1913-17 eight covers or cards, including two registered covers from Vlone to Austria and Germany, franked with the Provisional Government adhesives, WWI usages from Durazzo, Skrapak, Korytsa and Valona, all written-up on exhibit pages, fine (Image)

Est.US$500

1919-26 selection of 29 covers or cards used during the Second Provisional Government and Republic, variety of frankings and destinations, well described on 18 exhibit pages, with respect to rates, origins and destinations, some outstanding items include a censored cover from Elbasan to Sacramento, with 2x5c green Parcel Post Postage Dues, registered cover from Lushne to Sydney, Australia, new value surcharges on cover to USA, Romania, Money Order with 25q surcharge, 1923 Pictorials on covers, various provisional surcharges, scarce overprints, two Air Post covers, etc., fine lot (Image)

Est.US$750

1928-38 collection of 36 covers or cards on 21 exhibit pages, various issues, Registered mail, souvenir sheets, Zeppelin and Flight covers, origins and destinations, unusual markings, one from the Italian steamship "Brioni", "Kingdom of Albania" overprints on covers and Parcel card, plus many others, fine and highly attractive representation. For a full video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1045146108

Est.US$1,000

1916 (17 Oct) 10q stationery card with additional franking, mailed from the Austro-Hungarian Army Base Post Office at Durazzo to Vienna, with red "K.u.K. Flugstutzpunkt Durz." military handstamp, additional markings, fine (Image)

Est.US$200

1914-15 partial and well described 14-page exhibit with 24 covers and cards, showing various historical episodes in Albanian history, with Essad Pasha government, cover bearing two strikes of the commemorative postmark honoring the establishment of the local Senate, franked with 2x20para typewritten surcharges, sent from Durres to Trieste, covers franked with the Crescent handstamp in Arabic on new issue with bilingual "Central Albania" (in French and Albanian), one from Skrapar, another from Durazzo to Valona, others from Lesh to Shkoder, with rare "Scutarie d'Albanie" Registry label, another used in combination with Serbian franking, sent from Elbasan, to Pequin. There are covers and cards from North Albania, one to New York, others to France and Egypt (rare), South Albania registered cover from Valona to Santi Quaranta in "Autonomous Epirus", postal stationery, 1914 covers from Shkoder to Lesh, franked with two blocks of 4x2q Skanderbeg, tied by gold ink cancels, registered and properly franked cover with "The Arrival of Prince William" overprints, registered cover with 5g surcharge, used from Durres to Prag, two postcards showing the arrival of Prince and Princess in Durazzo, one mailed to a sailor on board "S.M.Torpedoboot 31" at the Austrian Naval Base in Pola, fine and valuable assembly (Image)

Est.US$1,500

1917-18 French Administration of Korytsa, four covers addressed locally or abroad to France and England, one with "Commandant Militaire Censure" handstamp, two others with oval censor handstamps, mixed condition, cover to Paris with portion of address excised, scarce (Image)

Est.US$250

1914-43 The Italians on Saseno (Sazan), collection of 10 covers or cards, well described on exhibit pages, showing three stages of Italian Involvement on Saseno, from the first Military Occupation into the post-World War I period, followed by the formal annexation in 1923 and use of Italian postage on the island for the next 20 years. The collection includes censored mail, Fieldpost "Comando Distaccamento R.Marino Sasseno" markings, "Isola Saseno Comando", "Saseno/Isola", Registered cover used 12 Mar 1943 to Bazi, with a new unit cachet ("Headquarters Royal Navy Detachment Saseno"), mixed condition, unusual group (Italy occupied Saseno in 1914 and established a military post. After World War I, Albania formally ceded the island to Italy and it became administratively part of Lagosta, in the province of Zara. In those years the Italian authorities built a lighthouse and some naval fortifications, and populated the island with a few families of fishermen relocated from Apulia. The island was united with the Italian Governorate of Dalmatia in 1941 during World War II and ceded back to Albania in 1947)

Est.US$500

1942-43 selection of 11 covers or cards on exhibit pages, with registered cover from "Istok" to Palermo, POW card from Gjakove, registered cover from "Gjilan" to another Prisoner of War inmate at Stalag VIIB/I, card from "Liplanji" to a Concentration Camp in Bergamo, POW lettersheet from "Orahovac" (both extremely rare), registered "Express" covers from "Peje" to Cetinje and Ustica-Palermo, card from Prizren to Milano, flown, censored cover from Prizren "Posta Arjore" to Geneva (Diena certificate), large part of "Prizren Mandat Poste" (previously unrecorded marking) money order used to send 300francs, registered cover from "Prishtine" to Istanbul, finally a POW lettersheet from "Suva Reka", fine and uncommon assembly showing postal history of Italian Occupation of Kosovo (Image)

Est.US$10,000

1942 (14 Mar) registered, flown cover from "DECANE", franked with Italian Occupation stamps of Albania, tied by departure cds, with corresponding Registry label, addressed to a Prisoner of War held at Stalag XVII-B (located near Krems, Austria), opened by censor, various transit and Krems arrival pmks, fine and extremely rare usage from Decane (present day "Decan" in Kosovo) (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1942-43 (22 Jan) picture postcard from Ferizovic to Montalcone (Trieste), single 5q green tied by departure cds, boxed "Verificato per Censura" and arrival pmks. Also 1943 (11 June) registered cover to Ustica-Palermo, franked with 2x15q carmine, tied by "Ferizaj" departure cds, showing return address of "Stimplje-Ferizaj, Kosovo Albania", fine (the Slavic name "Ferizovic" was changed to Albanian "Ferizaj" in 1942) (Image)

Est.US$1,500

1943 selection of eight registered covers from Prizren and Peje to Palermo (care of "Internata Civile de Guerra"), one to Montenegro, different franking combination, censor handstamps and labels, mixed condition, scarce group of commercially used covers from Kosovo during Italian occupation (Image)

Est.US$2,500

1941 (14 June) registered and censored cover to USA, franked with 15q and 2x25q (minor flaws), tied by "Tetovo" (original Slavic name of the town) departure cds, with "Tetove" Registry label below, Italian censor handstamped, opened and resealed by U.S. censor, Italian transit and arrival (Aug 20, 1941) arrival pmks on back, cover roughly opened at bottom, rare usage (after World War One, Tetovo became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, during Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, Tetovo once again came under Albanian rule and after WWII reverted back to Yugoslavia) (Image)

Est.US$750

1942 (30 July) cover to Zagreb, franked with 25q dark blue, tied by "Tetove" (double circle with star at bottom departure cds, with Italian censor handstamp and "Verificato per Censura" label, additional markings on back, fine and scarce usage from Tetove to Croatia (Image)

Est.US$750

1942 (25 Mar) picture postcard ("Ulcin (Dulcigno)") to Torino, franked with pair of 5q green, tied by "Dulqin" cds, fine and scarce usage (during World War One, the present day town of Ulcinj was occupied by Austria, then Italy, and became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1920. From 1941-44 Ulcinj was under the Albanian administration and reverted to Yugoslavia after the war) (Image)

Est.US$750

1943 (23 July) registered cover to Banja Luka, Croatia, franked with 2x10q,15q,30q, tied by "Rozhaj" double circle departure cds, paying proper 15q letter and 50q Registry fee, with corresponding registry label, opened and resealed by Italian censor, with Brindisi transit and Banja Luka arrival pmks on back (showing return address "Rozhoje, Kosove, Albania"). An uncommon usage from this very small Rozhaj post office (only 15 letters posted according to official report noted in Phipps handbook) (Image)

Est.US$750

1943 (7 Feb) registered cover addressed to the Red Cross in Geneva, franked with single 65q red brown, tied by double circle "Dulqin" cds, with corresponding Registry label (showing "ULQIN"), opened and resealed by Italian censor, Shkodre and Milano transits, Geneva (15.III.43) arrival pmks, fine registered usage from present-day Ulcinj (Image)

Est.US$750

1915 Serbian troops in Albania, eight covers and cards, including postcards written from Tirana to Knjazavac, covers with Serbian franking, straight line handstamps "TIRANE" and "ELBASAN", other military handstamps, registered mail. Tirana bilingual cds on Serbian postal stationery card to Praha, Tirana and Elbasan transit marks; cover to Debar, etc., fine and scarce group (Image)

Est.US$500

1915-18 collection of 18 covers and cards from Austro-Hungarian Naval Aviation Corps on the Adriatic, with various "Fliegerstation" (Seaplane) and submarine station markings from "Grado" (Trieste), Pola, Puntisella, Cosada, Fiume, Sebenico, Curzola, Kumbor and Cattaro, with examples of mail flown by Seaplane through FPO 406 at Fiume to Pola (from there to Laibach), cachets inscribed "I & R Coastal Naval Air Station Sebenico" and others, fine and undoubtedly scarce group, all well described on partially decommissioned exhibit pages (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1916-18 collection of 21 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing examples of mail service from various Flight companies on the Galician and Italian fronts, different Flight Squadron unit numbers, Air Unit cachets, Seaplane Bases, with examples of mail from Durazzo (Albania), FPO 406 (Fiume), Kumbor, Cattaro, Cosada, Zelenica, Pola, Sibenik, Puntisella, also Balloon unit markings from Pola, K.u.K.Feldpoststampt 173 and others (Image)

Est.US$1,000

1914 Registered cover from the abortive first Austrian invasion of Serbia, registered from "Loznica" to Skalice, franked with two Bosnian stamps and tied by framed "K.u.K.Militar Postampt Loznica" pmk, with Registered and "K.u.K. Militar-Telegraphen" handstamps, fine and rare registered cover from the Austrian foothold during the second invasion of Serbia (One of the bloodiest battles fought in the Balkans was the Battle of the Drina, near Loznica, Serbia. After a first failed invasion of Serbia where he lost 40,000 men, Oskar Potiorek, the Austro-Hungarian commander, launched a new offensive across the River Drina, where he faced strong Serbian defensive positions. A counterattack pushed the Austrians back to the Drina, but a small force remained at Loznica) (Image)

Est.US$500

1914-18 Danube River Flotilla during World War One, collection of 33 covers or cards presented on exhibit pages, variety of "K.u.K.Donauflottillenkomando" (imperial and Royal Danube Flotilla Headquarters), FPO markings, cachets of "SMS Leitha" and "Maros", the oldest monitors in the fleet, mailed from Giurgiu (Romania) and Orsovo (Hungary), others from "Koros" and "Szamos", censored mail from "S.M.S. Bosna" sent through the Black Sea to support activities in Ukraine, written by a crew member at Kherson on the Dnieper River. Numerous other monitor cachets are included, such as red "S.M.S. Temes", "Bodrog", "Inn", "Enns", "Barsch", "Compo", "Viza", also from patrol boats, Armed Steamers, Auxiliary vessels, Shore Station cachets, numerous censor and Naval markings, mixed condition, scarce (The campaigns of the Danube Flotilla could literally be called a backwater of the Great War. During Peacetime, the flotilla was responsible for enforcing the border with Serbia, patrolling the Danube down to the Iron Gates, up the Sava to the mouth of the Drina and sometime up the Drina (water level permitting) and occasionally up other tributaries of the Danube, mostly chasing smugglers. However, the flotilla gained a place in history when its ships fired the first shots of the war) (Image)

Est.US$2,500

1916-17 Austro-Hungarian Submarines, three cards displayed on exhibit page, one from "K.u.K.Kriegsmarine Monarch", others from "U-6" and "U-21", sent from Cattaro, Sibenik and Pola, first one showing cachet of Headquarters of the I.& R Submarine Group in Gulf of Cattaro, very scarce (Image)

Est.US$500

1917-18 Danube Flotilla River gunboats, three cards addressed to Vienna, each originating in Romania (Orsova, Turnnu-Severin and Braila), showing different cachets of Danube Flotilla Headquarters and "K.u.K.Etappenpostampt 348", "Hadtap Postahivatal 449" and "K.u.K.Feldpostampt 299" markings, fine and uncommon group displayed on exhibit page (Image)

Est.US$250

1916-18 Austro-Hungarian Military Mission to Turkey, collection of 40 covers and cards on exhibit pages, markings of mortar and howitzer batteries supporting Turkish defenders at Gallipoli, official mail from "Imperial and Royal Military Representative in Constantinople", registered and censored mail from Pera, Courier Post via German Military Mission in Aleppo, Transport and logistical support markings, Austrian Base at the construction railhead of the Baghdad Railway (near Konia), cachets of Base Commander in Taurus-Amanus and Branch Gasoline Depot in Bosanti, Fieldpost cover from "Bir-es-Seba" (Beersheba) and "A.O.K.4" (Jerusalem), cachets of origin from Representative of the 1st Expeditionary Corps for German and Austro-Hungarian Troops (Aleppo), Mobile Hospital (Jerusalem), Army Group "Jilderim", detachment operating the "Bekleme-Pyrgos" cable car system, "Deutsche Feldpost 663" (then located at Nazareth), "K.u.K.Feldpostampt 452" from Diyarbakir and Damascus (Image)

Est.US$2,500

1901 picture postcard to Vienna, with violet "S.M.S. K.u.K Maria Theresia" circular unit handstamp, with corresponding "Feldpost", showing Laxenburg (8.7.01) arrival pmk at bottom, fine. Also unused ppc "SMS Aspern" (Image)

Est.US$150