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Postal Auction May 2026 - 370

Bids to be received by Friday 15th of May 2026 1:00 PM

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Lot 97
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
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Lot 98
POSTAL HISTORY

Mixed worldwide early to modern group with better throughout including strong section of Canada GV covers & PPCs, 1905 Wells Land & Cattle 2c Printed P/S regd envelope uprated to Manitoba, Everest Expedition 1972 signed card 12 signatures incl expedition leader Christian Bonington, Greenland, Neth. Indies 1937 printed flight cover, 1980 USA NASA flight research covers, N.Z. 1940 Centenary FDC for 12 values, 1936 Commerce set, Officials 1954 7 vals to 1s on illus FDC, Philippines 1938 Nestle Safe Milk / Milk Maid from ILOILO, France 1949 CITEX 10f (+100f) orange-red single on special Paris Centenary Post postcard tied to obverse with 1st day cds alongside, Trinidad & Tobago 1967 Trinpex illus cover, Papua 1936 regd cover from DARU, Vatican City 1930 combination cover to 2l (folded), Liechtenstein 1960 Europa key stamp on FDC (unaddr), Transvaal 1901 censor cover from Pretoria 1984 USA Olympic Village Return to Sender no such addressee at Olympic Village h/s in red. Intr group. (60+).

Estimate £ 165.00
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Lot 99
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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
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Lot 100
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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
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Lot 101
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Romania: Sixteen earlier to middle periods with many censored incl 1920 Suczawa to Canada with Romania Censor h/s in violet, 1925 censored, 1916 5b green P/S card uprated and tied PELULVIZSGAI h/s in red to Germany, 1941 Censor card, 1942 censor, 1943 2 Cenzurat Fagaras 2 boxed h/s, 1943 28 CENZURAT CRAIOVA 28 boxed h/s, 1943 31 Cenzurat Cralova 31 boxed h/s, 1943 6 CENZURAT SEVERIN 6, 1943 108 CENZURAT IASI 102, 1923 Fischer illus advert env. from Cluj to Prague, 1915 Censored regd env to Switzerland, etc, very intr lot. (16).

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 102
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SIMLA Indian Red Cross & St john Ambulance War Organisation printed dual colour envelope to Int Red X Geneva sent airmail with Certified Official h/s of the Major General Red Cross Commissioner, Kelvin Grove, Simla. B /4 octagonal h/s on obverse, stamp on reverse tied Simla postmark. Few rust marks, airmail obliterated with two red ink bars as not flown in regular mail.

Estimate £ 25.00
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Lot 103
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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
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Lot 104
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War Office Censor Permit: 1944 envelope from London to Ireland bearing 2½d tied wavy line cancel and large double line STANLEY GIBBONS LTD / WAR OFFICE CENSOR PERMIT No. C1. And oval PASSED BY PHILATELIC ASSN. LTD, signed and dated. SG had a special arrangement with many other companies that were granted certain privileges in handling mail due to their high volume.

Estimate £ 25.00
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Lot 105
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War Office Censor Permit C16: Two 1945 envelope from London to Ireland bearing 2½d rates tied wavy line or cds cancel and WAR OFFICE / PERMIT No. C16 red on white imperf label affixed. And oval PASSED BY PHILATELIC ASSN. LTD, signed and dated.

Estimate £ 18.00
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Lot 106
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

1938 (1st December) LZ130 1st Sudetenland Flight postal stationery card 5pf uprated with 45pf defins tied RHEIN MAIN Flug und Luftschiffen cds to Frankfurt Main with red airship cachet alongside. The airship was staffed by 62 crew members and the Graff Zeppelin II made 30 flights in 11 months in 1938-39 some being propaganda publicity flights with air ministry staff to conduct radio surveillance and measurements in WWII.

Estimate £ 45.00
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Lot 107
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

Germany: 1931 Graf Zeppelin July Polar Flight cover bearing 4m sepia tied Freidrichschafen 24.7.31 CDS addr to USA and Polar Flight cachet in red alongside with FIRST INTOURIST / EXPEDITION / ICE-BREAKER MALIGN on reverse in violet and French Brise Glace Malyguin / Artique 27 VI 31 on obverse. Fine and scarce for these, Frost 3) 127-127A ($1800).

Estimate £ 250.00
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Lot 108
POSTAL HISTORY - ZEPPELIN POST

Liechtenstein: 1936 (1 May) Zeppelin plain postcard for Europe - North America flight to New Jersey bearing 10r & 1fr airs tied TRIESENBERG cds, flight cachet and New York arrival on obverse. Sieger 408B.

Estimate £ 50.00
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