321 SOUTH AFRICAN - FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA: 1941-42 Group of OAS covers, mainly to S.Africa with airmail frankings, showing a good variety of numbered APO d.s.and S.African boxed, numbered censors, from various locations in N.Africa inc. El Alamein & Tobruk. Interesting group - inspection recommended.(42 items) £150
322 SOUTH AFRICA - ITALIAN POW MAIL: 1944 POW letter-sheet to Italy with POW/EAC cds and boxed P/W MIDDLE/EAST 111 censor plus three censored incoming covers to Camps 14, 36 & 41; also two WWI items inc. (1916) E & contents to Jo'burg ex Camp IIC at Pietermaritzburg, sealed with uncommon orange censor label plus E to Geneva with cachet of POW camp at Koffiefontein. (6 items) £90
323 SOUTH AFRICA - BALANCE: Group of better items inc. (1946) scarce 2-line CONCESSIONAL POSTAGE PERSONNEL/FROM SOUTH AFRICA on air letter via FPO 662, 1944 pair of Es from APO 25 (Rabat, Morocco) inc. reg'd, 1944 reg'd E to MEF uprated with Bechuanaland 2s6d stamp, WWI card ex Keetmanshoof with oval cachet S.A.FIELD TELEGRAPH etc. (6 items) PHOTO. £140
324 SOUTHERN RHODESIA - UNIQUE "PASSED BY S.R.A.F. CENSOR/No.1" MARK: 1940 (May) honour env. addressed to Bulawayo bearing KUT KGVI 30c & 1/- adhesives with a very fine double-ring Crowned "PASSED BY/S.R.A.F. CENSOR/No.1" h.s. PHOTO. £100
325 SUDAN - SCARCE P.O. No.12 etc: 1941 Air cover to S.Rhodesia with 3p stamps (3) cancelled by mainly fine large violet SUDAN P.O. No.12 cds; also (1941) stamped E (corner fault) with encircled 'A' censor clearance mark of Juba, FPO 718 covers 1950-52 (4) and FPO 782 trio 1954-55. Useful group. (9 items) PHOTO. £120
326 SUDAN: Miscellany of covers & cards with a heavy emphasis on WWII period inc. a pair of 1937 PPCs with oval violet "SUDAN DETACHMENT", 1943 (Aug.) portion of an airmail letter from London to the "Royal Ulster Rifles/H.Q. Troop/Sudan" with "SALVAGED MAIL/FROM/FIRE AUG 1943" h.s. plus the accompanying Ambulance envelope with a similar h.s. & a faint "FAST ALL AIR ROUTE", a good range of Censor marks inc. R.A.F. types (47 Squadron, etc.), 1941 (July) airgraph ex 117 Squadron to Tredegar, 1940 to England with Naval Tombstone censor mark, 1941 to Jerusalem with violet "DEPUTY CHIEF FIELD/CENSOR", etc. (26). £200
327 SWITZERLAND - INTERNEE CAMPS, ETC.: Miscellany of WWII Red Cross material inc. Allied Internees in Swiss Camps, message scheme Es inc. scarce Vatican scheme, Red Cross official covers inc. agencies in France, Poland, Slovenia & Italy, 1943 air-drop leaflet outlining Geneva Convention rules for POWs, information request cards etc. (47 items) £140
328 SWITZERLAND - ARMY STAMPS/COVERS: A fascinating range of Swiss Feldpost cards & covers with colourful Unit labels (25 different) or Regimental handstamps plus a further group of 25 unused labels. (41 covers/25 adhesives). £120
329 SYRIA: A fascinating group of covers ex Commonwealth Troops inc. Australian FPOs P3, 13, 32, 33 & 37, N.Z. MPO KW/KW1, IFPO 28 & 44, British FPO 61 (8), 67, 141, 201 & 552, Indian FPO 25, 54, 88 (2) & R9, etc. Also four Lebanon items inc. IFPO 27 & two Transjordan covers ex the RAF in Amman. (Approx. 50 items). £200
330 SYRIA: Group of covers ex British Forces in Syria & Lebanon inc. honour envs.(5) & air letters (5) with FPO nos. 37, 38, 40 (4), 58, 61 (6), 67 (3), 69, 74, 124, 143, 172, 187, 226, 352 & 552. Also 1942 env. from S.Africa to "Spears Mission, Syria" with censor tape, 1943-44 pair of censored covers sent via the US Diplomatic pouch. (28 plus a front). £160
331 UNITED NATIONS: Group of 1940s covers etc. with return addresses of Germany-based UN relief organisations inc UNRRA, IRO & the CCRA, some with h.s. and FPO cds also five covers with 1948-51 cancellations of Paris U.N. office.(40 items) £120
332 'MARITIME MAIL' CACHETS: Substantial group of (mainly) WWII covers and pieces on leaves showing a variety of types of POST/OFFICE/MARITIME/MAIL cancellations inc. circular, boxed (parcels) and machine types inc. reg'd & express items, 'honour' Es, cover with Forces' parcel label etc. Interesting study - inspection recommended. (44 covers plus various pieces) £150
333 'RECEIVED FROM H.M. SHIPS' MARKS: Ranges of mainly WWII period covers on leaves with various types of RECEIVED FORM H.M. SHIPS marks inc. circular, s/l, 2-line, machine, cds & 'tombstone' censor types plus some unorthodox cancellations etc. Good lot for development - inspection recommended. (75 items) £150
334 CIVILIAN MACHINE CANCELLATIONS, ETC.: Interesting group of 'honour' Es and covers etc. from WWII Naval personnel to UK cancelled with modified GPO machine marks - town name obliterated, PAID marks with value removed etc. inc. unusual 'dumb' version of the 'Victory Bells' type; also Naval mail cancelled by 'mis-sort' triangles etc. (24 items) £100
335 CENSOR MARKS: Good variety of censor types found on WWII RN mail inc. (1939) unusual dated large double oval PASSED BY CENSOR, 2-line 'Censored & Franked/(No stamp available)', 'PASSED BY THE NAVAL CENSOR/E.D.O.CROMARTY...' , boxed types used in Egypt, Naval censor tapes, 1939 'home-made' CNSORD etc. Inspection recommended. (42 items) £150
336 NAMED SHIPS' CENSORS: The only recorded example of the fancy oval PASSED BY CENSOR/H.M.S. CATHAY - fine strike in red across flap (1939); also similar mark of HMS 'Suffolk' & 'Pyramus' in blue and similar type with name erased from the 'Nile'. Good example of the 'home-made' PASSED/CENSOR used on the 'Hasty ', boxed mark of the 'Hardy , hand-cut marks from identified ships etc. Interesting lot. (19 items)' PHOTO. £200
337 H.M.S. 'HOOD' CENSORS: 1939 Three covers, inc. reg'd, ex HMS 'Hood' to UK with three different types of named censor inc. s/l (2) and 2-ring examples. Also (1940) cover to an officer on board the 'Hood' via 'GPO London'. (4 items) PHOTO. £120
338 LIVERPOOL CENSOR TAPES: Quartet of covers with different Liverpool Naval censor tapes inc. 'OPENED BY/NAVAL CONTROL/LIVERPOOL' (2 types), 1941 'consignee' cover with 'PASSED BY/NAVAL CENSOR' and 'Examined for/Flag Officer -in-Charge/Liverpool' - last torn on opening. Also a large piece with oval NAVAL CENSOR/LIVERPOOL h.s. Uncommon material. (5 items) £100
339 'NAVAL BAG' COVERS: 1943-45 Trio of covers to the USA (2, reg'd with 'MM' labels, one with a stamp missing) or UK with red, dateless MARITIME MAIL cds - all endorsed 'BY NAVAL BAG' in red crayon and sealed with three different types of Naval censor tape tied by boxed censor h.s. (3 items) PHOTO. £120
340 OFFICIAL CACHETS: Collection of WWII period covers & cards with official Naval cachets inc. H.M. BOOM DEFENCE/ROSYTH, MAIL OFFICE/HMS 'ILLUSTRIOUS', NAVAL ATTACHE/ANKARA, ENGINEER OFFICER/HMS 'BRIDLINGTON' etc. Unusual. (12 items) £100
341 ADMIRALTY 'RETURN TO SENDER' LABELS: Group of scarce WWII covers ex UK addressed to Naval personnel on board ship with a variety of 'Return to sender on Admiralty Instructions' labels / hand-stamps explaining that the addressee was taken prisoner or missing - six different types inc. provisional typewritten example. Also a telegram from Portsmouth Barracks reporting a missing seaman. (8 items) PHOTO. £200
342 INSTRUCTIONAL MARKS, ETC.: Interesting group of WWII covers inc. (1942) E to HMS 'Somali' with Admiralty 'return to sender' label advising that the addressee was missing; other items inc. ENGLISH STAMPS/NOT/AVAILABLE, REMEMBER - DON'T TALK ABOUT SERVICE MATTERS, redirection h.s. and good range of ON ACTIVE SERVICE types. (42 items) £150
343 P.O. BOX ADDRESSES: 1944 uprated stationery card ex Iran to the UK with SOVIET-PERSIAN CENSORSHIP cachet and UK censor, forwarded to HMS 'Mastodon' at GPO Box 500, Southampton; also two covers with return addresses of PO Boxes 31 Great Yarmouth or 144 Grimsby. . Also a 1943 E ex S.Africa with Devonport Barracks redirection label to HMS 'Rockwood'. (4 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £100
344 LANDING CRAFT, GUN BOATS, ETC.: Group of WWII stampless covers from British servicemen on board various ancillary ships inc. landing craft, gun boats, troopships, flotilla mail, 'coded' units etc. with variety of censors and receipt marks. Inspection recommended. (36 items) £120
345 MOTOR LAUNCHES, MINE-SWEEPERS, ETC.: WWII period censored mail from Naval personnel on board ancillary craft inc. motor launches & mine-sweepers and inc. two items from vessels involved in the St Nazaire Raid (ex HMML 306 and ML 192) - inspection recommended. (15 items) £100
346 AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND SHIPS: Elusive mail from Australian & N.Zealand ships supporting the Royal Navy during WWII inc. boxed blue 'Return to Sender/Undelivered/(Naval Board Instruction)' h.s. on NZ censored E to HMS 'Neptune', various types (4) of 'H.M.AUSTRALIAN SHIPS' cachets, 1945 air-letter ex NZ officer on the 'Norfolk' recording the ship's role in returning King Haakon to Oslo etc. (11 items) £120
347 HONG KONG CENSOR: December 1939 E (light fold) to UK ex Naval Mess, franked with HK 15c & $1 and with fine, large blue double-oval PASSED BY CENSOR/218 used as a temporary censor mark for Naval mail in Hong Kong. Also a doubly-censored cover ex Jamaica to Admiral Bonham-Carter c/o Admiralty and forwarded to HMS 'Ramillles' stationed off Madagascar. (2 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £100
348 MAURITIUS: Trio of scarce WWII covers related to Mauritius inc. (1941) E to UK with 12c stamp ex Vacoas Camp with superb double-oval PASSED BY NAVAL CENSOR with c/o's signature plus a similar, weaker example from the same correspondence. Also a (1943) Xmas air-letter from a member of the Mauritian forces in Palestine (FPO 154). (3 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £150
349 FLEET POST OFFICES, ETC.: Interesting group of (mainly) WWII covers from FPOs inc. Port Sudan, India, Egypt, Australia, Italy, S.Africa, Gibraltar, USA, Canada etc. with good variety of censorship, cachets etc. Examination necessary. (46 items) £180
350 NAMED SHIPS' CACHETS INC. 'TOKYO BAY 1945', ETC.: Group of WWII Naval covers inc. 1945 trio with HMS 'Duke of York' 'home-made' censors commemorating the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay in September 1945 plus an elaborate 'VJ DAY' example on air-letter ex HMS 'Newfoundland. Also 1930s covers (6) with named cancellations of HMS YORK, Danae, Dragon, Glorious & Rodney; 1942 pair of Es ex Baltimore with RN censors, 1941 -42 USS 'Augusta' covers etc. (20 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £150
351 MERCHANT NAVY SHIPS: Interesting lot of Merchant Navy items inc. PAQUEBOT-cancelled covers, unusual circular 'M.N. /RESERVE/LIVERPOOL/POOL', s/l MERCHANT SERVICE MAIL & MERCHANT NAVY POSTAGE FREE marks, fine pictorial 'economy' label illustrating merchant vessel, mail from merchant seamen, trio of items to convoy ships, MN Comforts Service items etc. Good lot. (28 items) £160
352 R.N.A.S.: WWII Naval Air Service covers inc. mail from servicemen with various squadrons inc. from HMS Hermes, Emperor, Shah, Trumpeter, Victorious & Indomitable; also 1942 airgraph ex 821 squadron (MEF). In addition, two pre-war covers ex RAF Heliopolis. (14 items) £140
353 BALANCE OF THE COLLECTION: Useful miscellany of (mainly) WWII RN material inc. variety of censorship, Orkneys mail, airgraph, items ex Polish serviceman (S.S. 'Lubin'), Admiralty cachets (one used as cancellation), Burn Camp pair, early 'home-made' PASSED BY CENSOR (2.Sept.1939) plus a few later etc. Inspection necessary. (55 items) £150
354 ALLIED POWs: Group of uncommon cards inc. airmail card to S,Africa with German 'postage due' cachet, letter-sheet ex Oflag VIIIF to India with 25pf stamp and others with 'due' marks(4); also correspondence to prisoners in German camps inc. 21⁄2d letter-sheets (6) inc. one with 5-line 'captured by the Allies' cachet etc. (14 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £140
355 ALLIED P.O.W.s IN ITALY: Cards and letter-sheets from a variety of Italian POW camps inc. to S.Africa, India & USA plus a few ingoing items, Red Cross card to N.Zealand etc. Also mail from internees in German hands (7) inc. Ilags VII & XIII and Frontstalag 194. (27 items) £120
356 BRITISH POWs TAKEN IN NORTH AFRICA: Substantial group of cards & covers - each with research notes - from/to British and S. African POWs held in German or Italian camps, most captured at Tobruk or elsewhere in Libya inc. a good variety of censors, airmail uprating, one to New Zealand, three with IT IS REGRETTED THAT THIS ITEM COULD NOT BE DELIVERED... cachets plus a fourth with RETURNED FROM /CONTINENT IN/UNDELIVERED MAIL. Interesting group. (25 items) £140
357 BRITISH POWs TAKEN IN NORTHERN FRANCE: Scarce POW card to Canada with 40pf airmail uprating from an officer captured at Dieppe (1942); also a group of cards/covers to/from British servicemen captured in the Dunkirk region in May - June 1940 inc. forwarded item. (16 items) £120
358 BRITISH POWs TAKEN IN THE GREEK ISLANDS: Group of POW cards ex German camps from servicemen captured in 1941 at Kalameta or Crete (3), and 1943 at Leros (2 - addressed to Malta with '(crown)/PASSED/DD/25 [altered to '35' in pencil]' censor). Scarce group. (6) £120
359 BRITISH ARMY - POW MAIL: Well-researched group of cards, letter-sheets & parcel acknowledgement cards from British Army POWs held by the Germans - many taken at Dunkirk - with good variety of Stalags & censor marks. (20 items) £120
360 BRITISH ARMY - POW MAIL: Selection of cards and letter-sheets from servicemen held in Germany with variety of Oflag cards and censors, inc. scarce Marlag Nord item to Egypt printed as a Xmas card (1941), two other pictorial cards, two covers and a photograph from B.A.B. 20 (Heydebreck), card ex Oflag VIIA to Poland etc. (58 items) £120
361 BRITISH POWs IN FRANCE: Covers from British servicemen captured in France after Dunkirk and held at St Hippolyte ('Detachment W') or Argeles plus a card from an Italian POW camp etc. (5 items) £100
362 COVER TO A GERMAN P.O.W. IN FRANCE; 22 May 1940 stampless env. (overall wear but complete) with both German & French censor labels from Berlin (v. fine machine) to a German POW in French hands in Paris. Rare thus; the German invasion of France soon put an end to German POWs held in France. [Ex Alan Brown.] PHOTO. £120
363 COVER TO A GERMAN POW IN CANADA USING CAPTURED G.B. STAMPS: Oct.1944 Cover (typewritten address) from an S.S.soldier to a German POW held at a camp in Ottawa, most unusually 'franked' (despite being marked 'FREE') with GB 1⁄2d, 2d & 21⁄2d stamps - possibly captured in North Africa? - cancelled by a Feldpost cds with numbered feldpost cachet nearby, German S.S.Hauptampt censor tape etc. A puzzle! PHOTO PLATE 14A. £100
364 ENEMY POWs IN CANADA & USA: Group of covers & cards from / to Italian (mainly) and German POWs with emphasis on Canada inc. Fredericton (6 inc. uprated airmail), numbered camps 23, 30 & 130 (4), lettered camps B, F, I, L, R (2) & W plus fine (unused) Xmas card and unusual 'specimen' cover. Also three items from US camps inc. Hearne & Lordsburg. (26 items) £200
365 ENEMY POWs IN BRITISH CAMPS: Cards & covers from/to enemy POWs held in British camps inc. German (16) & Italian (16) servicemen in a wide variety of numbered or identified camps; also a small group of related OHMS items. (37 items) £160
366 ENEMY POWs HELD IN INDIA: Unusual & interesting group inc. censored covers from German servicemen in named camps - Satara, Dehra-Dun, Purandhar & Kodoikamel plus two Italian items ex Bombay; also related material inc. printed card with instructions for writing to POWs and a censored E to Geneva. (12 items) £140
367 ENEMY POWs HELD IN S.AFRICA & E.AFRICA: Correspondence from Italian (mainly) and German POWs held in S.African camps with several identified - Koffiefontein, Bavianspoort, Weza & Andalusia; also a scarce item of POW mail from an Italian camp at Tabora (Tanganyika). (14 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £140
368 ENEMY POWs IN AUSTRALIA: Scarce mail from/to Axis POWs in Australian camps inc. censored mail from numbered camps 2 (2 inc. telegram), 4, 7 (2) & 13 plus three Es with PRISONER OF WAR endorsements, three more with boxed DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY/CONCESSION POSTAL RATE etc. (15 items) £140
369 ENEMY POWs HELD BY M.E.F./N.AFRICA: Covers & cards sent by / to POWs held by MEF, mainly Italian servicemen in various Egyptian camps but also two PAIFORCE items plus Es from Libya (2), Morocco & Algeria (2). Interesting range of cachets & censors.. (38 items) £120
370 EUROPEAN POWs IN GERMAN HANDS: Cards & covers to / from POWs held in German camps inc. Dutch (4, Lager Muhlenberg noted ), Polish (8), Serbian (3), Bulgarian & Russian; good variety of camps and censorship. Also a 1946 letter-sheet from a German POW held in Tunisia. (16 items) £120
371 GREAT BRITAIN - MAIL TO/FROM ISLE OF MAN & JERSEY CAMPS; Sept./Nov. 1941 stampless env. ex USA to "Central Internment Camp, Douglas, I.O.M." with rare "UNABLE TO IDENTIFY" on the front matching the triple-oval framed purple "H.O. (B.3)/*INFORMATION BUREAU *" d.s. endorsed "Return to Sender" (matching cover to the front cover of Cavendish's Dec. 1996 "Alan Brown" catalogue), long Nov. 1941 env. (staining) from "P Camp, Isle of Man" to Oxford franked by GB 21⁄2d tied by Liverpool c.d.s. with v. fine rare hexagon-framed "LETTER SENT WITH/SPECIAL PERMISSION/OF/COMMANDEER P INTERNMENT/CAMP/[Signature]" (crease) on the reverse, and 1942/43 EL/PC ex St. Denis & Laufen POW Camps to Jersey addresses. Scarce group. (4 covers). PHOTO PLATE 14A. £140
372 ITALIAN & FRENCH POWs IN GERMAN HANDS: Series of cards & letter-sheets to/from German-run camps, addressed to Italian (majority) or French POWs; good range of censor types etc. inc. items to Tunis (2) and the USA (latter ex Belgian POW). (42 items). £100
373 IRELAND - KILDARE INTERNEE CAMP COVER BY AIR TO GERMANY; 9 Aug. 1941 env. (minor wear) from "G Camp...Curragh, Co. Kildare Via Lisboa, Eire" to Bavaria with Air Mail label endorsed as Internee mail "Postage Free!) but with Eire 4d (2) tied by fine 2-ring c.d.s.'s having a v. fine red boxed fancy "PASSED BY/MILITARY CENSOR/EIRE" cachet (partly beneath folded back British & German censor labels) on the front. Mail from this WWII Camp is scarce. PHOTO PLATE 14B. £100
374 MARLAG & MILAG NORD: Group of scarcer cards from Naval POWs held at MARLAG & MILAG NORD , well-researched with servicemen's details of capture etc.inc. 2½d POW letter-forms (2) and an item ex USA twice-forwarded from LUFT 3 to MARLAG to STALAG VIIIC. (6 items) £100
375 PALESTINE - P.O.W. & INTERNEE CAMP MAILS; Stampless trio of covers(2)/card; 1940 ex Germany to "Internment Camp, Sarona, Tel AViv" with red censor label tied by v. fine purple double-boxed "PALESTINE/OPENED...." mark, 1943 PC from a Jewish POW in German "Stammlager VIIIB" to Tel Aviv, and Aug. 1945 EL to Italy with Latrun (Palestine) purple "321 PRISONER/OF WAR CAMP" d.s. on reverse. Scarce trio. (3 covers). £100
376 R.A.F. POW MAIL: Extensive collection of cards and letter-sheets from RAF servicemen interned in German POW Camps, most items from Stalagluft 3 with research on individual airmen - some of whom were involved in various escape attempts while interned. Includes an Italian camp card from a SAAF officer and an ingoing E to an NCO in Luft 3 following 'Market Garden'.Good variety of censorship. (28 items) £150
377 RAF PRISONERS IN JAPAN & GERMANY: 1943 Stampless cover to RAF prisoner at Java Camp with British and Japanese censorship - fine and scarce. Also 5 POW cards or letter-sheets from RAF personnel interned in Stalag Luft 1 or 3, well written up with service history inc. one item from an NCO who escaped during the forced march from Fallingbostel in Spring 1945. Interesting group. (6 items) PHOTO PLATE 14A. £120
378 THE 'BISMARCK': Interesting group of covers emanating from the various ships involved in the pursuit and sinking of the 'Bismarck' in May 1941 inc. a feldpost item addressed to the 'Bismarck' itself (May 1941) and a cover from the 'Prinz Eugen'; Royal Nay ships inc. the Resolution, Hood, King George V, Norfolk, Renown, Rodney, Sikh, Sheffield, Suffolk, Victorious, Ark Royal, and the Polish 'Piorun' - some items date from the 1930s. Also a series of facsimile maps and documents. (19 covers plus a few PPCs etc.) £150
379 DAMAGED BY SEA WATER/DELAYED BY ENEMY ACTION MAIL: Group with 1941 (13 Jan.) env. ex Bedford to Aden with boxed "DAMAGED BY SEA WATER" h.s. on reverse, 1941 (17 Jan.) part cover ex Highgate to Aden with boxed violet "DAMAGED BY SEA WATER/S.S." (with "CORMORIN" removed), 1943 (3 May) env. from a sailor to Crowborough with (on reverse) "DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION" h.s. & 1943 (14 Sept.) env. with contents ex a Troopship to Boness with "DAMAGED AS A RESULT/OF ENEMY ACTION" h.s. & "POST OFFICE/MARITIME MAIL" UDC. (4). £150
380 EAST AFRICAN FORCES: 1941 Censored OAS cover ex SAAPO 22 (Harrar) with rare cachet '(30cts) POSTAGE PAID AT A.P.O./IN O.E.T.A. (signature)'; also (1941) censored air letter to U.K. ex EAAPO 63 (Yevello) with KUT 5c & 20c stamps and rare m/s 'Prepd. OET -/25'.In addition, a group of EAF items 1941-53, two with unit cachets. (10 items) PHOTO PLATE 14B. £120
381 EUROPEAN AND NORTH AFRICAN THEATRES: Miscellany with a fascinating group of covers, etc. (27) from various French Servicemen inc. Poste aux Armees items, scarce LVF cover with "FRONT DE L'EST" airmail pair tied by German Feldpost d.s., a large accumulation (c80) of covers from British FPOs used by the BLA inc. a couple of D-Day items, Canadian Forces mail, & a small group of 11 Free French Forces in Morocco/Tunisia items inc. mail from air bases at El Aouina, Blida & Oran. (Approx. 120 items). £260
382 FREE FRENCH FORCES LONDON P.O. BOXES: Small group of covers to Free French personnel in London inc. use of Box nos. 244/244B (2), F10 (Navy) & 236 (2 - Air Force) with various censorship inc. dual French & british. Useful group. (5). £100
383 NARVIK: Group of WWII period feldpost covers from the German ships sunk during the Battle of Narvik inc. the Max Schultz, Wilhelm Heidkamp, Anton Schmitt, Bernd von Arnim, Erich Giese, Georg Iniele, Dieter von Roeder, Wolfgang Zenker, Erich Koellner & Friedrich Eckholdt, some with PPCs. (13 items) £100
384 R.A.F. MISCELLANY: Group of Es with DRLS (Dispatch Letter Service) markings (4); also post-WWII items ex Libya, MEF, BAOR, redirected item, 1953 'RAF Jet Mail' etc. (10 items) £120
385 R.A.F. COLLECTION: Extensive ranges of covers & cards, the majority from WWII period, from a very wide range of RAF units inc. Polish & Czech items, written up on leaves and arranged by Squadron from 2 Squadron through to 981 Squadron in postings all around the world from BEF to Hong Kong and inc. huge variety of censors, RAFPOST, FPOs, airgraphs, Xmas air-letters etc. Examination essential. (300+ items) £400
386 R.A.F. - MIDDLE EAST & N. AFRICA: Group of 10 airgraphs and 3 air letters (one a front) from RAF personnel in MEF, most with units identified; also an airgraph and air-letter ex BNAF, an air-letter from El Adem (Libya) and an E (fault) with letter from a mobile plotting room based in Syria. (17 items) £120
387 R.A.F. - INDIA & CMF: Four air-letters and two airgraphs from various units based in India plus a cover to Canada with boxed RAF censor. Also a redirected E ex No 13 RAF HQ (BNAF), boxed TRACING SECTION h.s. with FPO 306 ds, Canadian E to Polish Depot (UK), air-letters from Italy etc. (14 items) £100
388 RED CROSS MESSAGES - ALGERIA & TUNISIA: 1943 Pair of message forms to France ex Alger or Oran with German or French Red Cross cachets plus a third example ex Tunis and some unused stationery; also two Vatican message sheets used between Italy and the UK. (5 items) £100
389 RED CROSS MESSAGES - EARLY MESSAGE FORM: A rare example of the early-WWII period provisional message form - quarto size sheet with 'gestetnered' form including box for 25 numbered words of the message; used from London with a message for Holland, with 3-line cachet 'RED CROSS BUREAU/No.62/14, HEATHFIELD TERRACE W14'. Folds and dusty reverse but a rare survivor! PHOTO. £150
390 RED CROSS POW LABELS, ETC.: French-stamped E to Geneva with pink enquiry label and cachet of the Nord branch of the Red Cross, 1944 E ex Somme with coded green address label of the POW agency, two letters from Geneva enclosing enquiry labels - one (red) intact, the other (green) with coded half detached. Scarce material. (5 items) PHOTO PLATE 14B £150
391 RED CROSS MESSAGE - U.K. TO HOLLAND: Scarce example of a Red Cross message sheet from London to Arnhem in Occupied Holland (Feb. 1944) with octagonal '(crown)/PASSED' censors 'P.74' and (reverse) 'P.287' with reply message plus bilingual instruction sheet and return envelope with label of the Netherlands Red Cross in London. In addition, a May, 1945 message sheet used within the Netherlands with cachet of the Amsterdam Red Cross.(4 items) £120
392 RED CROSS MESSAGES - CHINA P.O.W. CAMP: 1943 Red Cross message sheet from a British female POW held in Lunghwa Camp, Shanghai to the U.K. with Chinese censor, Shanghai Red Cross cachet and (transit) Red Cross cachets of Cairo and Turkey; two different octagonal '(crown'/PASSED' censors - 'P.W. 7691' and 'N/6' - the latter on the reply side. Minor faults but a very scarce item. PHOTO PLATE 14B. £120
393 RED CROSS MESSAGES: Group inc. WWII enquiry cards (4) and message sheets (5) - inc. items from Guernsey (1943), Germany to UK (1944) and Germany to S. Africa (1940); also post-WWII material inc. message-sheets from Egypt (2, 1956), Cyprus (1978) and Somalia (1995) plus several unused forms from various Red Cross offices of the 1990s. (Qty) £120
394 SALVAGED MAIL: Trio with 1945 (5 July) env. from FPO 726 (scarce Jewish Brigade) to Palestine with "SALVAGED MAIL" h.s. & (on reverse) "It is regretted that this/has been damaged by fire in/circumstances beyond the/control of the Army Postal Services/R.L.B. 4 Base A.P.O. M.E.F." typed label tied by "BASE ARMY POST OFFICE/4" c.d.s., 1953 long env. ex Victoria (Hong Kong) to London with a smudged "SALVAGED MAIL/Comet Crash near Calcutta/2nd MAY 1953" violet h.s. plus another to Ross-on-Wye with a similar h.s. (3). £140
395 WEST AFRICA: Interesting group of covers inc. Gambia FPO 109 pair, one with OBC tape to Argentina, another reg'd with Naval censor; Nigeria stampless FPO 46 pair plus 1940 Naval censor E with air franking, another to UK at 11⁄2d rate with RAF censor; Gold Coast numbered censors (8) plus Naval censor on PAQUEBOT-cancelled air cover; also post-WWII items inc. Cameroons - probably unique FPO 233 reg'd cover noted (1961), 1944 air-letter with rare EA Base Censor etc. Good lot - inspection recommended. (42 items) PHOTO PLATE 14B. £240
396 WEST AFRICA: Fascinating group inc. pair of 1943/44 censored Air mail covers ex Belgian Congo to the USA from "Camp des Refugees Grecs/Hellenes" with twin censor labels (one with typed "OFFICE DES REFUGIES GRECS IRUMU"), attractive triple censored 1943 E ex Oubangui-Chari with cachet of B.A. No.1/LE VAGUEMESTRE", two covers ex Brazzaville or Pointe Noire (AEF) with Air Force cachets, two items ex Senegal with different air base cachets, 1940 env. from Liberia to the USA with censor label tied by violet oval "CENSOR/9" h.s. of Sierra Leone and 1940 philatelic censored (No.2 of Sierra Leone) cover ex Liberia to Johannesburg. (9). £240
397 WEST AFRICAN FORCES WITH M.E.F.: Group of Es franked with G.B. stamps, all endorsed as from W.African troops serving in North Africa inc. uprated 3d reg'd E with 10d stamp ex FPO 518 (Benghazi) to USA plus two other reg'd covers at different rates; also stampless OAS cover to Duala with FPO 556 (11.1.46) and 9d reg'd E to Nigeria ex FPO 655. (7 items) £100
398 MISCELLANY: Unusual miscellany comprising a range of RAF "DRLS" courier mail with a variety of cachets, official labels & DRLS cards plus POSTAGRAM envs. (8), etc. Also a 1945 (Feb.) airgraph depicting the Manila City Arms (apparently drawn by the sender) from "Canal Area South M.E.F." later autographed in ink "Douglas Macarthur". (31 covers plus pieces, etc.). £100
399 MISCELLANY: Group inc. 1933 (14 Oct.) env. registered from Brunswick to Adolf Hitler, 1936 h.s. "LATE FEE" env. ex Australia to Sir Maurice Hankey in London, 1936 Official Cabinet Xmas card signed by Hankey, 1940 Spitfire Fund label on cover, 1941 O.H.M.S. O.H.M.S. "DIRECTORATE/HOME GUARD" cachet, fine Queen's 1942 message with original large Buckingham Palace "PAID" cypher mark, 1942 "ARMY POSTAL SERVICES" registered letter receipt with purple "DOUGLAS/ISLE OF MAN" c.d.s., 1943/44 envs. with "WINGS FOR VICTORY" & "SALUTE THE SOLDIER" cachets, etc. (21 items). £140
400 WWII - A HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT TOLD VIA POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS: Six luxury binders produced by Fleetwood (a Division of Unicover Corporation) housing the extensive collection of mint stamps (in blocks of four) & FDCs of the Marshall Islands. A remarkably lavish and informative presentation. (Qty.). £75