U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 8-9, 2006

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #524
ALGERIA
1942 stampless cover from Laghouat Internment Camp (mailing address c/o U.S. Consul, Algiers), on the border of the Sahara Desert, administered by the Vichy French and supervised by the Italo-German Armistice Commission,with "Opened by Examiner 445" label and Alger cds, fine. The camp held RAF Airmen shot down in the Mediterranean and the sender of this cover was a secret agent with S.O.E. arrested by the Vichy, who later escaped, an interesting item
Envelope
Price Realized
$130.00

Lot #525
ALGERIA
Semi-Postals.
1962 9fr on 1fr green, corner margin plate no. single, l.h., v.f.
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Catalog #Ceres 363A
Catalog Value Euro 325
Unsold

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