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Lot #5174
FRANCE French Forces Abroad Military Mail
1900-45 collection of 190 covers or cards, neatly written-up on pages, covering various French Military Campaigns. Markings included those from pre-WWI training camps, Troops on Maneuvers, Occupation of Territory of Quang-Tscheou-Wan, The Boxer Rebellion, including China Expeditionary Corps and Naval markings from Cruisers "D'Entrecasteux" and "Vauban", cover to a French POW at St. Helena during Boer War, French Occupation of North China (1902-22), including via Siberia during the Russo-Japanese War, French Naval presence on Yangtse River, etc. There are covers from the Conquest of the South Algerian Oases in the Sahara, with some rare military cachets, further territorial expansion, mail from Brazzaville, Bangui, French Congo, military correspondence from Central and Northern Sudan, Tombouctou, Niger, Bamako, etc. Conquest and the Protectorate of Morocco is well represented, also suppression of Revolt in South Tunisia, French Military Mission I Siberia; 1918-20 Re-occupation of Alsace-Lorraine, Rhineland, Upper Silesia, Armee Francaise du Levant, French Navy in Spanish waters, Indochina, South Vietnam, etc. An interesting history lesson
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$7,000.00
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