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Auction No 431, Category: Foreign

49 Lots (displaying 21 - 40)

Undercover Mail. 1941-44 Covers (9) from UK to Erlinsbach, Switzerland, five endorsed on reverse "P.O. Box 218, London", (the Belgian Army in Exile),

Lot: 243

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £68
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Undercover Mail. 1941-44 Covers (9) from UK to Erlinsbach, Switzerland, five endorsed on reverse P.O. Box 218, London, (the Belgian Army in Exile), all subjected to various forms of censorship including five with datestamp origin inked out, five additionally showing German censorship on reverse. Also various unrelated items including 1934 First Flight cover Nyasaland to Southern Rhodesia. (44)  

Holocaust Mail. 1943 PCs from Theresienstadt Ghetto and the camp at Rotschkowitz bei Brunn; and 1940-43 PCs & Letter Sheets from & to Polish POWs

Lot: 244

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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Holocaust Mail. 1943 PCs from Theresienstadt Ghetto and the camp at Rotschkowitz bei Brunn; and 1940-43 PCs & Letter Sheets from & to Polish POWs at Murnau. (7 items)

WWI PPCs, mostly Western Front, comprising 120 with military cancels, censor marks etc including from military hospitals;

Lot: 246

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £62
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WWI PPCs, mostly Western Front, comprising 120 with military cancels, censor marks etc including from military hospitals; a further 56 with soldiers' messages, but without postal markings, and 250 others depicting War Damage. Mixed quality. (426)

All-period ranges in three small stockbooks including some fine mint early-20th Century Switzerland, some GB 1d Reds, and others.

Lot: 247

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
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All-period ranges in three small stockbooks including some fine mint early-20th Century Switzerland, some GB 1d Reds, and others. Also Robson Lowe The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century in d/jkt. (few 100)

Philatelic Literature including Mackay "Registered Mail of the British Isles", 1982, A4 s/bk, 395pp; Hilary Wellsted "Express Service 1891-1971", 1986

Lot: 252

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Philatelic Literature including Mackay Registered Mail of the British Isles, 1982, A4 s/bk, 395pp; Hilary Wellsted Express Service 1891-1971, 1986; Hendy The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles, 1909, many illustrations; Alcock & Holland Maltese Cross Cancellations, 1959, many plates; and a variety of others. Also a fine 1929 First Flight cover Teheran to Meched. Includes pamphlets. (25 items) 

Assortment including GB used in Levant, East Germany 1957 2mk Booklet (Cat £120), Cayman Is. 1974/5 1c & 20c UM blocks of six

Lot: 254

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Assortment including GB used in Levant, East Germany 1957 2mk Booklet (Cat £120), Cayman Is. 1974/5 1c & 20c UM blocks of six with s/w wmks (Cat £120), mint South Korea Cat £300, and various others.

Covers & Cards from pre-stamp, plus few items on piece; main interest in WW2 period with censors and military mail especially Serbia,

Lot: 255

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £52
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Covers & Cards from pre-stamp, plus few items on piece; main interest in WW2 period with censors and military mail especially Serbia, plus Dutch East Indies, Czechoslovakia, Germany from POWs, USA and others. Also 12 items of unused postal stationery. (100 items)

Assorted covers & cards, some unused postal stationery, WW2 to 1970s, philatelic & commercial, with interest in Faroe Is (35, different cancels),

Lot: 256

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Assorted covers & cards, some unused postal stationery, WW2 to 1970s, philatelic & commercial, with interest in Faroe Is (35, different cancels), Greenland, Bohemia & Moravia (21, various PS cards), and others. (95)

Air Mail covers & cards (35 in all), mostly 1920s/30s first & special flights, notably Canada, plus Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and others.

Lot: 257

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Air Mail covers & cards (35 in all), mostly 1920s/30s first & special flights, notably Canada, plus Netherlands, Czechoslovakia and others. Also some attractive unused PPCs of Italy and few stamps with better items. VG/VF (Qty.)  

Postal History mix with interest in India WW2 (6), 1904 with fine N.Z. Rly. TPO, New Zealand postage due cachets, Serbia 1897 Parcel Card, etc.

Lot: 258

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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Postal History mix with interest in India WW2 (6), 1904 with fine N.Z. Rly. TPO, New Zealand postage due cachets, Serbia 1897 Parcel Card, etc. Also 17 issues of the newspaper Clarion, issued 1945-46 by the 35 Wing R.A.F. in occupied Germany. Fair to fine. (55 items).

Shoebox of covers & cards with numerous used postal stationery cards of India QV/EVII, much USA, some Sweden & others;

Lot: 259

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £30
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Shoebox of covers & cards with numerous used postal stationery cards of India QV/EVII, much USA, some Sweden & others; also many QE2 GB unused postal stationery cards, and many documents with French fiscal stamps, early 20th Century. (approx 600)

World ranges on stockleaves, in stockbooks & loose, mostly 20th Century M&U and UM, plus covers; interest in Israel from early issues, Isle of Man,

Lot: 261

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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World ranges on stockleaves, in stockbooks & loose, mostly 20th Century M&U and UM, plus covers; interest in Israel from early issues, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Monaco, Poland and many others. Untidy lot. (Many 1000s)

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.

Lot: 263

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
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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)

World War I Military Mail, chiefly French forces, some British & American. Wide variety of postal markings and military cachets, a few from POWs.

Lot: 264

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £15
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World War I Military Mail, chiefly French forces, some British & American. Wide variety of postal markings and military cachets, a few from POWs. Fair to fine. (42)              

Prisoner of War and Internee mail, 1939-47, from and to prisoners mainly in Germany & UK, plus Kenya, Switzerland, Dutch East Indies, Manchuria,

Lot: 265

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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Prisoner of War and Internee mail, 1939-47, from and to prisoners mainly in Germany & UK, plus Kenya, Switzerland, Dutch East Indies, Manchuria, Romania, Canada, and France, a few from forced labour camps in Germany. Wide variety of postal markings and camp censor cachets. Also 1973 cover from Walter Reder, war criminal in Gaeta camp, Italy. A few covers with letters enclosed. (68).

First Day and Commemorative covers in albums and loose, mostly GB, some Netherlands and others, 1960s to modern. Mixed quality. (abt. 430)

Lot: 266

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
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First Day and Commemorative covers in albums and loose, mostly GB, some Netherlands and others, 1960s to modern. Mixed quality. (abt. 430)

Czechoslovakia 1938-39 Military PCs (12) and Covers (4) with a variety of fine POLNI POSTA datestamps, six with censor h/s.

Lot: 316

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
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Czechoslovakia 1938-39 Military PCs (12) and Covers (4) with a variety of fine POLNI POSTA datestamps, six with censor h/s. Includes three with military railway TPO cancels VOJENSKA VLAKOVA POSTA Nos. 1, 13 and 14. (16)

France 1870 (15th Dec.) Siege of Paris cover to UK, endorsed "Par ballon monte", carried on the 17th December flight of the balloon ‘Le Parmentier’

Lot: 318

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £60
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France 1870 (15th Dec.) Siege of Paris cover to UK, endorsed Par ballon monte, carried on the 17th December flight of the balloon ‘Le Parmentier' which landed at Gourgancon carrying 360lbs of mail.

France late-1970s and 1980s ‘Philatelic Documents', a large collection in carton, including Red Cross and definitives. Fine condition. 14 kilos. (100s

Lot: 319

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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France late-1970s and 1980s ‘Philatelic Documents', a large collection in carton, including Red Cross and definitives. Fine condition. 14 kilos. (100s)

French Antarctic Territory 1978-83 selection in complete UM sheets including SG 180 in sheet of ten. (7 sheets)

Lot: 320

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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French Antarctic Territory 1978-83 selection in complete UM sheets including SG 180 in sheet of ten. (7 sheets)