Lot: 121
UK Twenty Pound notes, a modern UNC selection, comprising signed Bailey (2, different types), Lowther (2), Salmon (2) and Cleland (1). (7 items)
Lot: 122
WWI Military mail, British & American Forces, including Y.M.C.A. (3) and Red Cross (2) covers (two with original letters enclosed), 1916 OHMS cover with SCOTTISH COMMAND / HEAD / QUARTERS / EDINBURGH cachet, and a 1919 Australia A.I.F. letter sheet concerning the return of an Australian serviceman from the UK on board transport ship City of York. (9). Also related ephemera.
Lot: 123
November 1918 cover from Belgian Congo to the UK, routed via Sudan, with 25c cancelled ABA cds, PASSED BY CENSOR / 1 / SUDAN and transit backstamps of REJAF and KHARTOUM.
Lot: 124
WWI to 1925 British Naval mail comprising PPCs (6), Covers (8) and a front, most with dumb cancels, including PASSED BY CENSOR cachets of H.M.S. Cyclops and H.M.S. Orotava, one PPC depicting a ship's crew. Also unused PPC of H.M.S. Prometheus. Mixed condition. (16)
Lot: 125
WW2 Dutch East Indies internee mail comprising 1941 inter-camp PC from a German internee held in Alas-Vallei camp to his wife in Taroetoeng camp; and from a Dutch internee held by the Japanese in Java Z camp to a relative in Djakarta, redirected on arrival. Scarce. (2)
Lot: 126
WW2 Prisoner of War PC from the USA to Cpl. Andersen at Hoten POW Camp, Mukden, Manchuria, with US Censor cachet. Sent in 1944 from his sweetheart in San Francisco, ‘Via New York'.
Lot: 127
Internee Mail. 1939 (Dec.) and 1940 PCs from Polish internees in Romania, one with DEUTCHES OKUPATIONSGEBIET / OSTEN DIENSTPOST and Red Cross cachets; the other from the Polish Camp at Comisani, sent to Odessa. (2)
Lot: 128
WW2 Internee & Prisoner of War mail comprising from Vichy France to a French POW in Austria; from Germany to a German POW in USA; from a German Internee in Canada (2); and 1946 France to Romania from a German POW in Dunnes Camp, Neufchatel; all with censor cachets, some both on front and back. (5)
Lot: 129
Holocaust Mail. 1940 Parcel Card from Bohemia to a prisoner at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, Bavaria; and 1941 PC from Montechiarugolo Concentration Camp, Parma, to Zara, with camp and censor cachets. (2)
Lot: 130
WW2 Caribbean Censorship. 1941-44 Covers with censor cachets & sealing tapes of Martinique (3), Antigua, British Guiana and Barbados, including scarce 1941 flown to USA with Leeward Islands adhesives and fine EXAMINED BY CENSOR / ANTIGUA on reverse. (6)
Lot: 131
WW2 Cover from Angola to USA ‘via Elizabethville & Capetown' with Opened by Examiner / O / resealing label and PASSED BY CENSOR / 5 cachet, probably applied in South Africa. Elizabethville b/s dated 1942.
Lot: 132
Walter Reder, War Criminal: 1973 Cover from Major Walter Reder, with STABILIMENTI MILITARE DI PENA / RECLUSORIO MILITARE 04024 – GAETA / COMANDO h/s, with his personal cachet on reverse; together with p/copy of a newscutting announcing his release in 1985. Reder was held responsible for the massacre of 1,830 men, women & children in Marazabotto in 1944.
Lot: 133
Prisoner of War mail, 1946-47, a collection from (8) and to (5) German POWs in two different camps in the UK located at Colchester and St. Neots, comprising letter sheets, post cards and covers, the covers all with original letters enclosed. Also two letters from related correspondence lacking the covers. Together with a WW2 cover from a UK serviceman to Sudbury b/s scarce TRAVELLER CENSORSHIP OFFICE / IMPERIAL / HOUSE / KINGSWAY / W.C.2. / LONDON cachet. Fair to fine.
Lot: 134
British Forces mail 1941-66 from Libya (12) and Aden (4), with different FIELD POST OFFICE cancels, six WW2 period with censor cachets, good to fine. (16)
Lot: 135
Polish Internees in Switzerland. 1944 PC to an internee in Pfaffikon Camp; and five money order counterfoils to Capt. Potoczek in Meilen Camp, from Polish officers interned in camps at Locarno, Kussnacht, Pfaffikon, and Remaufens. (6 items)
Lot: 136
WW2 Labour Camps. 1943 PPC to Luxembourg from a worker at Camp 119, Aussig-Schrekenstein; and 1943-44 covers to Labour Camps 3 and 41, at Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn and Linz respectively. [The PPC posted by a Luxembourg national, forced to work in heavy industry following a national strike in Luxembourg in 1942 against conscription to the German army] (3)
Lot: 137
WW2 Prisoner of War Mail. Covers, PCs and letter-sheets from POWs in Germany, mostly to UK but including to India, South Africa, France, Italy and Belgium; plus three from the UK to a Lt.Beveridge in Oflag VIII-F. Good range of Camp censor cachets. Includes Jan.1945 letter-sheet to France routed via the UK. (18)
Lot: 138
WW2 Internment Camp mail, Germany. 1941-43 covers, PCs and letter-sheets from interned British civilians, to Belgium (5) and UK; plus cover from the UK to an internee in Tost Camp. One from a nun working as a nurse in Ravensburg camp. All-different range of Ilag censor cachets. (8)
Lot: 139
Postal History mix from 19th Century, including 1870 Turkey to France with PAQUEBOTS / DE LA / MEDITERRANEE, 1901 from South Africa with SOUTHAMPTON / PACKET LETTER cds, 1930s Greece Air Mail (2), 1906 Belgian Congo, c.1920 Persia censored (2), early Japan, 1905 Bulgaria military (Balkan Wars), 1888 Serbia, 1944 Ukrainian newspaper posted from Poland to Prague; and other interesting items. Includes few unused PPCs. Fair to VF (52)
Lot: 140
Boer War 1900-02 British Forces covers & cards with good range of Field and Army Post Office cancels, sixteen pre-1902. Fair to fine. (22) Also two stereographic photos. (24)