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France Express Letter to Scotland 1959

France Express Letter to Scotland 1959

4 pictorials & 3 definitive issues cancelled Paris VI R.St Romain, on envelope to Edinburgh 14 March 1959; pink Express label and black h/s ‘Express Fee Paid’; b/s Paris Gare du Nord Etranger; with blue crayon endorsement of Express; attractive combination

Iles Chausey 1959

Iles Chausey 1959

France Europa Issue 20fr, 35fr on envelope to Sidcup, Kent, cancelled Granville, Manche s/r cds; with 3 different Iles Chausey cachets (Newport C25, C26, C28, scarce on single cover); with diamond postal inspector’s mark; ex Newport & Whitney collections: no b/s;

BOOK RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL, CENTENARY HISTORY 1959

BOOK RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL

Hardback work ‘Red Cross International & the Strategy of Peace’ by James Avery Joyce, Hodder & Stoughton 1959, 270pps with dust jacket, many illustrations, indexed, wth summary of the Geneva Conventions: a centenary history of the organisation since its foundation by Henri Dunant after the terrible carnage at the Battle of Solferino 24 June 1859: (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £9.00)

MAURITIUS – TAAF: 1959 MIXED FRANKING MARITIME PIECE.

MAURITIUS - TAAF: 1959 MIXED FRANKING MARITIME PIECE.

1959 part of an envelope with a pair of Mauritius QEII 2 cents plate 1 stamps and a French Antarctic 50c stamp all cancelled by PORT LOUIS MAURITIUS postmarks dated 11.AP.59 and there is a MESSAGERIES MARITIMES GRENOBLE cachet and an SS GRENOBLE mark.
This is not a complete 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

Germany – Displaced persons camp to USA

Pair of 25pfg AMPOST yellow cancelled Flensburg-Mürwik (in British Zone), 26 September 1947; opened and resealed with censor label  “Opened by Examiner 7555”; tied by VF ‘British Censorship Germany’ cachet No 5937; ms “written in German”; from a woman in a displaced persons camp

KE8 London to Buenos Aires via German Zeppelin, 1937

KE VIII 1½d brown (SG 459) x 32 (28 on reverse) for a total rate of 4 shillings; cancelled London 30 June 1937, with airmail label front & back; red German zeppelin cachet ‘Deutsche-Luftpost, Europa-Sudafrica’; to Buenos Aires; a spectacular franking

Austria First Flight to New York 1969

40g, 60g, 1s UPU issue (SG1175–1177) on 1st flight Vienna–Brussels–New York via Boeing 707 jet, 1 April 1959; registered airmail, stamps cancelled with large special cachet; on reverse block of 4 SG 1538; arrival cds Jamaica, N.Y. A.M.F Kennedy, 1 April 1969

German POW in Australia to GB 1941

German POW in Australia to GB 1941

German Prisoner of War in Australian POW camp (full details on reverse); 1/6 airmail cancelled GPO Sydney NSW 25(?) Feb 1941 to Wolverhampton; m/s ‘By Airmail via South Africa’, plus violet h/s ‘Prisoner of War Service’ and ‘Passed by censor S.59’; a very unusual combination