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Condor Legion. 1937 Covers and cards to or from the German Condor Legion in Spain comprising two covers from Spain bearing German stamps cancelled in Berlin both with a red date handstamped on the reverse, one with the Max Winkler undercover address cachet, the other with an enclosed letter from a member of 1 Flak Unit at Lurgos with a large censor cachet in green; also a cover and a card to "Karl Heimerl S.88" (Staff H.Q) with red handstruck date, both forwarded under cover to Spain. A scarce group. (4 + letter). Photo on Page 69. £500-700
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German Naval involvement. 1937-39 Covers and cards including 1937 Deutsch Schiffspost datestamps from the "Deutschland" (bombed in May, killing 31) or the "Leipzig" (attacked in June), covers posted in Spain from crew members of the "Admiral Scheer" (which shelled Almeria in May), the supply ships "August Schultze" or "Antarktis", etc. (6). £80-100
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1940 Stampless "S.F.K Haparanda F." printed postcard from a Swedish volunteer with "FALTPOST / S.F.K" c.d.s; Express cover from Stockholm and a returned undelivered cover from Uppsala with "Retur ausanda" cachet and violet "FALTPOSTKONTORET / 23 APR 1940 / S.F.K DEPA" backstamp, both to Swedish volunteers; stamped cards from Danish and Norwegian volunteers; and one other cover, an unusual lot. (6). £200-250
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1940 Cover from L.R Thompson, a British volunteer at Korpilahti, and covers to or from F/M Duckworth, one of 16 RAF ground crew who were allowed to resign and go to Finland as employees of the Gloster Aircraft Co., to service aircraft. All three with British and Finnish censors, the cover from G.B to Duckworth at "K.P.K 16, 5928" and forwarded to the Finnish Legation at Stockholm with a unit cachet applied. Also a letter from the Finnish Aid Bureau in London to a British volunteer. An unusual lot. 227 British volunteers went to Finland. (4). Photo on Page 69. £180-220
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1940 Cover from York to "Alfred Graveson, Friends Ambulance Unit, Militarpost, Finland", and covers from John Heywood serving with the F.A.U in Finland (2), one cancelled at KpK 15 in Karelia with "Kenttapostia" cachet and return address of "KpK 28, unit 1752", the other sent from Joensuu after hostilities had ceased. 56 British volunteers served with the Friends Ambulance Unit in Finland. Very scarce. (3). Photo on Page 69. £150-180
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1939-41 Service Suspended covers all returned to the sender comprising covers from G.B to Germany, Holland (with an enclosed slip apologising for the delay in returning the letter), France (unusually missent to Canada), Monaco, Norway, Italy, Singapore, Dutch East Indies, Ireland to Jersey, or USA to Philippine Islands. (10). £120-150
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Norway. 1940 (April 20) Field Service postcard with superb F.P.O 115 c.d.s, used at Harstad in the Lofoten Islands. The earliest recorded use of this rare c.d.s. Photo on Page 69. £100-120
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1939-45 Covers illustrating notable events of the war including Dunkirk, murder of Polish Officers by the Russians in the Katyn Forest with 1940 Red Cross cover to a Polish Officer at Ostaszkow returned marked "Retour Parti"; sinking of H.M.S "Hood" with named double ring censor cachet; sinking of H.M.S "Repulse" with a cover to the ship returned on Admiralty Instructions in 1942; Pearl Harbour with a cover to U.S.S "Nevada"; 1942 Dieppe Raid with a returned cover to a Canadian soldier killed in the raid; sinking of H.M.S "Medway" with a cover returned from the ship; El Alamein with a cover from Ruweisat Ridge on the first day of the battle and an air letter sent three days later describing the battle; sinking of H.M.S "Mahratta" in the Barents Sea with a returned cover bearing label "missing, presumed killed, on active service"; Battle of Monte Cassino; and V.J day with a cover and enclosed letter from U.S.S "Bennington" in Tokyo Bay. An interesting lot. (14). £250-300
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1939-44 Covers, cards and airgraphs including 1939 card and cover flown from France to Abingdon by the R.A.F and then posted (the cover from Charles Lockett, later a P.O.W at Colditz); 1940 postcard from the Hastings Local Defence Volunteers to the local museum thanking them for a sporting gun!; covers from Jewish refugees at Kitchener Camp, Sandwich (2, one to USA with US 60c and G.B 2/6 postage dues); 1940 cover from League of Nations in Geneva with "DETAINED IN FRANCE / DURING GERMAN / OCCUPATION"; 1940 cover from Canada with "SALVED FROM THE SEA"; R.A.F in Southern Rhodesia (3); Airgraphs (4, three pictorial including Narvik 1940-44); 1940 registered cover from British forces at Gebeit, Sudan; 1943 cover to 3 Commando in Gibraltar; G.B 3d Airgraph unused, etc. Also two stampless 1953 O.A.S air letters from Korea. (21). £200-250
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1942-47 Forces mail all bearing G.B stamps, cancels include Indian, US and South African F.P.Os, violet oval Fleet Mail Office, Johannesburg, censor cachet used as a cancel on a cover to the Faroe Islands, dumb cancel on a Xmas Greetings air letter, censored air letter from H.M.S "Hannibal" to Box 111 Bletchley (undercover address for Bletchley Park), air letter overprinted "Naval Issue", etc. (27). £130-150
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1942-47 Forces covers sent by native Pioneer Corps troops from Basutoland (6), Bechuanaland (9), Swaziland (3) or Uganda, one posted from Maseru franked 1½d with "RECORD OFFICE / A.A.P.C., N.T., MASERU", the others with F.P.O cancels from Egypt, Italy or the Middle East, most with cancels or endorsements indicating the native language of the enclosed letter. Other cachets include oval "BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE GROUP / A.A.P.C" and "CONCESSIONAL POSTAGE / PERSONNEL FROM S. AFRICA", one registered. An unusual lot, ex John Daynes collection. (19). £300-350
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Undercover Addresses - Thomas Cook. 1941-43 Covers from France or Hungary to P.O Box 506, Lisbon, the undercover address for forwarding mail to G.B, the Hungary cover redirected to Sussex with a yellow address label applied and tied violet oval "THO. COOK & SON LTD / 2 APR 1943 / BERKELEY ST, W.1" and a G.B 2½d (perfin "T.C / S") cancelled in London. (2). £100-120
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Undercover Mail - Thomas Cook. 1941 Covers from Jewish senders in Germany to "P.O Box 252, Grand Central Annex P.O, New York", the Thomas Cook undercover address for forwarding mail to Canada, both forwarded to internees with "CANADA INT. OP. / 21 / CENSORED" cachets. Very scarce, this P.O Box address ceased when the USA entered the war in December 1941. (2). Photo on Page 69. £200-250
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Propaganda Forgeries - Operation Cornflakes. 1945 Cover produced by the US Office of Strategic Services and dropped near bombed and wrecked mail trains, containing forged propaganda material. Addressed to Hannover with a forged 12pf Hitler Head stamp tied by Wien c.d.s, a couple of small edge tears, otherwise fine and scarce. With 1969 Heinrich Wittmann certificate. Photo on Page 77. £250-350
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Propaganda leaflets (28) dropped over Germany, France, Italy, Holland or G.B, and similar Korean War propaganda leaflets (8), a little duplication and some faults. Also WW2 South African forces mail (10) from Kenya or Italy, airgraphs (2), 1941 cover with "WAR TRAIN PO" c.d.s, and various unrelated items. (49+). £100-150
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Hong Kong. 1940-41 Air Mail covers to G.B sent by clipper via USA franked $2.95 (2, one of 18 June 1940 carried on the first Hong Kong - San Francisco - N.Y flight) or $5, via Rangoon franked $1.50 or by sea to USA and then air franked $2 (with large triangular "PASSED / BY / CENSOR / 111"), and a stampless air mail cover to London with octagonal "HONG KONG / 1945 / POSTAGE PAID" and red Maritime Mail machine on the reverse. (6). £200-250
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1936-45 Covers and cards, the written up display collection showing the postal history of the German army, air force and navy, and the history of the principal events in the war for Germany, including 1937 manoeuvres (6); 1938 annexation of Austria (10); 1938 Occupation of Sudetenland (13); 1939 manoeuvres (4) and occupation of Czechoslovakia (8); Feldpost datestamps including provisional types, Danzig types, reuse of WWI cancels, coloured cancels, camps, Kriegsmarine, Dienstpost and Deutsche Reichpost datestamps; censor and unit handstamps; Feldpost sent by air mail, express, C.O.D, money letters, money order cards, telegrams, parcel post, bundle labels, carrier pigeon message; Feldpost to or from foreign countries; foreign volunteers in the army, S.S or navy including French, Dutch (4), Finnish (2), Estonian, Czech and the Spanish Blue Division; Returned mail and cachets with Disinfected (2), Returned Bomb Damage, Damaged by Enemy Action and Damaged in a train fire; Parcel permit stamps; Luftfeldpost stamps with uses from Russia, Northern Scandinavia and Aegean Islands; use of foreign stationery and stamps; Feldpost number notification cards; ambulance trains and hospital ships; 1939 Polish campaign (7); 1940 invasion of Norway including first and second Battles of Narvik (12); invasion of Holland and Belgium, the Battle of France and Dunkirk; 1940 air force in the Battle of Britain (4); Channel Islands mail from Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey (2, one of Nov. 1944 flown from Guernsey during the fortress period); Naval mail including U-Boats, the "Bismarck", "Tirpitz", etc.; Afrika Korps (11, one carried by Courier mail and posted in Berlin); Invasion of Greece (2) and Crete; Commercial Raiders "Widder", "Orion", "Kormoran" and "Atlantis"; Russia campaign with Operation Barbarossa, Battle for Moscow, Army Group South in the Crimea (2) or Sebastopol (6), Fortress Damjansk (4), Katyn, Operation Citadel, destruction of Army Group Centre, air mails, Blue Division, use of Russian stamps and stationery; Rejected Military air mails; Sign of Life cards (2); 1944 Battle for Cherbourg and Normandy (3); 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Rising; 1944 Fortress St. Nazaire; air aces; red Inselpost overprint on Luftfeldpost stamp used from Crete (with 1981 Gustav Mogler Foto-Attest); Inselpost overprints on parcel permit stamps used from Kos, Rhodes (both flown on the last flight) or Crete; 1945 Ostpreussen-Feldpost postcard and lettersheet; 1945 Radio Message cards posted at Wilhelmshaven with messages received from Dunkirk (2); 1945 Feldpost captured, censored and delivered by the allies, or posted after the German surrender (2). A fine collection with many scarce items. (322). Photo on Page 72. £5,000-7,000
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Afrika Korps. 1941-43 Registered Official Feldpost covers (23, also one other ordinary cover) mounted on pages, all with unit and location identified, including 1943 covers from the final bridgehead in Tunisia (13), earlier covers from the El Agheila line, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, etc., all very fine. (24). £300-350
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Great Escape - Stalag Luft 3 / Colditz. 1942 Lettersheet from Fl. Lt. R.S.A Churchill at Stalag Luft 3, one of 76 Officers who escaped in 1944, fifty of whom were murdered by the Gestapo - Churchill was one of the 26 survivors, supposedly saved because of his name. Also 1940-43 lettersheets from British or Polish P.O.Ws in Oflag IVC, Colditz. (3). £100-120
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1940-44 Covers and cards from British P.O.Ws or internees including 1940 (Feb. 12) cover from F/O Kempster interned at Borsbeek in neutral Belgium with violet "DEPOTS D'INTERNMENT / CENSURE MILITAIRE"; 1940 lettersheet from A/C L. Slattery in Dulag Luft, the first British P.O.W of WW2 (shot down on 4th Sept. 1939); 1943 postcard from a P.O.W in Sweden; 1943 cover from a British diplomat detained with British officials at the Westend Hotel, Bad Neuenahr an der Ahr; 1941 air mail postcard (punch holes) bearing 15pf in stamps, the message giving details of a Portuguese address for forwarding mail; Vatican Christmas message from a POW in Italy; air mail cover from Switzerland; mail from civilian internees in France (2) or Germany (4, two Channel Islanders), etc. Also covers to or from the Dutch internment camp at Haaren. (19). £180-220
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1940-47 Covers and cards from German or Italian P.O.Ws or internees including covers to or from crew members of the "Columbus" at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, or the "Arauca" at Bismarck, North Dakota; 1941 lettersheet from P.O.W Camp 2 in G.B detained and condemned by the censor with the accompanying M.I censor form stating "writer says food is short. He states he has received no mail from parents since Dec. 1940 but actually received four letters from them since that date"; covers to G.B camps with "Repatriated" cachets (2); South Africa internee covers (2, one with the stamp removed and the cachet "Marken fehlten bei Ankunft des / Briefes in der Schweiz. Basel 17"), etc. Also 1947-49 displaced persons mail (3) and 1944 cover from Rohwer Relocation Centre, Wyoming, to Heart Mountain. (17). £170-220
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Australia. 1943 6d Air Mail Fee P.O.W postal stationery postcard from Dhurringile Camp, Victoria, to Germany, Australian and German censors and a Melbourne c.d.s. Sent by Lt. Ahl, seaplane pilot on the German raider "Kormoran" which was sunk off Western Australia in November 1941 by H.M.A.S "Sydney", which itself sank in the battle with the loss of all the crew. Dhurringile held c.50 Officers and their batmen. £100-120
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Canada. 1940-46 Covers and cards, the display collection showing mail to or from the various P.O.W, Internee and Refugee camps including air mail with stamps or cachets; express Red Cross message; cover bearing International Education Bureau stamp and cancel; ingoing cover with "REJECTED" cachet; card from U-Boat Commander Diggins, previously Flag Officer on the "Graf Spree" (who escaped from Uruguay to Germany); mail to or from other internees in Australia or Isle of Man; Y.M.C.A Christmas cards (3); prisoners from U-Boats and blockade running ships; P.O.W cancels and meter marks, with mail from 18 differing camps. (49). £350-400
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"Gripsholm" Repatriation Ship. 1943-44 Covers to American civilians being repatriated on the "Gripsholm" at Rio de Janeiro or New York; or from a German merchant seaman on the ship en route to Germany via Lisbon, addressed to a German internee in Canada. (3). £100-120
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1945 Covers to or from liberated P.O.Ws in the Far East, with US 6c envelope from "liberated UK P.O.W D.C May, H.Q 3 Australian P.W Reception Group" with "AUST. ARMY P.O 243" c.d.s; Japanese 2s postcard from W.B Haslett on R.M.S "Empress of Australia" approaching Suez with F.P.O 174 c.d.s; "Recovered P.O.W" printed postcard from "Recovered P.W Mail Centre, Bombay" with Indian F.P.O 696; and a cover to a liberated P.O.W on the "Ranchi" returned with violet cachet "could not be forwarded in time to connect with the ship or aircraft on which addressee was repatriated". (4). £100-120
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1886-1914 Turkey covers and cards (13), pieces (5), stamps (15) and a Jaffa interpostal seal, cancels on covers and cards comprising Bur. Amb. Jerusalem - Jaffa 2, Jerusalem (6), Caifa, Safed, Nasre (2), Jericho or Bethlehem (negative seal type), various postmark types, one stamp perfined "CL/J", two cards with differing "Grand New Hotel, A. & J. Morcos" cachets. (34). £300-400
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1861-1913 Covers and cards (17), fronts (2), unused postal stationery (3), pieces (7) and stamps (59) from various foreign Post Offices in Jerusalem or Jaffa including 1861 front with superb blue "POSTE FRANCAISE / JERUSALEM" cross handstamp and imperf France 10c, 40c each cancelled "3768" with a Jaffa c.d.s alongside; front from Jaffa with Austria 3h pair each cancelled violet oval "LLOYD AUSTRIACO / PIROSCAFO / EUTERPE"; Austrian P.O covers with a cachet of the "Grand New Hotel, A. & J. Morcos" or with an illustration of the hotel on the reverse; 1913 postcard cancelled at Jaffa Austrian P.O with boxed "AUS JERUSALEM / OSTERR POST"; German P.O cards with cachets of the Jordan Hotel, Jericho or Hotel du Parc, Jaffa, etc. (88). Photo on Page 77. £250-300
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1913 Parcel receipt, for a parcel to A. Aaronsohn in Hamburg, with a fine Caifa Austrian P.O c.d.s; and a 1914 Turkey 20pa postcard from Damascus to "A. Aaronsohn, Jewish Agricultural Experimental Station, Haifa" with a fine Caiffa arrival c.d.s. Aaronsohn was a world famous botanist and agronomist; in 1916 he formed the Nili spy organisation with his sisters, passing on Turkish war secrets to the British until his sister was captured and committed suicide late in 1917. (2). £80-100
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1917-19 British forces mail, covers and cards with F.P.O or A.P.O datestamps all illustrating aspects of the war in Palestine including 1917 (Oct 23) cover from Cairo to "Colonel Stewart Newcombe, Arab Bureau" redirected to "H.Q P. L of C Defences, E.L Arish" with F.P.O GM 2 and A.P.O SZ7; 1918 "Kingstonian" wreck mail from F.P.O 181 (with "sea water" cachet) or A.P.O SZ34 (2); Australian 4th L.H Bde c.d.s; registered covers from A.P.O. SZ9 and SZ60; skeleton datestamps of F.P.O 179, 181, H20, H20T, SZ57 and A.P.O SZ 14, 28, 33, 44, etc., also 1920 O.A.S card from Jerusalem with a London c.d.s and "Received From H.M Ship", and Palestine News wrapper to Cairo with G.B ½d tied by Army Post Office parcel cancel. (24). £200-250
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General Allenby. 1918 (Feb 22) Stampless O.A.S cover to Capt. Battine in London, signed "E. Allenby" with F.P.O GM2 skeleton, the enclosed letter written and signed by Allenby, including "Roberston has now gone, and Wilson reigns in his stead. Rawly to Versailles ..... Smuts has been with me for a week, in Palestine and Egypt ..... Yesterday I took Jericho, and got to the Jordan and Dead Sea". An historic letter and cover from the Commander of the British forces in Palestine. £150-200
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British West Indies Regt. 1917 (Nov 29) O.A.S cover to Barbados with F.P.O H21 skeleton of Bir Salem, and 1919 (Feb 4) O.A.S cover (corner fault) to British Guiana with F.P.O SZ59 skeleton of Tul Keram, scarce. Two Battalions of the B.W.I Regt. served in Palestine. (2). £100-150
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Jewish Battalions, Royal Fusiliers. 1919-20 O.A.S covers from the three R.F Jewish Battalions comprising cover from 38 Batt. at Rafa; Indian 2a6p registration envelope with Indian F.P.O 83 c.d.s from 38 Batt. at Ludd to the Jewish Relief Fund in Copenhagen; 2d registration envelope from a US volunteer in 39 Batt. with A.P.O SZ20 c.d.s of Ludd, to USA; 2d registration envelopes from 40 Batt with Indian F.P.O 83 of Ludd or to Switzerland with BAPO K of Kantara. A scarce group. (5). £200-250
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Jewish Battalion - Vladimir Jabotinsky. 1919 (Jan 11) Stampless O.A.S cover signed by Jabotinsky, addressed by him to "Misses B and N. Berline, V.A.D, 69 General Hospital, EEF, Belah", with A.P.O SZ47 skeleton of Sarona. Jabotinsky first proposed the formation of a Jewish unit for service in Palestine, and served in the 38th Batt. Royal Fusiliers. The Berline sisters were the first Palestinian women volunteers. An historic cover. Photo on Page 77. £150-180
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T.P.Os. 1917 (Sep 1) O.A.S postcard with large "PAL / TPO" skeleton, used on the TPO between Kantara and the railhead, then at Deir el Belah; and 1919 (Apr 14) O.A.S postcard with small "JAP / TPO" skeleton, used between Jerusalem and Jaffa. (2). £100-120
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Italian Forces. 1918 (June 20) 2d Registration envelope to Egypt with A.P.O SZ34 skeleton datestamps, from Captain Bellantoni with red "Distaccamento Italiano in Palestina / COMANDO", boxed "VERIFICATO PER / CENSURA" and "CENSORE No. 2". Also a postcard with Palestine 1m and 2m tied by A.P.O SZ44 skeleton, from an Italian in Jerusalem, to "Cap. Domenico Bellantoni, Italian Palestine Detachment, Junction, EEF". (2). £150-180
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Civilian Use of A.P.O. 1917 (Dec 31) Stampless cover from Jerusalem to Germany with A.P.O SZ44 skeleton and triangular army censor No. 3346, British and German censor labels and violet "Freigegeben / Auslandstelle Coln - Deutz". A little staining at upper edge, otherwise fine and a remarkable destination. The only cover, from a civilian posted through the A.P.O before Palestine stamps were available, that has been recorded addressed to Germany. Photo on Page 77. £300-400
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Civilian Use of A.P.O. 1918 Covers franked 1pi from A.P.O SZ44 or SZ45, or registered from A.P.O SZ45 franked by two 1pi stamps, all addressed to the International Bureau for the exchange of correspondence between belligerent countries, in Geneva, one showing the final intended address of Weinsberg, Germany. Unusual examples of mail intended for German addressees during the war. (3). £150-200
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Civilian Use of A.P.O. 1918-20 Covers and cards bearing Palestine stamps with postcards franked 5m from A.P.O SZ44 (2); covers franked 1pi from A.P.O SZ44 or SZ45 (3); registered covers franked 2pi from A.P.O SZ27 or SZ45, or Indian F.P.O 31; and a cover from A.P.O SZ32 bearing 3m - 5pi. (10). £200-250
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Civilian Use of A.P.O. 1918 Registered picture postcards franked 1pi ultramarine + 5m on 1p, 5m on 1pi strip of three, or 1pi ultramarine + 4m (2 cards), from A.P.O SZ44 (2) or SZ45 (2), all to Port Said. Also a Turkey postal stationery card bearing a Turkish stamp and Palestine 5m, sent from F.P.O SZ8 to Sudan. Five unusual postcards. (5). £180-220
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E.E.F Stamps Used Outside Palestine. 1918-20 Covers and cards including a parcel card with 10pi tied arabic Adana 3 c.d.s; Turkey postal stationery envelope to Sudan franked 1pi tied "HALEP / 3" c.d.s; postcard with 5m tied by "BAALBEK" c.d.s; and a cover with 1pi tied "BEYROUTH" c.d.s. Also two pieces bearing 2m (stained) or 1pi both cancelled by bilingual "FEKE" c.d.s (17.3.20), octagonal arabic handstamps applied to the 2m or the margin on the 1pi, the 2m piece with another c.d.s alongside, the only date recorded by Firebrace for Palestine stamps used in Feke. (6). £200-250
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Parcel Post. 1918 (Oct 12) Parcel Post label with A.P.O SZ45 skeleton, bearing "376" label and a 5pi stamp tied by a barred parcel cancel; and 1920 O.E.T.P.A parcels post certificate of posting bearing O.P.D.A 2½m and 5m (2) revenues tied by Jerusalem datestamps. (2). £120-150
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Postal Use of Revenues. 1918 Front bearing G.B 1d with "O.P.D.A. / 1pt." overprint tied by A.P.O SZ44 skeleton, and 1921 cover to Cairo with two 5m O.P.D.A overprint stamps tied by Tiberias c.d.s, arrival backstamp, unusual. (2). Photo on Page 77. £150-180
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O.E.T.A. 1919-20 Covers including "TIBERIAS / OET" skeleton on a stampless O.A.S cover and a registered cover franked 1pi pair and 3m pair, Jerusalem cancels (5, two registered), also a 1920 wrapper from Egypt to Jerusalem with "T" handstamp. (8). £120-150
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P.O.W / Internee Mail. 1918 Covers franked 1pi from A.P.O SZ44 to Sidi Bishr Aliens Internment Camp or from A.P.O SZ27 addressed in arabic to a P.O.W at Ludd; stampless postcard from Sidi Bishr Aliens Camp to the German Colony at Walhalla, Jaffa; and a lettersheet from Al-Rayeh Internment Camp at Helouan to Jerusalem with F.P.O GM c.d.s, the letter concerning schools for German Templar colonies in the holy land. (4). £100-150
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1918-42 Mint and used collection in an album including 1918 (Feb. 10) 1pi deep blue corner marginal pair with control A18, 1918 (Feb 16) 5m on 1pi cobalt-blue unused, 1pi ultramarine C18 control blocks (3), 5m on 1pi ultramarine D18C control block of six, 1918 set on cover, with plate varieties, shades, perf and watermark varieties, missing perfs, cancels, and various overprint settings; overprint issues fine mint with 1920 (Sept.) perf 15x14 and perf 14 sets, 1920 (Dec.) - 1921 perf 15x14 1m - 5m, 2pi - 5pi and perf 14 2m - 5pi, 1920 (Dec. 6) perf 15x14 3m and perf 14 1m and 5m (S.G. 46), 1921 (May-Aug.) 1m - 2pi, 9pi - 10pi, 1921-22 set, 1922 perf 15x14 5pi - 20pi; postage dues; perfins; 1927-45 and 1932-44 sets mint with additional shades and papers. S.G. £3,000+. (100s). £300-400
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1918-42 Issues mint, used and on cover, in a binder, including 1918 (Feb 10) 1pi deep blue unused and used (3, one on piece), covers bearing various 1920-22 overprint issues (35), 1920 (Sept.) perf 15x14 set mint and used with 20pi (3) and perf 14 2m -5m mint, 1920 (Dec. 6) perf 15x14 3m and perf 14 1m mint, 1921 (May-Aug) 9pi used, 1921-22 set mint, 1927-45 and 1932-44 sets mint with additional papers, various 1927-44 issue covers (23), postage dues, etc. (100s). £300-350
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1927-45 2m - £P1 Pictorial Definitives, the mint and used display collection written up in German on 36 pages, arranged by value including the various papers and shades, mint plate blocks of nearly all values (32, also various singles and pairs), gutter pairs and blocks, £P1 mint blocks of 30 (2), 90m mint (2) and used (4), coil stamps with 5m strips of eleven (2) and 10m strip of nine mint, also a few covers (11, one with 10m coil pair), Anglo-Palestine Co. perfins used (25), 1928-44 postage dues used, also two books. (512 +13 covers). £300-400
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1927-45 2m - £P1 Pictorial Definitives, mint and used collection in an album and stockbook with various papers and shades, plate varieties, cancellations, plate blocks mint (8) or used (3), mint blocks of the 250m (104 in four blocks), 500m (70 in three blocks) and £P1 (18 in four blocks), a few postage dues and perfins, 5m mint coil strip of seven, also 13 covers. (100s). £200-250
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First Day Cover. 1920 (Sep 1) Commercial registered cover to Germany posted on the first day of the civil administration in Palestine and the day of issue of the Palestine overprint stamps, bearing Palestine overprint 2m, 4m and 2pi tied by Jerusalem Rgd skeletons, with boxed "R / JERUSALEM / No.". A fine and scarce first day cover, with despatch and arrival backstamps. Photo on Page 77. £300-350
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1920-27 Covers bearing Palestine overprint issues including registered sample post to Germany franked 4m and 2pi, undelivered and returned registered AR cover to France franked 3m (2) and 2pi, Official Post Office registered covers franked 2pi (to China) or 3pi, other registration rates, 3m printed matter rate (2, one with triangular JA cancel), Jerusalem Jaffa T.P.O Down skeleton cancel, combination frankings of Palestine overprint and 1927 issues (2, one perfin APC, a little reduced), etc. An interesting selected group. (13). £180-220
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