ARGENTINA - 1939-40 HIGH RATE COVERS inc. 21 Oct. 1939 env. from London to Buenos Aires bearing 5/- strip of five and a pair paying the 7 x 5/- per ½oz rate. 31 Oct. 1939 & 9 Nov. 1939 envs. from London to Buenos Aires bearing a single 5/- paying the ½oz rate, the former with additional 1½d pair paying the 3d registration fee. 30 May 1940 env. censored and registered from London to Buenos Aires bearing 10/- dark blue pair paying the 4 x 5/- per ½oz rate and with boxed "POSTED OUT /OF COURSE" hs. 7 Nov. 1939 postcard from Hastings to Buenos Aires with a single 2/6d brown being half the single letter rate. (5 items) Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

ARGENTINA - 1939-41 GROUP TO BUENOS AIRES inc. 17 Nov. 1939 and 21 Dec. 1939 envs. from London via Dakar & Natal bearing 5/- adhesives. 5th & 12th July 1940 envs. from UK each with 2/6d brown x 4. 21 Aug. 1941 censored env. from Langholm with 9d (2), 2/6d brown and 5/- (2) paying the 4 x 3/6d per ½oz rate. 27 March 1941 censored and registered env. fro Liverpool with 3d, 6d, 1/- 2/6d brown & 10/- dark blue paying the 4 x 3/6d per ½oz rate plus 3d registration. 11 Aug. 1941 env. from the Argentina Embassy of London bearing 1/- (5, inc. a block of four). 2/6d brown and 5/- pair paying the 5 x 3/6d per ½oz rate. (8 items) Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

ARGENTINA - 1940-41 COVERS AT VARIOUS RATES inc.19 Mar. 1940 env. from London to Argentina with a single 5/- paying the ½oz rate. 3 Aug. 1940 censored env. sent from Rochdale to Argentina at the same rate. 2 Sept. 1940 env. again at the same rate but undelivered and returned. 22 Feb. 1941 censored env. from London to Buenos Aires "via North Atlantic Air service" but sent by sea to New York and then onward bearing 6d, 1/- 2/6d brown and 10/- dark blue paying the 4x 3/6d per ½oz rate. 28 Jan. 1941 env. from Salford to Vincente Lopez bearing a single 5/- with on reverse a splendid GB patriotic label. (6 covers) Cross Reference: ARGENTINA (Image)

ARGENTINA - FOUR INTERESTING COVERS: 30 Oct. 1941 env. registered and censored from Formby to Buenos Aires bearing 3d, 6d, 1/-, 2/6d and 10/- dark blue paying the 4 x 3/6d per ½oz rate. 23 Oct. 1941 censored env. from Hawick to Buenos Aires bearing 6d, 1/-, 2/6d brown & 5/- paying the 4 x 2/3d per ½oz rate. 23 Oct. 1941 censored env. from Manchester to Buenos Aires bearing 2/6d brown x 6 paying the 5 x 3/6d per oz all the way by air rate. 9 Jan. 1942 censored env. from Manchester to Buenos Aires bearing 6d, 1/- (2), 5/- & 10/- dark blue paying the 5 x 3/6d per oz rate. (4 covers)Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, REGISTERED MAIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

ARGENTINA -1942 - REGISTERED COVERS ETC. inc. 12 March 1942 censored and registered env. with a consignee letter (not present) from Formby to Buenos Aires franked with 3d (3) and 10/- dark blue paying the triple 3/6d per ½oz rate plus 3d registration. 3 April 1942 a similar cover bearing 3d, 1/- (2), 2/6d brown and 5/- block of four paying 7 x the 3/6d per ½oz rate. 12 June 1942 censored env. from Bradford to Buenos Aires bearing 6d (4) and 2/6d brown paying the 2/3d per ½oz double rate. (5 covers)Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, REGISTERED MAIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

ARGENTINA -1942-43 WWII PERIOD COVERS inc. 30 July 1942 censored env. from Liverpool to Buenos Aires bearing 6d, 1/- and 10/- dark blue paying 5 x the 2/3d per ½oz rate. 15 Aug 1942 censored env. fro Leeds to Buenos Aires bearing 1/- and 2/6d pairs paying the 3/6d per oz double rate.plus two others at the same rate. (5 covers) Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

ARGENTINA - 1942-43 CENSORED MAIL inc. 1942 env. endorsed "Photographs Only" (opened out for display) from London to Buenos Aires bearing 6d, 1/-, 2/6d green and 10/- dark blue sent by air all the way ar 4 x the 3/6d per oz rate. 13 Feb. 1943 large env. from Manchester to Buenos Aires bearing 9d, 1/- (3), 5/- (3) and 2/6d block of eight (2 x 4) paying 11 x the 3/6d per oz plus 3d registration fee. 30 March 1943 env. from Liverpool to Buenos Aires with 1/- & 10/- ultramarine (2) paying the 6 x rate. 2 July 1943 env. from London to Buenos Aires bearing 2½d (2), 5d (5), 8d (3) and 2/6d green. (5 items) Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

ARGENTINA - 1943 - FIVE GOOD COVERS all with censor labels inc. 11 Feb. 1943 env. registered from Brandon to Buenos Aires bearing 3d, 1/- block of four and 10/- dark blue paying the 4 x 3/6d per oz plus 3d registration fee rate. 18 May 1943 env. from Liverpool to Buenos Aires bearing 1/-, 26d green, 5/- and 10/- ultramarine (3) paying the 11 x 3/6d per ½oz rate. 1 April env. from Aberdeen to Aires bearing 1/- pair and 5/-. 1943 env. registered from London to Buenos Aires bearing 9d and 10/- ultramarine paying the triple rate plus 3d registration. Cross Reference: ARGENTINA (Image)

ARGENTINA - 1944-55 INTERESTING GROUP inc. Feb. 1944 env. registered from Liverpool to Buenos Aires bearing 3d, 6d, 1/-, 2/6d green and 10/- ultramarine paying the 4 x 3/6d per oz rate plus 3d registration. 15 Nov. 1949 a "PARCEL POST" front from London to Buenos Aires with 3d (3), 1/- & 2/6d green. 3 March 1955 env. registered from London to Buenos Aires bearing festival 5/- & QEII 1/- pair for the 5 x 1/3d per oz and 3d registration but overpaid 3d. 30 Aug. 1955 8½d registered env. uprated with QEII ½d & 1/- plus festival 2/6d to 10/- paying the 15 x 1/3d per oz rate plus 6d registration fee. (5 items) Cross Reference: ARGENTINA, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

BRAZIL - THREE POSTAGE DUE ITEMS: 16 Nov. 1939 env. from Hull to Rio De Janeiro by Air France bearing 1/- and 2/6d brown being an underpayment of 1/- or 12d being doubled to 24d or 240 Swiss gold centimes and therefore charged 20,000reis in Brazil and bearing the appropriate p.dues of Brazil 26 June and 23 July 1940 env. by French mail from UK to Brazil bearing GB stamps to the value of 5/- and 20r stamps for "post restante" applied. (3 covers)Cross Reference: POSTAGE DUE LABELS, BRAZIL (Image)

BRAZIL - THREE COLOUR FULL COVERS: 21 Feb. 1940 env. registered from London to Sao Paulo with 3d, 2/6 brown, 5/- and 10/- dark blue paying the 5 x rate plus 3d registration. 21 Feb. 1940 censored env. from London to Rio De Janeiro paying the single 3/6d per ½oz rate. 18 March 1940 env. from London to Rio De Janeiro bearing 2d strip of three, 6d, 1/- & 2/6d brown paying the double 2/3d per ½oz rate. Cross Reference: BRAZIL, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

BRAZIL - MAGNIFICENT HIGH VALUE COVER: 10 Oct. 1940 large (380 x 255 mm) env. censored from London by North Atlantic Air Service via New York to Santos bearing 5/- (29) and 10/- dark blue (10) paying the 70 x 3/6d per ½oz rate. Some cover faults at edges but exceptional. Cross Reference: BRAZIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

BRAZIL - FOUR CENSORED COVERS inc. 5 Feb. 1941 env. from London to Sao Paulo of "Samples of no Commercial Value" with 1/- & 2/6d brown paying the single ½oz rate. 14 Dec. 1948 env. registered from London to Rio de Janeiro carried by sea to New York then onward by air with 9d & 10/- dark blue paying the triple rate plus 3d registration. Sept. 1942 env. from London to Sao Paulo bearing 3d, 1/- pair and 5/- paying the 3/6d per ½oz double rate. Also bears an interesting patriotic label. 26 June 1943 env. from London to San Paulo with 6d and 10/- ultramarine paying 3 x the 3/6d per ½oz rate. Cross Reference: MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, BRAZIL (Image)

BRAZIL - FOUR CENSORED COVERS - ONE POSSIBLE FIRST FLIGHT: 1 May 1941 env. from London by all the way flight via N York to Rio de Janeiro bearing 1/- & 2/6d brown paying the single rate. Another of an identical franking from Edinburgh to Rio de Janeiro carried by PANAM on the 1st flight from Botwood to New York. 12 Nov. 1942 env. registered from Manchester to Port Alegre bearing 3d, 6d, 1/-, 2/6d green and 10/- dark blue paying the 4 x 3/6d per oz plus 3d registration. 17 April 1943 env. registered from London to Sao Paulo bearing 3d, 1/- (2) and 5/- paying the double 3/6d per ½oz rate. Cross Reference: BRAZIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

BRAZIL - RARE FRANKING WITH 10/- DARK BLUE: 1 July 1942 censored envelope and registered from London to Sao Paulo bearing 3d and three 10/- dark blue, plus on reverse a single 5/-. A fine item. Cross Reference: BRAZIL (Image)

BRAZIL - UNUSUAL COVERS inc. 17 July 1943 censored env. from UK to Porto Alegre with 1/- & 2/6d green with solid circle cancellations obliterating the cancellation of origin. Oct. 1944 env. registered from Tangier to Belem-Para bearing 9d, 1/- and 2/6d green with oval framed "O.A.T." hs alongside. 17 April 1944 censored env. from B.P.O. Tangier to Porto Algre bearing 9d, 1/- and 2/6d green paying the 4/3d per oz single rate. 2 May 1944 env. censored and registered from London to Rie de Janeiro with 6d, 9d (5) and 10/- ultramarine paying the 4 x 2/6d per ½oz plus 3d registration rate. 28 Dec. 1944 censored env. from London to San Paulo bearing 6d pair, 1/-, 2/6d green and 5/- (4) paying the 7 x rare of 3/6d per oz. (8 covers) Cross Reference: BRAZIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

BRAZIL - FESTIVAL HIGH VALUE USAGES - INCLUDING AN AMAZING COVER: 19 Dec. 1952 large env. from Blairs Ltd. of Glasgow to Pernambuco bearing 3d, 1/- and festival 5/- (4) and 10/- pair paying 41 x 1/3d per ½oz rate. 5 Mar 1952 env. from the same correspondence bearing a single festival 5/- paying the 5 x 1/- per ½oz rate. Also a used block of ten (2 x 5) 5/- festival issue, one damaged. (3 items) Cross Reference: BRAZIL (Image)

BRAZIL - TWO DIFFERENT RATE COVERS: 20 May 1940 env. registered from London to Sao Paulo bearing 3d, 2/6d brown and 10/- dark blue (2) making the 5 x 4/6d per ½oz rate. 17 Sept. 1940 censored env. from London to Sao Paulo bearing 1/- (2) & 5/- paying the double 3/6d per ½oz rate. Cross Reference: BRAZIL, REGISTERED MAIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

CHILE - THREE EARLY WWII COVERS: 18 Sept. 1939 env. from Birmingham "via N Atlantic service" to N York and Santiago, Chile bearing 1/- pair & 5/- paying the 7/- double rate. 9 April 1940 env. from Birmingham to Santiago bearing a single 10/- dark blue paying the double rate. 23 April 1940 4½d registered env. uprated with 1½d and 2/6d brown (3, two on reverse) paying the 3 x 2/9d per oz rate. (3 covers) Cross Reference: CHILE, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

CHILE - 1940-43 FOUR HIGH VALUES USED ON SEPARATE COVERS: 10 May 1940 env. from Derby to Santiago with a single 5/- paying the single rate. 1 Aug. 1940 env. censored from Golders Green to Valparaiso bearing 1/- & 2/6d brown paying for a ½oz letter. 12 April 1943 censored env. from London to Santiago bearing ½d, 1/- and 2/6d green 20 Mar. 1943 from the Chilean embassy in London to Santiago with 6d and 10/- ultramarine paying the triple rate. the env. has the printed seal of the embassy plus "I certify the accompanying/ envelope only contains official/correspondence on the business/of this embassy." and with a facsimile signature below of the ambassador. Vertical folds. Cross Reference: CHILE, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

CHILE - SCARCE CENSORED COVER, ETC. inc. 25 Jan. 1941 env. from Bournemouth to Chile bearing 6d pair & 2/6d brown paying the 3/6d per oz rate. The cover also bears a overlapping censor label with blue crayon St Andrew's Cross indicating the cover was referred to a senior censor and mostly condemned, however forwarded examples like this are rare. 8 April 1942 env. censored and registered cover from Liverpool to Santiago bearing 3d, 1/- (2) and 5/- paying the ½oz double rate. 1 Mar. 1944 a censored unusual forwarded re-addressed env. from Nakuru, Tanganyika to London bearing Uganda 30c & 1/- forwarded to Chile with 1/- & 2/6d green. 1953 8½d grey registered env. from London to Santiago bearing a fine festival 2/6d, a scarce use. Cross Reference: CHILE, REGISTERED MAIL, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

COLOMBIA - RARE DESTINATION: 18 June 1941 and 11 Sept. 1943 censored envs. from UK to Colombia bearing value to cover the 2/9d per oz single rate. 26 Feb. 1942 censored env. from Manchester to Buenaventura bearing 5/- & 6d paying the double rate. 3 May 1942 env. from Birmingham "VIA NORTH ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE" to Maellin bearing 3d, 2/6d green, 5/- and 10/- dark blue. It is presumed that another 1/6d worth of adhesives have been removed to make a 7 x the 2/9d per oz rate. (5 covers)Cross Reference: COLOMBIA, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

COSTA RICA - RARE DESTINATION c.1943 env. censored from St Albans by sea to New York and then by air to San Jose bearing a single 2/6d green. 20 June 1940 registered and censored cover sent aircert from Tangier to San Jose bearing 5/- and 10/- ultramarine vertical pair. (2 covers)Cross Reference: COSTA RICA, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

ECUADOR & MEXICO - UNUSUAL GROUP OF COVERS inc. 23 Jan. 1940 env. from London to Quito bearing a 5/- red paying the single rate. 8 May 1940 env. from Dursley ton Guayaquil and returned with 6d (5), 1/- (5) and 2/6d brown paying the double rate. 1 Aug. 1945 env. registered from Tangier by North Atlantic Air Service to Quito with 6d & 2/6d paying the 2/9d per ½oz plus 3d registration rate. 1942 censored envs (3) to Mexico at various rates. (8 items) Cross Reference: MEXICO, MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL (Image)

GUIANA - DUTCH & BRITISH: 22 Jan. 1942 censored 2½d env. from London to Paramaribo uprated with 2/6d brown paying the 2/9d per oz single letter rate. 25 March 1942 censored env. from London to Paramaribo with 3d & 2/6d green. Another similar env. dated May 1944. 8 Sept. 1942 env. from Newcastle to Demerara bearing ½d. 2d & 2/6d green paying 2/3d per ½oz rate plus PAA flight 5½d premium. 4 Jan. 1947 env. from London to Demerara bearing 5/- underpaid 1/- and fined double by means of British Guiana 12c p.dues. (4 items)Cross Reference: BRITISH GUIANA/GUYANA (Image)