| OCCUPIED EUROPE – RUMANIA TO YUGOSLAVIA | ||||
| 568 | RUMANIA: Selection of items inc. censored postcards/fieldpost cards (16), German feldpost covers (6), civilian mail etc. A good variety of unusual material. Also a small group of earlier covers. Needs careful inspection. (45 items). | £220 | ||
| 569 | SWEDEN: Study of Swedish 'fältbrief ' envelopes inc. 6 used/unused examples & 6 covers showing usage of the franchise coupons. Also a group of covers & cards with British & German censorship plus a returned letter (11/44) with scarce '*NO SERVICE/EXCEPT BY AIR' cachet. Uncommon material. (19 items). | £120 | ||
| 570 | YUGOSLAVIA - 1936-44: Collection of covers, cards etc. illustrating Yugoslavia's involvement with Italian & German occupying forces, inc. a range of p.stat. cards, 1936 Sokol Games cards (2) & stamps, censored covers, registered items, Serbian occupation issue on cover, various official documents etc. An interesting lot, meticulously researched and illustrated. (50 items & qty. stamps). | £150 | ||
| 571 | YUGOSLAVIA - Occupied Slovenia: 1941-45 Italian & German occupations illustrated through a range of censored covers and fieldpost items inc. scarce SS 'Polizei Batt/2.Komp.' h.s. used a s censor and an SS feldpost card, civilian internee cover from Vespolate Camp and an in-going env. to Klos Camp, parcel card etc. (24 items). | £120 | ||
| 572 | YUGOSLAVIA - Laibach Charity Stamps: German Occupation charity overprints on Italian stamps inc. fine registered & censored airmail cover with scarce 1944 Air Orphans' Fund set tied by Laibach c.d.s.; registered cover ex Ljubljana to Germany franked with values from the first overprinted set and several censors inc. the Milan 'A/d'; 50c Italian p.stat.card with German opt. & uprated with 1945 views issue 50c, 1l & 2,50l - fine strike of Partisans' censor star. Scarce. (3 items). PHOTO - see plate no. 18 | £100 | ||
| 573 | YUGOSLAVIA - Italian Occupation 1941-43: Two pre-war Italian items with Zara c.d.s., usage of Italian stamps on Yugoslav mail, Italian fieldpost covers, censored mail, issues for Montenegro on cover etc. (22 items). | £120 | ||
| 574 | YUGOSLAVIA - German Occupation: Group of feldpost covers originating with the SS Prinz Eugen Mountain Division showing a range of censor marks, many with letters enclosed. Also three further SS feldpost covers from other units in Yugoslavia inc. a 'Handschar' officer's feldpost letter-card, a registered item from a supply column on the Greek border and a cover for the SS River Police Flotilla. Scarce material. (9 covers). | £150 | ||
| 575 | YUGOSLAVIA - POW Camps: Range of covers & cards to and from a variety of Italian & German Camps inc. Camps 23 & 32, Oflags IVI, VIB, VIC, XIIIB and Stalags IIIA, XIIB, XVIIA, XVIIB & XVIIIC, showing various censor marks, a scarce 'return to sender' cachet of Oflag VIC, parcel receipt cards (2) etc. An interesting lot. (22 items). | £240 | ||
| 576 | YUGOSLAVIA - Partisan Mail, 1942-45: Remarkable collection of mail originating from or passing through the hands of the Yugoslav Partisans, inc. military cachets, a fine variety of censor marks, fieldpost etc. Well-researched and illustrated. (43 items). | £200 | ||
| 577 | YUGOSLAVIA - Allied Occupation, 1945: group of scarce material inc. FPO 711(Pola) Partisan-censored cover to Belgrade, another env. backstamped with FPO 134 (Trieste) c.d.s. alongside a NZ Army c.d.s., half-plate photographs of UNRRA Aid ship unloading at Split, Ford tractors delivered to Suesmo & VE celebrations at Trieste. Also 1945 env. to Ljubljana with dual censorship inc. partisan h.s., post-War AMG-FTT cover and two identity passes issued by the AMG administration. (10 items). | £80 | ||
| 578 | YUGOSLAVIA - Independence: Range of covers & cards illustrating the development of post-War Yugoslavia, 1944-52, inc. a POW card to Vienna from the Army Hospital at Novi Urbas, various censored items, emergency stamp & stationery printings, Army cachets etc. (30 items). | £100 | ||
| P.O. BOX 506 AND OTHER UNDERCOVER ADDRESSES | ||||
| 579 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1940 (24 April) censored cover ex Breslau to Amsterdam (Post Box 601 as established by Thomas Cook's). This office was closed due to the German invasion a couple of weeks later and covers to this address are few and far between. PHOTO - see plate no. 18 | £200 | ||
| 580 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1940 censored cover (opened out) ex Amsterdam (after the closure of the Thomas Cook Office there) being an early Lisbon Office reply letter sent to the original enquirer, reaching him on 12 Dec. 1940, having left Amsterdam on 25 September and reaching Lisbon on 24 October. The cover then received a yellow sticker applied with the original enquirers address and posted into the UK mail system. Various markings inc. German censors and British censor tape. | £75 | ||
| 581 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1940 (Oct.) early letter from the newly formed Lisbon Office to Rotterdam, subsequently returned to Lisbon. German censor markings, Rotterdam returning d.s. of 25 Oct., large s/l "Retour", boxed "VERTROKKEN/PART 1" (2), etc. | £75 | ||
| 582 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1940 (6 Nov.) letter of enquiry from Poland addressed to Post Box 506, Lisbon with German censorship markings and British censor tape plus a similar cover (21 July) ex Poland to Post Box 506 with German & English censorship. Both covers have been opened out for display. (2). | £100 | ||
| 583 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1941 (18 Feb.) air mail letter of enquiry from Norway addressed to Post Box 506 with German Wehrmacht & British censor tapes & Lisbon arrival postmark of 28 Feb. 1941. Opened out for display. PHOTO - see plate no. 18 | £100 | ||
| 584 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1941 (12 March) Lisbon Office enquiry letter to St.Andrews, Guernsey with German Wehrmacht & British censor tapes and purple two-line "NO SERVICE/RETURN TO SENDER". This is one of the few such letters known sent to the Channel Islands. Opened out for display. PHOTO - see plate no. 6 | £150 | ||
| 585 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1942 flown censored cover ex Italy being an example of a successful "reply" letter via Post Box 506, addressed to a lady in London N.W.3 plus two other 1942 covers ex Italy to Post Box 506 which contained enquiry letters for the same person. Scarce trio. (3 covers). PHOTO - see plate no. 17 | £150 | ||
| 586 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1943 (5 June) flown censored (Spanish & British) cover from Madrid to P.O. Box 226, London with Czech FPO d.s. of 20 June, being an example of a cover sent to a member of the Czech Forces serving in this country via the aforementioned undercover address plus 1944 (March) 8as Indian postal stat. env. from Polish FPO 130 (Teheran) addressed to P.O. Box 260 (undercover address in London for Free Polish Army personnel) and 1946 (11 Oct.) cover from Polish FPO no. 101 (Italy) to P.O. Box 260 in London. (3). | £100 | ||
| 587 | UNDERCOVER MAIL - THE PERCEVAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1939-45: A series of covers & letters from the German wife of Flt.Lt. J.R.Perceval, engaged in the 'Enigma' & 'Ultra' operations at Bletchley, from Switzerland addressed to 'Room 47, Foreign Office', 'Box 111, Bletchley' & 'PO Box 444, London', showing a variety of censorship, plus a group of telegrams (6); also 6 letters from Perceval to his wife (without envelopes) and a photograph. (21 items). | £200 | ||
| 588 | UNDERCOVER MAIL: 1941 POW letter card from Stalag VIIC addressed to the Campbells in Estoril, forwarded to Wales also a rare example of the type-written slip they used to remind customers to send reply coupons. Also London Box mail inc. two items addressed from Herisau Camp, Switzerland, to Box 277, a Portuguese cover to Box 218, and a cover addressed to Algeria from the Free French Airforce address of Box 236. (5 covers). | £150 | ||
| ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST | ||||
| 589 | ANTI-SEMITIC PROPAGANDA: Group of German PPCs c1899-1930 featuring caricatures of Jewish figures, 1921 'notgeld' (3) with anti-Semitic designs & a scarce leaflet (1920) with the text of a lecture 'Bolshevism & Judaism' given by George Quindet in Hamburg. (12 items). | £100 | ||
| 590 | CONCENTRATION CAMP - ORIANIENBURG / SACHSENHAUSEN: 1940-43 inc. printed Camp letter sheets (3) with different Camp censors, a postcard of the SS quarters sent to Munich by SS feldpost, a fine example of the forged British £5 notes made at the Camp, an entire parcel card for a packet sent to a prisoner, SS feldpost items etc. (8 items). | £140 | ||
| 591 | CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Selection of covers emanating from smaller camps inc. Mauthausen, Ravensbrück, Flossenberg, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Aussig-Schreckenstein & Muhlenberg. Also items from the forced labour camps at Drütte, Magdeburg, Neuss Rhein & Blauchach. An interesting group in mainly fine condition. (24 items). | £240 | ||
| 592 | DISPLACED PERSONS, 1945-49: Fine 1/2 plate photographs of US prisoners liberated from Gudow & Belsen inmates on release (3); various missing persons enquiry items, UNRRA covers, several envs. with the boxed DP Mail/PAID h.s.(6) plus other types of franchise mark, letter from interned SS man with various h.s., FPO Assembly Camps etc. (28 items). | £240 | ||
| 593 | RICHBOROUGH CAMP, KENT, 1939: Selection of mail to Jewish refugees housed in the Kitchener Camp at Richborough inc. three letters from Cuba to Samuel Neumann (two envs.) plus another to the same addressee from the USA and a letter (no env) in English from him requesting a dental appointment - he is willing to sell some clothes to pay for treatment. Also two envs. to the Camp from Germany & Holland. Uncommon material. (7 items). | £200 | ||
| 594 | LATVIAN REFUGEES, 1940-47: Group of documents belonging to Andrejs Ziedins inc. various ID cards for German Occupied Riga, UNRRA Certificate of Residence for Spittal, Austria, work permit for UK with ration book & British ID card for Cambridge & Aberdeen etc. Also an env. from a Latvian in a DP Camp at Hamburg and a letter to the USA with 'Displaced Persons Mail/PAID' h.s. & 'o/c 118 DPACS/BAOR' cachet. (15 items). | £100 | ||
| 595 | ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE 3rd REICH: Collection of cards & covers inc. scarce propaganda leaflets, 1936 printed card setting out Jewish rights under the Nuremburg Laws, 1943 cover with caricature label, 'Der Ewige Jude' exhibition card showing the Austrian Chancellor Schusnigg and a group of caricature Jewish figures fleeing before advancing swastika flags, Himmler caricature on Russian fieldpost sheet, group of covers with 'Israel' & 'Sarah' addresses, two envs. with different 'Am Schalter aufgellefert' h.s., anti-semitic caricature cards etc. Also a Star of David badge printed on yellow linen. Meticulously researched and illustrated. (35 items). | £300 | ||
| 596 | THERESIENSTADT GHETTO: 1943-45 postcards sent out of the Ghetto (3) inc. pre-printed message and a 4-line h.s. address for replies, also a card from Budweis with a boxed 'JÜDISCHE SELBSTVERWALTUNG /THERESIENSTADT' cachet and a May 1945 stampless env. from a patient at the Camp hospital. Also a permit allowing the receipt of a parcel, two banknotes etc. Well written-up. (9 items). | £120 | ||
| 597 | LODZ & WARSAW GHETTOS: 1941 registered cover with cachet of the SS Chief of Police at Litzmannstadt, a brass identity tag of the Jewish 'sonderkommando' in Lodz, busy market scene PPC & 5 photographs of street scenes in the Ghetto, official letters to the 'Ältesten der Juden' etc. Also Warsaw items with boxed 'JUDENRAT/WARSCHAU', Jewish quarter postal franchise h.s. with boxed postal agency d.s., Red Cross message sheet and a Star of David badge made of coarse yellow cloth. (24 items) | £200 | ||
| 598 | JEWISH REFUGEES: 1933-48 Diverse collection of material inc. passport of a Dresden lady who emigrated to Jaffa in 1933, 1938 letter from an Austrian Jew requesting a job in British India, printed form for declaration of property value and two documents concerning the shutting down of a shop in Breslau, its compulsory sale and payment of 30% of its value in 'tax' before the family was allowed to emigrate. Also a 1945 Belgian p.stat.card giving a summary of family news to a Dr. Fuss in New York, Jewish Refugee Committee letters etc. (22 items). | £240 | ||
| 599 | ARNOLD GOLDSTEEN: A group of items relating to Mr (later Lieutenant) Goldsteen of Amsterdam, 1942-45 inc. a printed fabric Star of David, printed notice 'Voor Joden Verboden', official refusal of his application for a telephone, the Jewish Council's refusal of permission to emigrate, postcards (2) sent to his children while he was at the Jewish Hospital, Allied Military ID & ration cards, receipts, letter relating to a Court of Enquiry concerning a road accident etc. A rare group. (23 items). | £250 | ||
| 600 | CONCENTRATION CAMP - AUSCHWITZ: 1942-44 Group of items inc. two different types of printed Camp letter-sheet used to Poland & Moravia, postcard to his family in Vienna from a newly-arrived Austrian Jewish prisoner and unusual reply half of a Camp 'antwort-postkarte' from an Italian prisoner at Auschwitz to Stalag VI F. Also two 1947 special commemorative postcards with boxed postmarks. (6 items). | £90 | ||
| 601 | CONCENTRATION CAMP - BUCHENWALD: 1941-45 Covers & cards from the Buchenwald group of camps inc. typewritten camp regulations, Weimar-Buchenwald printed envs.(3), letter-sheets (2) & a postcard sent by civil mails; censored postcard from the I G Farben Labour Camp and an env. with Ukrainian stamps to an inmate also items from the Apolda, Sangerhausen & Altenberg satellite camps. In addition there is a copy of the Parliamentary Delegation's 8pp Report on Buchenwald Camp. (15 items). | £200 | ||
| 602 | CONCENTRATION CAMP - DACHAU: Two cards & an envelope sent through the SS feldpost by staff at the Camp, photographs of medical staff and soldiers (3), two printed letter sheets from prisoners addressed to Lodz, 1944 'SECRET' documents about the aerial search for prison camps with two photographs. Also two post-war covers from or to German internees at Dachau, one with 'WAR CRIMES - CENSOR - 10' h.s. and two postcards celebrating the Liberation of the Camp. (17 items). | £230 | ||
| RUSSIA IN WORLD WAR II | ||||
| 603 | PROPAGANDA CARDS: Selection of cards inc. fine caricatures showing Hitler in the grip of Russian pincers or as Father Christmas with a sack of skulls, rapacious German soldier etc. Also cards featuring Forces & Workers fighting together, satires on Allied & German Powers, Marshal Kutuzov, RP of soldiers reading news etc. some postally-used with fieldpost markings. Also two English pro-Soviet booklets. (14 cards & 2 booklets). | £140 | ||
| 604 | P.O.W. CARDS: Group of cards and a cover from Austrian POWs in Russia with Camp & Allied Occupation censors, two with additional franking of Austrian stamps, presumably as an airmail supplement. Also a cover to Germany from Lager 7616 with lozenge-shaped censor mark and a 1948 cover from a Rumanian prisoner in a 'gulag'. Scarce material. (8 items). | £90 | ||
| 605 | ITALIAN LEGION IN RUSSIA: Italian fieldpost cards with fine variety of Posta Militare numbers, censor marks and unit cachets. Also a gory propaganda card of massacred Red Army soldiers and a few labels. Scarce material. (13 items & a few labels). | £120 | ||
| 606 | SPANISH LEGION: Scarce 'Blue Division' cards & covers inc. boxed red 'Sp' mark, various feldpost cancellations inc. machine censor; also fine photograph of Spanish volunteers riding on horseback through a bombed town. (8 items). | £150 | ||
| 607 | BRITISH FORCE IN RUSSIA, 1942: Envelope with 'RECEIVED FROM/H.M.SHIPS' machine mark & circular censor (2773) containing letter (9.1.42) from a soldier with 126 Base Ordnance Detachment at APO 1645 (Archangel) - a group assembling tanks & aircraft in Russia during the first part of 1942 - in which he says ''Sir Stafford Cripps is flying back to blighty tomorrow & he is taking these letters with him''. A scarce item. | £70 | ||
| 608 | RUSSIAN FIELDPOST, 1941-42: Group of covers & cards mainly used with a variety of fieldpost marks, inc. patriotic postcards, censors, triangular folded letters (3), an air-drop sheet in German, Siege of Leningrad card and a censored envelope addressed to Stalin etc. Needs inspection. (37 items).. | £150 | ||
| 609 | GERMAN FELDPOST, 1941-42: An interesting range of covers & cards feldpost marks of various infantry & artillery regiments engaged in Russia, inc. luftfeldpost covers (2). also a small group of covers from German-occupied areas of Russia. (22 items). | £150 | ||
| 610 | SIEGE OF LENINGRAD, 1941-43: Selection of cards & covers inc. scarce patriotic types (mainly unused) inc. Partisan leader, workers in the streets, smiling servicemen and similar cards. Also censored military items & triangular letters (2). Mainly fine. (15 items). | £70 | ||
| 611 | GERMAN FELDPOST - 1943: Range of covers with a variety of feldpost marks, censors & origins inc. official express cover, luftfeldpost frankings (2), registered, unusual oak-leaf design illustrated feldpost letter-card etc. (14 items). | £140 | ||
| 612 | STALINGRAD - 1942-43: Selection of patriotic postcards & military letter-cards etc. inc. scarce Partisan printed env., air-dropped 'Auslands Nachrichten' (June '43), censors wtc. Some fine cards and unusual material. mixed condition. (32 items). | £180 | ||
| 613 | UKRAINE, 1941-45: Range of unusual material inc. German feldpost marks & official mail, Hitler head frankings inc. fine SS Police reg'd cover and other reg'd items; also Russian patriotic cards and grotesque caricature of Himmler as a rabid dog. a good lot. (24 items & qty. stamps). | £180 | ||
| 614 | RUSSIAN FIELDPOST - KOREA: Japanese PPC with rare Russian fieldpost in Korea c.d.s. (Nov. 1945), addressed to Svepakosk & censored. | £60 | ||
| 615 | 1943-47: Fascinating accumulation of Russian material inc. attractive patriotic propaganda cards, fieldpost, air-drop 'passierscheinen', unusual pictorial fieldpost letter-cards, fine Hitler caricature cards (3) etc. Needs careful inspection. (80 items). | £320 | ||
| THE ALLIED INVASION OF EUROPE | ||||
| 616 | HOME GUARD: Selection of items inc. shoulder flash, LDVF registration card, Christmas cards, 'red flash' top secret reg'd env. from SE Command HQ (8.6.44), four fine watercolour ills. of HG men on 1940-50 cards & a letter, instruction booklets on explosives, small arms & Winter training, 1941 Ministry of Information bulletins etc. (15 items). | £100 | ||
| 617 | COASTAL ZONE CENSORSHIP: January-June 1944 covers from the British coastal zones in which postal security was enforced before D-Day, many with dumb machine cancellations or handstamps, inc. different RAF (14) or crowned shield type censor marks. Also a fine photograph of FM Montgomery on an official visit within the zone. Well written-up. (37 covers). | £200 | ||
| 618 | OFFICIAL MAIL, April-June 1944: Range of official covers sent in the weeks before the Allied Invasion, most with OHMS labels, showing a good variety of cancellations & cachets and incl. registered items, parcel labels etc. Well written-up. (18 items). | £100 | ||
| 619 | MULBERRY HARBOUR: Nine full-plate press photographs of the concrete sections under construction (visit from Churchill) & being towed into place, the floating piers, hospital ship etc. Also a quantity of photocopied plans, maps and notes forming a detailed study of this facet of the Normandy Landings. (Non-philatelic). (Qty.) | £100 | ||
| 620 | NORMANDY LANDINGS: A well-illustrated, detailed explanation of the D-Day landings inc. 8 contemporary press photographs taken on board a landing craft, on the bridge of HMS 'Holmes', 'typhoon' bombers taking off, armourers loading bombs, a 'Halifax bombing in the Pas de Calais etc. Also copies of Eisenhower's & Montgomery's addresses to the Allied Troops, plus censored ship mail covers (2) & FPO covers (7) as well as a miniaturised copy of 'The Egyptian Gazette' reporting the invasion, a modern map etc. (18 items). | £160 | ||
| 621 | BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE, JULY-AUGUST 1944: A well written-up, profusely illustrated collection of FPO covers from troops in Northern France inc. scarcer numbers, a variety of censor markings, registered, official, signals covers etc. Also three issues of 'Second Army Troops News', '5AA Group' secret Intelligence summary for 1-8 Dec. 1944, aerial photographs and 5 contemporary British newspapers. A fascinating lot, mainly in fine condition. (72 items). | £300 | ||
| 622 | JANUARY-MAY, 1945: A well-presented collection inc. a range of FPO & Signals covers inc. reg'd items, censors, kit labels etc. Also a fine group of press photographs inc. the surrender of Speer, Doenitz & Jodl, the capture of Gestapo officers, German POWs marching along an autobahn, U-Boat crews at Wilhelmshaven, Churchill's VE broadcast etc. plus two aerial photographs of Stalag XIID. Additionally, a copy of 'Nachriten für die Truppe', a US air-dropped 'passierschein', the original copy of the secret cypher cease-fire message of 5 May 1945, contemporary newspapers etc. Fascinating material. (55 items). | £300 | ||
| OCCUPIED GERMANY | ||||
| 623 | ALLIED OCCUPATION OF GERMANY: Range of items from 1945 illustrating the early months of Occupation inc. fine photographs of a captured unit, German citizens clearing bombsites & FM Montgomery's visit to Berlin, various provisional usages of Hitler head postcards, 'Gebühr bezahlt' cachets, Allied FPOs & censors, internment camp covers, 'House destroyed' cachets on returned mail, ID passes etc. A varied lot. (35 items). | £200 | ||
| 624 | NUREMBURG TRIALS - NAZI HIERARCHY AUTOGRAPHS: Card folder (A4, 4pp) containing the signatures of 21 of the most prominent defendants at the Nuremburg Trials including: Goering, Jodl, von Ribbentrop, Sauckel, Doenitz, Neurath, von Papen, Streicher, Kaltenbrunner, Seyss-Inquart, Frank, Rosenberg, Speer, Schacht, Keitel, Raeder, Funk, Frick, Schirach, Fritzsche & Hess. The autographs are singly or in groups on slips of paper and were probably collected by a US serviceman on duty at the Prison; the cover bears an illustration of the Arms of the Tribunal. Unique. [Wallis & Wallis Militaria Auction 275 lot 566 - catalogue accompanies]. PHOTO - see plate no. 17 | £750 | ||
| 625 | B.L.A. (GERMANY) - BRITISH FPOs: Accumulation of covers and large pieces, 1946-48 with a good range of FPO c.d.s. & unit cachets etc. inc. scarcer machine cancellations, official covers, Zone Postal Depot marks etc. (54 covers & pieces). | £50 | ||
| 626 | ALLIED OCCUPATION - 'AM POST' : A fine range of these elusive covers franked with the 1945 Allied Military Post stamp issue, inc. registered & censored items, various frankings, improvised Christmas postcard to POW at Blockley Camp etc. (16 covers & qty. of used stamps). | £80 | ||
| 627 | ALLIED OCCUPATION, 1946-48: Range of covers showing a variety of frankings & censor markings, inc. scarcer types, displaced persons' camp covers, French Zone covers (4) inc. French 'Mission de Saarebruck' item, a study of the 1948 Currency Reform opt. stamp issue, various PPCs, photographs etc. (37 items & qty. stamps). | £180 | ||
| 628 | ALLIED OCCUPATION - INTERNMENT CAMPS: Range of covers & cards from civilian internment camps at Moosburg, Konwestheim, Ossweil, Ludwigsburg & Bonn, showing a variety of franking & censorship. Also two covers (one with letter) addressed to German POWs at Blockley & Wollaton Park Camps in the UK. (11 items). | £90 | ||
| 629 | ALLIED OCCUPATION - RUSSIAN ZONE: Russian stamp issues on cover with study of E.Saxony issue, currency reform diagonal opts. & Goethe issue, with some unusual frankings; also propaganda cards, ID card plus anti-US cartoons and some Cold War propaganda items. An interesting lot. (39 items & qty. of stamps). | £190 | ||
| 630 | 1945-50s: An accumulation of post-War covers & cards inc. POW cards (3), official covers, photographs, 'Stahlhelm-pass', local stamp issues on cover, censored mail, propaganda material etc. Also better frankings inc. 'BERLIN' opt. on 25pf yellow pair, 50pf Mao-Tse-Tung & Strausberg locals (4) on Berlin cover. A few later items are included. (50 items). | £200 | ||
| 631 | BERLIN - POST 1945: Letter (1943) from a French inmate of Lager 28 describing the bombing of the City, 'Organisation Todt' cover, scarce FDI cover of the Reich 12th Anniversary issue, British Forces map & guide to Berlin, Blockade & Airlift covers, usage of the 'Notopfer' tax stamps on cover inc. scarce imperf. type, anti-Communist leaflets, 1960s Allied Zone rail ticket & 'laissez-passer' (2) and a selection of 1980s cards & photographs of the Wall. Also a group of 1930s-50s PPCs of Berlin inc. a troop of Reichswehr soldiers & 'Graf Zeppelin' over the city. (52 items & 35 PPCs, qty.stamps etc.) | £240 | ||
| 632 | NUREMBURG TRIALS: Covers from British & US servicemen involved in the War Crimes Executive, the former with crown cachet, letter on US Counsel notepaper plus 'OCCWC' APO env., official cover from 'War Criminal Prison No.1' (Landsberg) and a scarce series of PPCs showing the wives of the senior 3rd. Reich officials on trial (6). Well-illustrated and thoroughly researched. (11 items). | £150 | ||