Postal Auction March 2025 - 354

Bids to be received by Wednesday 19th of March 2025 1:00 PM

Lots (1058)

Lot 49
POSTAL HISTORY

India and states: Interesting group of native covers and letters in a folder crom circa 1910-15 including Experimental Post Office, Kishengarh prestamp covers (1), Hyderabad incl P/S cards, unused envs incl 1a4p green on buff envs, 6p P/S cards unused Nizims Dominions, etc, intr little lot.

Estimate £ 30.00
Lot 50
POSTAL HISTORY

Maritime: Ex RMS Letitia 1936 cover addr to Capt Swan OBE on HMR Calliope Newcastle Upon Tyne then redirected to Northumberland, bearing 1½d red-brown tied PAQUEBOT / POST AT SEA London cancel in black with BRITISH MAIL / POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS / EX / R.M.S "Letitia" in magenta circle.

Estimate £ 20.00
Lot 51
POSTAL HISTORY

MILITARY MAIL: WWI & WWII selection of covers and cards all from Military personnel with WWI Germany Felpost cards and lettersheet all with different handstamps of the various regiments (10) & Belgian card with Military cds; then two Third Reich items from WWII with Feldpost letter sheet endorsed with Eagle and Swastika cds and a 1939 attractive official looking envelope with cachets/ Handstamps and an attractive Eagle and Swastika seal in red on the reverse (faults). Useful lot ( 13)

Estimate £ 50.00
Lot 52
POSTAL HISTORY

P.O.W. MAIL:WWI Accumulation of covers sent to Copenhagen,Denmark, ALL stampless with group of small envelopes bearing TOLNA (Hungary) cds and triangular censor marking in purple (18), larger envelopes with 'K.U.K. OFFIZIERSTATION / KRIEGGEFANGENE / THERESIENSTADT' handstamp and triangular censor in shades of purple (8) and another with red censor, group of fronts with Osnabruck (Germany) special cancel (4) and further envelopes with postmarks of PRAGUE (2), LUGOS (Romania), ZYWIEC (Poland) & BUCZACZ (Ukraine)all with censor markings. Very good lot in better than average condition (32, plus 4 fronts)

Estimate £ 100.00
Lot 53
POSTAL HISTORY

Paquebot Postmarks on single stamps and pairs mainly QV onwards incl NSW PACKET POST boxed over two stamps, Leeward Is. Posted on the high seas, Bahamas, Australia loose-letter, Victoria Paquebot, Barbados pair MS Colombia etc, nice little group. (20).

Estimate £ 20.00
Lot 54
POSTAL HISTORY

POSTAGE REFUNDED - Violet handstamp on four 1949 Covers Bath to China to same correspondence bearing 1s & 3d adhs tied Bath wavy line machine cancel each addr to different town in China incl Peiping, Nanchang, Tsingan & Igfeng, Some creases, most unusual and interesting group. (4).

Estimate £ 180.00
Lot 55
POSTAL HISTORY

Selection of thirty unused postal stationery postcards including a couple of covers. Includes St. Pierre et Miquelon 10c, Tunis 15c, Japan 2 sen, Cuba 2 pesos and Turkey 2 paras.

Estimate £ 15.00
Lot 56
POSTAL HISTORY

SPECIMEN Overprints on QV-GV postal stationery cards each overprinted specimen diagonally including East Africa GV 35c regd env., Ceylon EDVII 6c red card, BCA ½d green Arms, 1d arms newspaper wrapper, Leeward Is. QV 1d red newspaper wrapper, 1d pink env., Zululand 1d card, Br. Guiana Ship 1c grey, BEA ½a green, Leeward Is. QV 1d pink env. 1d red card, Sierra Leone ½d green newspaper wrapper, QV ½d green card, 2d grey regd env., EDVII ½d green, mostly fine, nice group of 12 items.

Estimate £ 180.00
Lot 57
POSTCARDS

Alice in Wonderland: 1907 Coloured postcard unused showing Mardi Gras, New Orleans by Adolph Selige Publishers St Louis. Few minor tones with one weak corner otherwise nice early postcard.

Estimate £ 20.00
Lot 58
POSTCARDS

EUROPE - Early to middle periods well filled shoebox of town and village postmarks for France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Gibraltar Paquebot, Belgium, Cape Colony, GB from EDVII onwards with many nice town CDS's, USA, Germany, 1911 Levant, Palestine etc, for approx 570 different PPCs, lots of greetings, Views, topographical etc.

Estimate £ 250.00
Lot 59
POSTCARDS

FRANCE: 1903-1920 Shoebox of postcards from the turn of the 20th century mainly a correspondence to Vosges mostly postally used with a variety of defins, some on obverse from a good range of different towns, all sorts of topics including nice range of Luna theme park Water Chute, Les Roues Diaboliques, Scenic Railway, La Riviere Mystery, Japanese card from Paris, Greetings, plus large group of unused, large quantity mainly all different, nice original lot. (Approx 350+).

Estimate £ 175.00
Lot 60
POSTCARDS

FRANCE: 1917 (May) WWI Useful correspondence from Infanterie 158 Lyon to Vosges France from infantryman during the Nivelle Offensive at the Battle of Chemins Des Dames where 200,000 French soldiers were killed. Each postcard bearing a variety of FRANCAISE POSTAL 158 REGIMENT D'INFANTIERIE LYON cachets in violet, also includes other handstamps including Temporary Hospital, Commission Militare Dijon, F.P.M. LYON, Moulins Hospital, mainly 1917-18 periods, nice original lot (50+).

Estimate £ 100.00

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