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Postal Auction November 2023 - 339

Bids to be received by Monday 6th of November 2023 1:00 PM

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Lot 85
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COURTIER 1937 Imperial airways crash cover stampless envelope from Cairo to Isere France (opened up for display) with reverse bearing large transparent printed label POSTES ET TELEGRAPHES with violet five line delay handstamp applied at the French post office and tied BORGOIN / ISERE cds. On 1st October 1937 the Imperial airways short empire G-ADVC Courtier crashed on landing in Phaleron Bay, Greece, due to poor visibility killing 2 of 15 on board. Most mails were salvaged and turned over to the Greek Post Office for onward transport.

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 86
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CRIMEA WAR: 1855 August. Four page letter from a French soldier (to his mother and brother)camped at Devant, Sebastopol. Mentions army life and is easily readable (in French) with some peripheral wear and filing creases. Nice Military item.

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 87
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DELAYED BY FLOOD WATERS - 1938 Printed business reply envelope from Gardena CA to San Francisco with violet single line DELAYED*BY*FLOOD*WATERS handstamp along the obverse. From Feb 27th to March 4th Southern California was visited by a series of heavy rainstorms that produced flood discharge far in excess of any previously recorded. The floods claimed 87 lives and cost $78m.

Estimate £ 75.00
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Lot 88
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Drift Mail Card: 1954-58 Printed reply cards titled Oil Pollution Investigation dropped in the sea in plastic envelopes by the Nat. Institute of Oceanography, The drift envelope experiment in the North East Atlantic Ocean 1954. Five numbered cards completed and returned from Norway, Ireland, France, Spain, or UK. Interesting group. (5).

Estimate £ 60.00
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Lot 89
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Duplex Postmarks: A large collection of QV and mainly EDVII Postcards used from dozens of different towns and villages with duplex numeral cancels arrange in A to Z order in plastic sleeves a huge array incl IOM, IOW, Wales, Northwich from Lancashire Hussars mounted regiment in Delamere Forest, a few underpaid with tax marks., some to foreign destinations, redirected, Liable to Letter Rate cancelled out with duplexes of 679 in 1904, 1906 incoming ppc from Ceylon to Winkley and redirected, plus many more. Mostly fine in sleeves. (Approx 270).

Estimate £ 280.00
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Lot 90
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Egypt: Earlier to middle group of covers and cards with some nice combinations noted 1900-1930 postcards with views incl Aden, 1935 Arab Dhows, 1934 Czech Legation regd cover from Cairo to Prague, 1937 airmail to Tanganyika, 1925 card carried on SS Nederlander from Port Said, 1925 2m embossed P/S env to Italy, 1925 to Simla, 1904 Pyramid defins on PPCs, etc (25).

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 91
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Field Post Office 948 1956 correspondence from Capt. Mathers CCK INF LAD / BAPO 3, in Hong Kong on printed airmail envelopes to London bearing GB 2½d red, nice original lot. (39).

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 92
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HEIMDALLS - 1929 (8 Sept) Damaged by water label affixed to the reverse (in Swedish) of a long wreck cover from New York to Finland with stamp washed off and the ship ran aground and sank almost immediately in the night of September 8th, near Vaxholm Sweden. The passengers and crew were rescued and 209 postal packets and cargo were recovered.

Estimate £ 150.00
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Lot 93
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KINGSTONIAN - 1918 (11 April) DAMAGED BY IMMERSION IN SEA WATER boxed h/s in violet on obverse of cover with stamp washed off from Alexandria to Marseille, the cover is addressed to Holland and redirected. Sudan censor h/s on obverse and variety of transits on reverse incl Cairo, Jinja Uganda, Khartoum, White Nile and then the Steamer Kingstonian was badly damaged by German submarine U68, she was towed into Sardinia where the mail, about a fortnights correspondence from Egypt and Palestinian Front were offloaded. On leaving Sardinia the ship was again hit by a German U48 and sunk. Nineteen different types of handstamp have been recorded.

Estimate £ 200.00
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Lot 94
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KOREAN WAR: Group of around 50 letters mainly from the an original correspondence, many with original envelopes, includes both Canadian Camps and overseas, then some 1950s letters from the same soldier to his mother from London Ontario Wolseley Barracks, with some mixed condition but overall fine, making a fascinating read.

Estimate £ 500.00
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Lot 95
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Maritime: 1903 RMS Luciana PPC used with ½d EDVII tied PAQUEBOT single line h/s addr to Kansas USA with DUBLIN QUEENSTOWN / T.P.O.21st March circular datestamp and GREENLEAF KANS arrival cds.

Estimate £ 25.00
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Lot 96
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Maritime: 1905 RMS Caronia PPC used with ½d EDVII tied PAQUEBOT single line h/s addr to Liverpool with DUBLIN QUEENSTOWN / T.P.O. 8 Dec circular datestamp.

Estimate £ 25.00
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