Lot: 19
Cabinet photos 1870s to 1890s plus few later; mainly portraits including 36 Military & Naval, but also the Tay Bridge (prior to the disaster) and few other views. Chiefly UK photographers, some overseas including USA, Hong Kong and India. Mixed condition, 16 cut-down/trimmed, many are fine. (141)
Lot: 132
Military & Naval PPCs (47) and ephemera, mostly WWI, including comic, soldiers' photos (7, one badly damaged), British Forces in Mesopotamia (4), greetings cards, etc. Poor to fine. (54)
Lot: 133
Military selection, mainly artist drawn, including anti-Kaiser cartoons (2), Harry Payne (11), Emile Dupuis (7) and other European, few comic. Mainly good to fine. Most in plastic sleeves. (49)
Lot: 134
Military range in old album, with Daily Mail battle scenes (55), few patriotic & comic; plus Belgian, French and few German cards with parades, war damage etc. A few later added. Mainly VG/Fine (132)
Lot: 178
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.
Lot: 183
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.
Lot: 184
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.