World War I Prisoner of War Camps
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 4715 |
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 MOLONGLO CONCENTRATION CAMP: 1918 (June 29) illustrated advertising cover for David Jones Department Store (Sydney) to "G Brauns/co
POW Canteen/Molonglo" with KGV Rough Paper 1d red - misplaced '[DJ]/LTD' perfin - tied by 'HELP TO WIN THE WAR/...' slogan of Sydney, largely very fine straight-line 'Censored' handstamp (EFR page 176) apparently used at the Camp. Gary Diffen has
confirmed this is the only recorded example so rated RRRRR.
EFR state the addressee was probably Gertrud Brauns, teenage daughter of the Nauru wireless operator who was interned at Berrima, and whose family lived in that town. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4716 |
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 MOLONGLO CONCENTRATION CAMP: 1918 (Aug 10) usage of Dutch Indies 5c Postal Card from a Dutch naval officer to a female internee at
"St Andrews Hotel/Nuwara Eliya/Ceylon" with superb 38mm 'PASSED/COLOMBO/CENSOR' cachet in violet & endorsed "POW Australia/GCC/Liverpool", no Sydney or Liverpool markings but with 'BERRIMA/OC29/1918/NSW' cds & endorsed "Molonglo Camp" in blue pencil,
minor bends & light soiling. A remarkable item, between members of the Kosmos Correspondence Club. See EFR at page 175. In -.7.1915, the SS Star of England brought 219 German internees from Ceylon to Australia. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4717 |
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 MOLONGLO CONCENTRATION CAMP: 1918 POW Lettersheet headed "Molonglo 27th 8 1918" with 29mm 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' and 70mm
'Nicht zwischen die Zeilen schreiben!' (= do not write between the lines), superb strike of the very scarce 'MOLONGLO CONCENTN CAMP/ 29AU18/NSW' cds (rated RRR by Gary Diffen) & the extremely rare unframed 'CENSORED/LeoGCasey CAPTAIN/INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER AND CENSOR/[MOLONGLO] DEFENCE CAMP' handstamp (EFR page 173; not previously recorded by Gary Diffen so rated RRRRR), to "Liverpool German Concentration Camp" with 'Permission granted' handstamp in violet. Ex Oscar Blau Hoard: sold at our
auction of 21.11.1995 for $800.
This is the only non-civilian internee item we have recorded from Molonglo, being endorsed on the flap "Lt Janis von Blankenstein", challenging the popular belief that only civilian internees were held at Molonglo. The letter is to Oscar Blau in his
capacity as "Lt of the 1st Hung Hon Art Regt" (= 1st Hungarian Honorary Artillery Regiment), requesting Blau send him £10 and stating "...it is not allowed to write from one camp in [sic] the other, only in buisness [sic] matter..." (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,150.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4718 |
PSE |
 MOLONGLO CONCENTRATION CAMP: 1918 (Nov 15) POW Lettersheet with 29mm 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE/- - -' at upper-right & and 70mm
'Nicht zwischen die Zeilen schreiben!' (= do not write between the lines) within, to "Holland" with light but clear strike of the rare double-oval 'MOLONGLO DEFENCE CAMP/No ("322")/INTELLIGENCE/FEDERAL TERRITORY' cachet in violet & boxed 'PASSED
BY/CENSOR SD' cachet in purple applied at Sydney, the flap endorsed "Mrs Freudenberg/Concentration Camp Molonglo", Dutch 'GINNEKEN/18.II/1919' arrival backstamp, minor folding splits/repairs within. Rare. See EFR at page 174. Neil Russell's example
from the same correspondence sold for $900 (Sale 217 Lot 543).
Gary Diffen records the cachet between 15.11.1918 & 28.2.1919; rated RRR. Gary Diffen has recorded three variants of the internal 'Nicht zwischen...' advice, measuring 70mm, 82mm or 73mm (with no '!') in length. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4719 |
PSE |
 MOLONGLO CONCENTRATION CAMP: 1918 (Nov 15) POW Lettersheet with 29mm 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE/- - -' at upper-right & and 70mm
'Nicht zwischen die Zeilen schreiben!' (= do not write between the lines) within, to a bookseller in Bavaria with light but clear strike of the rare double-oval 'MOLONGLO DEFENCE CAMP/No.../INTELLIGENCE/FEDERAL TERRITORY' cachet (rated RRR) in violet
& boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR SD' cachet in purple applied at Sydney, the flap with typed "On Behalf of School & Library/L Ankenbrand/Molonglo Concentration Camp" signed within "Ludwig Ankenbrand" noted as "früher Bourke" (= formerly at Bourke Camp).
Rare. See EFR at page 174. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4720 |
PSE |
 MOLONGLO CONCENTRATION CAMP: 1918 usage of KGV Star 1d Envelope uprated with KGV ½d green (paying the War Tax introduced
28.10.1918) tied by two of three very fine to superb strikes of the very scarce 'MOLONGLO CONCENTN CAMP/18NO18/NSW' cds (one week after the Armistice; rated RRR), opened-out. See EFR at page 172. The British-style writing suggests the sender was a
member of the Camp staff. Gary Diffen records the cds between 19JE18 & 7JE19 (the day the PO closed). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4721 |
PSE |
 Batch of plain envelopes & Postal Stationery POW Envelopes from Liverpool x10, Berrima x2 (to USA or Java) and Trial Bay x2 (one to
Java), a variety of cachets, generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4722 |
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 Modern reproductions of Camp photographs mostly uncaptioned but a few noted as being of Trial Bay x3, Enoggera or Rottnest, the
others probably all/mostly of Liverpool and Berrima, many excellent shots and all very fine to superb; also PPCs of ships 'Ceramic', 'Kyarra' and 'Medina'.
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Estimate AU$50
Currently Opening at...AU$38.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4723 |
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 1915-16 correspondence to & from Marguerite Blau, wife of the internee Oscar Blau, regarding her visits to him being permitted or
denied 1) '[crown]/GCC/GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS NSW' letterhead of 16..9.1915 granting permission for fortnightly visits, signed "RSSands Major/Commandant"; 2) of "Oct 18th" to Major Sands advising she had been refused entry to the camp; 3)
'[crown]/GCC/...' letterhead of 3.11.1915, again granting fortnightly visits & signed "RSSands"; 4) similar of 8.12.1915 advising "...owing to special instructions having been received...permission cannot be granted...at present" & signed "OGriffith
Captain/for Commandant"; 5) of 6.1.1916 to "Mr Hughes" (William Morris (Billy) Hughes, Prime Minister 1915-23) asking him to intervene; 6) & 7) 13.1.1916 from the NSW Premier advising it was a matter for the Defence Department, with the OHMS envelope
with 'PREMIERS OFFICE' cachet; 8) of 15.6.1916 (apparently an error for January) to "Your Excellency Sir Munro Ferguson" (Sir Ronald Crauford Munro-Ferguson was Governor-General 1914-20); and 9) 16.1.1916 'GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE' letterhead
advising her letter had been "forwarded to the Prime Minister for the consideration of the Government". Marvellous social history, showing that some things never change. In this four-month period, Mrs Blau was resident at Darling Point, Bellevue Hill
and Rose Bay.
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Estimate AU$350
Currently Opening at...AU$270.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4724 |
PSE |
 1915-18 inwards mail from within Australia x7 (three with stamps removed by the censors), from Austria x2, Germany x9, GB x2,
Hungary, India x6, Netherlands Indies, Philippines, Sweden, Switzerland x4 or United States, variously to Berrima Liverpool or Trial Bay with a good variety of types, censor cachets, etc, condition very mixed but many are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4725 |
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 1915-18 outgoing mail about half being plain envelopes with 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' handstamp and about half being Postal
Stationery Envelopes plus two Lettersheets, mostly from Liverpool plus a few from Berrima and Trial Bay, addressed within Australia x11 (one inter-camp item & one registered), others to Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany x15, GB x2, Netherlands,
Netherlands Indies x2, Switzerland x2 or United States x6, good range of cachets including two undeliverable items, condition variable but generally fine to very fine; a few with the enclosed letters.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4726 |
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 1919 (July 8) letter from the Swiss Red Cross requesting "... news of the German civil prisoner Kurt Helbig ... interned in
Liverpool NSW 16th Comp 6th Mess ...", black/blue label at lower-left in French (= When replying, please affix the enclosed stamp to your envelope), 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS/RECEIVED/ 5SEP1919/AUSTRALIA' double-oval cachet in violet endorsed
"Repatriated/Tras-Os-Montes/July 9th 1919/ RJW 6.9.19", folds & minor blemishes. Only the second example of the cachet recorded by Gary Diffen: rated RRRRR. In 1916 the German ship 'Bulow' was seized by the Portuguese & renamed 'Tras-os-Montes'. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4727 |
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 LETTERHEADS: 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS AUSTRALIA/PRISONER OF WAR LETTER' with printed 'BERRIMA' (rated RRR by Gary Diffen; a little
reduced at the base), 'LIVERPOOL' or 'TRIAL BAY' and another of 1918 without the Camp name & endorsed "Liverpool", characteristic folds. Three in English, with interesting contents.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4728 |
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 MAILING INSTRUCTION CARDS: Red/grey-buff card (103x63mm) with mailing instructions for POWs/ internees in German, faint bend. POWs
were entitled to two letters each week, written in ink on one side of a single page, the envelope to be endorsed on the flap with name & camp address of the sender. Neil Russell's example sold at our auction of 28.11.2016 for $228 (Sale 217 Lot
547). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4729 |
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 MAILING INSTRUCTION CARDS: Red/grey-buff card (103x63mm) with mailing instructions for POWs/ internees in English, space between
"the War" & trailing asterix after "will not be delivered.*" Neil Russell's example sold at our auction of 28.11.2016 for $336 (Sale 217 Lot 548).
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4730 |
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 MAILING INSTRUCTION CARDS: Red/grey-buff card (103x63mm) with mailing instructions for POWs/ internees in English, reset text with
no space between "theWar" & no trailing asterix after "will not be delivered." Neil Russell's example sold at our auction of 28.11.2016 for $408 (Sale 217 Lot 549). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
Postal History - World War I POW Camps - NSW - Ber
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 4731 |
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 1915 (circa) real photo picture postcards of the Wingecarribee River 1) 'German Prisoners Play Ground', unused; 2) 'The Hanover
Built by Interned Germans' (miniature yacht), social message on the reverse; and 3) the river in flood, used under cover to Germany with message headed "Berrima 29.10.1916". See EFR at pages 99-100 & 111. Berrima must have been the cushiest
internment camp anywhere in the world. (3) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4732 |
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 1915-17 photographically produced artist postcards with Empire backs for performances by Deutsches Theatre Berrima x3 (one with a
Christmas theme) or Royal celebrations x2 (one featuring the Deutches Orchester Berrima), a few mostly very minor imperfections otherwise very fine unused. (5) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4733 |
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 1915 (early) stampless cover without superscription endorsed on the flap "C Schroeder/Detention Barracks/Berrima", to Germany with
a light strike of the 25mm 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' cachet in violet and British POW censor cachet. The absence of a Berrima or Liverpool censor cachet suggests this may be among the earliest mail from Berrima. Gary Diffen records the Free
indicium from 13.3.1915. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4734 |
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 1915 (May 4) PPC ('River Scene at Berrima') with message headed "May 4th 1915/Detention Barracks/ Berrima" and signed "C
Schroeder", to Germany with very fine strike of the 25mm 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' cachet in violet, 'Service des prisonniers de guerre' and 'CENSORED/("RSSands") MAJOR/GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP/LIVERPOOL NSW' cachet both in pale bluish green,
corner fault at upper-right. Very early dated mail from Berrima. The message, in English, states "I have been transferred to Berrima...didn't hear anything from you since June last year..." See EFR at page 105. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
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