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Cape of Good Hope Walfish Bay 1909

KE7 1d pink on grey PS card upgraded with ½d & 1d definitives, cancelled Potchefstroom (?) 21 December 1909 in the Walfish Bay enclave in German SW Africa (Now Namibia); no b/s

Transvaal Boer War 1901 censored

1d ERI overprint on mourning envelope; cancelled 9 October 1901 Potchefstroom; resealed with censor label “Opened under Martial Law” tied by oval censor cachet; oval ‘Press Censor’ cachet; Johannesburg bridged razor blade type cds 11 Oct & 12 Oct 1901

GB Boer War FPO 1900

GB 1d lilac 16 dots cancelled FPO BO British South Africa 8 August 1900; s/r cds MODDER RIVER 7 Aug 1900 the d/s of origin; on patriotic Boer War card; a good scarce postmark

Anglo-German propaganda card 1901

French 10c Sage PS card with Anglo-German political propaganda cartoon, with illustration (mounted on the PS card) depicting Queen Victoria & Bûlow (the German Chancellor), reflecting the Naval Race;  d/r cds St Nicolas du Port and Verneuil, 28 & 29 April 1901; a rare card

Poland, Russian parcel card Lodz 1909

Russian parcel card, registered from Lodz in Poland, appears to be local use, franked with arms types 50k, 20k, 3 x 10k, 5k, 3k (108 kopek rate); striking franking, on front and back, and a spectacular Poland cover

Marseille coloured card 1904 refusé

Illustrated ‘gruss aus’ type card of Marseille from the publisher, dated 1904: originally it was franked 1c on’ bande’, stamp lost; card thus charged 20c postage due (2 x 1c postage due stamps lost) on reverse: h/s REFUSÉ and returned; on reverse of the ‘bande’ h/s ‘retour à l’envoyeur 3103’ (Reims); a fine item

India forwarded and refused 1907

3 x ½ Anna + 2 annas all cancelled s/r cds WADHWAN CITY 31 October 1907 (error for “3 October”?); re-addressed several times; b/s Vichnia Kathianar 3 October, 5 November, 11 November; Chuda 1 November; Morvad 1 & 2 November;  forwarding details uncertain; ms in red ‘refused’; fragile but interesting native language cover

Mixed franking Gibraltar 1904

Mixed franking France 10c Merson + Gibraltar KEVII 1d purple on red, both cancelled 2 September 1904; on twin view of Gibraltar PPC; with s/r cds on readdressing from Llangefuis to Llanberis

Germany return to sender 1909

Germany return to sender 1909

10pfg Germania on PPC of Saxony cancelled s/r cds Porschdorf 21 July 1909; h/s boxed NON RECLAMÉ’ and 2 strikes ‘RETOUR À L’ENVOYEUR’; d/r cds ‘Lyon/Rhone’ 23 July 1909 after return