1898-1918 balance of a collection, 30+ covers or cards on exhibit pages or loose, Philippines, Cuba, Danish West Indies, some postcards, letters, patriotic folder, etc., mixed condition (Image)

Est.US$500

1904 (11 Mar) 90c stationery entire envelope, registered from Boston to Tsingtau, China, sent via Seattle, where Registry Exchange label was added (only 10 recorded), handstamped "Return Receipt Requested", with "Old Home Week" labels, transit and Tsingtao (15 Apr) arrival pmks on back, scarce inbound registered mail from the United States to Kiauchau (Image)

Est.US$500

1917-23 collection on 48 exhibit pages (three frames), with 94 covers and cards selected to represent the Standard Postmarks used on mail from the U.S. military personnel in Europe. There are Steel, Machine and Large Rubber "U.S. Army Postal Service" cds, Military Postal Express Service cds, American Red Cross markings, Postal Express Service (PES), sub-station cds, "Received from Army Bordeaux", Italian Service with large "U.S.- A.P.O." and "Posta Americana Franchigia Militare" A.P.O. pmks, two covers showing different "U.S. Postal Agency Siberia" cds, Third Army "A.P.O.710" pmks (only about a half dozen examples recorded with these markings), American Forces in Germany "A.F.G." on official War Department "Headquarters American Forces in Germany" cover, low-number APOS, some with Postage Dues added on arrival, cover with 2c from AEF booklet (APS certificate) and much more, mixed condition, mostly fine or better. For a complete video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1045117499

Est.US$1,500

1917-20 "Over There", U.S. Forces Abroad in WWI and its Aftermath, the original exhibit, offered mostly intact, with 130+ covers and cards organized in three parts to show U.S. troops in transit and U.S. Forces during and post-WWI in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, Monaco, Ireland, Montenegro, Turkey, censored mail, Service with the British Army, including Air Service Post Office, special units in France, including a letter from an American pilot with the "Lafayette Flying Corps", American Red Cross, U.S. Navy, Registry markings, Incoming mail, special stationery envelopes and cards, Armistice Day (11 Nov 1918) pmks, American Commission to Negotiate Peace cover, special rates and services and much more. A historical presentation, with a large number of seldom offered items. For a full video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1044807690

Est.US$2,500

1917-22 Mail to and from Foreign Destinations, 32-pages exhibit, with 42 covers or cards, AEF mail to Malta, Belgian Congo, Ceylon, China, Manchuria, Japan, Dutch East Indies; incoming AEF mail from Dominican Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Latvia, Tunisia (addressed to a member of the 4th Regiment of the U.S. Air Service in Nantes), China, also AEF from a Polish Volunteer in France, AEF mail to Isle of Man, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Argentina, Uruguay, Ireland, Great Britain, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, fine and extraordinary assembly (Image)

Est.US$1,500

1917 (29 Dec) American Expeditionary Forces/Office of the Commanding General cover, with "General Pershing" and "Soldier's Letter" added, "A.E.F. Passed as Censored" handstamp, addressed to Mrs. Cora Nye in Wellesley, Mass., accompanied by a corresponding stationery letter, marked "Personal" and signed "John J. Pershing", both mounted on an exhibit page (General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing gained fame after leading U.S. forces in pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico. He served as commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) during World War I. When General Pershing returned home, Congress made him only the second person (after George Washington) to be honored with the rank of "General of the Armies of the United States.") (Image)

Est.US$250

1918 "Soldier's Mail" cover to USA, via APO 785 (then located at Allerey, France), clear strike of "U.S. Army Post Office 11 Nov 1918", with AEF censor cachet alongside. Examples of mail with Armistice Day pmks are difficult to find (the staffs at the Military Post Offices were too busy celebrating to be processing the mail) (Image)

Est.US$200

1918 Traveling Post Offices, selection of seven covers or cards on exhibit pages, with "From T.& C. R.P.O.West" (Tours & Chaumont), "Bordeaux-Vierzon-Paris R.P.O.", "Dijon-Marseilles R.P.O.", "Le Mas & Tours M.P.E.S.", various censor markings, mixed condition. The TPO markings of the AEF during WWI are extremely rare, only about a dozen or so recorded (Image)

Est.US$1,500

1919-23 collection on 16 exhibit pages, with 30 covers and cards examining the use of postmarks inscribed "Third Army" or "3rd Army", presented in numerical order by APO numbers, providing designations of military units, the towns in which the Post Offices were located and the dates during which the Third Army postmarks are recorded, showing earliest and latest recorded usages, censor markings, destinations, etc., all meticulously described, with extensive information provided for each item (Image)

Est.US$750

1917-19 U.S. Naval Shore Bases in Europe, collection of 37 covers and cards on exhibit pages, variety of markings, including "Soldier's & Sailors Mail" March 1, 1919 pmk on card from Azores, "U.S. N. Base 13", covers from "U.S. Naval Base Nine" and "officers Mail" from Capt. Connelly U.S. Naval Post Officer, "Gibraltar, Spain", others from Ireland, Wales, England, France, Scotland, "U.S.N. Air Sta. La Trinite, Fr.", "U.S. Naval Base 14 France", sent by a sailor on "U.S.S. Lake Daraga", "Base No.8" (St. Nazaire), "U.S. Naval Port Office, Antwerp, Belgium", "American Naval Base Pauillac, France" on cover to England, framed "Trouve a la boite" hs, also two cards from "Porto Corsini" Seaplane patrol station, various censor marks, mixed condition, scarce and seldom offered assembly (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1917-21 accumulation of 47 covers or cards in stock book, showing postmarks used by the AEF on registered mail, various Regular Issue frankings, Registered boxes, origins and destinations, provisional double circle pmks, Censored mail, MPES markings, parcel wrappings, YMCA covers, incoming mail, one returned to sender with "Organization Disbanded" hs, Officer's mail, covers from military hospitals, "Personal Receipt Demanded" markings, plus many more, mixed condition, excellent basis for exhibit (considering the vast amount of AEF mail available to collectors, only a handful of registered covers are known) For a full video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1044774652

Est.US$2,500

1941-48 Postal Markings of the American Base Forces, large part of originally 10-frame exhibit with 220+ covers or cards (some pages or items have been removed by Mr. Kugel to use in other exhibits), presented in numerical order, based on the APO numbers assigned by the Army, Navy and the Marines, mail from Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Bahamas, Antigua, British Guiana, Greenland, Iceland, Aruba, Curacao, Northern Ireland, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Peru, Australia, Fiji, Canton Island, Christmas Island, French Polynesia and New Guinea. Also included are examples of mail from Hawaii and Philippines. An extraordinary array of "American Base Forces" markings, Registered Mail, some unusual frankings, censor markings and more. Covers are described in detail, showing remarkable reach of the U.S. Army and Navy during WWII. For a full video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1044775062

Est.US$2,500

1942-45 "The ALCAN Highway Project", a single frame (16 panes) exhibit of 27 covers or cards, mail from various APOs along the route, mail from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Official registered cover from the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, D.C. to the Engineering Liaison Office on the Alcan Highway project, paying 30c Special Service fee, mail from HQ at Fort St. John, BC, others from Muskwa, Fort Nelson, Morris Lake, various "Free" frank letters from Watson Lake, Carcross, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, including Registered and censored mail, covers from engineering regiments on Canol Project, NWT, etc., mixed condition, very rare (following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, American leaders were concerned with the vulnerability of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to Japanese aggression. Military leaders proposed a land route that would transport troops and equipment to Alaska and isolated outposts that otherwise would have to be supplied by air and sea. Wartime necessity put into action prewar plans for the construction of a road through the Canadian wilderness from Dawson's Creek to Fairbanks. The U.S.Army sent an Engineer provisional brigade of approximately 9,000 men that included segregated African American units. A total of 10,607 U.S. Army Engineer soldiers worked on the road, of which 3,695 were African American. The difficulties encountered in building the Highway were enormous. First, the climate dictated that there were only four months of good construction weather, and even then poor conditions hindered topographic surveys, route reconnaissance, and construction itself. Frequent rain caused delays. Flies and mosquitos tormented the soldiers. The rest of the year brought extreme cold and deep snow. Second, soldiers were forced to live in tents year-round and frequently had to subsist on monotonous rations. Lack of heavy equipment, especially specialized machinery and tools, meant much of the clearing and transport work had to be done through arduous manual labor, exhausting soldiers already working extra shifts during the long summer days. Though the Japanese threat to Alaska and Canada that had prompted the construction of the Alaska Highway had faded by 1943, the road nevertheless served as a vital conduit for the construction of airfields and other military infrastructure. This infrastructure served not only routine coastal defense but also was a vital base to transfer Lend-Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union during the war. The highway opened to the public in 1948, allowing access to remote areas of Canada, and has become a popular scenic tourist route, a notable legacy for what was a significant military engineering achievement of U.S. Army Engineers) (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1923-41 U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil, collection of 26 covers or cards to USA, various Naval cachets and frankings, including a registered cover with "U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil c/o Foreign Station Post Office New York, N.Y." handstamp, franked with 3x500r definitive stamps, tied by "Navmis/Rio" cds, with 19 Aug 1940 arrival pmk, backflap partly missing, fine cover (prior to the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Brazil maintained positive commercial and diplomatic relations with both Allied and Axis powers. Despite its traditionally strong ties with the United States, by 1940 Brazil had become Germany's leading export market outside Europe and its ninth largest trading partner. Additionally, Brazil hosted significant and influential German, Italian, and Japanese diaspora communities. Following the U.S. entry into the war in December 1941, the Joint Brazil-U.S. Defense Commission was established and Brazil severed diplomatic relations with Germany, Japan, and Italy in January 1942, and allowed the establishment of U.S. air bases on Brazilian soil to counter Axis naval activities) (Image)

Est.US$500

1942 "World War II Pacific Navy Location Code Names", a single frame (16 pages) exhibit of 23 covers, mail from Sydney, N.S.W. ("Project Brashat"), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides ("Button"), Manus, Admiralty Islands ("Chestnut"), Guadalcanal ("Club One"), Noumea, New Caledonia ("Epic"), Auckland, New Zealand ("Fulcrum"), Tulagi, Solomon Islands ("Ringbolt"), Efate, New Hebrides ("Roses"), Upulu, Western Samoa ("Strawhat"), etc., different Naval handstamps, censored markings, registered mail and more. A captivating insight into the identification system used by the U.S. forces in the Pacific, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Image)

Est.US$500

1941-43 collection of 27 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing markings used by the American Army, Navy, U.S.Marine Corps and supporting forces in Iceland during World War II. There are earliest and latest recorded usages, "Marines Mail", "American Base Forces A.P.O. 810" pmks, covers with U.S. franking, one with 10c Special Delivery stamp, Registered Mail, "U.S. Navy" from the "U.S.S. Biddle", Fleet Air Base, etc., mixed condition, seldom offered. (Great Britain, which initially occupied Iceland to keep it out of German hands, needed her troops elsewhere, and requested that US forces occupy the island. On July 7, 1941, President Roosevelt announced that "The American Forces have landed in Iceland". The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade of 194 officers and 3,714 men from San Diego under the command of Brigadier General John Marston anchored off Reykjavik) (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1919 selection of 13 covers or cards showcasing the American presence in post-WWI Poland, showing various free-frank markings, Postal Express Service No.975, with A.E.F. censor handstamps, card sent via APO 702, with 3c franking, American Red Cross M.P.E.S. No.702 corner cacheted cover with 2c franking, with official letterhead, sent from Warsaw to Granger, Texas, bilingual "American Relief Administration Mission for Poland" covers, one addressed to Hawaii; American Army and Navy in Danzig, one with "U.S. Navy Port Office Danzig, Germany" handstamp (possibly the only recorded example), fine and rare group of military mail from Poland (following World War I, the United States extended substantial aid to war-torn European countries through financial assistance, food, clothing, and technical support. This relief effort, initiated in Belgium in 1914, was later expanded to other nations, including Poland, which faced the challenges of the Bolshevik invasion and widespread infectious disease epidemics) (Image)

Est.US$500

1918-19 selection of 14 covers or cards on exhibit pages, expertly described showing progression of U.S. involvements, commencing with Troops in Transit (AEF units withdrawn from France and sent to Archangel), "Received from H.M. Ship/No Charge to be Raised" Naval mail, Field Post Offices, including "FPO BP 11" (Soroka), "FPO PB 33" (Pechenga), "FPO PB 44" (Bakharitza), "FPO PB 55" (Bereznik), "FPO PB 66" (Oberzerskaya), "FPO PB 77" (Emetskoye), "FPO PB 88" (Kem), "FPO PB 99" (Kola), incoming mail from Detroit and Toledo, variety of censor markings and endorsements, mixed condition, mostly fine or better (Image)

Est.US$3,000

1918 (24 Nov) cover endorsed "Soldier's Mail", sent to Wisconsin, "Field Post Office P.B.66" departure pmk, "X20" censor hs, fine, extremely rare usage from "Oberzerskaya" (about 120km south west of Archangel, located on the rail line fought over by the Red Army and the counter-revolutionary Whites, with a high level of fatalities) (Image)

Est.US$300

1919 (10 July) American YMCA cover addressed to a soldier in North Russia, departure postmark "Third Army A.P.O. 740", with "Missent in Archangel P.B.Nr.4" hs applied on arrival, additional markings indicate that the postal service searched for the addressee who was probably in Murmansk, fascinating journey from a U.S. trooper with the Third Army in Germany to another with the AEF in North Russia, only recorded example of "Missent in Archangel PB Nr.4" marking (Image)

Est.US$750

1919 (3 July) YMCA corner card cacheted cover endorsed "American Soldier's Letter", canceled "Army T.P.O. No.1 / N.R.E.F.", addressed to Chicago, violet "A.E.F. Passed as Censored" cachet, minor cover tears, fine. The Traveling Post Office No.1 operated on a weekly schedule on the rail line between Murmansk and Soroka. Only five such covers have been recorded, one from a British and four from U.S. soldiers (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1919 (26 Apr) YMCA North Russian Expeditionary Forces corner card cacheted free-frank envelope, endorsed "soldier's mail", sent through the British P.B.2 Army Post Office to Pontiac, Mich., Censor label and oval hs, minor cover wear, fine (Image)

Est.US$500

1919 (11 Feb) legal size envelope with pre-printed "Rev. John S.Landowski Chaplain - (unit designation excised) Infantry U.S.N.A.", endorsed "Officer's Mail", sent through the P.B.2 British Army Post Office to New York, censor's signature and hs, minor cover wear. This is the only recorded Personnel corner card cover with printed information necessary to secure the free frank from North Russia (Image)

Est.US$500

1919 (11 Apr) YMCA corner card cacheted cover from Bereznik to USA, canceled "Field Post Office P.B.55", roughly opened and resealed by censor, with letter (extensively censored), noting "this has been one of the most hotly contested fronts in N.Russia", fine usage (Image)

Est.US$300

1918-19 selection of 11 covers or cards from "U.S.S. Des Moines", "U.S.S. Olympia", "U.S.S. Eagle II", "U.S.S. Yankton", "U.S.S. Sacramento" and Hospital ship "Braemar Castle", three different locations ("Kola", "Yukanski" and "Archangel" recorded from U.S.S.Des Moines), cover from U.S.S.Olympia is marked "Official Business" and is addressed to the Secretary of the Navy, "Passed by Censor" handstamp, one of the covers has been redirected to "U.S.S. Sacramento" and is the only recorded cover to a U.S. Warship in North Russia, mixed condition, all expertly described on exhibit pages (Image)

Est.US$2,500