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Large commercial envelope with label for 'The Harem Monthly" from Lahore to Nottingham; Pakistan pictorials 10p, 7p; m/s "not known at this address", Nottingham cds 13 June 1975; on reverse 'received in London June 1975'; from MV 'Nordwind', trapped in the Suez Canal after the Six Day War

Reference: 1246

complete envelope (has been opened out) with illustrated advertising for Hats and plastic tablecloths (front & back), franked with 6 x 3d pictorials, for 1/6 airmail rate to Bristol, cancelled Kingston 16 September 1955, slight faults to envelope but a very striking cover

Reference: 1169
Argentine advertising cover to USA censored 1942

10c & 5c portrait issue on lovely advertising envelope, cancelled Buenos Aires, 14 February 1942; to New York; censored and resealed with tape 'Examined by 6608' (by British in the West Indies?); no b/s; attractive item

Reference: 1055
Czechoslovakia Newspaper Post 1919

1 page from a news sheet or leaflet sent by Newspaper post from near Prague, 1 December 1919 (?) to Skiccon, Bohemia; franked with 5 newspaper stamps; showing a fine collection of adverts; small age faults but scarce

Reference: 1018
German advertising envelope registered 1927

40pfg portrait issue on registered envelope with commercial advertising; cancelled with d/r bridged cds Dortmund 22 Feb 1927; on reverse oval Munich 2a BZ 23 Feb (1927)

Reference: 850
GB violet datestamp on advertising card

GB ½d Jubilee issue on PPC with an advert for a Swiss accident insurance company, cancelled with VF s/r cds CHERINGTON STROUD 20 April 01 in violet
�21.00

Reference: 776
Germany decorative illustrated envelope 1924

3pfg of the new gold currency (renten-pfennige) used alone on illustrated decorative advertising envelope, to Vilshafen; cancelled s/r cds Günzburg 2 May 1924; printed paper rate; no b/s

Reference: 846
Pony Express envelope with Irish censor

2 x 3c red-brown US Pony Express issue on illustrated envelope for the 80th anniversary of the Pony Express, from Saint Joseph to Ireland, 3 April 1940, FDC cancellation; pink bilingual Irish censor tape No 120; no b/s; attractive cover

Reference: 766
Germany inflation August 1923

3 x 100 mk, 7 x 400 mk, 9 x 500 mk, 4 x 3000 mk, + 1 x 400 mk (lost) to make up the 20,000 rate; from Schwenningen to St Georgen ; all cancelled with bridged d/r cds on advertising envelope

Reference: 771
USA censored cartoon envelope 1944

US 3c Kentucky Statehood and Wyoming commemoratives cancelled s/r cds duplex on cartoon ("Stamp 'em Out!") illustrated envelope from Harrisonburg to Middlesbrough; m/s endorsement "Postage Stamps/Censorship Permit No C-469"; no b/s; portrait photo of a man in uniform within

Reference: 767
USA precancel on advertising envelope

US 1c green portrait issue pre-cancelled 'Racine Wis' correctly used alone on advertising envelope; b/s Salem Ohio 'flag' d/s 12 April 1905; a nice example of both a pre-cancel use and an advertising cover

Reference: 765
USA Winchester Rifle Advertising 1903

Damaged and repaired but a lovely advertising envelope 'Winchester Repeating Rifles' franked with damaged 2c Washington, opened roughly but the advert undamaged; from Salisbury, North Carolina to Chapel Hill, NC, 1 December 1903 (would be £50+ if undamaged)

Reference: 737
Hungary Scout Jamboree 1933

16f illustrated airmail PS card for the Scout Jamboree Gödöllö, franked with 10f, 20f, 40f Jamboree issue + 6f portrait (SG 544, 563, 565, 567), cancelled with special d/r GÖDÖLLÖ IV JAMBOREEE, also with illustrated Scout h/s Legipostajarai BUDAPEST, & transit bridged d/r cds MÁTYÁSFÖLD REPÜLÖTÉR 17 August; no b/s; folding crease down the card.

Reference: 722
GB advertising card for seed merchant with perfin 1916

GB KGV 1d red cancelled 9 February 1916 with m/c d/s and perfin, on advertising card from the Royal Seed Establishment, Southampton, with a selection of small illustrations; Dutch postman's cachet C7, perfin T & S 'Toogood and Sons',

Reference: 607
Germany Frankfurt Fair 1954

6 September 1954 Frankfurt to Krefeld, Frankfurt 'multi flag' International Fair card, franked with 3 Berlin issues (SG Berlin B94, B106, B36c) with special fair cancel: card used and posted with 10pfg President Heuss (SG 1109) & blue Berlin "Notopfer" label

Reference: 589
VENEZUELA COLOURFUL COVER WITH ADVERTISING C1945

A pictorial envelope with 10 separate colourful images advertising liquors (I think), franked with 1.80 blue air stamp, from Caracas to Louisville Kentucky cancelled with large bridged cds 22 November 1945(?): no/ b/s and with small faults to envelope but a fine colourful item

Reference: 550
SPAIN

envelope fully illustrated on reverse with b/w design inscribed 'Visitad Sevilla'; franked on the front with 2 x 1ptas Juan de la Cierva & Autogiro airmail stamps + 50c Franco, cancelled with hexagon airmail d/s of Seville; small faults & marks which look worse on the scan than in reality

Reference: 505
PALESTINE PUBLICITY LEAFLET WITH EEF STAMP USED AS A REVENUE STAMP

Decorative advertising flyer for Zion Hall Jerusalem, August c1934, including 'Tolstoi, a Drama in 5 parts' & publicity for a shop selling perfumes, hats, shoes etc., in English, Hebrew, Arabic, French; franked with Palestine 4 mills red (SG 8) overprinted 'O.P.D.A.½ mill.' (Ottoman Public Debt Administration); crease where folded but a rare & spectacular use

Reference: 480
GERMANY

10pfg red Germania issue on decorative illustrated envelope, red on cream, to commemorate the Jubilee of Kaiser Wilhelm, 25 years of his reign, 1888-1913; unused

Reference: 466
PORTUGAL ADVERTISING COVER 1953

5e, 1.50e, 10c Knight definitives cancelled CTT Restauradores 18 June 1953 on advertising envelope 'Por Aviao' to London; no back stamps; some faults to envelope

Reference: 437
SPAIN

Spanish 10c, 15c, 50c definitives cancelled with Barcelona roller datestamp; Egyptian Arabic Inspector's mark (censor?)' on reverse a large publicity label for the Internatiional Stamp Exhibition San Sebastian 1948

Reference: 425
BULGARIA COMMERCIAL ENVELOPE WITH 'SILVER' LION ISSUE 1938

Commercial registered envelope from Sophia to Basel franked with a pair of the albino style 'silver' Lion stamps, cancelled with bi-lingual s/r cds Sophia 10 August 1028; on reverse 3 large advertising seals of the sender 'Transbalkania' and Basel arrival cds 13 August 1928; attractive cover

Reference: 413
TRINIDAD 1st CARIBBEAN INTERCOLONIAL STAMP EXHIBITION 1948

Trinidad 1c, 2c, 3c KGVI pictorials (SG 246, 247, 248a) on illustrated envelope for the 1st Caribbean Intercolonial Stamp Exhibition, Port of Spain, May 1948, cancelled Whitehall Trinidad skeleton type cds; b/s Cross, Trinidad & San Fernando 7 May 1948, attractive and less common stamp exhibition cover

Reference: 369
LUXEMBOURG BALLOON CARD FOR INTERNATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION 1927

Luxembourg Grande Duchess Charlotte issue 2 x 20c orange on special balloon card for the International Stamp Exhibition, cancelled 'Par Ballon Exp.Phil. Luxembourg 8 Sept 1927', also with departure d/s of Roodt the same day, to Brussels. On the reverse of the card are notes about the first Luxembourg stamps

Reference: 331
LUXEMBOURG BALLOON CARD FOR INTERNATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION 1927

Luxembourg Grande Duchess Charlotte issue 2 x 20c orange on special balloon card for the International Stamp Exhibition, cancelled 'Par Ballon Exp.Phil. Luxembourg 8 Sept 1927', also with departure d/s of Roodt the same day, to Antwerp. On the reverse of the card are notes about the first Luxembourg stamps

Reference: 231
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