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France-Alsace Railway cancel 1875

m/s Souvrance par Roulins, Doubs' + blue firm's cachet; 25c + 15c Cérès cancelled PC du GC 420 Belfort, 15 June 1875; with courier
conveyeur 'cachet ondulé' Laissey 15 BES.B (24); b/s Mulhausen 16 June 1875, a good Alsace railway item

Reference: 1095
1936 Tunis postal card

Parcel card with Tunis CP (colis postaux) label 8567, franked with parcel post stamps 5 x 2fr, 20c, 2 x 5c (SG P44, P46, P52) for 10fr 30c total rate, + 10c quittances fiscal stamp; superb Regence de Tunis cachet; 2 Marseille transit h/s; blue crayon m/s mark (4758?) and red ink '3.92'; Marseille PLM boxed railway d/s 26 Oct 1936; with some faults but a spectacular and rare item

Reference: 1090
1944 Polish Railway Conference

Block of 4 x 18 zloty Railway Conference issue (SG 629) with marginal inscriptions; cancelled d/r cds Tarnow 5 December 1944; to Barnsley, no b/s; scarce stamps, minor faults to back of envelope

Reference: 1087
USA Special Delivery 1938

10c 'Arms' Special Delivery issue on envelope inscribed 'Via Air Mail Special Delivery' cancelled Rensselaer Ind 24 March 1938; red h/s 'Fee claimed Cincinnati, Ohio'; b/s oval d/s 'CHGO. TERM. R.P.O. Tr 3 (railway d/s) 24 March 1938, CRI MON & CIN 24 March, CINCINNATI 25 March 1936
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Reference: 919
Egypt railways envelope with official stamp 1937

Large wrapper inscribed "Publicity Department Egyptian State Railways, Telegraphs and Telephones, Cairo Station"; franked with corner marginal 15 mills brown official stamp, cancelled Cairo c1937-8, to London

Reference: 871
Sweden Postcard to Kiel 1901

PS card 3 ore red cancelled with VF d/r cds Stockholm 3 HOT.4; to Kiel, 26 June 1901; railway d/s PKXP. No 2 A. INR. N. 27 June; d/r bridged arrival cds Kiel 1p 27 June 1901; on reverse superb blue cachet Kaiserlich Deutsches General-Konsulat in Stockholm, fine attractive item

Reference: 860
Sudan Railways Parcels Invoice 1944

SUDAN RAILWAYS Form No 178 'Invoice for Parcels Traffic No 46064' bilingual form, completed in English, from and to the military, from Khartoum to RES Company ERKOWIT; very scarce in good condition

Reference: 726
Italy

Italy Railway Centenary issue 1939 2 x 20c, 2 x 50c, 1 lira 25 (SG 550-2) + 10c definitive (SG 241), Firenze to Katwijk aan Zee, Holland; 2 lire 75 registered rate early in WW2, unclear b/s; with original clear letter re stamp dealing; attractive (and railway theme)

Reference: 625
GB RAILWAY PARCELS DOCUMENT 1908

Railway Parcels Department consignment note from Lymington (?) Station from The London & South Western Railway Co, for bags of coal (?); notice & regulations printed on the reverse; some age faults

Reference: 482
YUGOSLAVIA CHAINBREAKER CANCELLED WITH (SLOVENIA) RAILWAY TPO

Yugoslavia 20v purple-brown Chainbreaker (SG 101?) Slovenia issue (stated to be Carinthia)cancelled with blue railway TPO 'Posin-Uraq-Gelovedc'(?); no backstamp, and despite a vertical fold to the envelope an attractive piece

Reference: 464
SUDAN SMALL CAMELS ON THOS COOK ENVELOPE WITH TPO CANCELS 1922

Thomas Cook & Co envelope, FRONT only, with Sudan small camel designs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mills (15 mills rate) neatly cancelled Shellal - Haifa TPO No 1 22 January 1922, to Vienna; fine clean cancels but edges of envelope front slightly rough.

Reference: 396
ETHIOPIA OFFICIAL ENVELOPE TO FRANCE 1955

Official envelope from the Ethiopian Post Office, with bi-lingual headings & 'Administration des Postes', with flimsy yellow registration etiquette, handstamped 'Prepaid' & billingual cachet 'Addis Abeba Registered' 24 December 1955. To the director of French Railways, Nanterre; slight faults to envelope

Reference: 358
AUSTRIA 1915 EXP0RESS COVER TO SWITZERLAND WITH RAILWAY CANCEL & CENSOR HANDSTAMP

Large envelope from Radbor to Berne, franked with 5 x 10 heller & 5 heller Franz Josef issues cancelled Cercan-Kolin No 574 6 April 1915, Express in MS & etiquette, purple 'Oberpruft' censor handstamp; on revers Bern Transit cds 10 May 1915; a striking cover

Reference: 216
SAVOIE: 1909 PICTURE POSTCARD WITH CHAMBERY A GRENOBLE AMBULANT POSTMARK.

1909 picture postcard of Modane with the 10c stamp cancelled by a CHAMBERY A GRENOBLE ambulant postmark dated 31.DEC.09.

Reference: 225H
NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION POSTAL STATIONERY ENVELOPE

NGC postal stationery envelope with 1 groschen imprint neatly cancelled Magdeburg Bahnh. (Railway Station) c1870-1, to Berlin; a fine clean cover

Reference: 131
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