NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: 1942 group with Jan. 1942 env. (some rust spotting) + content to Tawang Mangoe with Netherlands 10c tied by VELDPOST/ SORTEERKANTOOR / B hs and VELDPOST censor tape, orange VELDPOST label, etc.; Feb. 1942 POSTBLAD 7½c air letter uprated with Netherlands 17½c from RAAF Sgt. RAF Sumatra to W Maitland NSW with RAF Censor 153 triangle, etc.; Feb. 1942 env. airmail Java to Delhi India with brown censor tape partly covering a v.fine and uncommon purple A.B.D.A. / CENSOR / 4 hs plus two other censor hs; Mar. 1942 env. airmail Java to Poole Dorset sent by Diplomatic Bag with red RAF / CENSOR / 93 hs and on the reverse both CAMP COMMANDANT / SOUTH WEST PACIFIC COMMAND / JAVA hs and VELDPOST / p/a COMMANDANT / Algemeen Hoopdkwartier/ JAVA hs. (5 items)Cross Reference: NETHERLANDS COLONIES, INDIA, AUSTRALIA (Image)

NORWAY: 1940-45 selection with 28 Apr. 1940 env. FPO 126 to Leyland, Lancs with two boxed purple PASSED BY CENSOR / [crown] N0. 1972 hs (Ex Cornelius); 1 May 1940 env. + content Norwich to RAF North West Expeditionary Force returned via Air Ministry; 15 May 1940 env. FPO 115 (Harstad) to Dagenham (address details scored through) with boxed PASSED CENSOR / [crown] No. 2137 hs; 3 June 1940 OHMS env. FPO 115 (Harstad) to Hendon with 1 June 1940 copy of "THE MIDNIGHT SUN" newspaper re Capture of Narvik, etc; 19 July 1940 Letter Card Issambesres Var to French serviceman with 6th Demi Brigade de Chasseurs Alpin (who were in Narvik) purple RETOUR / A L'ENVOYEUR and "Le Destinaire / n'a pu etre atteint" hs's; June 1945 OAS env. FPO 785 (Kristiansand) to Oldham; Aug. 1945 PPC Oslo FPO 785 to London; 1945 HM Stationery Office 66 page booklet "Arctic War"; etc. (16 items)Cross Reference: NORWAY, FRANCE (Image)

RUSSIA INC. BRITISH DIPLOMATIC & GERMAN CENSOR MAILS: 1941-45 selection with Nov. 1941 env. + 4 page content from Col Eric Greer Military Attache to the British Embassy which had just moved from Moscow to Kuibyshev (Samara) sent to his wife in Lechlade via diplomatic bag with BRITISH LEGATION / TEHRAN cachet; Sep.(?) 1941 env. from 151 Wing RAF (Vaenga, Murmansk) to Maidstone Kent via the Air Ministry; 1942 env. from Sgt Parselle 126 Base Unit, Northern Russia to Cardiff with purple PASSED BY CENSOR / No. 2772 hs; June 1942 env. + content Col Greer, Kuibyshev to Honiton, Devon long 14 page detailed letter plus invitation to Dinner with People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs; similar July 1942 16 page letter with Lunch Menu (18 courses!) with Molotov, etc. post Molotov visit to Churchill; Oct. 1943 OHMS env. with purple No. 30 Military Mission hs (in Russia) to the British Embassy Moscow; 1943 env. Feldpost 13704, Russia to Madrid Spain with German FELDPOST / e cds & Ab in circle censor hs; Mar. 1945 env. + content (Ex FP 33698 (XX Army Corps) Helligenbell area to Uchte with Wilhelm Kreft Certificate; Feb. 1945 env. Crimea (Yalta Conference) to Kenilworth redirected to Colne with v.fine red [crown] / WAR CABINET / OFFICE hs etc. Good variety of uncommon material. (22 items) Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RUSSIA, SPAIN (Image)

RUSSIA - ARCTIC CONVOY & BRITISH MISSION MAIL: June 1942 env. (opened to display) Archangel to Harrow, Middlesex from Cdr. Eibel British Mission, sent Registered, franked with pair tied Russian stamps (& one other removed) with PC90 Examiners label and London Registered ds for 5 Jan. 1943; pair 1 Apr/3 Aug. 1943 envs. (1 Aug. has stamp removed) from Romford to "Empire Scott" (a British Merchant Navy convoy ship), GPO London with British & Russian censor tape, on reverse are "LONDON I S/H.M SHIPS" cds and Russian censor hs of Murmansk. (3 items) (Image)

TRISTAN DA CUNHA - SCARCE INBOUND FORCES AIR LETTER EX UK: 30 May 1945 1½d yellow-brown FORCES LETTER sent from Hackney by the mother of Tel(S) D Leary to HMS ATLANTIC ISLE, c/o GPO LONDON cancelled by Victory Bells machine cancellation redirected to RNB Chatham then A.M.O. ZENITH 7/1/46 (Travemunde, Germany). Illustrated George Crabb's book pg. 244. (Sold Cavendish sale 29.11.06 £900+BP) plus 25 December 1943 "THE TRISTAN TIMES" two page original copy (horizontal fold) of the typed newspaper with double circle lilac TRISTAN DA CUNHA hs. Fine and scarce pair. Cross Reference: TRISTAN DA CUNHA (Image)

TRISTAN DA CUNHA - OUTGOING CENSORED COVER TO SOUTH AFRICA INITIALLED BY CORFIELD & REDIRECTED BACK TO TRISTAN DA CUNHA: 8 Feb. 1846 env. addressed to Allan Crawford at Pretoria with red tombstone FROM H.M.SHIP / PASSED BY CENSOR hs initialled H.C. (Lt Cdr Corfield). Redirected back to Tristan da Cunha as Crawford had returned to the island on the Transvaal for his third stay. Scarce and attractive cover. (Sold Cavendish sale 29.11.06 Lot 924 £850+B.P.)Cross Reference: SOUTH AFRICA, TRISTAN DA CUNHA (Image)