Lobdell German East Africa, Eppel Russia and Worldwide Rarities
December 14-16, 2010
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #178 GERMAN EAST AFRICA BELGIAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION 1916-22 collection on pages, with overprinted "German East Africa Belgian Occupation (in French and Flemish) stamps (used and unused sets), plus 16 covers or cards used from Belgian occupied Kigoma, Kigali, Tabora, Rukira, Usumbura, sent to various places including Holland, Costa Rica (!), England, France, British East Africa, USA and Switzerland, all brilliantly written up, enumerating routes, censor markings, postal rates and historical issues, fine group  Catalog #N17/NB9 | Price Realized $2,800.00 |
 | Lot #179 GERMAN EAST AFRICA BELGIAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION 1916 handstamped "Kigoma" on stamps of Belgian Congo, six different (applied as transit marks at Kigoma, for several months after its capture in July 1916), also "Taxes" handstamps (8) on the Waterlow issue, used as postage dues O | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #180 GERMAN EAST AFRICA BELGIAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION 1916 cover and card from Muanza to France, with transit Mombasa, Kisumu, endorsed "Service Militaire", fine. For less than two months, in the fall on 1916, the Belgian postal station in British-held Muanza, used an old, defaced German town canceller without date, to apply on mail which was headed via the Kenya Railroad for the Indian Ocean ports, and ultimately Europe | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #181 GERMAN EAST AFRICA BELGIAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION 1917 (July 4) registered cover from Kigoma, franked with three diff. overprinted stamps, bearing Congo Belge registry label, addressed to Baarle-Duc (Enclave Belge en Hollande), with "Est Africain Allemand Occupation Belge District d'Udjidji" Censure Militaire hs and Baarle Hertog arrival pmk pm on back. Baarle-Hertog is a municipality belonging to the Belgian province of Antwerp, but for the biggest part located in the Netherlands province of North Brabant. As it is completely surrounded by Holland, the enclave was not occupied by Germany | Price Realized $525.00 |
