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ALBANIA Kosovo Region continued...

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5081

1943 selection of eight registered covers from Prizren and Peje to Palermo (care of "Internata Civile de Guerra"), one to Montenegro, different franking combination, censor handstamps and labels, mixed condition, scarce group of commercially used covers from Kosovo during Italian occupation (Image)

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Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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ALBANIA Macedonia Region

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5082

1941 (14 June) registered and censored cover to USA, franked with 15q and 2x25q (minor flaws), tied by "Tetovo" (original Slavic name of the town) departure cds, with "Tetove" Registry label below, Italian censor handstamped, opened and resealed by U.S. censor, Italian transit and arrival (Aug 20, 1941) arrival pmks on back, cover roughly opened at bottom, rare usage (after World War One, Tetovo became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, during Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, Tetovo once again came under Albanian rule and after WWII reverted back to Yugoslavia) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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5083

1942 (30 July) cover to Zagreb, franked with 25q dark blue, tied by "Tetove" (double circle with star at bottom departure cds, with Italian censor handstamp and "Verificato per Censura" label, additional markings on back, fine and scarce usage from Tetove to Croatia (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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ALBANIA Montenegro Region

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5084

1942 (25 Mar) picture postcard ("Ulcin (Dulcigno)") to Torino, franked with pair of 5q green, tied by "Dulqin" cds, fine and scarce usage (during World War One, the present day town of Ulcinj was occupied by Austria, then Italy, and became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1920. From 1941-44 Ulcinj was under the Albanian administration and reverted to Yugoslavia after the war) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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5085

1943 (23 July) registered cover to Banja Luka, Croatia, franked with 2x10q,15q,30q, tied by "Rozhaj" double circle departure cds, paying proper 15q letter and 50q Registry fee, with corresponding registry label, opened and resealed by Italian censor, with Brindisi transit and Banja Luka arrival pmks on back (showing return address "Rozhoje, Kosove, Albania"). An uncommon usage from this very small Rozhaj post office (only 15 letters posted according to official report noted in Phipps handbook) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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5086

1943 (7 Feb) registered cover addressed to the Red Cross in Geneva, franked with single 65q red brown, tied by double circle "Dulqin" cds, with corresponding Registry label (showing "ULQIN"), opened and resealed by Italian censor, Shkodre and Milano transits, Geneva (15.III.43) arrival pmks, fine registered usage from present-day Ulcinj (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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ALLENSTEIN

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5087

1920 Interallied Commission, French Forces Issue, official corner card "Commission Interalliee d'Administration de Plebiscite D'Allenstein Traite de Versailles Art. 94 & 95" cover, registered to Strasbourg, franked with 5pf, 10pf and 75pf Allenstein overprints, with "70" due charged in Karlsruhe, fine usage (Image)

Current Opening Price...$140.00
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5088

1920 Interallied Commission, Japanese Mission to Allenstein, card with "Delegation du Japon a Allenstein" cachet, also registered cover with "Dedrich Auguste, Mecanicien de la Delegation Japonaise a la Commission Interalie d'Administration et de Plebiscite s.Allenstein Allemagne" hs, fine and extremely rare examples of the small Japanese presence as member of the Allied and Associated Powers in Allenstein (Olsztyn) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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AUSTRIA

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5089

Military Air Post. 1916-18 collection of 21 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing examples of mail service from various Flight companies on the Galician and Italian fronts, different Flight Squadron unit numbers, Air Unit cachets, Seaplane Bases, with examples of mail from Durazzo (Albania), FPO 406 (Fiume), Kumbor, Cattaro, Cosada, Zelenica, Pola, Sibenik, Puntisella, also Balloon unit markings from Pola, K.u.K.Feldpoststampt 173 and others (Image) (image 5089a) (image 5089b) (image 5089c) (image 5089d) (image 5089e) (image 5089f) (image 5089g)

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Current Opening Price...$900.00
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5090

Flight Covers. 1915-18 collection of 18 covers and cards from Austro-Hungarian Naval Aviation Corps on the Adriatic, with various "Fliegerstation" (Seaplane) and submarine station markings from "Grado" (Trieste), Pola, Puntisella, Cosada, Fiume, Sebenico, Curzola, Kumbor and Cattaro, with examples of mail flown by Seaplane through FPO 406 at Fiume to Pola (from there to Laibach), cachets inscribed "I & R Coastal Naval Air Station Sebenico" and others, fine and undoubtedly scarce group, all well described on partially decommissioned exhibit pages (Image) (image 5090a) (image 5090b) (image 5090c) (image 5090d) (image 5090e) (image 5090f) (image 5090g) (image 5090h) (image 5090i) (image 5090j) (image 5090k) (image 5090l)

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Current Opening Price...$900.00
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5091

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1914-18 Danube River Flotilla during World War One, collection of 33 covers or cards presented on exhibit pages, variety of "K.u.K.Donauflottillenkomando" (imperial and Royal Danube Flotilla Headquarters), FPO markings, cachets of "SMS Leitha" and "Maros", the oldest monitors in the fleet, mailed from Giurgiu (Romania) and Orsovo (Hungary), others from "Koros" and "Szamos", censored mail from "S.M.S. Bosna" sent through the Black Sea to support activities in Ukraine, written by a crew member at Kherson on the Dnieper River. Numerous other monitor cachets are included, such as red "S.M.S. Temes", "Bodrog", "Inn", "Enns", "Barsch", "Compo", "Viza", also from patrol boats, Armed Steamers, Auxiliary vessels, Shore Station cachets, numerous censor and Naval markings, mixed condition, scarce (The campaigns of the Danube Flotilla could literally be called a backwater of the Great War. During Peacetime, the flotilla was responsible for enforcing the border with Serbia, patrolling the Danube down to the Iron Gates, up the Sava to the mouth of the Drina and sometime up the Drina (water level permitting) and occasionally up other tributaries of the Danube, mostly chasing smugglers. However, the flotilla gained a place in history when its ships fired the first shots of the war) (Image) (image 5091a) (image 5091b) (image 5091c) (image 5091d) (image 5091e) (image 5091f) (image 5091g) (image 5091h) (image 5091i) (image 5091j) (image 5091k) (image 5091l) (image 5091m) (image 5091n) (image 5091o) (image 5091p)

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Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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5092

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1916-17 Austro-Hungarian Submarines, three cards displayed on exhibit page, one from "K.u.K.Kriegsmarine Monarch", others from "U-6" and "U-21", sent from Cattaro, Sibenik and Pola, first one showing cachet of Headquarters of the I.& R Submarine Group in Gulf of Cattaro, very scarce (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5093

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1917-18 Danube Flotilla River gunboats, three cards addressed to Vienna, each originating in Romania (Orsova, Turnnu-Severin and Braila), showing different cachets of Danube Flotilla Headquarters and "K.u.K.Etappenpostampt 348", "Hadtap Postahivatal 449" and "K.u.K.Feldpostampt 299" markings, fine and uncommon group displayed on exhibit page (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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5094

Military Mail. 1914 Registered cover from the abortive first Austrian invasion of Serbia, registered from "Loznica" to Skalice, franked with two Bosnian stamps and tied by framed "K.u.K.Militar Postampt Loznica" pmk, with Registered and "K.u.K. Militar-Telegraphen" handstamps, fine and rare registered cover from the Austrian foothold during the second invasion of Serbia (One of the bloodiest battles fought in the Balkans was the Battle of the Drina, near Loznica, Serbia. After a first failed invasion of Serbia where he lost 40,000 men, Oskar Potiorek, the Austro-Hungarian commander, launched a new offensive across the River Drina, where he faced strong Serbian defensive positions. A counterattack pushed the Austrians back to the Drina, but a small force remained at Loznica) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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AUSTRIA Austrian Naval Presence in China

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5095

1901 picture postcard to Vienna, with violet "S.M.S. K.u.K Maria Theresia" circular unit handstamp, with corresponding "Feldpost", showing Laxenburg (8.7.01) arrival pmk at bottom, fine. Also unused ppc "SMS Aspern" (Image) (image 5095a)

Current Opening Price...$140.00
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5096

1914-17 registered "Legation D'Austriche-Hongrie en Chine" cover to Zurich, with "K.u.K, Marinedetachement in Peking" (9 Apr 1914) departure cds, postcard with 5f Hungarian franking, with similar departure pmk, addressed to Hungary, also three telegraph forms, including Chinese Imperial Post Registered article receipt, handstamped "K.u.K.Etappen Commando in Tientsin", also partial "Imperial Chinese Telegraphs" form and "The Submarine Telegraph Service" receipts made out to Austrian Legation Guards (Image) (image 5096a)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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AUSTRIA Austrian Levant

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5097

Military Mail. 1916-18 Austro-Hungarian Military Mission to Turkey, collection of 40 covers and cards on exhibit pages, markings of mortar and howitzer batteries supporting Turkish defenders at Gallipoli, official mail from "Imperial and Royal Military Representative in Constantinople", registered and censored mail from Pera, Courier Post via German Military Mission in Aleppo, Transport and logistical support markings, Austrian Base at the construction railhead of the Baghdad Railway (near Konia), cachets of Base Commander in Taurus-Amanus and Branch Gasoline Depot in Bosanti, Fieldpost cover from "Bir-es-Seba" (Beersheba) and "A.O.K.4" (Jerusalem), cachets of origin from Representative of the 1st Expeditionary Corps for German and Austro-Hungarian Troops (Aleppo), Mobile Hospital (Jerusalem), Army Group "Jilderim", detachment operating the "Bekleme-Pyrgos" cable car system, "Deutsche Feldpost 663" (then located at Nazareth), "K.u.K.Feldpostampt 452" from Diyarbakir and Damascus (Image) (image 5097a) (image 5097b) (image 5097c) (image 5097d) (image 5097e) (image 5097f) (image 5097g) (image 5097h) (image 5097i) (image 5097j) (image 5097k) (image 5097l) (image 5097m) (image 5097n) (image 5097o)

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Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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BELGIUM

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5098

Military Mail. 1915-17 "Corps Expeditionnaire Belge en Russie" (Belgian Expeditionary Corps of Armored Cars), collection of 65+ covers or cards on pages and loose, showing variety of markings in Cyrillic and in French, incoming mail, destinations, unit cachets, some detailed information, also copies of the actual vehicles, troops in transit, research articles and variety of other collateral material, mixed condition, interesting group, excellent exhibition potential (following an agreement between King Albert and Tsar Nicholas, the entire Armored Corps of about 400 vehicles was transferred to the Russian Front, where it saw action against German and Austrian forces. In early 1917, the ACM got caught up in the Russian Revolution. Unable to cross German territory to return to Belgium, the men traveled home via Ukraine and Siberia on a trans-Siberian train, arriving in Vladivostok on 20 April 1918. Five days later they boarded U.S. Army Transport ship "Sheridan", arriving in San Francisco on 12 May 1918 where they were greeted as heroes) For a full video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1045054647

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Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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5099

Military Mail. 1919 (14 July) folded mourning announcement (Freiherrn Ferdinand von Wolff-Metternich) sent from Xanten during Belgian Occupation, with 5pf franking, violet "Cantonement de Xanten Armee Belge d'Occupation" unit cachet, fine and extremely rare (Image)

Current Opening Price...$140.00
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BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Tatar Courier

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5100

1842-45 (ca 1842-43) two covers and an official receipt from Sarajevo to Constantinople, showing negative intaglio marking of "Bosna" (Turkish for Sarajevo). The distance charge was based on route hours, which accounted for mileage and road conditions. These letters to Constantinople would have cost 217 paras (5 piaster and 17 paras) each, some edge toning, otherwise fine (the Imperial edict of 12 Ramasan 1256 (14 October 1840) led to substantial improvements in the Ottoman postal system, with a network of contracted dispatch rider (Tatar) routes. Some historians believe that the word "Tatar" comes from the word "Tartyr" (that which pulls) (Image) (image 5100a) (image 5100b)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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