Postal History - World War I Prisoner of War Camps continued...
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 4895 |
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 LANGWARRIN: 1915 (Apr) stampless cover endorsed on the flap "Karl Rauscha/Prisoner of War/Melbourne [sic]" with a fine strike of
the 'PRISONERS OF WAR DEPOT/LANGWARRIN' cachet (rated RRR) at left in pale blue-green and with POW endorsement at upper-right signed "Arch Lloyd" (the Officer in Command), to the Red Cross in Switzerland with 'MELBOURNE/ 12 /13AP15/VICTORIA' cds,
'PASSED' & 'CENSORS OFFICE/ GPO/MELBOURNE' cachets in violet, Geneva arrival backstamp of '18.V/1915'. The only recorded cover signed by Major Lloyd in this manner. See EFR at page 186. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4896 |
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 LANGWARRIN: 1915 (Apr 28) cover from the United States to "H Ohlenberg Prisoner of War/Langwarrin/co The American Consul/Melbourne"
with Washington/Franklins 5c & 10c tied by Boston cds in violet and registration cachet in purple at lower-left, with 'PASSED' & 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/MELBOURNE' cachets in violet but no Melbourne datestamp, overall soiling & horizontal fold. See EFR
at page 190. (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4897 |
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 LANGWARRIN: 1915 (May) stampless cover endorsed on the flap "[name] Langwarrin b[ei] Melbourne/ Prisoner of War" with a light
strike of the 'PRISONERS OF WAR DEPOT/LANGWARRIN' cachet at left and a light but obvious strike of the rare 'SERVICE DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE/["Arch Lloyd"] Major/O.C. Prisoners of War Depot/VICTORIA' cachet both in pale blue-green, to Tjilatjap
Naval Base in the Dutch Indies with Melbourne machine of '12MY15' on the reverse, 'PASSED' & 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/ MELBOURNE' cachets in violet, 'WELTEVREDEN/12.6.15' transit & 'TJILATJAP/13.6.15' arrival backstamps, light soiling & light central
vertical fold. Gary Diffen has recorded only two other examples of the cachet in blue-green: rated RRRRR. Ex Neil Russell: sold at our auction of 28.11.2016 for $1080. See EFR at page 187. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4898 |
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 LANGWARRIN: 1915 (June 27) unstamped PPC from Bavaria to "Prisoner of War/Alfons Andr Moser/ Melbourne Langwaring [sic]" with
British censor cachet, 'PASSED' & boxed 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/ MELBOURNE' cachets in violet but no Melbourne datestamp, apparently forwarded to NSW with large-part 'GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP/LIVERPOOL/...' cachet in blue-green, corner bends. See EFR at
page 188. (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4899 |
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 LANGWARRIN: 1915 (Aug) stampless cover endorsed on the flap "Walter Nolle Langwarrin" with a light strike of the 'PRISONERS OF WAR
DEPOT/LANGWARRIN' cachet at left and a largely superb strike of the rare 'SERVICE DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE/["WS Northcott Lt for"] Major/O.C. Prisoners of War Depot/ VICTORIA' cachet both being the only examples recorded in violet (both rated RRRRR),
to Sydney with 'PASSED' & 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/MELBOURNE' cachets in violet but no Melbourne datestamp, Sydney arrival backstamp & 'PASSED BY CENSOR/9AU15/=CS=' cds in magenta on the face, repaired opening faults across the flap and filled punch-hole
at left. See EFR at page 187. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4900 |
PSE |
 LANGWARRIN: 1916 Red Cross stampless postal card with printed 'Franc de port' at upper-right and advice that a German POW was being
held at Langwarrin Victoria, to Hamburg with Geneva machine of 28.VIII/1916, filing-holes at the top otherwise very fine. We expect that by this date the POW had been transferred to Liverpool NSW. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4901 |
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 VICTORIA BARRACKS: 1914 (Dec 26; Boxing Day) OHMS cover with 'District Head-Quarters/Commonwealth Military Forces - 3rd Military
District/Victoria Barracks' imprint at lower-left below the only recorded example of the 'PRISONERS/OF WAR DEPOT' cachet (rated RRRRR) in light blue-green, to "J Englander/ German Club/Melbourne" with Kangaroo 1d red punctured Small 'OS' tied by
Melbourne cds, minor flap fault. See EFR at page 180. Ex Neil Russell: sold at our auction of 28.11.2016 for $840 (Sale 217 Lot 614).
We can find no reference to a POW camp at Victoria Barracks. However, Langwarrin Camp seems to have opened only in January 1915 so it is likely that the initial intake of internees were held at the Barracks. The letter may have been a request for the
addressee to turn himself in. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4902 |
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 VICTORIA BARRACKS: 1915 (Feb 23) stampless cover from a German soldier with regimental cachet at lower-left & 'VAREL/(OLDENBURG)'
cds, to "Prisoner of War/Georg Franzius/Melborne/Australien/Viktoria Baracks [sic]" with British POW censor cachet in rosine, flap resealed across 'ENG MAIL TPO/IN 26AP15/VIC' backstamp, 'PASSED' & 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/MELBOURNE' cachets in violet on
the face, overall soiling & horizontal fold towards the base. See EFR at page 181. Only two inwards items have been recorded. Neil Russell's fine similarly addressed postcard of 21.3.1915 with redirection to Langwarrin sold at our auction of
28.11.2016 for $840 (Sale 217 Lot 615). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4903 |
PSE |
 1915 (Jan 26) usage of Fullface KGV 1d Postal Card to Ceylon with superb 'DWELLINGUP/WESTN AUST' cds & boxed 'CMF/RELEASED/BY
CENSOR' cachet, 'COLOMBO/FE10/15' arrival where held for nearly three weeks then redirected to "Diyatalawa" POW Camp with Colombo cds of 'FE27/15' and boxed 'CENSOR/1MAR1915' cachet in violet, faint vertical fold. Very attractive. The German sender
was probably a parolee. Dwellingup is some 100km SSE of Perth. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4904 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1914 WA State Tourist Bureau postcard 'The Lakes, Rottnest, WA' endorsed on the reverse "All the German prisoners
we have in the West are on this island, it is a few miles from Fremantle...9.11.14", with a used KGV 1d red affixed that does not belong.
(Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4905 |
PSE |
 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1914 (Oct 26) United States 2c Envelope with 3c tied by 'FLUSHING NY' machine cancel, to "Werner Zinnius/III
Engineer SS Thuringen/co E Ratazzi/Fremantle" with boxed 'CMF/RELEASED/BY CENSOR' cachet in blue & "23 XII 14" in blue pencil that may be the date it was received on Rottnest, vertical fold at left. The earliest inwards mail we have seen. See EFR at
pages 200 & 252. The 'Thuringen', en route to Fremantle, was captured south of Rottnest on 26.8.1914 and all the crew interned on the island.
(Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4906 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: circa late-1914 stampless cover without POW superscription but endorsed on the flap "Werner Zimmin Pris of
War/Rottnest bei Fremantle", to Germany and accepted as free mail with British POW censor cachet in rosine. We believe this is one of the earliest of the Rottnest Island covers, before local censorship protocols were in place. See EFR at page 205.
The sender was the engineer aboard the captured SS 'Thuringen'. Ex Kevin Nelson: sold at our auction of 27.11.2010 for $975 (Sale 160 Lot 1291).
(Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4907 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: circa early-1915 stampless cover without POW superscription but endorsed on the flap "[name]/Prisoner of
War/Rottnest", to the POW Information Bureau at "49 Wellington Street/London WC" with a largely very fine strike of the rare huge boxed (88x26mm) 'SERVICE DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE/("E Summerhayes") Major/Camp Commandant, Rottnest, West Australia'
cachet in blue & superb double-boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' cachet of Perth in greenish blue, soiling/stains and overall wrinkling. Sold at our auction of 7.2.2009 for $1495 (Sale 142 Lot 268). Haynes & Pope at page 335 state "No transmitted example of
an outer envelope addressed to the [London POW Bureau] has been recorded". See EFR at page 206. Gary Diffen has recorded the large cachet in 1915 only but no example is dated: rated RRRRR. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4908 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: circa early-1915 stampless cover without POW superscription but endorsed on the flap "Prisoner of War/Roy
Hansen/Rottnest Island", to Germany with a very fine strike of the rare huge boxed (88x26mm) 'SERVICE DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE/("E Summerhayes") Major/Camp Commandant, Rottnest, West Australia' cachet (rated RRRRR) & double-boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR'
cachet of Perth both in blue, ironed-out fold at the base & light toning. See EFR at page 207. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,150.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4909 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1915 stampless cover without POW superscription but endorsed on the flap "AS [= Able Seaman] HansenPrisoner of
War/Rottnest Island", to Germany with a very fine strike of the newly introduced triple-circle 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/CMF/5TH MD' cachet in blue, remarkably sent via Melbourne! with 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/MELBOURNE' and 'PASSED' cachets both in violet,
light overall soiling. Most unusual. See EFR at page 208. Haynes & Pope state at page 348 that the POW cachet was used only on mail from Rottnest to Australian addresses: at the time they had not seen any examples to overseas addresses. Gary Diffen
records the 5th MD cachet -.2.1915 to 11.10.1915: rated RRR. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4910 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1915 (Feb) stampless cover without POW superscription and with the flap removed, to Switzerland with a very fine
strike of the newly introduced triple-circle 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/CMF/5TH MD' cachet in blue (rated RRR) and boxed 'CMF/RELEASED/BY CENSOR' cachet in violet, Bern arrival backstamp of '2.III.15'. See EFR at page 207. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4911 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1915 (May) stampless cover without POW superscription and with no endorsement on the flap, unusually to a civilian
in Sweden with a very fine strike of the triple-circle 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/CMF/5TH MD' cachet in blue (rated RRR) and double-boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' cachet of Perth in violet, 'STOCKHOLM/20.6.15/*ANK*AVD*' machine arrival backstamp,
insignificant imperfections. Sold at our auction of 10.4.2010 for $1665 (Sale 155 Lot 87). See EFR at page 202. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4912 |
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 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1915 (May) stampless cover without POW superscription and with no endorsement on the flap, to "Marko
vadanavick/W[...?] Pert [sic]/WA" with a very fine strike of the triple-circle 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/CMF/5TH MD' cachet in blue (rated RRR) and almost fine double-boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' cachet of Perth in violet, unusually also with 'SHIP
ROOM/10JUN15/PERTH/...' cds, light soiling. Ex Ron Lee. See EFR at page 201. Also illustrated by Haynes & Pope at page 348. [Many of the Rottnest internees were Slavic miners from the WA goldfields. The writer & addressee were almost certainly both
from that group, the latter apparently not yet interned] (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4913 |
PSE |
 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1915 (June 15) United States 2c Envelope with 3c tied by 'FLUSHING NY' machine cancel, to "Werner Zinnius/III
Engineer SS Thuringen/Prisoner of War/Rottnest Island/near Fremantle" with black/white 'CMF/OPENED BY CENSOR' label & double-boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' in blue, blue-pencil "4 VIII" is probably the date it was received on the island, minor blemishes.
Sold at our auction of 12.2.2010 for $1610. (Sale 153 Lot 229). See EFR at page 202. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
| 4914 |
PSE |
 ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1915 (Aug 28) United States 5c Envelope with 'FLUSHING NY' machine cancel, to "Werner Zinnius/Fremantle/Rottnest
Isl" with black/white 'CMF/Opened by Censor' label & double-boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' in greenish blue, blue-pencil "13 X" is probably the date it was received on the island, minor blemishes. Very late inwards mail before closure of the camp
22.11.1915. See EFR at page 203. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-29, 07:30 PM |
