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East Prussia to Chelmo, 1920

4 x Germania 15pfg + 2 x 10pfg Treaty of Versailles/Allenstein overprints; cancelled Nikolaiken (East Prussia) 31 August 1920 to Chelmo; opened by Czech(?) censor, tied by s/r h/s ‘Tor’ (=Torun) & 4 on reverse; Chelmo arrival cds 3 September 1920

Estonia to Danzig 1920

5 pictorials including the rectangular air stamp, on plain postal card, all cancelled Haapsalu/Eesti d/r cds 26 May 1920; faint red registration h/s with ms number 964; Danzig arrival bridged d/r cds 2 June 1920

Belgium ‘Tin Hat’ issue 1920

Belgium 1920

Albert ‘Tin hat’ 10 x 2c + 5c King’s head (type II); including 3 x 2c marginal strip with h/s ‘Depot 1920’ in the margin, for a 25c rate; cancelled Brussels 4 September 1920; b/s Utrecht 6 September 1930 & cachet B14

GB Polish censor cachet & seal 1920

GB Polish censor cachet & seal 1920

GB KGV 4d and ½d cancelled ‘Strangeways Manchester’ 29 January 1920 to Warsaw; registration label Manchester 22; opened by Polish censor and sealed with tape and large octagonal Polish censor cachet; at a time of Polish frontier conflicts(?); m/s and h/s on reverse

German parcel card 1920 to Switzerland

German parcel card 1920 to Switzerland

Parcel card franked with 5 mark pictorial (and a second missing one) on front + 5 mark, 2 x 75pfg, 20pfg and 10pfg on reverse; registration label, m/s charge marks, green customs h/s; red h/s ‘Statistik -,05 Cts’; ‘Zollamtlick’ h/s in violet (inspected by customs); from Schmölln to Lucern 3 April 1920; despite the stamp lost during inspection(?), a spectacular postal cover.

Australia to Hollywood, 1920

Australia to Hollywood

KGV King’s Head 3 x 1½d brown cancelled by slogan m/c d/s, from Australia to Lasky Studios, Hollywood; m/s “from USS Ventura 16/3/20”, “Urgent and Confidential, Please forward”; no b/s; small faults

Hungarian internal airmail, 1920

Hungarian internal airmail

10 fillar red on buff PS card with added adhesive 10 korona overprinted “Legi Posta 8 Korona” in red; Szombathely to Budapest 8 December 1920, cancelled Szombathely 2 (2 different cds) and Budapest 42 bridged cds; first internal airmail in Hungary

VENEZUELA ENVELOPE REGISTERED & FORWARDED TO USA 1919-20

VENEZUELA ENVELOPE REGISTERED & FORWARDED TO USA 1919-20

envelope with 3 x 25c Bolivar portrait (+4th on reverse)12 December 1919, registered to Rochester USA & forwarded to New Haven; with imprint ‘”Manzanares” via La Guayra’ registered h/s of Carupano & La Guaira, h/s ‘Forwarded from Rochester NY’; b/s New York, Rochester, New Haven 4, 6, 7, 9 January 1920: an interesting ‘busy’ cover

FRANCE 20C BORDEAUX TYPE 3 REPORT 1 FOUR MARGINS

FRANCE 20C BORDEAUX TYPE 3 REPORT 1 FOUR MARGINS

20c Bordeaux issue medium blue shade, type 3 report 1 (YT 46B) on folded flimsy letter from Béziers to Aurillac 8 February 1871, 4 good margins, 1 a base marginal, lightly cancelled GC 472, b/s Touluse 9 February 1871; the usual filing crease but well clear of the stamp, a neat clean cover of the FP War period