| OCCUPIED EUROPE – ESTONIA TO FINLAND | ||||
| 495 | ESTONIA - 1918-20 Russian Occupation: 1919 cover ex Tartu with fine strike of the scarce 'Lieutenant Kuperjanovi Partisan Regiment'; also a PPC to Tartu with two different rare cachets of the 'Sakala Partisan Battalion' inc. a v.fine violet hexagon with a dagger and death's head motif (slight stain away from cachets). Very elusive. (2 items). | £75 | ||
| 496 | ESTONIA - 1918-20 Russian Occupation: Two PPCs & a cover with fine strikes of very scarce Estonian cachets inc. '9th Infantry Regiment Military Hospital' (red) at Parnu-Jakobi, '3rd Infantry Division Casualties Clearing Squad' (red) on PPC of Hara and 'Paaskula Army Prison Commandant' (violet) on German PC. A scarce trio. (3 items). | £75 | ||
| 497 | ESTONIA - 1918-20 Russian Occupation: Group of PPCs used with Estonian Army cachets inc. fine 'Armoured Train Division' & 'Wide Gauge Armoured Train No.6', 'Parnu Defence Battalion', unusual triangular 'SK' censor, regimental cachets etc. Also a 1914 Russian fieldpost card from Revel with fine regimental cachet. Mainly v.clear strikes. (8 cards). | £120 | ||
| 498 | ESTONIA - 1918-20 Russian Occupation: Scarce photographic postcards inc. 4 of tanks (two with crews), Estonian soldiers inc. a group of infantry, a machine-gun platoon & warmly-clad soldiers sitting in a snow-covered forest; also a snow-filled trench at the front in Narva and a bomb-damaged house with soldiers resting during the armistice. Scarce and evocative material. (9 cards). | £90 | ||
| 499 | ESTONIA - 1940 Russian Occupation: Selection of covers & cards inc. fine pictorial env. with 15s (2) franking with 3.5.41 c.d.s. plus 31.1.41 (last day of validity) cover franked with 10s (3); Russian fieldpost card, various items of Russian stationery / frankings inc. unusual 'Pernau/8.VII/1941' opt. issue on local Viljandi cover. (8 items). | £75 | ||
| 500 | ESTONIA - 1941 German Occupation: Russian stationery envs. (2) franked with scarce swastika & reconstruction issues plus various covers with opt'd Hitler head stamps, scarce local 'KONTROLLITUD' h.s. and a range of German-censored covers. Also unusual German 'arbeitsausweis' issued at Reval. An interesting group. (12 items). | £90 | ||
| 501 | FINLAND: Scarce German feldpost covers (2) inc. 'Einheit F.P.Nr. 40839' (14.5.44) from a Pioneer Company in Lapland & 24.6.44 censored env. to a Finnish fieldpost address with 'Kriegsmarine' cachet (45564) of a unit stationed off the Norwegian coast. Also a group of Finnish FP items, inc. patriotic PPCs, with unit c.d.s. (7) and a number of covers with 'kenttapostia' frankings (12) inc. two parcel cards and a cover to the Finnish Embassy at Danzig with franking disallowed. Additional items inc. a pair of cards concerning a child evacuated to Sweden, 'Sotilasasia' form, censored covers etc. (42 items). | £250 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – FRANCE | ||||
| 502 | FRANCE - 1939-40: Group of covers & cards (8) with military or naval cachets/censors inc. a busy forwarded & returned cover, patriotic card ex Lorient Naval Engineers College etc. Also a colourful sheet of 6 anti-German propaganda labels & an unusual CGTU Communist propaganda card of the 1930s. (10 items). | £100 | ||
| 503 | FRANCE - B.E.F. 1939-40: Group of covers with British Forces' markings inc. FPOs 5, 7, 26, 30 & 79 plus BAPO No1, APO machine cancellation & scarce red 'LEICESTER/PAID' c.d.s. on post-evacuation cover (27.6.40). Also four envs.(with letters) to a French Sergeant acting as BEF liaison officer, 3 returned, one with scarce 'Le Destinataire n'a pu être atteint' h.s. and fine press photograph of British soldiers resting in a stable. (13 items). | £120 | ||
| 504 | FRANCE - B.E.F. 1939-40: Accumulation of covers & cards with good variety of FPO cancellations, censors inc. RAF, privilege & BEF envs. etc. Some roughly opened; mixed condition. (153 items & qty. bundle labels). | £120 | ||
| 505 | FRANCE - B.E.F. DUNKIRK EVACUATION: Group of June/July 1940 post-evacuation 'Official Paid' soldiers' covers inc. three scarcer town types (Oxford, Wincanton & Taunton - the last in black). Also 5 covers from France inc. a much-redirected env. ex BAPO No1 at Cherbourg with scarce 'NOT NOW AT ORIGINAL ADDRESS AND /UNKNOWN AT UNITS TO WHICH/REDIRECTED' h.s. Additionally, a copy of Masefield's remarkable & scarce account 'The Nine Days' Wonder'. (13 items). | £100 | ||
| 506 | FRANCE - Italian Occupation of SW France: Group of censored items from the small area of SW France occupied by Italian troops, 1940-43 inc. 4 items of military post (Posta Militare No. 1, 43, 111 & 167) with different censors plus covers from London & Budapest with different Italian censor tapes & h.s. Elusive material. (6 items). | £90 | ||
| 507 | FRANCE - French Legion of Volunteers: Several items from the 1942 'Bolchevisme contre Europe' exhibition at Paris inc. monochrome & colour versions of the poster card, scarcer caricature card & two unusual propaganda leaflets - all with special cancellations. Also Legion stamp issue on fine SS Feldpost cover plus another set on Luftfeldpost env. (faults), fine usage of large airmail stamps on feldpost cover with chemical washes & Cologne machine censor, 'Polar Bear' MS (forgery) on part cover & scarce feldpost cover from French volunteer in Warsaw. (14 items). | £130 | ||
| 508 | FRANCE - German Occupation: 1941-44 Group of covers inc. returned Mexican env. with scarce 'Devuelie de la Oficina de Cambio/ de New York por incommunicacion en/ la zona de guerra' h.s.; cover ex Toulon to Egypt with Free French London censorship, 'FRENCH NAVY' h.s. and further censorship by French, German & Egyptian administrations; Nice-Chicago reg'd cover with French & US censor tapes; Madrid censored cover with tape of the scarce German censor at Bordeaux (Y) plus 1942 cover to Dublin with German, British & Irish censor tapes. Interesting material. (5 covers). | £100 | ||
| 509 | FRANCE - Returned Mail: Selection of covers & cards with various 'INADMIS' h.s. inc. June 1940 Chambre des Députés cover with card from a député to a POW at St Agrève in his constituency, inter-zonal card returned to Marseille from Soissons, FM cover returned to Paris from the Landes, 'acheminement impossible' cachet on cover addressed to Algeria plus three covers from the UK with 'NO SERVICE' cachets. (8 items). | £140 | ||
| 510 | FRANCE - Inter-zonal Postcards: Fine group of different types of card addressed from the Paris area to the south of France inc. buff (3) red (2) & green cards; two have 'INADMIS' or 'NON-ADMIS' h.s. Three are from the American Hospital at Neuilly. Attractive. (6 cards). | £100 | ||
| 511 | FRANCE - Algerian POW Camps: Camp de Laghouat cover to N.Ireland with fine Régiment de Spahis cachet, Laghouat c.d.s. & two censor tapes plus another, airmail cover to Middlesex with similar marks. Also 1942 cover & letter from the German Consul at Algiers to Berrouaghia Camp. Scarce material from N.Africa. (3 items). | £120 | ||
| 512 | FRANCE - POW Mail: Fine example of the scarce Pétain 'Salon du Prisonnier' 5f card used from Bordeaux to Stalag VIJ at Krefeld with fine camp censor h.s. Also censored covers addressed to Ilag VIII (Tost) & Stalag XVIIB (Brekendorf-Krems). Additionally, three covers from camps at St Hippolyte du Fort (2) & Fort de la Revere addressed from prisoner Sgt. Mossley to Lancashire. (6 items). PHOTO - see plate no. 14 | £150 | ||
| 513 | FRANCE - Concentration Camps: Range of censored covers originating in Concentration camps inc. 1941env. to Sweden from Camp de Rivesaltes, two 1940 uncensored items from the Jewish assembly camp at Mende with different camp cachets, an official wrapper of Camp de Recebedou addressed to Switzerland and two 1941 reg'd covers to the USA from Camp de Gurs detained until 1946, with numerous instructional h.s. & c.d.s. Also a 1942 env. to London ex Camp de Noé & another to Paris from the infamous Camp de Drancy. Additionally, a Vichy anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet and French ration coupons. (12 items). PHOTO - see plate no. 17 | £280 | ||
| 514 | FRANCE - 1940 Dunkirk Area Postal Service: 1940 (6/8) cover addressed to Dunkirk with horizontal pair of 50c red overprinted with the boxed 'Besetzes/ Gebiet/ Nordfrankreich' (type I) h.s. used in the aftermath of the Dunkirk action. Also used vertical pairs of the50c red Type Paix & Mercuré both with type I handstamps. (3 items). | £80 | ||
| 515 | FRANCE - German Occupation: Range of covers & cards inc. Alsace-Lorraine provisional cancellations, 1.8.40 Harrods cover returned with small red 'INADMIS/ZONE OCCUPEE' h.s., unusual cover to UK from a French Naval Officer interned at Lorient, two German Army billeting notices, various censored covers, Red Cross form ex Algeria etc. (17 items). | £160 | ||
| 516 | FRANCE - German Feldpost: Range of different feldpost cancellations on 1940 covers of the Invasion Force (5) plus later items of feldpost mail from France inc. three registered covers, a propaganda card and three publicity photographs. (17 items). | £160 | ||
| 517 | FRANCE - Maréchal Pétain: Covers & cards featuring Vichy propaganda with PPCs, labels & slogans, Pétain issue frankings, censored covers, lottery & solidarity coupons, Labour Camp shoulder badges (4), anti-British leaflet and 'hold-to-light' card satirising Hitler! (24 items). | £130 | ||
| 518 | FRANCE - Dieppe Raid, 1942: German pictorial propaganda leaflet emphasising the failure of British troops, also a group of photographs showing corpses on a beach, wounded soldiers, captured Canadian soldiers, funeral procession in Dieppe etc. Unusual material. (6 items). | £60 | ||
| 519 | FRANCE - Air-Dropped Propaganda: A group of propaganda leaflets dropped in France by the Allied Forces, 1941-43 inc. three issues of 'Le Courrier de l'Air' (1941: 24 & 36 and another from 1943), 'Au Peuple Français' with news of the re-occupation of Madagascar and a similar leaflet with the arms of the USA etc. Mainly fine. (6 items). | £130 | ||
| 520 | FRANCE - Internee Mail: A range of covers & cards from French prisoners interned in French or German camps incl. items from Front Stalag 122 (Compiegne), Stalag IVA (Wistritz), Magdeburg and a number of different forced labour camps in Germany. Interesting censors & ancillary markings. Also three evocative press photographs of released prisoners. (18 covers & 3 photographs). | £180 | ||
| 521 | FRANCE - Free French Forces: Selection of covers & cards inc. 1942 cover from the Free Navy HQ in London, a remarkable group of photographs showing the Resistance in Paris with street barricades, German killing of 6 FFI men, surrendering Germans etc. (11), two 1944 covers with FFI de Gaulle 'stamps' commemorating the Liberation of Paris plus a colourful special postcard. Also 1944-45 covers from members of the Free French Forces (4). (21 items). | £180 | ||
| 522 | FRANCE - Liberation Issues: Overprinted issues on cover inc. unusual Oisans card with 'F.F.I./9,50' surcharge, covers (2) with Lille 1f50c plus 5 single stamps, Lyon issue inc. 50c blue x 3 on cover from Caluire, Bordeaux values on three covers inc. one reg'd., scarce Chalons opt. etc. Also the Nice opt. set mint and a series of 5 photographs of the Allied victory parade through Nice. (12 covers, a PPC & qty. of stamps). | £120 | ||
| 523 | FRANCE - Allied Landings & Armistice: An interesting lot containing mail returned due to invasion inc. a scarce 2.11.42 card addressed to Tunisia during the Allied landings in North Africa, German feldpost letter of 31.7.44, British FPO mail etc. Also souvenir material from the armistice ceremony inc. PPC of the signing with special cachet, Vatican enquiry form, Red Cross publicity card, US Forces telegramme form plus loose copies of the special 25f Chenonceaux stamp with telegraph cancellations (12). Well written-up with maps, press photographs etc. (21 items & qty. stamps). | £180 | ||
| 524 | FRANCE - The St. Nazaire Pocket: A remarkable group of covers originating within the last bastion of Vichy / German influence inc. 16.11.44 commercial cover to Paimboeuf with scarce 'La localité ne peut être atteinte/RETOUR A L'ENVOYER' h.s., various Pétain issue frankings on local covers with 'Ilot de St Nazaire' h.s., Guerande provisional reg'n mark, La Baule reg'n label etc. Also Batz sur Mer provisional reg'd cover with pink 'Taxe Perçue 4.50' label and 1f due, liberation opts. on cover from Guerande & (uncommonly) St Andre des Faux, Chambre de Commerce 2f plus 'tricolour' of stamps on returned reg'd cover ex Guerande, Piriac sur Mer PPC with 'TAXE PERÇUE' h.s. etc. Additionally a most unusual (19.12.44) German kreigsmarine feldpost card ex La Rochelle. Fascinating and elusive material. (11 items). PHOTO - see plate no. 18 | £250 | ||
| 525 | FRANCE - Stamp Forgeries: Fine collection of mint stamps and covers inc. the Resistance 1f50c Pétain forgery in a pane of 24 plus four blocks etc. some with 'Atelier des faux' cachet. Also Allied forgeries of the Mercury issue 25c & 30c in sheets plus a cover with a used block of the 30c; Iris 1f50c sheet & block used on cover; Pétain 50c, 70c, 1f, 1f50 brown & 2f in sheets with odd single copies plus originals for comparison. Additionally, a sheet of the 'Laval shadow' forgery of the Pétain 30c red and an example of the Nice De Gaulle label. An impressive lot. ( 254 stamps). | £280 | ||
| 526 | FRANCE - Allied Support: 1944-45 A colourful group (6) of anti-German propaganda cards, German PoW mail (4), detained mail, Allied stamp issues on cover, French censorship, FPO 801 letter about leave in Paris, fine photograph of FM Montgomery & General Koenig at the British Army Exhibition in Paris etc. (28 items). | £150 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – GREECE | ||||
| 527 | GREECE - Italian & German Occupations: 1941-44 Group of covers & cards from occupying forces with German feldpost (5) inc. usage of an Italian military card, reg'd cover from HQ Salonika and civilian mail sent through the feldpost and Italian military post (7). Well-illustrated, as always. (12 items). | £80 | ||
| 528 | GREECE - British & Greek Forces, 1941-43: Selection of covers inc. a much-travelled item via FPOs 171, 173 & 186 etc., various censored privilege envs. with UK or Egyptian stamps, unique type () double-ring 'PASSED BY U.N.R./CENSOR', h.s. 'NO SERVICE' cachets on mail to Greece inc. two wreck items with 'DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER' or 'SAVED FROM THE SEA' h.s. Also a group of items originating with the Greek Army inc. patriotic cards, red 'GREEK NAVY CENSOR*', an env. from a crewman on HMS 'Pindos', Red Cross message etc. (20 items). | £140 | ||
| 529 | GREECE - Civil Censorship: 1940-42 Selection of covers & cards franked for overseas postage with British, German, Italian & Greek censors inc. some scarce or provisional handstamps and patriotic slogans. Uncommon material. (11 items). | £75 | ||
| 530 | GREECE - Allied Occupation: 1944-45 Range of covers inc. censored air-letters, Indian Army FPO envs., official mail, Rest Camp cachet, photographs etc. A well-illustrated account of the operation. (25 items) | £85 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – RHODES & IONIAN ISLANDS | ||||
| 531 | RHODES - Italian Occupation: 1940-44 Range of covers with various Italian fieldpost 550 c.d.s. & ancillary markings with s/l & boxed censor marks and unit cachets, inc. card to an Italian POW in the UK. Also one or two items from pre-War Rhodes and a 1944 card illustrating the Italian postal system continuing under German Occupation. (12 items). | £120 | ||
| 532 | RHODES - 'INSELPOST' COVERS: Three covers franked with the scarce 'INSELPOST' feldpost stamp (Mi 10) inc. 19.2.45 env. to Germany from FP 68051B (Rhodes), 14.12.44 from Germany to FP 68075B and a third, again of German origin, to FP68063C (21.4.45). Fine condition. Also an env. (22.7.44) addressed to FP 58391D on Rhodes, franked with a pair of 'Luftfeldpost' stamps (faults). Very scarce material. (4 covers). PHOTO - see plate no. 17 | £200 | ||
| 533 | RHODES - British Occupation: 1945 British Military Mission on Rhodes - 27.3.47 airmail cover to S.Rhodesia franked with KGVI 'MEF' 5d values (3) cancelled by large 'RHODES/DODECANESE' c.d.s. and with improvised two-line air mail cachet; also a philatelic 'last day of usage' cover (31.3.47) to London, franked with MEF stamps to 6d (6) cancelled by the same provisional c.d.s. Scarce material. (2 covers). PHOTO - see plate no. 17 | £75 | ||
| 534 | IONIAN ISLANDS: 1940 PPC from Corfu to Germany with fine red hooded 'Wehrmacht' censor, fine fieldpost card with FPO No2 c.d.s. and a fine registered env. to Monza with FPO 412 c.d.s. and regimental cachet. Also two censored civilian covers franked with 'Isole Ionie' stamps, one with scarce Corfu censor tape. (5 items). | £75 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – HUNGARY, LATVIA & LITHUANIA | ||||
| 535 | HUNGARY - Visszatért Period: 1938-40 Range of covers & cards with scarce Visszatért cachets of Kassa (2 - steel & rubber, the latter cancelling an inter-panneau pair of the 50h with Kassa local opt.), Léva, Nagyvárad & Zilah (front only). Also two commercial covers from Mohács with fine 'M.KIR.HONYÉD GYÜJTÖTABOR MOHACSON' cachets. (7 items). | £120 | ||
| 536 | HUNGARY: Two 1943-44 German feldpost covers (38487 & 46610), two items of returned mail with Egyptian censorship & 'Return to Sender' h.s., Kassa card with machine censor, camp cover with 'BELLIGÉRANT INTERNÉ!/SANS TAXE.' h.s., Hungarian FP cover, reg'd card to Hungarian officer in German army, Russian FP card (poor) etc. Also a few earlier items inc. a fine 1918 'mechanical' PPC showing the break-up of Hungary and a cover, leaflet & underground newsletters (7) from the 1956 Soviet Occupation. (24 items). | £140 | ||
| 537 | LATVIA - Russian & German Occupations: 1940-45 Range of covers & cards inc. 1940-41parcel-card & receipt with Russian c.d.s., Riga censors on 1945 card to Leningrad & incoming 1959 French card plus a few occupation covers from the 1950s. German items inc. a fine registered cover with 'Ostland' franking and cachet of the ''SS und Polizetführer Lettland'', 1943 official env. with ''Der Gebeitskommissar Narwa'' cachet, ''Organisation Todt'' cover plus various items of official & censored mail. (17 items). | £150 | ||
| 538 | LITHUANIA - Russian & German Occupations: Small group (4) of 1940-41items inc. 'LTSR' opt. set on reg'd cover plus scarce mixed franking of 2c opt. (8) & Russian stamps. Five 'Vilnius' opts. on PPC plus various 'Ostland' frankings on official mail, censored items inc. two Königsberg covers with 'Von der Wehrmacht zugelassen' s/l h.s. and two parcel cards. also a scarce item of German feldpost with unit no. 12951. (18 items). | £160 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – NETHERLANDS | ||||
| 539 | NETHERLANDS - German Occupation: 1939-45 Range of material inc. two 1939 Dutch 'Veldpost' covers (3 & 12), Civil Internment mail (3), cover from Dutch Labour Camp in Berlin & a POW acrd from Stalag IVG, censored mail, slogan cancellations etc. Also copies of 'Luftpost' & 'De Vliegende Hollander', Red Cross message sheets & an envelope, 'Day of Liberation' news-sheet, work permit, identity cards, bread tokens etc. Inspection needed. (46 items). | £350 | ||
| 540 | NETHERLANDS - Dutch Propaganda: Air-dropped messages from Queen Wilhelmina (3), a fine 1942 issue of 'Knickerbocker Weekly' featuring the Queen & FDR, covers from the Free Dutch Forces inc. Naval items with fine 1941 Christmas card, env. with Netherlands Forces in the UK cachets, 1942 air-drop leaflet with Allied resolutions etc. An interesting & unusual lot. (14 items). | £180 | ||
| 541 | NETHERLANDS - Dienstpost covers: A fine range of Occupation covers with dienstpost markings inc. cachets of the 'Reichspostministerium', the Armaments Inspectorate (3 different), Rotterdam Naval Stores, Amsterdam Naval training Centre, the Polder Air Command etc. An interesting group. (15 items). | £150 | ||
| 542 | NETHERLANDS - German Feldpost: 1941-44 Group of envelopes with Feldpost markings inc. two SS Police covers from Utrecht & Rotterdam, the latter with fine cachet plus a fine registered cover from the President of the Rotterdam SS Police with unusual cachet & 'SS-Feldpost' h.s. Also a fine strike of the scarce 'Deutsche Schiffpost/in den Niederlanden/Rotterdam' swastika cachet, Eindhoven Air Ministry cover and various other feldpost items inc. registered. Attractive material. (10 items). | £150 | ||
| 543 | NETHERLANDS - Italian units: November 1943 feldpost cover with m/s FP no. 51169 (Walcheren) and September 1944 from FP 36886 with dumb 'aa' c.d.s., both addressed to Italy by members of a small Italian unit serving with the German Army. Both with Marchese certificates. Rare. (2 covers). | £100 | ||
| 544 | NETHERLANDS - Internment Camps: 1943 cover from Amsterdam to an internee at Westerbork Camp, returned to sender plus a 5c postcard from Westerbork to Vinkeveen with superb 'Geprüft/3' Camp censor. Also a 1943 env. to Valkenburg with 'Vrij van Port/Civiel geinterneende' h.s. and 1946 PPC to Laren Camp with framed 'CENSUUR/KAMP LAREN' and stamp removed by censor. Very scarce. (4 items). | £140 | ||
| 545 | NETHERLANDS - Emergency cancellations, 1945: Collection of p.stat. cards etc. with fine strikes of the provisional c.d.s. & h.s. used in the aftermath of the Occupation - 14 different items, clearly written-up with maps. Mainly philatelic but scarce. (14 items). | £60 | ||
| 546 | NETHERLANDS - British Forces: Accumulation of envelopes with FPO datestamps of British Forces serving in the Netherlands during 1944-45; a good range of numbers and better items noted inc. reg'd env., 'Address Unknown in the Queen's Royal Regt.' h.s., privilege envs. inc. RAF, censors etc. Also a small group of post-war FPO covers to 1960. Mixed condition. (41 items). | £100 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – NORWAY | ||||
| 547 | NORWAY - British Forces, 1940: Group of covers associated with the small North Western Expeditionary Force inc. 5 April/May envs. to the same addressee from FPO 126 (censors 1704 / 1832), two of which have 'RECEIVED FROM /H.M. SHIPS' machine slogan; also a cover with the boxed censor 1590 & London arrival and an env. addressed to an officer with the NWEF, a rare item from the French contingent involved in the operation - 'Compagnie du Train SP 17557 (Narvik). Also included are four 1940 aerial reconnaissance photographs of Norway, 'Service Suspended' mail (2) etc. Scarce material. (16 items). | £150 | ||
| 548 | NORWAY - Norwegian Forces in Britain: 1942-45 Covers inc. KGVI 1d frankings with Norwegian FPO cancellations & Polish Fieldpost labels (4), censored cover with Free Norwegian stamps etc. Also a small group of censored covers from Norwegian ships serving in the Merchant Navy (4). Additionally, two 1947-48 covers with 'Norse Feltpostkontor Tyskland-Oslo' c.d.s. Included is a copy of 'Norway 1940-45:The Resistance'. Unusual material. (14 items). | £140 | ||
| 549 | NORWAY - German Feldpost: An impressive accumulation of elusive material with a good variety of feldpost markings inc. Mountain Corps, Airfield Construction Battalion, Oslo Naval QM, Oslo Admiralty, Luftwaffe, Airborne Sea Rescue Commando, Heavy Flak Regiment etc. A fine variety which needs careful inspection . (42 items). | £380 | ||
| 550 | NORWAY - German 'Soldbuch': Army record book of a Panzer Oberfeldwebel documenting his service history & decorations from 1939 until his death at Narvik in May 1945. Worn. | £50 | ||
| 551 | NORWAY - Censored Mail: Selection of covers & cards with German censor markings inc. the 'Ao'. h.s., with two to Denmark showing 'Ak' in addition, fine Trondheim 't' cachet, Stavanger forced labour camp cover, group of Quisling frankings, slogan cancellations etc. Needs close inspection. (35 items). | £200 | ||
| 552 | NORWAY - Internee Mail: 1943-44 three items from Zagreb to a Yugoslav internee in a Norwegian camp - Boti - addressed to FP 01104C, inc. POW card, p.stat. card and an env. with lengthy letter, all with boxed camp censor. A newspaper article on the camp features a picture of the addressee. Very scarce. (3 items). | £90 | ||
| 553 | NORWAY - Propaganda Labels: Complete sheet of 4 perforated caricature labels with a larger imperf. version showing a German soldier taking away farm animals with the caption 'Alt for Tyskland!' (green) plus two single labels, also similar single labels showing a giant German sailor scooping up fleeing people (red), a comic Hitler swimming in a lifebelt with 'Wir fahren gegen Engelland!' (blue) plus a large version of the same design and large & small blue labels with Quisling's head in a noose. Also a 1944 issue of 'Brev fra Amerika'. Very scarce air-dropped propaganda. (9 items). | £250 | ||
| 554 | NORWAY - British Forces, 1945: Group of covers inc. a range of FPO d.s. (7) with fine FPO 150 struck in violet, 343, 786 & 788. Also 1939-43 Arctic Convoy covers (3) - two from the ships and a third addressed to the 'Empire Scott' with Russian censorship. Additionally, a group of reconnaissance & press photographs inc. two fine views of aeroplanes & Crown Prince Olaf's return to Norway. (18 items). | £150 | ||
| OCCUPIED EUROPE – POLAND | ||||
| 555 | POLAND - German Invasion: Fine selection of material inc. 31.8.39 censored cover from Berlin to Paris, Hoffmann cards of Hitler, German propaganda cards, Koenigsberg driving-licence with German & Soviet h.s., German feldpost usages of Polish material inc. v.fine illus. cavalry env. with Oct. 1939 feldpost c.d.s., POW cards ex Oflag XB (2 - different Camp censors), censored mail, Polish Army in France covers (2) etc. (25 items). PHOTO - see plate no. 18 | £200 | ||
| 556 | POLAND - German Feldpost: 1939-43 Selection of covers & cards with several interesting SS items inc. mail from 2nd Cavalry, Debica tank depot, police regiments and a fine 'Fürsorgeführer Krakau' cover. Also feldpost usage of Polish stamps & cards with a variety of h.s., a fine Winter 1939 card showing a German soldier clad in a full-length sheepskin and a Russian FPO card from Poland. Also a scarce 'Soldbuch' of a German camp guard in the 'Warsaw' Regiment. (20 items). | £200 | ||
| 557 | POLAND - German Occupation: Range of covers & cards inc. General Government frankings, official mail, POW covers (reply card to Vittel & Katowice printed env.), greetings telegram, censored mail, Lemberg Ukrainian ID card, air-drop appeal to Polish recruits in the German Army, Hoffmann's ''Des Führer's Kampf in Osten 1'' etc. A very varied lot. (51 items). | £240 | ||
| 558 | POLAND - POWs in Switzerland: 1942 YMCA POW cover from Herisau Camp to UK with Swiss Camp labels (2) & censor tape; specially-printed Polish Camp card to the Polish Depot at Blackpool with Niederbüren cachets tying POW label, Herisau cachet on reverse with confirmatory Swiss c.d.s.; 1943-44 Camp Christmas cards (3) produced at Oflag IIC (Woldenberg), a fine woodcut-type stamp design of General Sikorski and stamps & banknote from Oflag IID (Grossborn). (9 items). | £75 | ||
| 559 | POLAND - Polish Army: 1938-40 Group of cards inc. fieldpost (5) with various origins & censors, Polish Legion card and a small group of items relative to the 2nd Division in France. Also a 1915 fieldpost card with Legion label & cachet. (10 items). | £60 | ||
| 560 | POLAND - Polish Forces in U.K.: 1941-46 Wide range of covers & cards inc. camp cachets, fieldpost datestamps, commemorative PPCs, registered mail, receipt cachets on foreign mail, Polish Forces stamp issues, propaganda labels etc. Considerable study of cancellation types; mainly non-philatelic mail. (57 items & qty. of pieces). | £300 | ||
| 561 | POLAND - Polish Forces in UK: Selection of Official Mail covers with a variety of cachets inc. Ambulance Unit, 1st Armoured Division, 11th Signals Cy, Artillery Training Camp, Signal Training Centre, Polish Ministry of War etc. also a 4pp type-written pass for a Polish Colonel with several official cachets. Unusual material. (18 items). | £90 | ||
| 562 | POLAND - Polish Air Force in UK: Various covers, photographs & documents relating to 308 (Polish) Squadron inc. material relating to Sq. Leader G. Whitehead, MC, interpreter to the Polish Air Force, an OHMS 'postagram' with Orderly room cachet, type-written letter offering a Polish officer for training as a 'human torpedo' (!) , letter seals etc. An interesting lot. (15 items & 26 seals). | £100 | ||
| 563 | POLAND - Polish Navy in UK: A fine variety of covers with ships' cachets ('Piorun' & 'Dzik'), special cancellations, naval censors and a particularly interesting group of official covers (6) with different cachets etc. (15 covers & 12 mint stamps). | £80 | ||
| 564 | POLAND - Polish Forces in Italy: Selection of covers and pieces, 1944-46, showing Polish FPO datestamps from the Occupation of Italy with range of different censor marks and inc. an example of the scarce registration h.s. on cover. A good variety of FPO numbers. (11 covers & 17 pieces). | £100 | ||
| 565 | POLAND - Polish Forces with MEF: A group of scarce covers from Polish Forces in Palestine & Egypt showing c.d.s. of fieldposts 101, 111, 112, 115, 119, 121 & 127 with a variety of censors, plus a group of pieces with further examples of d.s. (11 covers & 5 pieces). | £100 | ||
| 566 | POLAND - Polish Forces in Europe: Selection of covers & cards to or from Polish Forces with the Invasion Force, 1944-46 inc. FPOs 251, 252, 382, 406, 431, 439 & 801 and a variety of Polish c.d.s.; registered, privilege & redirected covers noted. (24 items). | £100 | ||
| 567 | POLAND - 1946-48: Accumulation of covers illustrating the post-war reorganisation of Poland inc. a wide range of censored items, provisional frankings, temporary cancellations, official cachets, award card for the Warsaw Medal etc. Also a handful of more recent covers inc. 5 censored items from the 1981-82 'Solidarnosc' period. A fine lot for further research. (38 items). | £100 | ||