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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 448
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Asia, 1890s/1970s, cover and postal history accumulation, comprising about 220 items, neatly arranged by country in a well-filled stockbook and spanning Japan, China (Republic and early PRC), Hong Kong, Korea (North and South), Macao, Thailand, the Ryukyu Islands and others, offering a broad survey of the region’s postal development through the first three-quarters of the 20th century, strongest in Japan with early native-script postal stationery cards, colourful 1940s–1970s multiple-franking covers to the United States, Europe and Australia, mint and used postal stationery, cacheted FDCs and Ryukyus material, followed by China and Hong Kong sections showing ROC and early PRC commercial usages together with George VI and QEII Hong Kong frankings and registered and airmail covers from Shanghai, Peking, Hong Kong, Taipei and Canton/Guangzhou, additional representation from South Korea, Thailand (Bangkok), and Macao, condition generally fine to very fine with light handling or toning on a few items, a colourful and varied accumulation. (Video)(Image)
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Australia
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 449
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Cat No: Collection
Australia & Area, 1848/1960s, cover and correspondence collection including States, Commonwealth and pre-decimal FDCs, comprising over 300 items, showing early material from an 1848 Adelaide correspondence written aboard the ship Wave from Singapore and Batavia (letters only), approximately ninety Australian States items chiefly from Victoria with smaller representation from Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania including postal stationery, OHMS covers and a few postcards, as well as just over one hundred Commonwealth items from the George V period through the QEII era with commercial usages to domestic and foreign destinations, registered and censored mail, postage due and returned covers, metered impressions and instructional markings from a wide range of towns, together with material from Australian Antarctic Territory and territories under Australian administration including Papua & New Guinea, Norfolk Island and Nauru, concluding with over one hundred ten mostly cacheted pre-decimal First Day Covers of the 1930s/1960s often addressed overseas, condition generally fine with typical mixed wear in places, a substantial and wide-ranging lot and a useful study of Australian postal development from mid-19th century colonial correspondence through to the modern Commonwealth era. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 450
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Australia-related, 1930s/1980s, first flight collection comprising over 100 items, housed in a stockbook and consisting chiefly of cacheted First Flight covers to and from Australia together with inaugural airmail services to Australian cities from a wide range of countries including New Zealand, Fiji, Greece, Mauritius, South Africa, France, Germany, Egypt, Thailand, the United States, Pakistan, India, Iran, Singapore, Indonesia, Timor, Burma, Iraq, the United Kingdom, Jersey, Palau and New Guinea, among others; supplemented by special-event material such as Transglobe Expedition 1979–1982(eight covers) and the 1980 Southern Cross Air Race (seven covers), as well as airline First Flight issues from Lufthansa, BOAC, Qantas and other carriers, plus additional Anniversary and Special Air Event covers and a number of pilot-signed examples, condition generally sound with minor faults and limited duplication, a broad and appealing assemblage tracing fifty years of aviation history. (Video)(Image)
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Austria
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 451
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Cat No: Collection
Austrian Empire (Habsburg), 1790s/1840s, stampless folded letter collection comprising approximately 90 items, nearly all with original contents, noting many from Vienna including an original correspondence to Steyr with red manuscript rate and accountancy notations, together with a wide range of straight-line town handstamps in red and black supplemented by framed types and manuscript rates, as well as representative offices from across the Habsburg territories including Wien, Olmütz/Olomouc, Linz, Krems, St. Pölten, Pest, Braunau, Waidhofen, Rumburk, Pohořelice, Neusohl/Neusöhe (as struck), Freudenthal, Gunzelndorf, and Salo, among others, strikes varying from sharp to partial with typical handling or light soiling on some items, a wide-ranging lot for the dealer or specialist. (Video)(Image)
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Bermuda
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 452
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Cat No: Collection
Bermuda, early 1900s/1990s, postal history collection comprising about 130 items, housed in a stockbook and consisting mainly of commercial correspondence with strong concentration in the 1940s–1960s, showing a wide variety of airmails, multiple frankings, registered covers, postcards, “Staples” OHMS usages, First Day and First Flight covers, postal stationery cards and wrappers, and aerogrammes, most addressed to the United States, the United Kingdom or domestically, with originating postmarks chiefly from Hamilton and St. George’s and a smaller number from outlying offices, many covers bear slogan cancellations promoting Bermuda tourism and the Aquarium, together with Paquebot markings, and an additional group of U.S. First Flight covers to Bermuda adds thematic depth; condition generally sound and typical of commercial usages, a rich and wide-ranging Bermuda study. (Video)(Image)
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British Commonwealth
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 453
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Cat No: Collection
British West Indies & Caribbean, 1929/1979, postal history collection comprising over 110 items, housed alphabetically in a stockbook and consisting chiefly of genuine commercial (non-philatelic) correspondence with particular strength in the 1940s–1960s, showing a wide range of airmails, multiple frankings, registered covers, First Day Covers, postal stationery cards and wrappers, and aerogrammes across the region; countries and colonies represented include Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana (Guyana), British Honduras, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago and the Virgin Islands, with destinations sufficiently varied to support rate and routing study, condition mixed to generally sound and typical of commercial mail of the period, an appealing holding. (Video)(Image)
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Canada
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 454
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Canada, 1960s-1970s, military air letter sheet accumulation, comprising over 800 unused and unfolded Canadian military air letter sheets, most with coded production dates ranging from the early 1960s to mid-1970s, with at least 14 different types identified and strong potential for further sorting to reveal printing or paper varieties, clean and pristine throughout, a seldom-seen holding and an excellent opportunity. (Image)
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Czechoslovakia
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 455
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Czechoslovakia, 1917/1970, postal history collection of about 116 covers and cards, housed in a stockbook and arranged chronologically with particular depth in the 1920s–1930s period, the greater part comprising commercial mail, many addressed to Alsace–Lorraine and showing attractive corner-card imprints, together with useful fronts and parcel-wrapper cut-outs for rate and destination study; includes airmails, registered mail, and multiple-franking commercial usages, with a small group of First Day Covers; early material features imperforate Hradčany Castle issues on postal stationery and a representative selection of Masaryk issues on both stationery and cover, as well as feldpost mail from Mährisch Trübau and Marienbad under German occupation, including a four-page letter from Mährisch Trübau (28 Apr 1942) describing everyday life, wartime conditions, and the importance of mail for morale; condition varied but generally sound, a historically rich and engaging lot. (Video)(Image)
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France
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 456
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Cat No: Collection
France, 1840s/1870s, early postal history collection, comprising over 100 items, showing folded letters, covers and formular cards from the stampless period through the early perforated issues, noting stampless letters alongside examples franked with imperforate Ceres first issue, Bordeaux printings, and both imperforate and perforated Louis-Napoléon and Napoléon III “Laureate” issues, as well as covers accompanied by typed descriptions highlighting less common cancellations including “string of pearls” types, scalloped TPOs, Paris star cancels and other auxiliary markings, together with early rate markings and provincial despatch handstamps adding further postal history interest, condition mixed to generally fine as typical for the period, a useful and engaging lot illustrating the development of mid-19th-century French postal markings and issue usage, ideal for the specialist or for further study. (Video)(Image)
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German States
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 458
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Cat No: Collection
Baden & Württemberg, large and diverse collection of 123 folded letters in two albums, an extensive and carefully assembled group of over 120 stampless folded letters, mounted by town in two springback albums, with a strong representation of straight-line town handstamps with “R.” mileage indicators including approximately 28 × R.1, 34 × R.2 and 3 × R.3, predominantly in red with additional strikes in black; noted are Carlsruhe/Karlsruhe (double straight lines, boxed types and R.1), Mannheim (R.1, straight lines, c.d.s.), Offenburg (R.1), Kehl (R.1 in red and black), Freiburg (boxed and R.1 in both colours), Konstanz (R.2), Donaueschingen (R.2 red/black), Pforzheim (R.2 and c.d.s.), Lahr (straight lines and c.d.s.), Villingen (R.2 red/black), Pfullendorf (R.3), Waldshut, Heidelberg, Kenzingen, Gengenbach, Haslach, Hornberg, Bühl, Rastatt, Ettlingen, Renchen, Salem, Stockach, Walldürn, Wertheim, and others, several CHARGE letters and covers with multiple manuscript rate and routing notations, noting also several "Baden par Strasbourg” exchange-office markings showing routing through the Baden–France frontier, only minor duplication, with examples selected for differences in colour, type, mileage step or destination to provide depth rather than repetition, a fine and useful study. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 459
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Baden & Württemberg, collection of 74 stampless folded letters with straight-line and early c.d.s. markings, circa 1830s to 1860s, a well-balanced group housed in a Lighthouse album, showing a rich range of straight-line town handstamps, predominantly in red and black, with several blue strikes, and a useful selection of early circular datestamps, this volume sharing regional origins with the preceding lot yet differing in its emphasis on post-1840 strikes and a higher proportion of Württemberg-origin material, illustrating the development from earlier Baden postal conventions, particularly noted are Bischofsheim R.2, Boxberg R.3, Donaueschingen R.2, Ettlingen R.2, Pfullendorf R.3 and other offices exhibiting the distinctive Baden mileage-rated straight lines (R.1–R.3), together with multiple examples from major towns such as Carlsruhe, Mannheim, Ellwangen, Lahr, Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart, and a number of smaller or scarcer offices including Boxberg, Hechingen, Künzelsau, Ochsenhausen and Pfaffendorf, further interest being provided by several CHARGE covers, italic and boxed types (for example two-line italic Freyburg im Breisgau and boxed Freiburg), and a handful of turned covers from Besigheim, Leonberg, Mengen and Cannstatt, the variety of lettering styles, formats and ink colours offering a fine study of the evolving mid-19th-century postal systems, only minor duplication where examples have been deliberately chosen for distinctive strikes, colour variations, etc, visually appealing and a strong companion to the preceding lot. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 460
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Bavaria, 1830s/1850s, stampless postal history collection with “CHARGE” and mileage-rated straight-line handstamps, comprising over eighty items, mainly 1830s–1850s, showing a broad range of straight-line town markings in red, black, and occasional blue, with supplementary boxed, fan-shaped, and early circular datestamps, noting nine “CHARGE” letters from an 1839–1840 Ansbach–Gunzenhausen correspondence, an early form of accountable mail, as well as representation of mileage-rated straight lines (R.2–R.4) from Bischofsheim, Boxberg, Lichtenstadt, Lindau, Nürnberg, Schwabmünchen, Vilshofen, and other offices, as well as material from major centres of München, Nürnberg, Regensburg, Passau and smaller towns including Kitzingen, Hechingen, Offenburg, Roth, Rothenburg, Starnberg, and Pfullendorf, minor duplication, but a diverse and fine lot, selected for differing handstamp types or rating steps, a useful study. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 461
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Cat No: Collection
Central & Eastern German States, early 19th century/1875, stampless postal history collection, comprising over 120 items, showing a wide geographic range of straight-line, boxed and early circular datestamps alphabetically arranged by town, noting a Rhineland–Palatinate group with thirteen items from Borken, Düsseldorf, Kirchen, Kirchheimbolanden, Montabaur, Neustadt (R.2 and c.d.s.), Soest and Worms, as well as twenty North Rhine–Westphalia items including Arnsberg, Bonn, Crefeld, Essen, Eberfeld, Dülmen, Lippstadt, Rees and others with boxed, curved-top and circular datestamps in red and black, together with a particularly strong section of forty-seven former Prussian territories now in Poland offering Breslau, Bromberg, Brieg, Cammin, Coeslin (six, five boxed), Stettin (thirteen, ten boxed and two c.d.s.), Stolp, Stralsund, Swinemünde, Wollin and smaller offices such as Dobigniew, Beuthen, Pollnow and Pribbernow, further representation from two Ukrainian offices (Czernowitz and Mariupol), as well as forty Berlin folded letters (mainly circular datestamps with some boxed types) and four Brandenburg covers including Potsdam boxed and oval and Marienwerder boxed with curved top, minor duplication retained for differing types or destinations, a broad and well-balanced lot and a useful study of postal markings across central and eastern German regions extending into modern Poland and Ukraine. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 462
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Central German States, 1830s/1860s, stampless postal history collection by state, comprising over seventy items,showing a broad range of straight-line, boxed and early circular datestamps mostly in black and blue, noting a strong Hesse section of over thirty items from administrative and commercial centres including Cassel, Frankfurt, Fulda, Giessen, Hanau and Wiesbaden, with several blue c.d.s., R-rated strikes such as Bischofsheim R.2, and two turned covers from Hausen and Altenstadt including one with oval Postablage handstamp, as well as a Thuringia group of nineteen items from Eisenach, Erfurt, Hildburghausen, Altenburg, Meiningen and others, several bearing Nachnahme (cash-on-delivery) endorsements with crisp straight-line or circular datestamps, together with ten Saxony items from Dresden, Leipzig, Düben, Lengenfeld and Neumark including boxed and two-line types and two original postal forms, and eleven Saxony-Anhalt covers from Dessau, Halle, Wittenberg, Zerbst and Freyburg R.1 along with Halle R.3 examples, minor duplication only for differing handstamp or colour types, a diverse and fine lot and a useful study of inland postal networks of Central Germany before unification. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 463
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Northern Germany, 1820s/1860s, stampless postal history collection by state, comprising over sixty items, showing a varied range of straight-line, two-line, and boxed town handstamps mostly in black and blue with several in red, noting a Lower Saxony / Hanover section of thirty-one items including Braunschweig, Göttingen, Lüneburg, Stade, Uelzen and Verden, with ten covers from Hanover alone showing four circular datestamp types in blue and black together with straight-line and boxed markings, as well as a strong group of twenty Hamburg and Bremen items consisting of sixteen from Bremen with multiple boxed types, two-line framed and unframed strikes, and both large and small circular datestamps, plus four from Hamburg showing boxed, circular, two-line and single-line types, together illustrating the postal markings of northern Germany’s principal maritime centres, with additional representation from Mecklenburg through nine covers from Butzow, Demmin, Grimmen, Rostock, Stargard, Wustrow and others, and from Schleswig-Holstein through two covers including Reinfeld and a letter with contents from Mindorf, minor duplication only for differing type or colour strikes, a diverse and fine lot and a useful study of northern German pre-unification postal markings. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 464
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Württemberg, c.1868/1874, postal history collection of “Postablage” oval handstamps, comprising over forty items,showing two-line oval strikes pairing main post offices with their rural postal agencies on stampless folded letters and covers, noting examples such as Aalen / Hüttlingen, Böblingen / Aidlingen, Ellwangen / Ellenberg, Tübingen / Entringen, Vaihingen / Enzweihingen and many other combinations from across Württemberg, as well as several turned covers and a wide range of supporting transit and receiver markings, the material chiefly from the early 1870s the final years before Imperial postal integration in 1875, minor duplication only where differing strike quality, routes or associated markings appear, a diverse and fine lot and a useful specialist study of Württemberg’s rural postal agencies in the last phase of their operation. (Video)(Image)
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Germany
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 457
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Cat No: Collection
Germany, 1880s/1920s, Bahnpost TPO cancellations postal history collection of over 150 items, a neatly presented holding of postal stationery cards, postcards, and covers housed in a cover album, each bearing the distinctive Bahnpost (Travelling Post Office) oval cancellation applied aboard German railway mail coaches, typically showing the route or service number together with date and check letter, the great majority used within Germany with occasional mail to neighbouring European destinations, offering a broad and varied selection of routes and cancellation types with minimal duplication; many items are identified with typed notes affixed to the holders, chiefly fine-very fine and an excellent foundation collection for further study of German TPO markings. (Video)(Image)
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Great Britain
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 465
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Cat No: Collection
Great Britain, early 1900s/1940s, topographic postcard collection comprising over 375 items, housed in a large postcard album and offering a broad representation of town and countryside views across the United Kingdom, mostly mint with some used examples, featuring landscapes, historic sites, castles, churches, bridges, hotels, hospitals and railway stations among other themes, the majority in black-and-white or sepia with roughly one-third in colour, and with noticeable emphasis on smaller towns and rural scenes, condition very fine overall with only occasional light corner or edge wear, an appealing and wide-ranging assembly with potential for discovery of scarcer views from lesser-known communities. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 466
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Great Britain, early 1900s/1940s, topical postcard collection comprising about 350 items, neatly arranged on album pages by theme and spanning humorous subjects, royalty (British and foreign), famous personalities, trains and railways, portraits of women including attractively tinted examples, World War I British Expeditionary Force scenes, armed forces and patriotic cards, and children’s imagery with rabbits and farmyard animals, the themes overlapping in places and reflecting the breadth of early British postcard production, both mint and used examples present with condition generally sound and only minor faults noted, broad appeal for thematic collectors. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 467
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Great Britain, 1820s/1850s, stampless folded letter collection comprising over 80 items, mostly with contents, noting twenty-six transatlantic letters to the United States with manuscript directional and ship endorsements together with a variety of rate, paid and receiving handstamps including Br. Packet Boston, New York Ship, and related British markings, as well as further continental destinations including several to France, one to Austria, and a small group to Ireland, together with domestic U.K. usages chiefly bearing dated circular town datestamps complemented by selected straight-line strikes such as Glasgow, Southampton, Aylsham, Market Hill, Falkirk, Liverpool, Leeds, Wolverhampton, and Burton W., plus Penny Post markings including Woolwich O, Queens St., and Canterbury Lane, and a variety of free and paid types offering rich scope for rate and route study across the pre-adhesive period, condition mixed to generally fine with expected edge wear, a wide-ranging and desirable lot. (Video)(Image)
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Hungary
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 468
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Cat No: Collection
Hungary, World War I, prisoner-of-war postal history collection, comprising approximately 100 items, showing covers sent during the First World War, nearly all addressed to the Red Cross POW offices in Copenhagen and originating from prison camps within present-day Hungary together with examples from regions formerly within the Austro-Hungarian Empire such as Slovakia, the majority stampless and bearing a wide variety of censor markings with only a few stamped examples present, a genuine collector-assembled lot with strong potential for further study or expansion. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 469
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Hungary, 1872/1981, postal history collection comprising about 98 items, housed in a stockbook and strongest in the 1870s–1940s period, the early section showing numerous commercially used postal stationery cards with well-struck town postmarks, followed by a varied selection of commemorative postmarks, commercial covers, registered and censored mail, airmail usages, a parcel-post receipt, cacheted First Day Covers (mainly 1960s), postcards, a postal money order and a number of auxiliary markings of interest, with destinations and rates suitably varied to support detailed research, generally sound with small faults as typical, an eclectic and wide-ranging assembly. (Video)(Image)
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Italian States
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 470
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Cat No: Collection
Italian States, c.1820s/1850s, stampless folded letter collection, comprising about 100 items, a diverse group, with most retaining contents and displaying straight-line or c.d.s. town handstamps in black, red and blue together with useful auxiliary markings including VIA DI MARE, administrative and ecclesiastical handstamps, and both manuscript and hand-stamped rate notations, noting chiefly inter-Italian correspondence with additional mail to France, Germany and Switzerland and an early 19th-century correspondence to Steyr, Austria, as well as representation from Verona, Torino, Rimini, Genova, Roma, Napoli, Lodi, Fermo, Vigone, Firenze, Grosseto, Novara, Pistoia, Alba, Massa, Foligno, Arona, Cosenza, Perugia, Panicale, Concordia, Viterbo, Gaeta, Chivasso, Milano, Narni, Venezia, Cesena, Lucca, Bologna and Casalmaggiore among many others, providing coverage across Lombardy-Venetia, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal States, Tuscany and the Two Sicilies, a clean and wide-ranging lot offering a strong foundation for route, rate and marking studies and appealing equally to the postal historian or dealer. (Video)(Image)
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Italy
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 471
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Cat No: Collection
Italy, 1870s/1930s, postal history collection to Alsace-Lorraine, comprising over 100 items, showing covers and postal stationery primarily franked with Humbert I issues on commercial envelopes, many with illustrated and non-illustrated corner cards including watchmaker advertising, noting registered mail usages, squared-circle cancellations and multiple frankings, the correspondence largely addressed to the historically contested Alsace-Lorraine, condition generally sound with light toning or soiling on a few examples, a fascinating lot and a useful study for further expansion. (Video)(Image)
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Mauritius
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 472
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Cat No: Collection
Mauritius, 1838/1880s, incoming mail collection, comprising thirteen mostly stampless folded letters, all sent to Port Louis or St. Denis from a variety of origins, including Paris (1838), La Rochelle France (1838), Calcutta (two, 1845/47), Cape of Good Hope (four,1859/1880), Galle, Ceylon (two, 1860 and 1869), Reims, France (1864), Bordeaux, France (1872), Pondicherry, India (1880), several with continents, all with some faults including stamps removed, pen markings, etc., close inspection necessary, but a number of desirable markings or useful attributes. (Image)
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New Zealand
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 473
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New Zealand & Dependencies, 1870s/1970s, postal history and FDC collection comprising about 240 items,showing strength in the 1930s–1960s with covers broadly grouped by issue and including multiple frankings, registered mail, postal stationery cards, airmail usages, foreign destinations and an attractive run of cacheted First Day Covers of the 1930s, among them Coronation sets and other complete sets on cover, together with special-event items bearing appropriate cancellations, noting Health stamp semi-postals with a good showing of cacheted FDCs (some duplication for design or cachet varieties), New Zealand Government Life Insurance issues, and a complementary section of former dependencies with complete sets on philatelic covers from Western Samoa (Apia), Cook Islands (Rarotonga/Avarua), Niue (Alofi) and Tokelau Islands (Fakaofo), as well as New Zealand origins from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier, Nelson, Timaru and smaller towns, with airmail and overseas mailings, generally fine with typical mixed examples though strikes and cachets are mostly clear, a wide-ranging lot, ideal for the dealer or collector seeking breadth by issue and cachet. (Video)(Image)
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Poland
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 474
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Cat No: Collection
Poland, 1903/1995, postal history collection comprising about 127 covers with additional commemorative material, housed in a stockbook and arranged chronologically with particular strength in the 1920s–1950s, supplemented by 33 commemorative covers (1979–1995) honouring the victims of the Auschwitz–Birkenau Concentration Camp, many bearing the inverted red-triangle emblem historically associated with political prisoners; the main grouping encompassing a broad range of commercial covers, postal stationery, registered and airmail usages, patriotic cards, a parcel-post receipt and various philatelic items, together with a 1948 Tour de Pologne souvenir folder bearing stamps postmarked along the race route and several items from the General Government (German Occupation) period, as well as twelve Feldpost covers, some with original letters, with postmarks including Lissa (Wartheland), Kattowitz, Breslau 2 and Ohlau, generally sound with small faults as expected, a diverse holding. (Video)(Image)
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Scandinavia
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 475
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Scandinavia, 1870s/1970s, postal history collection of about 335 items, housed in a stockbook and three-ring album and spanning the 1870s to the 1970s (with a few later), the great majority pre-1940 and predominantly commercial correspondence, comprising early postal stationery cards, multiple-franking covers to varied destinations, registered and censored mail, airmails, aerogrammes, and a selection of First Day Covers (chiefly Norway); the first volume with over 200 covers including a strong section of Denmark with numerous early postal stationery cards, followed by Finland with several interesting frankings, material from Greenland and Iceland, and a substantial representation of Sweden; the second volume with just over 100 items including early stationery, postal forms, and a well-presented run of 1940s–1970s First Day Covers, many registered to the United States and showing attractive cachets, an extensive and well-balanced assembly. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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Solomon Islands
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 476
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British Solomon Islands, 1910s/1980s, cover and postal document collection comprising about 180 items, housed in two albums and spanning early George V through the 1980s, including over a dozen George VI covers with strong representation in the 1960s commercial period, together with stampless Official mail, numerous commercial and airmail usages and only a small proportion of clearly philatelic items; origins include Tulagi, Lunga, Honiara, Auki, Yandina, Kirakira, Munda, Gizo, Gracioso Bay and other offices, many showing the distinctive oval Postal Agency handstamps, with destinations predominantly to Australia and also to the United States and domestic addresses, and many covers bearing multi-stamp frankings, supplemented by an appealing group of postal forms including Post Office memoranda, registration and telegraph receipts and related material; a substantial and seldom-offered Pacific-area assembly, ideal as a foundation collection. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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South America
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 477
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Latin America, early 1900s/1970s, postal history collection comprising about 440 items, housed in two stockbooks, with strongest concentration in the pre-1945 period, the material largely commercial correspondence showing a broad range of airmails, multiple-franking covers to varied destinations, censored and registered mail, Special Delivery usages, postal stationery envelopes, cards and wrappers, and aerogrammes; the first volume, about 280 covers, arranged alphabetically and including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela, condition generally sound with typical commercial wear; the second volume devoted entirely to Cuba from the 1920s–1970s and featuring predominantly 1950s philatelic material including numerous cacheted First Day Covers, many with the AZPECO Chemical Company cachet, and highlighted by a 1951 First Day Cover of the Antonio Gutiérrez Holme souvenir sheet, some covers showing topicalisation or toning, but a wide-ranging and varied Latin American assembly. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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Spain
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 478
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Spain, 1819/1840s, commercial correspondence to London (Frederick Huth & Co.), comprising over forty items, showing a broad range of Spanish origin markings and French transit routes on stampless folded letters, most retaining their original contents, noting material from Bilbao (including VISCAYA), Asturias, Sevilla, Cádiz, San Sebastián, Navarra, Galicia, Ribadeo and Madrid, as well as French exchange-office markings such as boxed ESPAGNE PAR BAYONNE, ESPAGNE PAR OLÉRON and ESPAGNE PAR ST. JEAN DE LUZ, together with London receivers including F.P.O. (string-of-pearls) and red circular datestamps on reverse, a clean and consistent mercantile correspondence illustrating early 19th-century postal routes from Spain to Great Britain, a fine and useful study. (Video)(Image)
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Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 479
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Spain, 1906/1907, early postcard collection to Australia, comprising approximately 90 items, showing mostly undivided-back postcards from a turn-of-the-century philatelic postcard service that sent subscribers cards franked for international destinations, noting a wide range of topographical and other contemporary subjects mailed from Bilbao, Barcelona, the Canary Islands and additional towns, chiefly addressed to Sydney and typically franked on the front with 2c and 5c Alfonso XIII definitives together with multiples of the ¼c issue, condition generally sound with some usual toning, a scarce and substantial group seldom encountered in this quantity and an appealing group for the specialist collector or dealer. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 480
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Spain, 1936/1940s, Civil War and early wartime postal history collection, comprising just over 100 items, showing covers and postal stationery cards organised on black pages in a Lighthouse album, the majority from the pre-WWII period with a wide range of frankings sent chiefly within Europe, including to the United Kingdom and Ireland, with additional destinations such as Australia and the United States, noting numerous Spanish Republican military censor handstamps often accompanied by Barcelona or Sevilla censor tape and further markings from Bilbao, Madrid, Málaga, Zaragoza, San Sebastián, Burgos, Tenerife, Las Palmas, Mallorca and other towns, several items bearing local Civil War charity labels, as well as WWII-period material with Franco issues, military censors and wartime censor tape, a historically rich and diverse lot with strong potential for further study or expansion. (Video)(Image)
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Switzerland
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 481
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Switzerland, 1840s/1970s, cover collection and accumulation, comprising about 420 items with strong post-WWII content, housed in two well-filled albums and spanning the stampless period through the 1970s, the material overwhelmingly commercial or personal correspondences, offering a cross-section of Swiss postal usage over more than a century; the first volume opening with three attractive stampless folded letters with contents from Basel, Zürich and Lenzburg, followed by covers bearing Standing Helvetia, Numeral, Tell and Crossbow definitives with a wide range of mixed and multiple frankings including foreign destinations, while the second volume shows strong representation of 1930s commemoratives, particularly registered and express combinations with high-value frankings, together with generous coverage of 1940s–1960s definitives grouped by issue, many covers addressed abroad to the United States, Western Europe and Australia, generally fine to very fine with typical handling on earlier items, a substantial and genuinely commercial accumulation. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 482
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Switzerland, 1840s/1970s, cover and postal stationery collection and accumulation comprising about 300 items with strong semi-postal and Pro Juventute usages, housed in two overfilled albums and spanning the stampless period to the 1970s, the material overwhelmingly commercial and personal correspondences and thus an authentic representation of Swiss postal history; the first volume beginning with four stampless folded letters with contents from Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich and Unterseen, followed by a substantial run of early postal stationery covers and cards, many uprated for foreign destinations, and an excellent section of Pro Juventute postal cards including tête-bêche frankings, private charity labels, postage dues and airmail usages, together with strong semi-postals from the first 1913 issue (some with minor toning) through the 1940s illustrating evolving charity-issue usage on genuine mail, the volume closing with a diverse group of scenic and commemorative postcards; the second volume continuing with additional uprated postal stationery cards and wrappers, selected Official “Service” overprints and a notable group of multiply-franked parcel post cards showing varied rate combinations and less common destinations; condition fine to very fine with occasional light handling on earlier items, an engaging Swiss accumulation, and a natural companion to the larger Switzerland grouping also offered in this sale. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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United States
Sale No: PH2
Lot No: 483
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United States, 1850s/1940s, postal stationery collection and accumulation comprising over 500 items in three stockbooks, showing envelopes, letter sheets, cards and wrappers with a strong predominance of 19th-century material and a smaller post-WWII tail, many uprated with adhesives and bearing interesting cancellations with a good proportion addressed overseas to Europe and Latin America alongside domestic uses; Volume 1 includes envelopes beginning with a Nesbitt entire and continuing through early Franklin and Washington 1c/2c/3c (and some 5c) issues, 2c Grant letter sheets and a solid range of Columbian entires (1c–5c), together with a notable group of ca.1915 5c Washington entires to Oruro, Bolivia each struck with Quickest Way instructional handstamp, an appealing postal-history vignette; Volume 2 comprises wrappers including early types, oversize stationery, selected Post Office/Official envelopes and Airmail stationery usages; and Volume 3 devoted to postal stationery cards from UX1 into the 1930s, reply cards and unused items, many showing advertising backs and numerous examples uprated for foreign destinations, condition generally sound with scattered edge wear and toning typical of a lot of this size and age, ideal for the collector seeking depth by type and usage or for dealer breakdown. (Video)(Video 2)(Video 3)(Image)
Opening C$ 400.00
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Lot No: 484
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United States, early 1900s/1930s, military postcard collection, comprising over 250 items, showing a wide range of real photo cards, battle scenes, air and troop manoeuvres (“drops”), naval and transport ships, and military marches, noting numerous WWI A.E.F. censored cards from American soldiers in France together with a smaller group depicting German troops, as well as extensive representation of U.S. barracks and training camps including Camp Dix, Camp David S. Stanley, Camp Jackson, Camp Grant, Camp Merritt, Camp Stuart, Camp Doniphan and others, often with matching camp postmarks, plus YMCA and Red Cross issues and various patriotic and comic themes, the cards predominantly black and white with some colour lithographed examples, used and unused, condition generally sound with expected minor wear in places, a large and historically interesting lot and a useful study of U.S. military life and iconography from the early 20th century to the eve of the Second World War. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 485
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United States, 1830s/1840s, New York State stampless folded letter collection, alphabetically arranged by town, comprising over 100 items, showing a cohesive statewide study with each letter originating from a different New York town (explicitly excluding New York City), most retaining contents and displaying a wide range of dated circular datestamps, PAID and FREE handstamps, manuscript and hand-stamped rate markings, and manuscript office notations including several postmaster signatures, with strikes in black, red and blue, noting representative origins across the Hudson, Mohawk and Erie Canal corridors and the northern and western areas including Angelica, Auburn, Aurora, Batavia, Buffalo (distinct blue oval), Catskill, Chateaugay, Coxsackie, Geneva, Greenbush (Rensselaer), Homer, Lewiston, Lockport, Malone, Mohawk, New Rochelle, Owego, Oxford, Penn Yan, Phoenix, Piermont, Port Byron, Port Chester, Rushville, Saugerties, Sherburne, Union Springs, Waterloo, West Falls and White Plains among many others, with manuscript townmarks and small-office strikes providing further contrast, condition typical for the period with generally clear strikes and the preserved letters providing potential further research interest, an unusually broad and well-structured survey of New York State stampless mail and a useful foundation for rate, route or county studies. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 486
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United States, 1840s/2000s, large eclectic cover accumulation, comprising over 250 items in three albums, showing material from the stampless period through modern issues with numerous annotated display pages, noting in Volume 1 twenty-four stampless folded letters with PAID, FREE and rate markings and dated town datestamps from Boston, New York, Westchester PA, Lancaster PA, Rochester NY, Richmond VA, Detroit, Taunton MS and others, followed by twenty-five 3c Washington frankings of the 1850s–60s (imperf/perf types), then Bank Note, Bureau and later definitives into the 1930s including many foreign-destination covers and uncommon frankings such as uprated postal stationery cards, as well as Volume 2 material comprising meter-mail cut-outs and covers, uprated Official and Post Office penalty mail, airmail, censored and USS naval usages, First Flights, V-Mail, signed U.S. Congress covers, railway and special-event items, Endangered Species postal cards and a range of multi-franked routes with auxiliary markings, together with Volume 3 featuring two 10¢ Revenues on Phenix Fire Insurance documents, a substantial selection of Special Delivery covers, postage due usages on cards and covers, early Christmas seals and further 20th-century postal history, condition generally fine with typical mixed examples for a group of this breadth and helpful annotations throughout. (Video)(Video 2)(Video 3)(Image)
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Lot No: 487
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United States, 1920s/2000s, first flight, airmail and FDC collection comprising over 230 items, housed in two albums and with the great majority of material dated before 1950, the first volume containing 137 first flight covers from the 1920s including numerous CAM and FAM routes, international services, airport dedications, commemorative and meeting-related flights, several Lindbergh-themed items and a small group of early helicopter and space-related covers, while the second volume holds 96 cacheted airmail-stamp First Day Covers beginning with the 30c Winged Globe and continuing through later airmail issues into the 2000s, including an 80c Hawaii single on FDC and a block of four on FDC, with minimal duplication largely confined to differing cachets, generally superior condition throughout, all items clean, sound and fault-free, an impressive and wide-ranging assembly of U.S. first flight and airmail material. (Video)(Video 2)(Image)
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Lot No: 488
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United States, 1908/1960s, Christmas Seals postal history collection, comprising over 100 items, showing predominantly postcards with some covers housed attractively in a Lighthouse album with slipcase, noting material ranging from WX3 (two examples), WX5 and WX6 through to WX235, including numerous pre-1940 seals all neatly tied on postcards or covers, several items accompanied by original purchase receipts indicating individual prices of $10–$20 or higher, a fresh and very fine thematic lot of notable appeal and seldom encountered in such depth, ideal for the specialist collector; video available online. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 489
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United States, 1850s/1930s, cover collection comprising just over 100 items, showing a well-composed range from classic 3c Washington issues through Air Post and First Flights, noting eight 3c Washingtons of the 1850s (imperf/perf, Type A10), five 3c Washingtons of the 1860s, a 3c 1869 Locomotive usage and several Bank Note frankings including a distinctive blue Meridian N.Y. cancellation and a bold FORWARDED handstamp, as well as strong 1920s/1930s material with numerous 2c Harding franking, with booklet singles, imperforates and varied usages including registered, advertising, mourning (President Harding) and uprated postal stationery, together with a 1926 First United States Overland Flight cover signed by Alan Cobham, and an airmail section featuring about thirty First Flight covers with 5¢ Beacon issues including the “Open Door” variety, three Special Delivery combinations, two “TOP” upper-margin imprint frankings, and three USS Akron airship and two Lindbergh flight covers, condition generally fresh and fine to very fine. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 490
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United States, 1910s/1930s, postal stationery exhibit collection, comprising over 90 items, showing Washington circular embossed issues from ½c to 6c together with selected 1c Franklin stationery, mounted on homemade exhibit pages written in French, noting numerous uprated examples to European destinations on coloured papers, wrappers, small envelopes and larger “102” format envelopes, many with pre-printed commercial corner cards, as well as WWI military usages, WWII censored covers, surcharge types, mint and unused examples, and registered or express mail, together with an appealing group of transatlantic covers bearing named-ship auxiliary handstamps with ship illustrations, plus first-flight covers, fancy cancels and other interesting usages, a thoughtfully assembled exhibit with considerable scope for continuation or expansion. (Video)(Image)
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Worldwide
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Lot No: 491
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Avis de Réception (AR), 1900s/2000s, postal history collection, comprising over 120 covers and AR-related forms,showing predominantly pre-1940s material arranged alphabetically by country in plastic pages within a large three-ring binder, noting early strength in Ceylon, India and the Malayan States with numerous registered envelopes, multiple frankings and a wide range of AR handstamps, as well as representation from British Commonwealth and worldwide areas including seldom-seen Andorra, Palestine, Algeria, Argentina, Costa Rica, France, various independent African states, Romania and others, together with United States examples completing the assembly, typical tropical toning present on many Southeast Asian covers with overall mixed condition and a few fronts included, a particularly interesting and seldom offered subject and a useful study for the knowledgeable collector or dealer seeking potential discoveries. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 492
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Worldwide, 1890s/1940s, mint postal stationery collection in album, comprising over 400 items, showing postal stationery cards, envelopes, letter cards and wrappers across the principal formats of the period, noting a British Commonwealth section beginning with early Australian States and continuing through Canada, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom with additional representation from smaller territories such as Samoa and North Borneo, as well as a worldwide portion including Austria, Denmark, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy and Switzerland together with smaller groups from Japan, Liberia, Russia, Romania, Sweden and Tunisia, and a particularly strong section of Central and South America featuring early Mexico alongside Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, El Salvador and Venezuela, many items showing ornate typographic, lithographic or engraved designs typical of late 19th- and early 20th-century production, condition generally sound and fresh with mild ageing in places, a substantial and wide-ranging lot and a useful foundation for further expansion or focused study. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 493
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Worldwide, early photography topical postal history collection, 1900s/1930s, comprising just over 100 items, showing covers and postal cards selected for their relevance to early photographic practice, noting corner cards of photographic studios and manufacturers of photographic materials, some illustrated or with printed references, together with varied frankings and cancellations from the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Bavaria and especially Germany, all forming part of a correspondence sent to an optical products manufacturer in Alsace-Lorraine, a fascinating and uncommon topical lot with strong potential for expansion or exhibit development. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 494
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Worldwide, early 1900s, eclectic thematic postcard collection, comprising just over 200 items, showing a wide variety of mostly unused cards housed in plastic holders, noting twenty-five embossed holiday postcards with animals, eight Cyrano de Bergerac scenes, fourteen scenes from D’Annunzio’s Gioconda film, twenty unsigned artistic cards, thirty-five from the Netherlands, fifty-five Italian topographical city views, thirteen Salon de Paris cards, seventeen Quo Vadis – Mastroianni designs, and twenty-five depicting French Missions in Africa, a colourful and appealing lot ideal for the collector or dealer alike and readily divisible into attractive themed groups. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 495
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Worldwide, 1900s/1930s, pioneer aviation, pilots and airplanes postcard collection comprising over 90 items, housed in a postcard album and featuring a varied holding of early aviation-themed cards from the pioneering decades of flight, including numerous real photo postcards depicting early aircraft, aviators and air events, with notably strong representation from France together with examples from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, including aviation scenes, caricature and humour types, plus early airline advertising and greeting designs, the majority postally used and offering added postal and historical interest, generally sound with a few typical faults seen in early material, a desirable and varied group from the formative era of aviation. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 496
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Worldwide, 1910s/1940s, military and censored mail collection, comprising over 110 items, showing a wide range of First and Second World War military, prisoner-of-war and censored correspondence, noting several WWI POW covers from German camps and a 1933 registered cover addressed to Chancellor Adolf Hitler, as well as WWII material including a POW cover from Camp Andalusia (South Africa), a 1940 Portuguese India cover from Mapuca to the United States, a 1944 censored cover from Belgian Congo to a soldier in Rhodesia, and a 1943 Addressee Returned to Canada cover to an R.C.A.F. L.A.C., together with a 1940 German cover to a POW at Camp F (Fort Henry, Kingston, Ontario) and a 1934 Colombian airmail cover to Washington, D.C., ex Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection, condition generally sound with minor faults typical of wartime mail, a compelling and diverse lot, ideal for the specialist or dealer. (Video)(Image)
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Lot No: 497
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Worldwide, 1920s/2000s, airship, dirigible, blimp and Zeppelin cover collection comprising just over 100 items,spanning early-period material through modern commemorative issues and housed as a cohesive thematic group, the earlier section including six United States USS Akron flight covers from the 1930s together with Zeppelin postcards and several original period photographs, including an image of Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins aboard the Graf Zeppelin, as well as two stereoscopic photo cards and a richly illustrated forty-page contemporary German Zeppelin magazine, the balance consisting chiefly of 1970s–1980s cacheted anniversary and commemorative covers mailed to varied destinations, several bearing autographs of individuals associated with Zeppelin and airship history, generally fine to very fine, ideal for the dealer or specialist. (Video)(Image)
