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Auction No 431, Category: Postal History

43 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

WWI German Air-Drop leaflet warning the French of a growing ‘invasion’ of American troops to the Western Front. 8 x 6”, text both sides.

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £17
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WWI German Air-Drop leaflet warning the French of a growing ‘invasion' of American troops to the Western Front. 8x 6”, text both sides. Folds and filing punch holes. 

C/Wealth & Foreign Covers, 1950s/90s, mostly addressed to the UK, very many registered, some with British diamond census marks. On album leaves. (55)

Lot: 212

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £15
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C/Wealth & Foreign Covers, 1950s/90s, mostly addressed to the UK, very many registered, some with British diamond census marks. On album leaves. (55)

World ranges in eight stockbooks and some stockleaves, chiefly foreign thematics including butterflies, tropical fish etc, plus mid-period France,

Lot: 219

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £42
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World ranges in eight stockbooks and some stockleaves, chiefly foreign thematics including butterflies, tropical fish etc, plus mid-period France, and various covers & cards from 19th Century with German Bahnpost cancels. (Many 1000s) (Over 14 kilos)

Postal History selection including 1950 Tristan Da Cunha to UK charged postage due with Cape Town Paquebot and Tristan Settlement cachet;

Lot: 236

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £68
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Postal History selection including 1950 Tristan Da Cunha to UK charged postage due with Cape Town Paquebot and Tristan Settlement cachet; c.1917 Cablegram cover to UK with AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE cachets; 1938 Graf Zeppelin flight to Sudetenland; two covers from Nepal; 1935 and 1938 Rocket Flights of Switzerland and Belgium; and 1947 Air Drop mail Samoa to Tokelau Is. Good to fine (26)

Submarine Mail. Jan.1917 Cover, Germany to USA, carried by U-Boat, (Tauchboot), the delivery unsuccessful, and returned with 3-line cachet

Lot: 237

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
UNSOLD
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Submarine Mail. Jan.1917 Cover, Germany to USA, carried by U-Boat, (Tauchboot), the delivery unsuccessful, and returned with 3-line cachet and BREMEN / T.B.  / D.O.R. receiving mark.

Covers & Cards including 1935 Mauritius ‘Bicentenary Exhibition’ with Silver Jubilee set; 1936-37 Rocket Post from Belgium and India;

Lot: 238

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £72
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Covers & Cards including 1935 Mauritius ‘Bicentenary Exhibition' with Silver Jubilee set; 1936-37 Rocket Post from Belgium and India; 1941 Air Mail from Benghazi to India; 1944 Alaska dog team; 1935-37 Glider and Parachute mail of Austria (3) and Netherlands; 1931Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Arctic Submarine, USA to Norway; 1933 Germany balloon post; and various others. (63)

Zeppelin Mail, a selection comprising 1924 Friedrichshaffen to USA carried on the Airship Z.R.3; 1932 Rio de Janeiro to Recife via LZ-127;

Lot: 239

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £62
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Zeppelin Mail, a selection comprising 1924 Friedrichshaffen to USA carried on the Airship Z.R.3; 1932 Rio de Janeiro to Recife via LZ-127; 1934 scarce UK acceptance by Graf Zeppelin to Brazil; and 1936 Hindenburg flights (2). Also an official photo of the Graf Zeppelin in flight. Fine (6)

Covers & Cards including 1860s Wells Fargo Express from Camptonville to Sacramento; 1924 Mount Everest Expedition PC from Rongbuk Camp;

Lot: 240

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £78
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Covers & Cards including 1860s Wells Fargo Express from Camptonville to Sacremento; 1924 Mount Everest Expedition PC from Rongbuk Camp; 1931 PC by Dornier flying boat DOX; 1930 & 1934 catapault mail from the ships Bremen and Westphalen; 1928 USA first Air-Motorcycle Courier Service;1934 Brussels air show; 1936 USA  first rocket mail; and others. Good to VF (23).

Balloon flown covers comprising 1928 high altitude flight from Graz with special etiquette; and 1936 Gordon Bennett Balloon Race from Warsaw. Fine (2

Lot: 241

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
SOLD £9
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Balloon flown covers comprising 1928 high altitude flight from Graz with special etiquette; and 1936 Gordon Bennett Balloon Race from Warsaw. Fine (2)

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)

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) 

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
UNSOLD
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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
UNSOLD
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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)

Covers & Cards, mostly British C/Wealth, some GB & Russia, with main interest in Falkland Is and B.A.T., S.W. Africa, and others.

Lot: 260

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
UNSOLD
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Covers & Cards, mostly British C/Wealth, some GB & Russia, with main interest in Falkland Is and B.A.T., S.W. Africa, and others. Also 11 receipts with N.S.Wales duty stamps. (210)

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
UNSOLD
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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)