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1925 Airmail set

Poland SG 252-260 airmail issue + SG 218, 220, 225, 227, 244 on registered airmail cover from Warsaw to Vienna, 4 Nov 1925; various red h/s included boxed ‘SAMOLOTEM’ (by ‘plane); no b/s; large and attractive envelope

French POW in Germany 1915

Envelope to the Red Cross Commission for Prisoners of War, Bordeaux; m/s ‘Kriegsgefangenensendung’ & ‘Frankreich’; d/r cds Berlin-Grunewald 14 March 1915; eagle cachet.’ …ingsstelle des Gardekorps Berlin’; red cachet ‘Agence des Prisonniers de Guerre – Croix-Rouge Française Paris’; no b/s; a nice Red Cross combination

French POW in Germany 1915

10 August 1915| crowned POW censor cachet – CHEMNITZ, overprinted Geprüft Gefangenenlager Chemnitz, cancelled with blue cross; d/r bridged cds Ebersdorf bz Chemnitz 23 August 1915; h/s ‘Kriegsgefangenen-Sendung …frei’, h/s ‘Bureau de secours aux prisonniers de guerre BERNE, Comité de Bâle’: message on reverse with questions to the POW, with answers in pencil; fascinating mini-piece of history

France military cover, censored and returned, 1945

Paris XV slogan d/s on military envelope inscribed F.M. m/s to Secteur Postal 13957; censored by French with oval h/s ‘Ouvert’ ZA554; h/s ‘Le Destinataire n’a pu être atteint à l’adresse indiquée’; boxed h/s “RETOUR À L’ENVOYEUR” on front and reverse; blue crayon cross (Paris) confirms return to sender?  a wonderful combination on such a ‘plain’ cover

Madagascar multifranking registered airmail 1954

Multifranking of 18 stamps on 1 envelope from Tananarive-Antanimena to Windhoek, 1954: on the front: 2c (SG54), 20c (SG 59), 45c (SG 99), 45c (SG 100), 60c (SG103), 25c on 2f (SG 111), 15f (SG 173), 25f Eboué (SG 280); on the reverse 8 x 50c (SG 299), 20f (SG 267), 3f (SG 160); a very attractive and spectacular franking

Mixed franking Gibraltar & US Warship 1954

Gibraltar QE2 3d pictorial + US 8d Liberty definitive, cancelled USS Salem warship 21 May 1954; also with USS Saratoga cachet; on reverse 2 line h/s Algiers/North Africa and New York slogan d/s; probably sent during the production of ‘The Battle of the River Plate‘, when USS Salem played the Graf Spee in the film

Czechoslovakia war demonstration card 1915

VF RP postcard ‘Italian War Demonstration, London May 27th 1915’ also with placard ‘Czechs Greet Italy and her Allies; Down with Austria’; on reverse a red patriotic label ‘For the Independence of the Czech Nation’; cancelled by roller m/c d/s 16 June 1915; sent across London from Notting Hill to Holloway Road; a superb rare patriotic card of the period

India letter Southampton 1825 to Scotland

boxed h/s INDIA LETTER SOUTHAMPTON on reverse of entire letter 2 pps; faint Scottish additional ½ penny h/s; m/s rates altered twice to 1/6; Calcutta General Post Office d/r cds on front with m/s date 11 February 1825; on reverse London transit 7 June 1825,  2 d/r cds 9 June 1825;  a fine scarce combination

Poland post-war provisionals to USA 1945

Post-war provisional issues 2+4 zt x 3, & 3 x 5 zt (SG 528-9, 522a) all cancelled with m/s endorsement ‘Kosow-Lacki’; m/s hand drawn registration box with m/s entry ‘Kosow-Lacki’; pink Exprès label; b/s Warsaw 22 September 1945, New York January 1946; Chicago 15 Jan 1946

France multi-franking to London 1945, censored twice

5 x 50c/90c ‘Peace’ + 1f ‘Iris’ & 25c ‘Mercury’ for 3fr 75 airmail rate; from a Hotel in Cannes to London 23 June 1941, censored twice ‘via Lisbon’,  b/s C in small double circle h/s; a nice franking ex CWE Coles collection