DIPLOMATIC MAILS INC. AUSTRALIA, INDIA, JAPAN, ETC.: 1940-43 inc. 1943 env. airmail Australia to New York franked pair 5/- + three 2/- Roo from Prime Ministers Dept Canberra and red diamond 2 / NOT / OPENED BY / CENSOR hs; 1943 env. Bombay, India to USA from the Swiss Consulate General with large purple boxed PASSED BY CENSOR / BOMBAY - UNOPENED / NOT TO BE OPENED hs and pink typed and signed "official Correspondence" declaration; 1940 env. airmail London to Wellington, N.Z. from the Swiss Legation with pink typed and signed "official correspondence" declaration; 1943 env. London to USA airmail from Belgian Ministry with purple TO THE CENSOR I HAVE THE HONOUR TO CERTIFY THAT THE CONTENTS ARE OF ALL OFFICIAL NATURE hs; 1941 env. airmail London to British Embassy, Tokyo with fine purple boxed NOT OPENED / BY / CENSOR hs, etc. Good variety. (7 items) Cross Reference: AUSTRALIA, INDIA, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND (Image)

UNDERCOVER MAIL - THOMAS COOK CONNECTION: 1939-41 group inc. Dec. 1939 env. Haifa to Rome with purple PALESTINE / PASSED BY / CENSOR /H.10 hs & red boxed THOS COOK / Permit Holder 38 hs; Sep. 1940 env. Arnhem originally addressed to PO Box 506 Portugal, German censor tape, etc., with yellow typed label directing to Alresford tied by Thomas Cook Berkeley St ds; Sep. 1940 Ulvenhout to PO Box 506 with similar tape, etc. with Thomas Cook Enemy Mail ds; 1940 env. Aalborg Denmark to PO Box 506, Portugal with German censor tape & hs; 1941 env. Rome to PO Box 506, Lisbon with Italian censor tape, hs, etc.; Nov. 1940 env. Wolfshau, Germany to PO Box 506 with Thomas Cook yellow typed redirection address Beckenham Kent, etc. (11 items) Cross Reference: PORTUGAL, NETHERLANDS, DENMARK, BELGIUM (Image)

BLETCHLEY PARK & OTHER INTELLIGENCE MAILS: 1942-45 inc. 1943 env. airmail Zurich to Fl Lt Perceval, English Speaking Club, London with contents in German with both German and British Censor tapes, readdressed with green label Box 111, Bletchley, Bucks the undercover address for Bletchley Park; 22 March 1945 SOVIET WAR NEWS complete four page paper published by Press Dept Soviet Embassy with purple "Special Communications Unit No.1 / 26 Mar. 1945 / Headquarters" date stamp applied by the Decoding Unit at Bletchley Park; 1943 OHMS Registered P.Stat. env. London to Weymouth with red double circle GENERAL STAFF / M.I.9 / 8 Feb. 1943 / DIRECTOR OF MILITARY INTELLIGENT cachet; 1942 env. Renfrew addressed to Lt Gen Floyer-Acland at the War Office MS 2 Cheltenham. Acland was involved with COMINT material with the joint UK/US fraternity. (4 items) Cross Reference: RUSSIA, SWITZERLAND (Image)