WORLD WAR TWO POSTAL HISTORY British & Empire Censorship
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Lot No: 434
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1940 Covers from G.B to USA or Ireland, or to a British Corporal in an Internment Camp in Switzerland, all bearing green "Return to Sender By The Censor" labels with enclosed Postal Censorship form P.C.3, "The communication returned in this cover constitutes a breach of Defence Regulations", all mentioning air raids. Three fine covers, two with enclosed letters, with two versions of the P.C.3 form. (3).
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Lot No: 435
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1941-45 Covers from G.B to Ireland or USA bearing green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels and enclosed Postal Censorship form P.C.3 or P.C.3 (Revised), the 1945 cover franked 1/3 handstamped boxed "POSTAGE REFUNDED", the 1941 cover returned because the letter "refers to Plane brought down & the time", the 1945 letter refers to "rockets & locations of military units" with details of passages to be deleted. (2).
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Lot No: 436
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1941-44 Covers from G.B to Ireland (3), Italy or Spain (?) all returned because they were re-used envelopes, bearing green (4) or black "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels, with enclosed censor forms P.C.102, P.C.110 (2 types), P.C.110 (Revised) or P.C.110 (2nd Revision), one cover with 6d stamps handstamped "POSTAGE REFUNDED", all fine. (5).
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Lot No: 437
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1941-45 Covers from G.B to Ireland (2), Algeria or Portugal bearing green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels, returned because of prohibited enclosures, three with enclosed P.C.177 censor forms (two versions) naming enclosed photographs, cigarette cards or simply "enclosure", the other cover with an enclosed form "Slip Prin 9" from the Permit Branch, Printed Matter Section, Aintree, regarding permits for printed matter, the 5d stamp handstamped "POSTAGE REFUNDED". (4).
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Lot No: 439
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1942 Cover from Cheadle to Argentina franked 3/6, handstamped "POSTAGE REFUNDED" and bearing a green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" label, an unnumbered form from the Military Censor Section enclosed, "This letter, apparently written by a soldier, was posted in the Civil Post contrary to Army Regulations and was returned by the Civil Postal Censorship", very scarce.
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Lot No: 440
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1941-44 Covers with enclosed censor forms concerning missing contents (two covers with two differing forms enclosed), comprising 1941 cover from G.B to USA with enclosed form P.C.12A (cover empty) and an unnumbered form (missing stamps); 1943 cover from the Air Post Philatelic Exhibition in Paris to Argentina with enclosed form P.C.5 (cover empty) and a note from the recipient showing it did not arrive until 1946; and 1944 cover from Ireland to G.B with enclosed forms P.C.12 (covering letter mentioned in enclosure missing) and P.C.168 (Revised) (Government Regulations prohibit import of stamps or philatelic items without a permit). (3).
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Lot No: 441
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1940-45 Covers from G.B to USA (2), Canada or Belgium bearing "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels in green (3) or black, one posted at the Exhibition of Czechoslovak Stamps in London bearing the exhibition miniature sheet and G.B stamps with the exhibition cancel, all returned because they contained stamps or were of philatelic interest, containing censor forms P.C.101. P.C.178 or P.C.178 (Revised) (2 versions). Also a 1941 cover sent within England bearing uncancelled Yugoslav Government in Exile 19th Century Patriots set with "CONDEMNED" and "RELEASED" handstamps and enclosed form P.C.254, "This cover was empty when it reached the censorship, but being of philatelic interest was detained under wartime regulations and is now released to you"; and 1940 censored cover from W.T Wilson to the USA with B.P.A permit cachet. (6).
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Lot No: 442
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1939-45 Covers comprising stampless cover from Ireland to USA charged 10c with enclosed form P.C.137 (British censor is not responsible for the absence of stamps from this cover); and covers from G.B to USA, Switzerland to G.B or Brazil to Germany all with differing versions of censor form P.C.11, "The British Censor is not responsible for the mutilation of this letter". The Brazil cover carried by the Italian ship "Ociania" which was presumably intercepted by the British. (4).
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Lot No: 443
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1940-43 Covers from G.B to USA or Ireland (with green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" label), and a cover to London with G.B 2½d cancelled boxed "Paquebot", a Thorshavn c.d.s alongside, all with differing enclosed versions of censor form P.C.5, "This cover was open when it reached the censor"; all fine, the Faroe Islands Paquebot cover very unusual. (3).
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Lot No: 444
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1943-44 Covers from G.B to Canada bearing green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels, returned because the writers requested food or rationed goods be sent to them, two with differing versions of censor form P.C.219 enclosed, the other with an enclosed note from the sender "Returned owing to forbidden goods being requested to be sent to England from abroad. Bird-seed for a budgerigar was one of the offending articles mentioned", this cover with 1/3 in stamps handstamped boxed "POSTAGE / REFUNDED". (3).
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Lot No: 445
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P.O.W Mail. 1942-44 Covers (2) and a 2½d P.O.W air mail lettersheet to Italy all with enclosed censor forms relating to P.O.W mail, the lettersheet and one cover bearing green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels, the other item an O.H.M.S cover with "POSTAL & TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP / MANCHESTER" cachet. Enclosed forms comprise P.C.180 (Circular news letter returned due to large volume of personal correspondence from relatives and friends despatched to prisoners), P.C.199 ("Underlined passages contain information of value to the enemy" - lettersheet with line "Lloyd now a flying officer doing radio location in Scotland" underlined) or P.C.185 2nd revision (censor not responsible for any deletion, excision, comments or other additions to letter). (3).
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Lot No: 446
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P.O.W Mail - Japan / Singapore. 1943-44 Stampless covers from G.B to British Civilian internees in Tokyo or Singapore both with green "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels, the cover to Singapore with enclosed censor form P.C.186 "Letter to a P.O.W is insufficiently addressed and unlikely to be delivered". The form gives the address of offices from where the full postal address for army, navy and air force prisoners may be obtained, but not an office for civilian internee addresses. Two unusual covers to internees in Japanese camps. (2).
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Lot No: 447
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P.O.W Mail - Hong Kong. 1944 3d Air Mail P.O.W postcard from London to a soldier in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force held in Hong Kong P.O.W Camp "S", the message with the line "Fresh Slings and Arrows" underlined (referring to V1 and V2 rocket attacks?), returned enclosed within a stampless cover bearing "POSTAL & TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP / MANCHESTER" cachet, with enclosed censor form P.C.216 (intended for P.O.W mail to Europe) "Letter returned because of reference to air raids". A unique returned card to Hong Kong. Photo on Page 74. (Image 1)(Image 2)(Image1)
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Lot No: 449
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1941-42 Covers from Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland or Holland, and a registered postcard from Holland, all to the USA, all intercepted by the British in Bermuda and detained until after the war, released in January 1946, handstamped "RELEASED" and violet "HELD BY BRITISH / CENSOR / RELS'D JAN 1946" (4) or "HELD BY BRITISH CENSOR / RELEASED JANUARY 1946" (2). Also a 1941 cover from Belgium to Mexico held in Bermuda until 1946 handstamped "RELEASED", unknown and returned to Belgium, reverse handstamped "Relanida durante la guerra / ultima por la CENSURA / britanica". (7).
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Lot No: 450
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1940-42 Covers from USA (2), Cuba, Bolivia or Peru to Europe or from France to China, four registered, all intercepted by the British and detained until 1946, handstamped "RELEASED" (5) or "Released by / Prize Court". An unusual lot, several detained in Bermuda. (6).
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Lot No: 451
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1942 Covers to England (3) or Ireland all detained by the British censor and released in 1946, including two 1944 covers posted at Matera, Italy, on the same day to the same address, one with enclosed censor form P.C 254 (Cover of philatelic interest was detained under war-time regulations and is now released to you), the Ireland cover with 1944 Irish Philatelic Exhibition c.d.s, the Switzerland to Ireland cover with 1946 (Mar 1) London backstamp, all four with "CONDEMNED" handstamp replaced by "RELEASED". (4).
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Lot No: 454
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Argentina / G.B. 1940 (Sep 9) Cover from Holland to a Dutch seaman in Buenos Ayres, inscribed to go by the Italian airline L.A.T.I, apparently censored by the British in Argentina, a "P.C 90 / OPENED BY / EXAMINER 3601" seal applied over two Buenos Ayres arrival machines, very unusual.
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Lot No: 455
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British West Indies. 1940-45 Covers with censor seals or cachets including scarce "PASSED / BY CENSOR / V Is", O.H.M.S cover with "PAID / AT / BAHAMAS" crowned circle and oval "CHIEF CENSOR / AUG 3 1945 / BAHAMAS", "EXAMINED BY CENSOR / ANTIGUA", 1942 postcard from Lebanon to Antigua redirected to G.B. with unusual straight line "EXAMINED BY", other cachets of Bahamas, Dominica, St. Vincent and Bermuda, also Jamaica, Trinidad, Turks Island, Bahamas, South America covers censored in transit in Bermuda or the Caribbean, covers with oval "R.N.A DEPOT, PORT ROYAL / JAMAICA, B.W.I" (2), Jamaica P.O.W mail (2), and a cover bearing British Guiana Red Cross label. (78).
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Lot No: 456
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India. 1940-45 Covers from India comprising 1942 cover to Switzerland handstamped "RETURNED TO SENDER / By / Postal Censor, Bombay"; 1941 cover to Holland with censor label crossed by blue crayon to indicate a condemned letter; 1944 cover to USA returned handstamped "Export Prohibited without licence from / the Export Trade Control Bombay / Return to Sender ....... Postal / Censor"; and covers found damaged with violet "Received Damaged / Censor Station (E.F.)", RECEIVED DAMAGED" or "RECEIVED DAMAGED / POSTAL CENSOR". (6).
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Lot No: 457
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New Zealand. 1940 Cover to Denmark handstamped boxed "NOT TRANSMISSIBLE" with large enclosed censor form "Postal Censorship - It is not permissible to communicate with persons in enemy states or in territory in occupation by the enemy", unusual.
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Lot No: 458
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Palestine. 1939-40 Covers to G.B, France or Hungary all bearing green P.C.23 "Returned To Sender By The Censor" labels, the cover to France with enclosed censorship form P.C.6 having the manuscript explanation "returned on account of the presence of stamps, which only recognised stamp dealers are authorised to send", the cover to Hungary with enclosed Tel-Aviv/Jaffa postal censorship form PCT/46 "Communication with enemy territory is prohibited". A scarce group. (3).
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British & Indian Forces Mail
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Lot No: 426
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1939-46 Forces mail including Indian F.P.Os (63) with locations in Burma, Persia, Malaya, etc., also 1944-45 covers to or from a U.S. officer in India or Burma (38, many redirected), 1943 stampless O.A.S. cover from Mauritius with boxed "PASSED BY / WAR / DEPARTMENT / CENSOR / No 1", airgraphs (some illustrated), patriotic envelopes, etc. (225).
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Lot No: 427
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1939-c.1960 British F.P.O covers, mainly World War Two with some postwar, including B.E.F, North Africa, Middle East, Italy, Germany, etc., mixed condition, a very large quantity that could repay careful sorting. (4,000++).
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Lot No: 428
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1940-45 Forces mail with various British security cancels, mainly machines inscribed "Postage Paid", "Official Paid" or "Paid" with or without date dies, also London F.S machines with or without the date, and machines simply with bars and a date, a few security type handstamps, includes 1942 Calais Raid period, 1944 D-Day period, mail from transports, etc. Mixed quality, an unusual lot. (c.200).
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Lot No: 429
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West Africa. 1941-45 Stampless O.A.S cover with F.P.O datestamps from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Gambia or Gold Coast, mixed quality. (250+).
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Lot No: 430
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Egypt. 1940-45 Forces mail with "EGYPT / POSTAGE PREPAID" handstamps or machine cancels, also covers with Egypt Army Post stamps tied by British F.P.O datestamps. (c.300).
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Lot No: 431
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Faroe Islands. 1942-43 Stampless O.A.S covers with F.P.O 219 (2), 611 (23), 695 (8) or from the same sender as other F.P.O 219/695 covers but with a red London Official Paid machine (5) or simply a censor cachet, very mixed quality, many roughly torn open or other faults, fourteen largely fine, with three others in need of a bit of careful pressing but otherwise complete. (33).
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Lot No: 432
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India / Ceylon. 1941-46 Covers with Indian F.P.O datestamps, many 1944-46 covers from Burma, also covers with Ceylon stamps, and three covers bearing Ceylon War Purposes Contribution labels. (c.240).
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Lot No: 433
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Royal Marines. 1941-45 Covers, cards, air letters and airgraphs from or to Marines, the interesting collection written up on pages, including items from Burma, Sierra Leone, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ceylon, South Africa, Egypt, Palestine or North Africa. (40).
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Damaged, Interrupted & Delayed Mail
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Lot No: 536
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1940-44 Covers all damaged in transit including 1944 V-Mail lettersheet handstamped "NOT SUITABLE / FOR FILMING" and "THIS V MAIL COULD NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHED / WET WHEN RECEIVED"; 1944 (May 26) cover from Ceylon to G.B endorsed "Found among ........ letters" with "Delivered on / 14th Apl, 1944" cachet"; 1944 cover from Lisbon to New York censored in Bermuda, signs of scorching with four stamps washed off, handstamped "Received in Wet Condition / New York P.O", etc. (10).
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Lot No: 538
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Sierra Leone / G.B. 1943 (Jan 5) Air letter from Norfolk to No. 3 Transit Camp W.A.F, franked 6d, handstamped "NO AIRMAIL SERVICE AVAILABLE", fire damaged with a violet "DAMAGED BY FIRE" cachet, enclosed within a Post Office ambulance envelope with violet "HOME POSTAL CENTRE R.E / A.P.O" c.d.s (March 1, this format of rubber c.d.s not recorded by Proud), inscribed "Recd at Freetown S. Leone 25/3/43". An unusual item, probably damaged in the U.K.
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Lot No: 540
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Belgium. 1945 G.B 2d Postcard from London (Feb 7) to Ghent with Brussels arrival c.d.s (Feb 20), and an air mail cover from Lulubourg, Belgian Congo, to Viveguis Les Liege, both with the same Brussels datestamp (Feb 22) and boxed "PARVENU ENDOMMAGE / BESCHADIGD TOEGEKOMEN". Probably both from the same war related incident in Belgium, although Nierinck records several damaged January 1945 covers from Belgian Congo to Belgium, which he surmised were possibly recovered from a shot down aircraft. (2).
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Lot No: 541
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Delayed Mail. 1940-44 Covers all delayed in transit including V-Mail form handstamped "March 10 1943 / V-Mail Delayed / Being Investigated", 1940 (June) cover from Holland to Java delivered seven months later, 1941 (Nov.) cover from Philippines to USA delivered three months later, 1943 cover from Austria to Argentina with enclosed German censor slip "name and address of sender and recipient required on each page", etc. (10).
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Lot No: 542
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Delayed Mail - Papua / China. 1941 (June 17) Registered cover from Port Moresby (but with a N.S.W return address) to Shanghai franked 1/-, censored in Australia, backstamped at Brisbane and Shanghai (26 Feb. & 2 Apr 1942), handstamped "RETOUR / RETURN" and "Inconnu / Unknown" and returned to Australia. Detained until 1946 with light "THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN HELD BY / POST & TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP" and boxed "PASCHOR" cachets, backstamped at Melbourne (11 Jan & 25 Apr 1946), Sydney (12 Jan & 26 Apr) and Dead Letter Office Sydney (Apr 26), very unusual.
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G.B - Damaged by Enemy Action
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Lot No: 543
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1940 (Oct 19) Cover from London W1 to London SE27 with 1d Paid machine, and violet "DELAYED BY / ENEMY ACTION", also 1940 (Dec 19) cover with "London S.W Tempy Office" machine. A scarce 'Delayed' cachet, posted in London during the Blitz. Photo on Page 88. (Image1)
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Lot No: 545
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1941 Cover from Devon to London E.C.2 with violet cachet "Moorgate Post Office / has Re-opened at / 33, Eldon St., E.C.2", used after the Post Office was destroyed in the Blitz. Also a 1940 O.H.M.S card concerning war damage to a property in London. (2). Photo on Page 88. (Image1)
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Lot No: 547
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c.1941 and 1942 Covers from India to England, both waterstained with the stamps washed off, probably damaged after arriving in England, handstamped violet "DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION" or "DAMAGED BY / ENEMY ACTION". (2).
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Lot No: 548
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1942 (May 22) Cover from Weymouth to a naval officer at H.M.M.S 1087 c/o G.P.O London, returned to the sender in Weymouth, water damaged and a little singed with the stamp soaked off, backstamped "DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION" and the very scarce "DELAYED BY / ENEMY ACTION" with a Bomb. A scarce genuine example of the "Bomb" cachet (most examples being forged) and very unusual in combination with the second cachet. Photo on Page 88. (Image1)
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Lot No: 551
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1943 (May 3/10) Stampless O.A.S covers with dated H.M Ship censor cachets, the first to Sussex with minor water staining, officially sealed in the London Returned Letter Section and backstamped "DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION"; the second cover from H.M.S "Frisky" to Scotland, soiled and singed with a large portion torn away, backstamped "DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF ENEMY ACTION", both covers believed to have been damaged by a German air raid on Manchester. (2).
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Jewish Refugee Mail
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Lot No: 566
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1939 Postcards from Czechoslovakia to Gustav Munz in Vienna (March) or Scotland (June), both from his cousin; 1938 Rumania postcard to Bertha Munz in Vienna and 1947 registered cover from Rumania to Bertha Muenz at P.O. Box 506, Lisbon, redirected with a yellow label to London and posted with a G.B 2½d (T.C/S perfin), handstamped oval "THOS COOK & SON LTD / BERKELEY ST., W.1". Also letters and documents concerning the Munz family including Gustav Munz certificate of service in the German army in WW1, 1939 (May) document and letter issued in Vienna concerning emigration of Gustav and Bertha to England, etc. (8). Photo on Page 88. (Image1)
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Lot No: 567
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1939-45 Covers (most with letters) and cards to Hans or Erna Freudenheim in London, posted from Switzerland (18) Belgium (2), France (2) Sweden or Holland, also a 1946 letter from a Concentration Camp survivor written at Regensburg with a stampless cover bearing a red London S.W1 Paid datestamp, and various additional letters without envelopes. The Sweden letter reports receiving a letter from an aunt arrested by the Gestapo and held in a Concentration Camp. An interesting correspondence. (25+).
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Lot No: 568
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Holland / Belgium / Switzerland / Portugal. 1939-44 Covers and cards with 1939 (Nov 13) cover posted within Switzerland to "Jakub Jakubowicz No. 239, Camp de Refugies de Buren" with boxed "Censure"; 1940 card from Holland to USA written in Hebrew; 1943 Holland 5c postcard from Westerbork Concentration Camp; 1944 Portugal cards from refugees at Hotel Tivoli, Lisbon, or "c/o Committee for Jewish Refugees" at Caldas da Rainha (censored in Bermuda); and 1944 (Dec 1) Belgium card from Brussels to USA with interesting message "we had a terrible time, had to hide during a long time which did not impede the Gestapo making Koete prisoner during 3 weeks at the famous Malines Camp. Fortunately I succeeded to get her liberated as a nurse, whereupon she worked at the Jewish hospital in Brussels ....". (6).
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Lot No: 569
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Eastern Europe. 1939-45 Covers and cards with 1939 (July 8) cover from London to Warsaw returned unknown, 1941 (July 22) Poland 30g postcard from Warsaw to Alfred Schwarzbaum, Lausanne (undercover address for Jews) with tiny boxed "JUDENRAT / WARSCHAU" cachet, 1943-44 postcards from Prague to Pension Beha in Lugano (3), and 1945 registered cover from Russia to G.B. (6).
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Lot No: 570
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Australia. 1941-42 Covers from Jewish Internees in Tatura Camp 2, stampless (7) or franked 2½d (4), including covers to The Zionist Federation for Australia and New Zealand (4) or Australia Jewish Welfare Society (5), two from Rabbis, and a cover from G.B to No. 2 Internment Camp with large violet "INTERNMENT CAMP / TATURA, VIC."; 1941 air mail postcards from No. 7 Camp at Hay franked 2/9 to G.B (2); lettersheet franked 1/6 to Palestine with "PERMISSION / GRANTED" cachet and a cover to The Society of Friends in Sydney franked 4d both from No.8 Camp at Hay. (15).
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Lot No: 571
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Australia. 1940-45 Covers and cards, airgraph and a Red Cross message form with 1940 covers from Singapore to the Jewish Refugee Relief Committee in Melbourne (2, one from the Singapore J.R.R.C); 1942 cover from The Bureau of Jewish Affairs in Sydney to The American Academy for Jewish Research; 1943 Australian Red Cross message service form from Bratislava Jewish Ghetto in Slovakia to "Fritz Guttenberg, c/o Chief Field Censor, L.H.Q, Australia" (an ex 'Dunera' Internee); 1945 (Sep 14) 2d postcard uprated 7d to the Red Cross in Geneva with "O.A.T" cachet, forwarding a message to his father in Budapest (recently returned from deportation - "read your name on list of survivors from Buchenwald ...."); also a cover from a refugee in New Zealand, etc. (8).
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Lot No: 572
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Bermuda. 1942 (July 25) Printed shipping line envelope to France, from A. Winnikow on the S.S "Nyassa", posted at Hamilton franked 2/-, censor seal and Lisbon backstamp. An unusual cover from a Jewish evacuee ship.
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Lot No: 573
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Canada. 1939-42 Covers comprising 1939 covers from Holland to a refugee at Toronto Y.M.C.A (3); 1941 stampless cover from Austria to Internee Camp A; covers from the refugee camps at Sherbrooke (5) or Ile aux Noise, or from Internment Camp N. (11).
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Lot No: 574
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China. 1940-48 Covers and cards from refugees in Shanghai (15) or Hankow, three registered, wartime covers sent within China or to Germany (3) or USA (8), post-war covers to Austria, USA, G.B or Palestine. Three covers from Else Baum to Henrietta Lechner in Chicago, four covers or cards to Fritz Weissenberg in New York. (16).
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Lot No: 575
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China. 1939-47 Covers from P.O. Box 1425, Shanghai, the undercover address of the Jewish Aid Organisation HIAS, comprising 1939 cover registered to the HICEM office in Paris, 1944 cover from "Hugo Wolf, German emigrant, c/o Jewish Central Information Bureau HICEM, G.P.O.B 1425" registered to Switzerland, and 1947 cover to HIAS office in San Francisco with Chinese HIAS cachet. (3).
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Lot No: 576
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China. 1939-41 Covers and cards from Germany to Jewish refugees in Shanghai, three from Jewish senders with "Israel" or "Sara" added to their name. Seven endorsed via Siberia, various P.O Box addresses including P.O Box 1131 (2, Jewish Refugee Centre) and other possible undercover addresses. (9).
