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Postal Auction December 2023 - 340

Bids to be received by Thursday 21st of December 2023 1:00 PM

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Lot 49
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1913-31 Five Post Office Telegraphs from various English south coast towns plus King George VI one shilling on unused inland telegram.

Estimate £ 8.00
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Lot 50
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1936 (14 Aug) DAMAGED BY SEAWATER cover to UK bearing GB 1d red (6) tied PAQUEBOT / SINGAPORE cds's, and boxed two line DAMAGED BY SEA / WATER in black, the flying boat Scipio crashed off the coast of Crete.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 51
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1943 DAMAGED BY SEA WATER violet boxed handstamp on cover Nevada to New York, redirected to London with RETURNED LETTER SECTION / LONDON POSTAL REGION. Interesting unknown wreck cover.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 52
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1950-72 Six balloon covers includes Pan American Berlin-Hamburg-Berlin, 1972 Mali Tombouctou x 3, 1955 Austria Vienna to East Germany and 1954 Vienna to Bernburg DDR.

Estimate £ 20.00
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Lot 53
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1978 Nine Royal House of Europe Limited Edition typed covers, includes Denmark, Sweden and King Baudouin of Belgium.

Estimate £ 7.00
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Lot 54
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A selection of twenty-seven world-wide Anti-Semitic postcards from 1904 until 1950's. A mixture of posted and unused. Includes 1941 postcard with Hitler head from Austria. Very interesting social history although would be termed offensive today.

Estimate £ 270.00
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Lot 55
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Austria: Small group of mainly prestamp mail from different towns and areas incl 1875 Sechskaus, 9kr blue imperf to Saxony, Austrian Italy PADOVA 10s, VENEZIA 5s red to Udine, 1859 KAPFENBERG, 1873 Teplitz, 1850 Vienna to Constantinople, 1870 LAA THAYA 5kr P/S env, 1835 Vienna to London, Baden to Vienna, 1875 5kr red, 1866 5k red Eagle etc, mixed but interesting group. (16).

Estimate £ 80.00
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Lot 56
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CRIMEA WAR: 1855 August. Three 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 staining but only to be expected under the conditions the letter was written. Nice Military item.

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 57
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CRIMEA WAR: 1855 July. Double sided 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 small tears and filing creases. Nice Military item.

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 58
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EUROPEAN CENSORS: 1947 PPC from Italy to Germany with 3L strip of 3 all tied with boxed HELD PENDING AUTHORISATION OF SERVICE and MILITARY CENSORSHIP/CIVIL MAILS circular h/s in violet. Difficult marking to find.

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 59
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France: Small group of prestamp & post stamp mail (23) from different towns and areas incl 1867 Bordeaux diamond dotted CB (Cette Bordeaux), 1841 Marseille to Lyon 6 chargemark, 1859 20c pair Sevres to Angers, 1847 Mussidan PP, 30c Ceres grey-brown pair part cover, 1854 CHERIBON FRANCEO large fancy oval in red, 1884 St Nicolas Due Port 25c ochre, 1852 Reims to Paris, 1863 Marseille Train transport per 100kg with a long list of worldwide destinations folded with triangles 1 1/6th ROTTERDAM backstamp, 1856 80c carmine-red fine large 3 margins tied diamond numeral from Toulouse with APRES / DE /DEPART boxed in black alongside, 1831 LUNEL (Commune in France) to Montepellier with 1d. h/s in red oval, 1864 Paris 22 dotted star cancel to Ypres, etc, mixed but interesting group. (23).

Estimate £ 125.00
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Lot 60
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Maritime: Moveable Box 1906-28 Two postcards and one cover (faults) to UK bearing France adhesives each tied by LONDON / M.B. or SOUTHAMPTON / M B cds cancels. Moveable Boxes (or boite mobile) on board private ships we used through a special agreement between France and Britain for mails since 1856 and the service became so successful that moveable boxes were employed to process the mail carried by private ships at a cost of One Penny. 1928 is late usage. (3).

Estimate £ 30.00
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