Lobdell German East Africa, Eppel Russia and Worldwide Rarities
December 14-16, 2010
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #109 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Internment Camp Mail 1916 (3.7) postal card from the Portuguese camp in the Azores ("Angra de Heroismo") with "Franc de Port" and Red Cross markings, also 1917 cover from Catholic Mission in Bagamoyo to interned Frau Hennemann at Camp Wilhemstal v. Tanga, franked with I.E.F. 1a, with FPO 23 pmks, plus late usage of "Opened under Martial Law." label on cover to the Biological Institute at Amani (21 Dec.18)  | Unsold |
 | Lot #110 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Internment Camp Mail 1915 (Dec 27) cover (backflap missing) from the internment camp in Kilimatinde, franked with 7 1/2h, tied by cds, addressed Miss Scott, English missionary sister at the camp at Kiboriani (near Mpapua), with violet seal of the Native Tribunal "Eingeborenengericht Kilimatinde" used as a makeshift camp hs, partly overwritten "Gesehen", indicating contents were examined, some toning, rare item. Immediately after the outbreak of War in August 1914, allied civilians (most of the missionaries) were interned by the Germans in six camps: Tabora, Wilhelmsthal, Mahenge, Kilimatinde, Kiboriani and Buigiri. No covers are known from the first two camps, less than 20 total from all the others combined | Price Realized $2,000.00 |
 | Lot #111 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Internment Camp Mail 1915 (Nov) cover to Liwale from an internee at the Kiboriani camp, franked with 7 1/2h adhesive cancelled at nearby "Mpapua." The reverse bears the typically indistinct "Wachkommando Kiboriani" censor's seal, with his handwritten comments, a single-line "Der Kaiserliche Bezirksamtmann" hs, plus a Kilwa (14.11) arrival. The addressee, missionary nurse Miss E.L. Kemsley was not interned, but (as was the case with other nurses) was allowed to continue her hospital work | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #112 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Internment Camp Mail 1916 (22.2) cover sent to an internee (A.E. Deverell) at Tabora, from The East Africa Trading Company, a local firm with which Deverell was associated, with boxed cash franking (Friedemann BF11) and cds, filing folds and cover wear, signed Pauligk, BPP. Although no mail sent by civilians interned at the Tabora camp is known to have survived, there are rare examples of letters sent to the internees from friends and former associates elsewhere in the colony | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #113 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Internment Camp Mail 1916 (29 July) front only of a Morogoro pre-paid envelope, evidently used as an address label by an internee in a camp at Mahenge to an internee at a Tabora camp. The German censor used the seal of the commanding officer of the Schutztruppe in Mahenge and Songe, partly overwritten "Gesehen", indicating contents were examined. Stated to be the only recorded example of mail from the Mahenge camp | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
