Lots 81-160

AIRGRAPHS - "V" MAIL: Selection of US Forces "V" Mails to various APOs during WWII inc. two scarce illustrated types (Liberty Bell & Army badge), largely a wide correspondence to an Army Chaplain who seems to moved around a lot! Also a copy of the Robson Lowe booklet on US Forces mail in WWII. (164 items & a booklet).

£100

AIRMAILS: Boxfile containing the eclectic mix of early to modern covers from a wide range of countries. Many useful items noted inc. useful sections of India, Latin America, South Africa, Transatlantic Mail inc. Clipper items, Germany 1930 Catapult Mail cover, etc. (Approx. 120).

£200

AIRMAILS: Cover album containing the varied World-wide range of covers with some better noted inc. 1927 cover ex Sierra Leone to Bath with "Dakar a Toulouse" endorsement, 1930 Aero Clubs of Belgium & France commemorative card bearing 1f50 airmail adhesives of both countries plus Paris Exposition red airmail label depicting a Flying Boat, 1937 Hong Kong-Canada FAM 14 flight with three colour franking inc. $2, 1939 France-United States FFC with pictorial red cachet, sundry useful Latin American items, etc. (62).

£120

AIRMAILS - CONCORDE: The interesting range of covers, etc. inc. 1980 Greenham Common Tattoo airletter signed by Brian Trubshaw and Peter Baker, 40th anniv. of the inaugural British Transatlantic commemorative air mail airletter signed by Peter Duffey and a good selection of other covers with a wide range of cachets. (30 covers, 2 min. sheets & a few cuttings).

£60

AIRMAILS, 1924-33: Miscellany inc. two US internal airship covers (1931 Pacific Coast & 1932 USS Akron) plus 1929 Zeppelin round-the-world flight card, N.York - Frankfurt leg. Also a 14-cover commercial correspondence from Hamburg to Java illustrating a range of weights & rates and a 1924 Berlin-London cover. (18 items).

£80

AIRMAILS: A small selection of better air covers inc. Liechtenstein 1930 reg. env. Vaduz-St Gallen with 25r, 35r & 45r air stamps and 1936 zeppelin pair on reg'd 'Hindenberg' cover ex Triesenberg to the USA; 1931 'Graf Zeppelin' Polar Flight reg'd env. with imperf. 35k & 2r cancelled at Leningrad, with appropriate cachets; Polish 1938 75gr balloon MS on special flight card plus Greek airmail covers (2) of the same vintage. A good lot. (6 covers).

£150

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH, c1850-1960: Substantial accumulation of (mainly) commercial covers with strength in middle period material, from GB, Channel Islands, Malta, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Levant, Canada, Caribbean, Australasia etc. Much of interest noted inc. censored, military, airmail & registered items. A superb opportunity to acquire a fascinating lot. (376 items).

£450

CRASH/WRECK MAIL: 1930 cover (stamp missing) from Australia ex P. & O. steamer 'S.S. Comorin' addressed to London with good strike of violet boxed cachet "DAMAGED BY FIRE/ON/S.S.COMORIN" plus a coloured PPC showing the vessel. (2 items).

£50

CRASH/WRECK MAIL: 1954 "Ambulance" cover (with contents) bearing violet "Damaged B yR. R./ Casualty/Fresno, Calif." and 1960 charred env. with "DAMAGED IN FIRE/IN RAILWAY MAIL CAR/ DAGGETT, CALIFORNIA" cachet. A useful pair.

£70

EARLY LETTERS - ANTWERP: 1573-77 Pair of fine ELs ex the Corsini London correspondence concerning cloth and spice exports & prices from two different business houses, with professional transcripts & translations included; pierced for securing cords otherwise fine. (2 items).

£150

EAST ASIA, c1860-1960: Ranges of commercially used covers & cards from India (6 QV covers c1860-75, native states etc.), Ceylon, Indochina, Laos, Malayan States with WWII censored items etc. inc. much unusual & interesting material inc. airmails & registered items, with strength in middle period covers. A good lot. (108 items).

£180

EGYPT/ITALY COMBINATION COVER, IONIAN IS., ETC.; 1871 env. (minor faults) to Milan with Egypt 1pi red tied by Cairo c.d.s. with Italy 40c red tied by Italian Alexandria P.O. "234" numeral. Rare. Plus 1855 GB "Dead Letter Office" env. (with "ROWLAND HILL" label inside) with original returned enclosure, 1877 EL to London "Via Brindisi" with Greek 30l brown tied by Kerkyra c.d.s. with Corfu (Ionian Is.) firm's cachet on the front, and 1 front. Good lot. (5 items). PHOTO PLATE 8

£150

EUROPE & COLONIES, c1858-1970: Selection of covers & cards with strength in middle period items inc. Italian Colonies, Netherlands E.Indies inc. fine 1897 reg'd cover ex Blitar, Switzerland (inc. League of Nations official covers x 4), Russian stationery, Germany inc. colonial yacht frankings, 1951 air cover to the USA with 6 x Mao 50pf etc. Also a range of earlier South American covers (25) inc. registered & censored items, Peru 1858 1d blue pair on cover to Arequipa, etc. A useful lot. (127 items).

£200

FAR EAST, c1910-68: Selection of covers & cards with strength in middle period material inc. Japan with ranges of postcards, 1919 'I.J.O./Ponape' opt. on 25s, 1928 Coronation values on missionary cover ex Chosen, Korea, Macau etc. An interesting lot. (30 items).

£75

LATIN AMERICA: The small selection of covers & cards comprising 1860 cover (small faults) from Santiago to Valparaiso bearing BISECTED Columbus 10c blue tired by black four-ringed cancel & with red d.s. of Santiago alongside plus an interesting group of VENEZUELAN items inc. 1895 cover to Germany with Marshall Sucre commemorative cancel, postal stationery, airmails, etc. (15 items).

£60

MARITIME - THE REAR ADMIRAL HENRY W. BRUCE FAMILY ARCHIVE; c.1800-1900 archive of letters (most envelopes have had stamps removed) written by or to Bruce and members of his family (particularly his daughter and son-in-law Mr. & Mrs. Alexander). Bruce's important 1842-5 Hong Kong archive was sold in Cavendish's Dec. 2000 auction (see the introduction on p.70 of that catalogue); this appears to be the balance of the papers from which that group of 1842-5 letters came. Included in this lot are many family letters (+ letters of condolence sent to Bruce's daughter when he died in 1863), a battered 1838/9 letter from Bruce in Realejo (Nicaragua), genealogical notes, 1860s/1870s correspondence from India, a fine 1802 jeweller's receipt, two 1810 letters from "Guadeloupe", a c.1860 Malta trade-card, etc. Good original family archive material. (Few 100 items).

£150

MARITIME & POSTAGE DUE COVERS, ETC.; 1874-c.1965 lot inc. worn but scarcxe 1874 env. from Cairo to London with Egypt 2‡pi + 5pi (2), Paquebot items (inc. v. fine 1914 2-ring "UNITED KINGDOM & S. AFRICA SEA P.O./9" cancel, 1916 Penang "PAQUEBOT", 1926 "U. STATES SEA POST/PRES. HARRISON/WEST" duplex, etc.), 1954 "SALVAGED MAIL/AIRCRAFT CRASH/SINGAPORE" d.s., many international Postage Due items, etc. Good variety. (70 covers approx.)

£120

MARITIME: 1907 Card with fine "BRITISH SEA POST OFFICE/5/SOUTHAMPTON" c.d.s. and "1D / I.S./G." h.s. & 1914 card from New York to France bearing "U.S. FRENCH SEA P.O./23" strike. (2).

£70

MIDDLE EAST c1890-1960 interesting selection inc. native envs. from Afghanistan & Persia, covers from Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey etc. with strength in middle period material. Much unusual material noted. (92 items).

£180

100

MILITARY - NAPOLEONIC AND PENINSULAR WARS: Social/Postal history items comprising 1797 EL from Cadiz to Edinburgh with fascinating contents including "The only Britainer remaining in Cadiz is Mr. Mattthew's father who notwithstanding 60 years residence....has been ordered to retire 20 leagues inland & a Spaniard who acted as English V. Consul to leave the Kingdom....", 1797 EL from Hanover to Reading re. difficult sea crossing,1808 EL to Marquis of Buckingham at Stowe with "LISBON" strike of British Packet Agency and referring to "Sir Arthur" (Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington) and progress of the war and 2 x ELs of 1815 from France to Exeter with details of conditions in Paris such as " ...strange irregularities occur in their post offices, the last letter I have recieved had been nearly three weeks on the road...." (5 ELs).

£120

101

MILITARY - CRIMEAN WAR, 'OXO' CANCELLATION: 1856 (5 Jan.) Officer's envelope dated from Kertch and addressed to Windlesham Hall, Brighton, franked by strip of 3 1d Reds with two fine strikes of the 'OXO' obliterator; the reverse has a fine red strike of the Army PO 'A'-coded c.d.s. of Constantinople. Attractive.

£150

102

MILITARY - INDIAN MUTINY : 1857 (10 Nov.) Lengthy, 4pp cross-written EL from Herbert Malson at Rutnagherry to Brighton, England franked with 4a & ‡a (4) and two types of boxed 'INDIA PAID' marks; contents, full of military gossip, refer to the capture & court martial of the 'King of Delhi', the state of alert "every European sleeps dressed and armed and the horse artillery have their guns kept loaded with grape and canister...if the life of a single European is taken the entire town and city are to be levelled to the ground and every male inhabitant ...put to the sword", the punishments meted out to rebels "eighteen musketeers ...10 hanged, 5 blown away from guns and 3 shot by musketry"etc. PHOTO PLATE 1

£150

103

MILITARY - BOER WAR/WWI: Trio of 1901 censored covers inc. OFS cover ex Bethulie to Greenpoint Camp with fine Camp censor plus two examples of the oval Jo'burg 'Press Censor' cachet, one with fine pink 'OPENED UNDER MARTIAL LAW' label. Also a range of unusual WWI items inc. Russian & Finnish censor labels, 1917 Red Cross official env., censor h.s. of Tripoli, Galata, Cairo, Capetown, Ludernzbucht, 2-line NZ censor (2) & OAS PPCs from Egypt inc. Warwickshire Yeomanry cachet. A good lot. (21 items).

£150

104

MILITARY - BOER WAR: Group of covers bearing scarce LARGE APO c.d.s.'s in violet struck on hand-written envelopes with adhesives, postal stationery card, envs., wrapper & registered env., stampless "active service" covers, etc. to a wide range of destinations in the UK. Condition varies. (19 items).

£100

105

MILITARY - BOER WAR: 1900 (9 Jan.) env. with unusual mixed franking of OFS, COGH & Transvaal adhesives, the latter stamp carefully cancelled with "HOOFDLAGER" (HQ) Boer cds & with v.scarce Boer "FLEISCHER" censor mark to the left of adhesives. HQ with force besieging Ladysmith were in Natal at this time.

£80

106

MILITARY - POST BOER WAR CANTONMENT MAIL: Album containing the fascinating collection of Cantonment mail, 1904-1918, being a specialised & award winning study of these unusual marks. Mostly selected strikes with many relevant supporting PPC's inc. many scarce real photo types; we note PO BLOEMFONTEIN ARMY O.R.C., P.O. TEMPE, HARRISMITH ARMY O.R.C., CANTONMENT B.O.MIDDELBURG, CANTONMENT POTCHEFSTROOM, ROBERTS HEIGHTS B.O., STANDERTON & two WWI stampless/concessionsry items with CANTONMENTS POTCHEFSTROOM. (Approx. 80 covers/cards).

£180

107

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: BUSHIRE - An example of the scarce PPC with postal imprint confiscated by British Forces in September 1915 and overprinted 'BUSHIRE/Under British/Occupation'; the card was sent via diplomatic bag to London - where a KGV ‡d stamp was added - before being forwarded to Devon on 29 September. Two light corner creases.

£180

108

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: BUSHIRE - censored local (4) & Indian (5) covers, 1915-18 inc. three with fine strikes of the double-circle 'PASSED CENSOR/BUSHIRE', two with whole or part censor labels, the latter on piece, plus IEF FPO covers [129, 356 & 381] to either the UK or India with censors inc. the scarce large 'CENSORED/B/3' mark, double-ring 'PASSED/CENSOR/D' & 'M/1136'. (9 items).

£180

109

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: 1915-20 Group of censored covers to/from India inc. fine Bombay '37' on readdressed env. to Kashmir plus Bombay '33' &'35' from & to Bander-Abbas, all with red on white censor labels; also Tobacco Fund card from BEF (France) addressed to Kerman via Bombay with Persian due mark, 1915 cover to Bombay (stamps removed) with green censor label & boxed '5/P.C.K.' etc. (7 items).

£130

110

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: Russian Censorship - Scarce group of covers inc. local, registered & commercial mail 1915-17 showing various Russian censor marks inc. fine boxed Baku Nos. 39, 40, 41 & 45, a boxed bilingual cachet, four-character boxed censor mark on cover ex Hamadan Bazaar to the USA etc. (7 items).

£200

111

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: Russian censorship, 1916-17 - Group inc. PPC ex Meched with scarce 2-line 'Askhabad Military Censor - Lt Col. Tsvietouo' (overstruck by transit datestamps) plus three native covers to Hamadan with fine strikes of boxed bilingual censor cachets. Also two covers to the USA with various frankings and boxed bilingual or Tiflis censor marks, fine 1917 provisional franking ex Hamadan & commercial Swiss env. (damaged stamp) to Teheran with Rumanian censor h.s., Russian tape & a two-line cachet. An interesting lot. (8 items).

£220

112

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: Scarce Diplomatic Bag & Consular Mail - 1917 env. ex UK addressed to Col. Napier 'c/o Foreign Office (Teheran Bag)' with fine boxed 'Postal Censor' mark. Also (1918) reg'd cover ex Ispahan to UK with 24ch provisional franking & fine consular seal and a 12ch franked env. ex Kerman countersigned by 'H.M's Consul Kerman', both to the UK with British censor labels. (3 items).

£180

113

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: Registered Mail - Trio of covers inc. 1918 env. (hole in address panel) ex Nushki (Baluchistan) to Meshed with provisional label and c.d.s. of Kuh-i-Malek Shah-Ziarat exchange office & IEF Base Office. Also a pair of covers from Shiraz & Bender-Nasseri to India, the latter with unusual boxed 'R.No.........PERSE' h.s. and a pair of red & white censor labels, the former (slightly reduced at top) with fine large circular Bombay 30 censor mark. (3 items).

£75

114

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: Censored native covers, 1919-20 - A fine group of covers with various frankings & censorships inc. bilingual local censor tape tied by intaglio h.s., typewritten 'OPENED BY CENSOR' labels (violet & black) tied by British military censor h.s., octagonal 'PASSED BY CENSOR (crown)' cachets 549 & 558 etc. Unusual material. (7 covers).

£150

115

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: 'Dunsterforce' - 1919-20 Pair of covers franked with provisional stamps (one does not belong) each with a good, slightly unclear strike of the Dunsterforce single-ring censor mark, one with censor tape. Also two other covers, one with bilingual censor tape teid by British censor octagon 560, the other (stained) with fine circular 'PASSED BY BRITISH MILITARY CENSOR' h.s. (4 covers).

£140

116

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH FORCES IN PERSIA: The Arab Revolt, 1920 - Two covers (one with torn corner) to Bombay with fine circular 'M 1234' censors and good to fine strikes of the 'BASE P.O./PER. L.OF C.' c.d.s. for June or December; also a reg'd cover (faults) ex FPO 76 with red ink endorsement 'Shortage of stamps postage prepaid (signature)', OFS cover with Nushki civilian PO c.d.s., boxed 'FIELD SERVICE/POSTAGE FREE' & fine oval Quetta censor plus 1919 cover endorsed by Col. Lowson, ex FPO 357 (Shiraz) to the UK with two Lady Willingdon Fund labels on the reverse. (5 items).

£120

117

MILITARY - WWI SIERRA LEONE POW CAMP: 1914 (5 Oct.) Env. & contents (some damp staining) sent to the Norddeutscher Lloyd agent in Funchal by a German POW held at Freetown, red ink m/s 'Pass/C.B.B.' on front & fine 'POSTAGE FREE./PRISONER OF WAR./SIERRA LEONE.' pink frank label on reverse. Also a WWII (1942) env. from the POW Camp at Bo to Geneva via Lisbon with mainly fine s/l 'INTERNEES MAIL' & 'CAMP COMMANDANT' with signature, the reverse with fine red on blue censor label with small oval 'CENSOR/11' h.s. A scarce pair. (2 items).

£150

118

MILITARY - WWI & WWII MAIL INC. NORWAY. MALAYA, POW, ETC.; c.1914-57 covers inc. range of WWI & WWII FPO's (inc. WWI Naval mail); better items noted inc. spectacular 1943 env. with Norway stamps tied by fancy boxed "NORSK SKIPSPOST/MARINEN" d.s.'s, 1941 env. with Johore 8c tied by "TANGKAR" c.d.s. with "MALAYA PATRIOTIC FUND" label partly under censor label, 1942 env. ex British internee in Algiers, WWII "POSTAGE REFUNDED" with censor slip, "DETAINED IN FRANCE...", several WWII "NO SERVICE" items, 1944 "MEF" o.p. cover and 1957 trio with "B.F.P.O./CHRISTMAS ISLAND" cancels. Good lot. (100 covers approx.)

£150

119

MILITARY - WWI CENSORS, EXPLANATORY MARKS, ETC. - INC. SOUTH WEST AFRICA; c.1914-8 covers/cards inc. two 1915 S.W.A. "Nordkom" Swakopmund Campaign cards, West Afrcia Field Force PC (no postal marks), Orkney censor label, 1917 "Peel, Isle of Man" POW EL to Germany, 1918 boxed "SERVICE SUSPENDED" (to Russia), 1918 GB regd. env. with "INSURED" & censor labels to Switzerland, 1918 Haifa (Palestine) "FPO/GM1" skeleton (regd. env. ex GB), boxed 1918 "Picture Post-cards/are returned/by the Censor", Liverpool censor labels,varied "PRESENT LOCATION UNCERTAIN" types, v. fine 1916 boxed "A.B.P.O./MISSING", v. fine red 1916 boxed "DELAYED/NOT/FRANKED" and 1915 purple "CANNOT TRACE/1st SOUTHERN GEN. HOSPITAL/EDGBASTON/BIRMINGHAM". Scarce lot. (16 items).

£150

120

MILITARY - WWI RHODESIAN FORCES: 1916 OAS cover to UK (slightly torn on opening) with m/s 'No 1565/2nd Rhod: Regt.' and v.fine strike of the oval 'RHODESIA REGIMENT' & s/l 'Officer Commanding,/Rhodesia Regiment', with Salisbury c.d.s. nearby; also a similar env. from a soldier in the S.R.V. with fine boxed 'POSTAGE FREE/BASE 6, N.RHODESIA/Passed by CENSOR' and unclear strike of an 'ARMY POST OFFICE/NORTHERN RHODESIA' c.d.s. (2 covers).

£140

121

MILITARY - WWI - NATAL CARIBINEERS: An original correspondence, 1914-16, from Major (later Lt.Col.) J.W.R.Montgomery (o/c 1st Natal Caribineers) to his sister in England, written from 'Advance Camp' (Dec. 1914) - 'our Sabbath morn was disturbed by their aeroplane dropping two bombs on this camp' - L¸deritzmucht - 'The Union rebellion has been rather a bother...causing the quick mobilisation of a large army of loyalists', with news of raids, reinforcements, postal arrangements etc. Most envs. (roughly opened) have ABPO 4 cancellations on SA 1d stamps with various types of boxed censors, included also is a German SWA 5pf card with ‡d stamp which the writer 'found...on a patrol down towards Bogenfels'. A most interesting group. (9 covers, 5 cards & 12 letters).

£100

122

MILITARY - WWI E.AFRICA: German 'feldpost' cover - env. addressed to Eisenheim (?) with very fine upright strike of the scarce, bridge-type 'TAVETA/DEUTSCHE FELDPOPST' c.d.s. of 24.II.14; a couple of soft corner creases do not detract from this scarce item.

£100

123

MILITARY - WWI S.African POW Camps: Quartet of censored POW mail items inc. 1915 env. ex Pietermaritzburg Camp No.3 plus an unstamped Natal postcard printed with Christmas message in German ex Fort Napier, Pietermaritzburg, both with s/l censors and boxed trilingual cachet; also a 4d SA reg'd env. used from Aus with Commandant's, censor plus 3-line Camp cachets and a 1918 env. to Swakopmund from Albrechts with fine red & white censor label tied by Commandant's h.s. Scarce material in fine condition. (4 items).

£250

124

MILITARY - WWI (BRITISH EAST AFRICA): Group of postcards & OAS covers with Indian Army FPO c.d.s. 22, 25, 52, 303, 306, 321, 343 & 350 inc. cancellations on IEF stamps (‡a pair) and E.Africa 3c stationery card uprated with 1a, in addition two items are struck with the s/l 'I.E.F."B"-F.P.O.No.../POSTAGE FREE' in violet or black (52 or 306). A useful lot. (10 items).

£200

125

MILITARY - WWI S.W.AFRICA: WYNBERG HOSPITAL - Very fine strike in blue of the rare circular 'FIELDP.O./No.15' on 1915 OAS cover (faults) to East London with matching boxed bilingual censor; also an OAS PPC to GB with a near fine blue boxed FPO '15' datestamp. (2 items).

£180

126

MILITARY - WWI SOUTH AFRICA - "SUDKOM": v.fine boxed blue '32' d.s. (Warmbad; used by Col. van Deventer's column) on OAS cover (8 May 1915) to Cape Town , faint censor mark alongside and censor tape sealing flap. Scarce. Also a used bilingual OAS postcard, addressed (15.4.15) from Keltmanshoop to Wynberg with boxed blue censor. (2 items).

£170

127

MILITARY - WWI AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN S.AFRICA: Env. endorsed 'On Active Service' and stamped with SA 1d, cancelled - unusually - by the boxed blue 'POSTAGE FREE/BASE 5A/PASSED BY/CENSOR' h.s. (a second strike over flap) with fine 'ARMY BASE P.O./SOUTH AFRICA' c.d.s. nearby - addressed to Queensland, with fine over-inked 'PASSED CENSOR/BRISBANE' c.d.s..Very scarce. PHOTO PLATE 8

£150

128

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH EAST AFRICA FORCES' MAIL; 1915-7 stampless covers/cards with mostly very fine "FPO" c.d.s.'s (nos. 24, 25, 52, 306, 321, 338 & 343), "BASE OFFICE B/I.E.F." c.d.s. or 2-ring "VOI/E.A.P." c.d.s. (latter with m/s censor). Scarce lot. Plus interesting letter (no env.; c.1914?) from "SMO Tabora, East Africa". (9 covers + 1 letter).

£150

129

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH EAST AFRICA: 1915 (29 Dec.) env. to Nairobi franked with 6c BEA stamp cancelled - unusually - by the IEF FPO No 25 c.d.s. (Kajaido Railhead) with, on the reverse, a further strike of No 25 , No 24 (Nairobi) receipt & double-ring 'NAIROBI' c.d.s.

£70

130

MILITARY - WWI EAST AFRICA: 1916 (5 January) OAS cover to Canada - one of three recorded Canadian GEA covers - with a strike of the damaged FPO 305 s/l frank [recorded as damaged - last day of use!] and fine 'FPO/No 305' c.d.s. [Tsavo, Kenya] on reverse; closed tears but a rare item.

£500

131

MILITARY - WWI NORTHERN RHIDESIA: 1916 (17 July) Rare use of 1d BSA/Rhodesia postal stationery card to Port Elizabeth with mainly fine c.d.s. 'ARMY POST OFFICE/NORTHERN RHODESIA' & superb boxed 'POSTAGE FREE/BASE 1. N.RHODESIA/Passed by CENSOR.', sent by Pte. W.Brooker. 'B Coy B.S.A.P.' & countersigned by Major W.Baxendale; closed edge tear & soft corner crease do not detract from this attractive and rare item. PHOTO

£400

132

MILITARY - WWI GERMAN POW IN NYASALAND: 1916 Stampless env. addressed from Germany to a POW at Blantyre with censor label (P.W.232) tied by Blantyre c.d.s.; redirected to India & Egypt, attracting various censor marks en route inc. violet 'PASSED CENSOR/C/E.A.' & red boxed 'CENSORSHIP/"C" STATION'; some wear attributable to its lengthy transit period! Scarce.

£200

133

MILITARY - WWI BELGIAN CONGO: 5c stationery card (reverse with Port Matadi view), registered to the UK with 25c uprating, with 3 strikes in blue of the double-ring 'B.P.O.V.P.K. No 1' c.d.s. for 16 December 1916; reg'n label m/s addition 'Postes militaires Lagerpost No 1' with m/s censor declaration nearby. Fine & unusual.

£150

134

MILITARY - WWI NYASASLAND FIELD FORCE: 1916 (Dec.) Registered env. addressed to Fort Johnson, with officer's countersignature; added 1d stamp with 'N.F.' ovpt. tied by v.fine 'F.P.O./1' c.d.s. and m/s reg'n no.'1201/FPO1'. Scarce & attractive.

£150

135

MILITARY - WWI BELGIAN FORCES IN EAST AFRICA: Trio of postcards with different 'B.P.C.V.P.K.' c.d.s. inc. 1916 10c stationery PPC to Paris with blue c.d.s. 'No 1' and fine violet boxed cachet 'CONGO BELGE / COMMANDANT SUPŠRIEUR/DES TROUPES MOBILISŠES'; also a pair PPCs to Holland or Kilossa with strikes in black of c.d.s. No. 11 & 17 (the latter struck partially off the edge with a further strike on the picture side, cancelling a 10c stamp). Scarce. (3 items).

£120

136

MILITARY - WWI EAST AFRICA, THE RARE 'V.5' D.S.: 23 March 1917 OHMS env. (faults) addressed to 'Supplies, Voi' with a mainly fine double-circle 'FIELD POST OFFICE/V.5' c.d.s. (Tanganyika?) on the reverse; very rare - the only British APO c.d.s. recorded from E.Africa. [A similar cover was sold in the Cavendish 'Alan Brown' Auction (Dec.'96) for £805].

£450

137

MILITARY - WWI RHODESIA-NYASALAND FIELD FORCE: 1918 (March) Stampless OAS cover to London with v.fine 'FIELD POST OFFICE/8' c.d.s. and superb boxed violet 'POSTAGE FREE/Passed by CENSOR' cachet - altered Rhodesia Base Frank - signed by Lt. J. Brown [known to be at Mbamba Bay in March 1918]. An important proving cover.

£300

138

MILITARY - WWI NYASALAND: 1918 OAS cover to London with v.fine strike of the scarce double-ring 'F.P.O./3' c.d.s. countersigned 'C.P.Phillips, Lt.' at lower left.

£100

139

MILITARY - WWI: 1919 (22 March) PPC to the Pas de Calais with fine strike of large circular "BEF MAIN LINE TPO/DOWN/A/22 MR/19" skeleton in black.

£100

140

MILITARY - WWI BRITISH NAVAL MAIL - IDENTIFIED SHIPS' CENSOR MARKS COLLECTION; Album housing remarkable Collection of 1914/8 cards/covers censored on British naval vessels with wide variety of ships' censor marks; mostly very fine strikes and all identified according to Gould's naval mail book. Arranged alphabetically with very little duplication; the product of much diligent searching and research. The scarce named ship-censor marks are CURACOA (front), GERANIUM, IMPERIEUSE, IMPREGNABLE, JUPITER, REPULSE (name excised), SAPPHIRE, VIVID and WOOLWICH. In addition there is Feb./March 1915 stamples O.A.S. PPC (printed in Callao, Peru) to GB with the scarce small "PASSED/H.M.S. KENT/CENSOR" circular mark (this ship is famous for taking part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands just before this card was sent), regd. env. ex H.M.S. China and the scarce 2-ring "NORTHERN PATROL" mark. Excellent nucleus for expansion. Plus the Gould and mark books or Naval mails & Censorship. (84 covers/cards, 2 books + 1 front).

£600

141

THE MATCHING STUDY OF UNALLOCATED WWI BRITISH NAVAL MAIL CENSOR MARKS; c.1914-8 covers/cards with mostly very fine naval censor marks that have not been allocated to specific ships; inc. dumb/mute cancels, the rare (unique?) Jan. 1918 env. to London franked by KGV 1d tied by Cleethorpes c.d.s. with v. fine purple "CENSORED" on the front and large part matching fancy oval "EXAMINATION S..../H...." oval d.s. (once thought to be from Howden but now thought to have been used by the Examiner of a british Armed Boarding Party, hence "EXAMINATION STATION/HUMBER") on the back, etc. (15 covers + 2 fronts).

£100

142

MILITARY - CENSORED MAIL, c1934-55: Fine selection of covers showing various censor markings & tapes inc. Egypt Forces labels, pair of Italian Forces in Africa map cards, censored covers from Ethiopia, Egypt, Palestine, KUT, Sierra Leone, S.Africa, Gold Coast, Belgian Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Malaya, Australia, N.Zealand & Iceland with strength in WWII items; much unusual material noted. (55 items).

£200

143

MILITARY - WWII: Miscellany inc. German feldpost (2 inc, 1942 Belsen), 'Marine FranÁaise' pair (1940), Christmas airgraphs (3), censored mail inc. Gibraltar censor tape, Liechtenstein, unusual Morocco, 'REPATRIATED/RETURN TO SENDER' h.s. on 1948 cover addressed to German POW at Chatham, AMG (Sicily) cover with provisionals to 10L etc. A useful lot. (39 items).

£100

144

MILITARY - WWII JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF CHINA: Military PPCs (5) incl. 1939 from Manshu Expeditionary Force, Mukai Squad, c/o Shinmit Sudan Mitanchan with censor chop of Mukai, military PC issued by Army Relief Dept. from Central China Expeditionary Army with Japanese chop and oval Hara censor d.s., etc. (5).

£50

145

MILITARY - WWII/U.S. FORCES IN THE WALLIS & FUTUNA ISLANDS: 1943 covers (5) with Wallis & Futuna connotations comprising 15 Feb. cover ex USMC 380 (the security mailing address for the 8th Marine Defence Battalion), 20 April cover to California ex Company "I" of the 22nd Marine Regiment ex MCPO No. 440 to MCPO 1200 for onward transmission to Samoa, 22 April cover to Chicago ex NAVY 207 (Uvea, Wallis island), another cover to Chicago ex the Third Construction Battalion postmarked at USMC P.O. 1200 (Uvea airstrip) & 28 June cover to Massachusetts ex MCPO 1200. (5 covers).

£240

146

OFFICIAL MAIL - BALEARIC ISLANDS USAGE OF THE SPANISH OFFICIAL STAMP; Unusual April 1856 env. to Ibiza endorsed "S.N." with an official cachet of the "NACION DE LAS BALEARES" franked by the Spain ‡oz yellow "CORREO OFFICIAL" stamp (4 clear margins) tied by a fine oval grid matching the partial "BALEARES" c.d.s. of Palma (Mallorca) alongside. Very early example of a Post Office using adhesive stamps for official mail. Attractive and unusual from the Balearic Islands. [Ex P.J. Elkins.] PHOTO PLATE 1

£100

147

POSTAL RATES - FIRST DAY OF THE IMPERIAL PENNY POSTAGE SYSTEM; 25th Dec. 1898 usage of the India ºa Postal Stationery PC (slight corner creasing), uprated with India QV ‡a green pair & ºa o.p. all tied by fine "CALCUTTA" c.d.s.'s, and addressed to "Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland". The message reads "25th Dec. 1898, Wishing you a Happy Christmas on the first day of the Imperial Penny (anna) Postage" from the addressee's son. Unique (?) and vey rare example of the First Day of Cheap Postage between India and Britain. Exhibition item. PHOTO PLATE 1

£240

148

THE ORIGINS OF POSTAL STATIONERY - 17th CENTURY PREPAID "AQ" LETTER-SHEET OF VENICE; 1641 usage of the "N9090 Francesco Millo Dacio V" printed letter-sheet (some faults - mainly internal - Giorgio dal Gian No.23, issued 1639) used within Venice and clearly dated in 3 places. The printed text inside is headed "A Q" with the arms of Venice between, and refers to the prepayment of "delli soldi 4 per lettera" which was a neat way of the city fathers collecting tax towards the costs of providing the fresh water supply. This type of "AQ" letter-sheet is widely held to have been the world's first Postal Stationery. Seldom seen. [Ex Frank Staff.]

£100

149

SCANDINAVIA c1895-1960: Fine selection of covers & cards with many better items noted inc. boxed 'SHIP LETTER/TROON' on 1912 card ex Thorshavn, much-forwarded 1936 Danish reg'd cover to USA, 1936 Denmark-Ethiopia air cover, Greenland 1945 pictorial set superb used on cover, 1890s Finland reg'd covers (3) plus fine boxed 'FRAN FINLAND' cachet on cover with Swedish c.d.s., ranges of middle period Iceland (10) & Norway (21), 1929 Stockholm-Vienna air cover etc. A useful lot. (49 items).

£280

150

TELEGRAMS: c1867-1960 accumulation of mainly G.B. telegrams inc. rare 1889 'LORD'S CRICKET GROUND' c.d.s. on telegram form, 1883 lilac 'TÈlÈgramme PrivÈ' env. with blue 'Salonique' c.d.s. (faults), large bundle of 1860s private G.B. telegrams etc. (Qty.)

£100

151

WORLD-WIDE MISCELLANY: 1667 German plague passport issued at Oberhausen for a traveller to Italy, with fine calligraphy & two crisp heraldic seals (slight edge fraying); 1703 letter ex Madrid to Ferrara; 1849 EL ex Manchester to Aleppo by French Steamer with 2/1d paid and an 1869 letter of thanks to General Russell, Resident at Aden, from a German Astronomical mission, originally enclosed with an album of photgraphs of Aden. An interesting group. (4 items).

£100

152

ZEPPELIN MISCELLANY, 1904-84: Group of 18 early PPCs featuring early airships & Zeppelins with several WWI examples, crashes (inc. Salonica 1916) and a fine RP card of the 'Astra Torres' c1910 etc. Also a series of reproduction cards, photographs, 'silk' & RAF signed covers plus a few stamps and a small group of similar items relating to ballooning. (67 covers & a few stamps).

£100

153

ZEPPELIN MAIL - 'GRAF ZEPPELIN', 1928-33: First flight card, USA-Germany (28th October 1928) with 5c, 15c (2) & 20c airmail stamps and special cachet; 1929 (31st August) large env. to Germany endorsed 'Per Airship 'Graf Zeppelin' from Lakehurst' franked with multiple airmail franking cancelled at New York and 1933 Chicago Exhibition Flight cover addressed to San Francisco, franked by US 50c Zeppelin stamp and with special pictorial 'DISPATCHED FROM FRIEDRICHSHAFEN' & triangular 'SÐDAMERIKA-CHICAGOFAHRT' cachets. A useful trio. (3 items).

£100

154

ZEPPELIN MAIL - 'GRAF ZEPPELIN' FRANKINGS, 1928-31: German 'Graf Zeppelin' air set - each value used on a different cover/card inc. 1m used on PPC of the airship with on-board c.d.s. cancellation (1 Oct. 1931); 2m (few lightly-foxed perfs) cancelled by 7th October 1928 Friedrichshafen 'LUFTPOST' c.d.s. on card to USA with oval 'Mit Luftschiff LZ 127 bef–rdert' cachet and 4m cancelled by a similar c.d.s. (15 May 1929) on env. to USA with pictorial '1.AMERIKAFAHRT' cachet & s/l 'interruption' message. (3 items).

£80

155

ZEPPELINS: 1928 AMERIKAFAHRT LZ127 cover to Indiana, USA, franked 2Rm & 4Rm Zeppelin & 15pf, 20pf, 50pf & 2m regular Air issues. Friedrichshafen 7 October c.d.s, blue flight cachet, arrival b.s. Small faults; scarce franking. (Sieger 21). PHOTO PLATE 1

£75

156

ZEPPELIN MAIL - 'GRAF ZEPPELIN' LIECHTENSTEIN FLIGHT, 1931: Swiss p.stat. card addressed to Zurich, franked with Liechtenstein 1F Zeppelin stamp tied by fine red 'VADUZ nach LAUSANNE' pictorial cachet and with Lausanne & Vaduz c.d.s. for 10 June 1931. Fine & scarce.

PHOTO PLATE 8

£75

157

ZEPPELIN MAIL - 'GRAF ZEPPELIN' POLAR FLIGHT, 1931: Registered PPC ex Leningrad, addressed to the ice-breaker 'Malygin' at the North Pole, franked with imperf. 30k & 1r Zeppelin stamps cancelled by special Leningrad c.d.s. with 'Polarfahrt' cachet & 'Malygin' c.d.s. alongside; soft crease otherwise fine. PHOTO PLATE 8

£75

158

ZEPPELIN MAIL - SOUTH AMERICA, 1932-38: An interesting selection of commercial covers inc. 1934-36 pair ex UK to Uruguay franked by KGV 1/- block (4) or 9d (block 4) & 5/- with Condor-Zeppelin cachets; 1936 Mexico - France via New York by the 'Hindenburg' and ranges from Argentina & Brazil to Europe with a variety of frankings, endorsements & cachets. (20 items).

£200

159

ZEPPELIN MAIL - S.AMERICAN 'CONDOR' FLIGHTS, 1932-36: An attractive range of pictorial Transatlantic Flight cachets on mail from Argentina & Brazil inc. 1932 (16 Sept.) cover to Pernambuco with Recife cachet, 5. May 1932 env. to Germany franked with Brasil 1931 Zeppelin 5$000 (3) plus another franking a 1st Sept.1932 cover and the 7$000 value used on 15th October 1932 - both to Germany with special cachets, etc. Also a May 1934 cover to Brazil from Hamburg franked with 1926 airmails inc. 50pf & 2m. (8 items).

£100

160

ZEPPELIN MAIL - 'HINDENBURG' FIRST FLIGHTS, 1936: 1st. April South America flight to Brazil - env. franked with German Zeppelin pair & 25pf Airmail tied by on-board c.d.s., blue 'MIT ZEPPELIN' label & cachet; PPC of airship sent on 1st North America flight (8th May) with on-board cancellations & New York arrival plus a hotel cover from the same flight posted at Frankfurt, with red cachet & 1st return flight cover, N. York to London, with Lakehurst-Frankfurt cachet. (4 items).

£80

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