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Auction No 424, Category: Postal History

16 Lots (displaying 1 - 16)

Covers, PCs and ephemera; including GB with 1d reds (4), and later with squared circles; 1880 document (cut down) with 1s6d Justice Room adhesive,

Lot: 159

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £56
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Covers, PCs and ephemera; including GB with 1d reds (4), and later with squared circles; 1880 document (cut down) with 1s6d Justice Room adhesive, signed by the Lord Mayor of London; first flight covers from 1940s; 1890s with U.S. Flag Cancels; and others. (58 items)

Assorted Covers in album & loose, including few 1d Red covers, bundle of 1943-45 Forces Air Letters & covers to a private with M.E.F.,

Lot: 161

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £72
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Assorted Covers in album & loose, including few 1d Red covers, bundle of 1943-45 Forces Air Letters & covers to a private with M.E.F., 1940s Palestine (3); 1946 Hong Kong ‘Victory' set on Ill. FDC; modern FDCs of India; etc. Mainly VG/VF (99)

Postal Stationery and some PPCs, used and unused, with much GB; all periods, some better items, mixed condition. (abt.240)

Lot: 162

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £82
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Postal Stationery and some PPCs, used and unused, with much GB; all periods, some better items, mixed condition. (abt.240)

Covers & Cards, mostly GB with interest in slogan cancels and meter mail, GV to QE2 with some better items. (40)

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £24
SOLD £34
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Covers & Cards, mostly GB with interest in slogan cancels and meter mail, GV to QE2 with some better items. (40)

Holocaust Mail. WW2 PPC from German company commander Eberl, located at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, to a relative at Stuttgart,

Lot: 178

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £70
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Holocaust Mail. WW2 PPC from German company commander Eberl, located at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, to a relative at Stuttgart, with German military handstamps. Fine condition and scarce.

Telegrams, British and Foreign, a collection from 1883 to 1960s, chiefly GB Post Office (67, various types), plus pictorial greetings telegrams

Lot: 179

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Telegrams, British and Foreign, a collection from 1883 to 1960s, chiefly GB Post Office (67, various types), plus pictorial greetings telegrams of Denmark (20), Hungary (30), Sweden (24), Switzerland (7) and few other countries, plus Imperial Wireless Services and Commercial Cables (2). Some with original delivery envelopes. Fair to VF (161)

Holocaust Mail. March 1945 Red Cross PC from Rabbi Abraham Strassfeld in New York, attempting to communicate with his brother,

Lot: 182

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £46
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Holocaust Mail. March 1945 Red Cross PC from Rabbi Abraham Strassfeld in New York, attempting to communicate with his brother, Rabbi Alexander Lipa Strassfeld, last known as residing in Kozowa, Poland. Small tear upper right.

Undercover Mail. 1943 Cover from the Warsaw Ghetto to Rua Alexandre Herculano, Lisboa, Portugal (undercover address for the Polish Red Cross, London);

Lot: 183

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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Undercover Mail. 1943 Cover from the Warsaw Ghetto to Rua Alexandre Herculano, Lisboa, Portugal (undercover address for the Polish Red Cross, London); and 1944 Cover from India to G.P.O. Box 260/56 (the Polish Army in the UK) with POCZTA POLOWA cds and faint censor cachet. Also 1941 signed letter from General Paszkiewicz (C.O., 1st Polish Rifle Brigade) to Kathleen Smith of Biggar thanking her for her work as an ambulance driver, together with original envelope and some Polish Field Post stamps.

Military & Censored mail, WWI to 1980s, chiefly British and American, including 1915 PPC with rare CUTBUSH / CURRAGH CAMP rubber cds,

Lot: 184

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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Military & Censored mail, WWI to 1980s, chiefly British and American, including 1915 PPC with rare CUTBUSH / CURRAGH CAMP rubber cds, British POW mail, civilian censorship etc. Chiefly 1940s. (47). Also photocopies and collector's correspondence.   

Great Britain pre-stamp to early-QE2 Covers & Cards in album and loose, eight with 1d red imperfs, nine with later line-engraved,

Lot: 188

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £96
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Great Britain pre-stamp to early-QE2 Covers & Cards in album and loose, eight with 1d red imperfs, nine with later line-engraved, 1890 to India franked with 5d Jubilee, and nice range of QV/GVI used postal stationery. Includes fine 1872 Valentine embossed envelope with invitation enclosed, and 1925 Cover with 1½d Wembley and Exhibition slogan. Good to fine. (65)

GB Post Office ephemera including 19th Century engraving publicising J. Young’s Post Office at Malvern Link,

Lot: 189

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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GB Post Office ephemera including 19th Century engraving publicising J. Young's Post Office at Malvern Link, a late-Victorian glass hold-to-light cartoon in wooden frame, 1957 Instructions to Head Postmasters, and public notices of 1890 and 1960 on posting arrangements for Christmas. Also proof impressions of slogan cancellations, some stamp booklets, GPO reports, etc. The Malvern Link engraving frayed along top edge o/w VG/VF. (Qty.)

Ralph Allen (1693-1764, city of Bath postmaster and founder of the ‘Cross Post’ system): 1755 cut-down wrapper to London endorsed ‘Free, R. Allen’

Lot: 191

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
UNSOLD
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Ralph Allen (1693-1764, city of Bath postmaster and founder of the ‘Cross Post' system): 1755 cut-down wrapper to London endorsed Free, R. Allen' with faint s/line BATH and Bishop mark on flap. Together with a modern PPC. [A note applied by a 19th (?) Century collector reads From Dr: afterwards Bishop Warburton, and dated from Bath June 28.1755.,W.V., and will have referred to the original letter enclosed,as it would appear that the address panel has been written and signed by Ralph Allen on the Bishop's behalf],

John Palmer (1741-1818, founder of the UK Mail Coach system): 1805 wrapper from Bath to Brighton signed by Palmer lower left, with large FREE d.s.

Lot: 192

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
UNSOLD
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John Palmer (1741-1818, founder of the UK Mail Coach system): 1805 wrapper from Bath to Brighton signed by Palmer lower left, with large FREE datestamp  and s/line BATH. Together with a related cigarette card. [Palmer was M.P. for the city of Bath at this time].  

Australia 19th Century to 1950s Covers & Cards with States items (18), some later used postal stationery, WW2 military, etc. Fair to fine. (54)

Lot: 206

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £38
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Australia 19th Century to 1950s Covers & Cards with States items (18), some later used postal stationery, WW2 military, etc. Fair to fine. (54)

Poland 1941 Prisoner of War Post Card and Letter Sheet from Warsaw to a Polish POW held at Oflag VIIA in Germany;

Lot: 214

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Poland 1941 Prisoner of War Post Card and Letter Sheet from Warsaw to a Polish POW held at Oflag VIIA in Germany; 1944 postal stationery card postally used at Gross Born POW camp (Oflag IID) with full message on reverse; and block of four of a 5gr. stamp issued for use at Woldenberg POW camp (Oflag IIC). VG/Fine (4)

United States 1850s to 1980s covers and mainly unused postal stationery, all in plastic sleeves with many 19th and early-20th Century;

Lot: 217

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Mar 2024 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £82
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United States 1850s to 1980s covers and mainly unused postal stationery, all in plastic sleeves with many 19th and early-20th Century; the postal stationery envelopes include a few albino printings; the covers include 1867 ‘Blood's Penny Post Philadelphia' local post with adhesive and handstamp. Generally VG/VF (100s)