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GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA Post Offices - Postmarks continued...

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Lot Description

3441

1913-15 10pf, 20pf and 25pf Yacht (first two watermarked, last one unwatermarked), canceled "Otjundara D-SWA", "Okatjomboa D-SWA" and "Bogenfels D-SWA", each with a clear, readable cancel, fine-v.f., rare group of postmarks of the offices opened during the final 12 months prior to the outbreak of World War I. These post offices were generally in small settlements, away from the main routes, thus there was little chance to develop philatelic mail (Image)

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction

3442

1913-15 20pf Yacht (watermarked) canceled on piece by "Okatjomboa D-SWA" 18.5.14 cds, v.f., extremely rare, signed Bothe ("Selten Stempel") (Image)

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3443

1914 20pf Yacht, two singles (left copy watermarked, right stamp unwatermarked) canceled on piece by two bold strikes of "Grundorn D-SWA" 23.10.14 cds, v.f., signed Bothe. A rarity from Grundorn, located in the south central area, 25 miles from Gibeon (Image)

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3444

1914 10pf Yacht (watermarked), canceled "Otjosazu-D-SWA", v.f., signed Czimek, rare (Image)

SOLD for $450.00
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3445

1914 50pf and 3m Yacht (unwatermarked), each canceled "Aroab D-SWA", v.f. (Image)

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3446

1914 5pf and 10pf Yacht, both tied on small piece by overlapping "Bergland D-SWA" 24.5.14 well struck cds, fine-v.f., extremely rare, especially in this quality, signed Bothe (Bergland is located in the central area, about 60 miles south of Windhuk) (Image)

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3447

1914 10pf carmine, tied by "Pomonahugel D-SWA" 25.7.14 pmk on cover to Hamburg, also vertical pair of 80pf Yacht canceled by two strikes of "Pomonahugel D-SWA" cds, fine (Image)

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction

3448

1914 5pf stationery card canceled by a clear "Chairos D-SWA 29.1.14" cds, with oval "Arno Becker Chairos Bez. Outjo, D.-S.-W.-Afrika" sender's handstamp, addressed to Hamburg, with 12/3 arrival docketing within the handstamp, fine and rare card, signed Kruschel (Image)

SOLD for $625.00
Will close during Public Auction

3449

1914 (4 Mar) registered cover franked with 20pf, 1m and 2m Yacht, tied by "Klein-Nauas D-SWA" cds and sent to Germany, with "Rehoboth Deutsch-Sudwest-Afrika" (7.3.14) transit and Munich (4 Apr 14) arrival pmks. Also included is a cover franked with single 3pf brown, tied by "Klein-Nauas" cds, addressed to Magdeburg, filing folds away from the stamps, fine (Klein-Nauas was a small interior village in the central part of the colony, to the southeast of Windhuk) (Image)

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction

GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA Auxiliary markings

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3450

1902 5pf stationery card prepared to the Second Agricultural Exhibition in Windhuk, with straight-line "Austellungsplatz" handstamp, sent to Cologne, with arrival (29.7.02) pmk below (Image)

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

3451

1906 "Windhoek DSWA 5.8.06" arrival pmk on picture postcard (large part missing at left) from Boenigheim, Germany (28 Mar) to Windhuk, with a 6-line cachet "Sendung Stammt aus einer a, 4/d Mta.bei Okasise aufgefundene Briefpost die teilweise von Termi-ten beschadigt werden ist. Die naheren Umsande sing noch nicht bekannt. Windhuk, 5 August 1906 Postamt" ("mail originated from a bag which on the 4th of this month was found near Okasise, damaged by termites. Further circumstances are still unknown, Windhuk, 5 August 1906. Post Office"). One of the most exotic of German Colonial auxiliary markings, this "Termite postcard" was included in a mail pouch carried by a native runner who never arrived at the post office at Okasise. His body was found four months later, badly mauled by wild animals, although the cause of death was not determinable. Mail in the pouch, that was still deliverable, was marked by a special handstamp, of which, over 100 years later, only three examples have been recorded, this one signed Bothe, etc. (Image)

SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction

3452

Flight Covers. 1914 Special Flight for Windhoek Exhibition (19 May) Usakos-Karibibi flown picture postcard, endorsed "Flugpost", with correct 5pf franking canceled "Karibib D-SWA", with three line cachet "Erste FLUGPOST / Deutschsudwestafrika Karibib Windhuk", addressed to Okahandja, with 22.5.14 arrival pmk, v.f. (The pilot, Bruno Buechner made only four mail carrying flights in Southwest Africa before his double-decker aircraft was requisitioned for the German war effort. This was the only official airmail flown in any of the German Colonies) A major rarity, only a few exist (Image)

SOLD for $2,400.00
Will close during Public Auction

3453

Flight Covers. 1914 Special Flight for Windhoek Exhibition (23 May) Okahandja-Windhuk flown picture postcard, handstamped "Flugpost", with correct 5pf franking canceled "Okahandja D-SWA", with three line cachet "Erste FLUGPOST / Deutschsudwestafrika Okahandja Windhuk", addressed to Windhuk, v.f. (on 24 May 1914, Buchner left Okahandja for Winduk, but he had to make emergency landings in Teufelsbach and Brakwater due to bad weather en route. He finally landed on the Windhuk). Also included is a postcard (stamp removed) showing the Pfalz biplane (Image) (image 3453a)

SOLD for $2,600.00
Will close during Public Auction

GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA Bondelswarts Uprising

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3454

1904 (29 Feb) "Feld" Postcard to Germany, with black-violet "Feld-Poststation D-SWA" 9/1/04 provisional pmk (wanderstempel),"Warmbad" departure cds, official Keetmanshoop seal and Modishofen (27 Mar) arrival at bottom, fine usage during the Bondelswarts Uprising in 1904 (The Bondelswarts are a Nama ethnic group of Southern Africa living in the extreme south of Namibia, in an area centered on the town of Warmbad. They rose up against German colonial rule in the Nama War 1903-1906 and were brutally repressed) (Image)

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction

3455

1904 (9 Jan) violet "Feld-Poststation D-SWA" provisional pmk (wanderstempel) tying 5pf Yacht on piece, v.f., signed Bothe (Image)

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GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA Herero and Nama Uprising

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Lot Description

3456

1904-06 selection of 8 covers or cards showing "K.D.Feldpostexped, Sudwestafrika" markings, including "a", Nr.1, Nr.2, Nr.3 and Nr.4, five are Registered, with corresponding "Kaisserlich Deutsche Feldpoststation" labels, also Field-Postanweisung and Optische Feld-Telegraphie forms, all written-up on exhibit pages, fine and scarce fieldpost during the Herero Uprising (Image) (image 3456a) (image 3456b) (image 3456c)

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3457

1904 (23 Nov) "Feldpostkarte" franked with 10pf Yacht, tied by violet "Waterberg" straight-line provisional ("Wanderstempel II") and Deutsch Sudwestafrika departure cds, repeated alongside and sent to Germany, with arrival pmks below, fine and scarce usage from Waterberg (a principal town in central German Southwest Africa, overrun by the Hereros in January 1904 during the uprising. The post office was destroyed and the provisional handstamp was used for about three weeks) (Image)

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3458

1906-07 Fieldpost card and cover from Germany to Windhuk, SWA, first sent in late 1906, addressee had been repatriated to the home country as indicated by the special markings "Empfanger ist nach Deutschland zuruckgekehrt heim adresse unbekannt Marine-Postbureau" (returned to Germany, home address unknown, Navy Postal Bureau); the other with a four-line handstamp "Ohne genaue Ausgabe des letzingen Truppentails nicht zu erintteln Feldpostelle Windhuk" (could not be delivered because the latest specific military unit address could not be ascertained, Fieldpost office Windhuk). Local forces were unable to put down the native uprisings in Southwest Africa in the early part of the 20th Century. Additional 18,000 troops were sent from Germany. As men were rotated back home, special markings were used on covers to indicate reasons for inability to deliver mail, as shown by these two items (Image)

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GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA South African Occupation

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Lot Description

3459

1914-20 collection of 55 covers or cards, written-up on 22 exhibit pages, showing wide range of markings, censor handstamps and labels, Army Base Post Offices, with stampless covers, endorsed "Veldt Dienspost", endorsements from "South African Irish", postage due handstamps, FPOs from Ukamas, Mariental, Ababis, Kalkfontein, Otjiwarongo, Keetmanshoop, Albrechts, Aub Station, Bethany, Kolmannskoop, Windhuk, Grootfontein, Swakopmund, Post Neuheusis, mute cancels from Aroab, Akahandjia, Official mail, Prisoner of War covers, one incoming from Switzerland, hadstamped "Detained", and others. A fascinating collection (Image) (image 3459a) (image 3459b) (image 3459c) (image 3459d) (image 3459e) (image 3459f) (image 3459g) (image 3459h) (image 3459i) (image 3459j) (image 3459k) (image 3459l) (image 3459m) (image 3459n) (image 3459o) (image 3459p) (image 3459q) (image 3459r) (image 3459s) (image 3459t)

SOLD for $3,500.00
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3460

1915 (26 May) registered cover to Windhuk, franked with 1d, 6d and 1sh George V, tied by large double circle cds, with framed bilingual censor mark, with oval "Army Base Post Office / South Africa No.6" (30 May 1915) receiving pmk, one stamp defective, otherwise rare Registered cover from Base Post Office, only two recorded (Putzel 2a and 3) (Image)

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