Lobdell German East Africa, Eppel Russia and Worldwide Rarities
December 14-16, 2010
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #87 GERMAN EAST AFRICA The Portuguese Connection 1914 (24.9) 4h stationery card from Dar-es-Salaam to Germany, via Portuguese East Africa, with Quelima, Nyassa transit, fine early example of wartime mail. British naval blockade disrupted postal service and beginning in October, mail shipments were transferred across the border monthly to postal officials in Portuguese East Africa, the only adjacent colony not at war with Germany. From there, mail was carried on Portuguese steamers to Lisbon, then transported via neutral channels to Germany. British pressure on Portugal eventually halted this arrangement in September 1915  | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #88 GERMAN EAST AFRICA The Portuguese Connection 1914 (30.7) cover franked with 7 1/2h, used from Kilwa (one week before the outbreak of war), probably included in the first batch of mail to Germany, via Portuguese East Africa, with foreign mail censor "Frei gegeben" Emmerich (close to neutral Holland), the entry point for most of the mail which reached Germany from East Africa. Cover was forwarded via fieldpost to the addressee, an army officer. Interesting usage, signed Bothe | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #89 GERMAN EAST AFRICA The Portuguese Connection 1915 (14.4) 7 1/2h stationery card from Mombo to Berlin, also a card from the brewery in Dar-es-Salaam franked with 4h (22.5) to Frankenberg, each via Lourenco Marques, with violet "Zensur Passiert" handstamps, some toning, otherwise fine-v.f., signed Mansfield | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #90 GERMAN EAST AFRICA The Portuguese Connection 1915 (22.1) 7 1/2h stationery card from Dar-es-Salaam to Jerusalem, with violet "Zensur Passiert" handstamp, transit cancels indicate that it crossed the Rovuma River into Portuguese East Africa during the third mail exchange, passed though Palma (11.2) and Ibo (15.2) and reached Porto Amelia (17.2). From there it was carried by a Portuguese coastal steamer south to Lourenco Marques (12.3), then headed north towards the Holy Land, arriving at Port Said (22.4), where the British confiscated the card and directed its return (crayons) southward to Zanzibar (May 18) | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #91 GERMAN EAST AFRICA The Portuguese Connection 1915 five covers or cards from Dar-es-Salaam, Bukoba, Muhesa, Moschi, addressed to USA, Germany and Holland, two to the Beira office of the Philippi Company in Portuguese East Africa, various transit and censor markings, also a covering note for six letters from Germany, forwarded by the German Seamen's home in Genova to the Philippi company in Porto Amelia (from there they would be transferred into envelopes bearing Portuguese Colonial franking and sent to the besieged German Colony) | Price Realized $2,000.00 |
