Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
March 8-9, 2022
This 1,338 lot sale features collections formed by the late John Abrams, Dr.M.K. Blumenthal and other prominent collectors. We begin with United States and Possessions, featuring 19th & 20th Century single rarities, graded items, proofs, essays and back of book material. A-Z countries include specialized Bulgaria, Ottoman Bosnia & Herzegovina, China with Liberated Areas covers, Germany with a focus on WWII Occupation Issues, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, including Boer War postal history. There are numerous rarities from Italy, Old States and Italian Colonies, as well as classic covers and individual rarities from South and Central America. This auction concludes with solid section of Large Lots and Collections ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact. For those visiting London 2022, please stop by our both to chat, pick up an auction catalogue or discuss possible sale of your philatelic holdings.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #360 CHINA Japanese Occupation of China - Hwailai 1941 cover with label "Abbaye de N-D de la Consolation Yangkiap'ing, Wailai (Tchagar), Chine", dated 30.8.29 = 29.8.41, sent via Tientsin to German Occupied Belgium, addressed to Saint-Sixtus Abbey of Westvleteren (which belongs to the Cistercians of Strict Observance, or Trappists, a Roman Catholic abbey located in Westvleteren, in the Belgian Province of West Flanders), stamps removed by censor, with handstamped "Ohne Marke Eingegangen A.B.P. Post" (arrived without stamps, Foreign Letter Censor Department), further opened by "Oberkomando der Wehrmacht" censor, with additional red handstamps (all this for a letter from an Abbey in Japanese Occupied China to a Reverend father in German Occupied Belgium)  | Unsold |
