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- Lots 4001-4333: Al Kugel Collection Part II - United States - Allied Intervention in Russia - Afghanistan - Germany — Tuesday, September 10, 2024 10:00 AM [OPEN]
- Lots 4334-4622: Al Kugel Collection Part II - G.B. and British Commonwealth - Italy - Russia - Ottoman Empire - Large Lots and Collections — Wednesday, September 11, 2024 10:00 AM [OPEN]
- Lots 1-376: U.S. & Worldwide - United States - Afghanistan - China — Tuesday, September 24, 2024 10:00 AM [OPEN]
- Lots 377-761: U.S. & Worldwide - Colombia - Germany - Great Britain and Commonwealth through Hong Kong — Tuesday, September 24, 2024 1:00 PM [OPEN]
- Lots 762-1152: U.S. & Worldwide - British Commonwealth India through Uganda - Greece - Romania — Wednesday, September 25, 2024 10:00 AM [OPEN]
- Lots 1153-1507: U.S. & Worldwide - Russia - Yugoslavia - Large Lots and Collections — Wednesday, September 24, 2024 1:00 PM [OPEN]
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                | Lot #4334 GREAT BRITAIN Military Mail 1919 single frame (16 pages) exhibit entitled "The British Main Line Military Railway Post Office in Europe in 1919", showing 25 covers or cards (plus two photographs), all examples of mail from the British APOs transported by the BEF trains from soldiers in the Rhineland area of Germany, arriving in Boulogne, making stops at Duren, Namur, Charleroi, Valenciennes, Lille and Calais. There were Postal Markings involved, but many indicated "UP" or "DOWN" depending if the train was travelling East or West. A fine insight into this little known aspect of WWI British military Postal History  | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4335 GREAT BRITAIN Channel Islands - Guernsey 1918 (2 Feb) picture postcard (Jersey Court House) to France, datelined "Guernsey Service Aerienne", with "Escadrille D'Aviation Maritime de Guernsey" cachet, v.f. (primarily for the purpose of anti-submarine warfare, the British authorities allowed the French to establish a Seaplane base on Guernsey. It was short lived and modest operation) | $500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
     | Lot #4336 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in the Turkish Empire 1919-20 selection of 13 covers or cards on exhibit pages, various Field Post Office markings, including FPO 83, 84, 85, Army Post Office Y, Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4 and Field Post Office H.12, D.28, used from Bostanji, Galata, various censor markings, different destinations, fine and interesting group | $1,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4337 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in the Turkish Empire Military Mail 1920 (7 July) Army Post Office TPO1, "On Service Abroad" cover to England, roughly opened at top, fine. (To carry mail for British Occupation troops after the end of WWI, a traveling post office was placed in operation between Haidar-Pasha and Konia, later extended to Eskishehr and Afion Kirahissar, intended to serve scattered detachments and small parties of officers stationed in the hinterland of Western Anatolia) | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
      | Lot #4338 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in China Military Mail 1927-39 nine covers with British or Chinese franking, showing usage from Field Post Office 1, YMCA Shanghai Defense Force corner card cachet, Registered "Field P.O." label, with "1" inserted by hand, "A.P.O.1" and "Army P.O.1" Registry labels on covers used in 1928 and 1939 from China to Scotland, cover from "Accounting Officer Yangtse Flotilla" at the Royal Navy Office in Hankow, 1938 "Royal Naval Mail Office Shanghai" covers, etc., fine | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4339 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in China Military Mail 1928 Shanghai Defense Force, two postcards sent by members traveling on board "H.M.T. City of Marseilles" to China, one from Lata, the other from Suez, each with British franking canceled "Field Post Office 5" (Ted Proud listed as "not seen"), fine examples of "En Route Mail" | $550.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4340 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Anatolia - Cilicia 1919 five covers, cards, parcel cards with E.E.F. franking, used from Adana, Mersine and Tarsus, used locally or to to Italy and USA, one with "Controle Postal Militaire Mersina/Cilicie" censor hs, mixed condition, scarce group of mail from Cilicia franked with E.E.F. stamps | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4341 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Anatolia - Cilicia Military Mail 1919 (21 Feb) registered cover franked with seven different EEF stamps, tied by Army Post Office SZ50 cds, addressed to a Major Beaumont in Cairo, additional departure pmk on back, along with Field Post Office and Army Post Office SZ10 arrival markings, cover severed between stamps, restored, fine appearance. Examples from British Army Post Office SZ50 are very elusive, having been replaced by Indian FPOs early in 1919 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4342 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Anatolia - Cilicia Military Mail 1919 four covers or cards, showing Field Post Office markings, including FPO C13, FPO 310, FPO 7 and FPO 97, used to England or Egypt, one with British and I.E.F. franking, the latter registered and censored, fine | $500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4343 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Greece 1923 (16 Aug) cover to England, with "Ministry of Marine British Naval Mission Athens" corner cachet, four Greek adhesives tied by Athens departure pmks, violet Marine Ministry cachet at bottom, rare usage from a member of a British Naval Mission sent to aid the Greeks in their conflict with the Turks in Asia Minor | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4344 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Greece Military Mail 1917 (23 Sep) cover from Imbros in the Aegean, sent through the British censor office on Lemnos to the addressee in Zaqaziq, Egypt, with 1d British stamp canceled by "Base APO Z" at Alexandria and turned over to the civilian post office there on the following day, with arrival pmk, minor cover flaws on back, very unusual usage | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
      | Lot #4345 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Italy 1918-20 collection of 13 covers and cards neatly described on exhibit pages, variety of Army Post Office markings, including APO L.1,L.2, L.3 (servicing Arquata, Tortona and Genova), Naval Balloon Station (Brindisi), Naval Transport Office/Spezia, Genoa, Trieste, Venezia, Civitavecchia, also Field Post Office F.D.1, variety of censor cachets, British Red Cross Order of St. John, On Active Service, Naval Transport Office and other markings, splendid representation (at the time of the Armistice, the British Army had three divisions on the Italian Front. Most of those troops were demobilized, but some remained in Italy to complete various military activities) | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4346 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Lebanon 1919 registered cover to Cairo, franked with the complete set of 11 EEF stamps, tied by Beyrouth departure cds, "R" and "Recommande" handstamps, British and French Censor markings, Cairo arrival pmk on back, attractive cover | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4347 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Lebanon 1919 two covers with EEF franking, one from Tripoli to USA, the other from Beyrouth, registered to Switzerland, each with French censor markings, some wrinkles, otherwise fine | $250.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4348 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Lebanon Military Mail 1918-19 five covers or cards from British forces operating in Lebanon, markings include "Field Post Office H21", "Army Post Office SZ8" (Beirut) and "Army Post Office SZ9" (Tripoli), including registered letter to Cairo, censor markings, all written-up on exhibit pages, fine and scarce group of British Military mail from Lebanon | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4349 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Romania 1919 (26 Sep) picture postcard (of the port), mailed from Galatz, endorsed "On Active Service" to London, sent by a seaman off "H.M.S. Senator", via Naval pouch to London, "Received from HM Ship No Charge to be Raised" handstamp | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4350 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces in Romania 1919 cover and card, the latter inbound from Greece to a Lieutenant in the British Military Mission in Bucharest, with special negative seal, the former is a cover with the official cachet of the mission, bold "British Military Mission in Roumania" cachet, War Office and censor cachet, fine-v.f. | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4351 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ADEN Military Mail 1920 (1 Feb) free-frank cover to India, with bold F.P.O. No.330 pmk, fine and rare (because of the Arab uprising against the Turks in Hejaz, Yemen was not considered to be important enough to warrant attention of the Allies during the war. However, in 1919-20, a small contingent of Indian troops was there pending the selection of the new ruler) | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4352 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ADEN Military Mail 1920 (20 Oct) picture postcard from Hodeida to Scotland, short message "Don't know how long we will be here, will write soon", censored by officer at bottom, bold F.P.O. No.330 pmk, fine and very rare, only a few pieces of mail from this Field Post Office have been recorded, this one being the latest recorded date | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4353 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ADEN Military Mail 1920 (15 Oct) large envelope endorsed "OFS" (On Field Service), addressed to London, with "FPO 324" dated pmk and violet "Orderly Room Yemen Infantry" hs alongside, filing folds and toning, otherwise fine. This is probably the only recorded military mail from the 1st Yemen Infantry (likely in Sanaa, which did not have its own field post office), sent through FPO 324, located at Sheikh Othman in the Aden Protectorate | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4354 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADA 1900 (Apt 9) cover from Woolwich, England, addressed to a Private E. Lincoln, with Yukon Field Force Fort Selkirk, Yukon, Canada, faint arrival pmk "Pelly P.O." (which served Fort Selkirk), minor backflap tears, otherwise fine (The Yukon Field Force was a unit of 203 officers and men from the Permanent Force of the Canadian Militia that served in the Yukon between 1898 and 1900. The force was created in response to fears that the United States might attempt to seize the region in the wake of the Klondike Gold Rush) | $270.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4355 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH IRAQ 1917 (12 May) cover (opened for display) sent from Aviation Company attached to the 6th Army at "Kut-Ul-Amarra", Red Cross cachet and Istanbul (8 June) arrival pmk on back, fine and rare | $650.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4356 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN 1900-18 Ottoman Administration, cover and nine pieces, written-up on two exhibit pages, showing pmks of Adjiloun, Amman (Salt), Kerek, Maan, Madia, Salt, Tafile and Mohan, representing all seven different locations in Transjordan, fine and extremely rare group O | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4357 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN 1921 (June) registered cover to Switzerland, franked with four overprinted EEF stamps, tied by negative Amman pmks, with the very elusive Registry label below, Jerusalem transit and Bern arrival pmks on back | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4358 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN 1921 (Jan) two covers from Salt to Jerusalem, one franked with 2pi olive, showing arrival pmk below, the other with three pairs of E.E.F. 1pi dark blue overprinted in silver, with arrival pmk on back, fine-v.f. | $350.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4359 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN Military Mail 1918 (6 Sep) Ottoman 20pa stationery entire envelope additionally franked with pair of 20pa adhesives, tied by FPO 43 dated "6/9/1334" (Crescent & Star in the middle) cancel of the 8th Army Corps located at Salt, sent by an officer to the 53rd division, 163rd regiment, FPO 72 in the Jaffa area, backstamped on arrival, overall toning, signed Nakri, with his 1999 certificate ("This is the only recorded item with FPO 43 cancelation used from Jordan. A Postal History Gem from Jordan") | $475.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4360 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN Military Mail 1918 (Sep) Ottoman free frank card to Beylerbey (Istanbul) sent by a soldier with the 4th Army, 146th Regiment, showing a negative handstamp of FPO 69, with FPO 43 transit and arrival (28 Sep) pmks, fine usage from El-Salt (located between Amman and the Jordan river. It was the only center of military activity in the area which subsequently became Transjordan. Military mail is very scarce, officers' mail had to be prepaid, enlisted men had free-frank privileges), signed Nakri, with his 1997 certificate ('This is the only recorded item with negative type field post office 69 seal. A Postal History Rarity from Jordan") | $475.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4361 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN Military Mail 1918 (8 July) "On Active Service" cover to Cairo, with bold "FPO No.28" dated pmk, with censor cachet, backstamped on arrival 10.VII.18, fine. Indian FPO 28 was used for a few months at the Ghoraniyeh Bridgehead | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4362 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN Military Mail 1919 (14 Feb) "OS" cover to England, with bold "Field Post Office C.12" pmk, sent by a member of the 12th Cavalry Brigade, which operated in Daraa, located in the Jordan valley, about 30 miles east of the Sea of Galilee. This cover represents the only recorded example of the use of this marking (as the Allied troops moved to occupy former Ottoman territories in the Palestine area, a small detachment was ordered to advance into what became designated as Transjordan) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4363 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH MALTA Military Mail 1915-17 French Forces in Malta, selection of five covers or cards on exhibit pages, various cachets, including "Marine Nationale Centre de Ravitaillement de Malte", "1re Armee Navale Centre de Malte", Valetta cds, "Poste Navale/Medit.C" and others. (By the end of August 1914, the French fleet in Malta included 14 battleships, 6 armored cruisers, destroyers, and submarines. They patrolled the southern Adriatic Sea to prevent attacks by the Austrian Fleet) | $550.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4364 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PALESTINE 1919 (4 Apr) registered cover franked with set of 11 different E.E.F. stamps, canceled O.E.T.A.- E.E.F. Jerusalem and sent to England, opened by censor label and arrival pmks on back | $270.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4365 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PALESTINE 1919-20 two covers, one "Jewish Legion" bilingual header, with Field Post Office SZ30 departure pmk, addressed to USA, the other "American Red Mogen David" corner card cachet, with E.E.F. franking, sent from Ramleh to Ludd, mixed condition | $425.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
       | Lot #4366 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PALESTINE 1919-20 selection of 14 covers or cards written-up on exhibit pages, showing various markings, including "O.E.T.A. - E.E.F.", incoming cover to deputy military governor of Acre, with Haifa and OETA E.E.F. Acre arrival pmk (rare), military markings, registered mail to Egypt, another to India, American Red Cross outbound and incoming mail, registered covers with "Palestine" overprinted adhesives, printed matter (including "The Warschau-Polen Jewish Congregation Jerusalem" cover to USA), mixed condition | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4367 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PALESTINE Military Mail 1917-18 British TPO in Palestine, Australian YMCA cover, endorsed "On Active Service", with large "PAL T.P.O." pmk (5 Sep 17), addressed to London, boxed "Passed by Base Censor E.E.F." handstamp and censor signed; also a registered cover with British 2p franking, tied by small "PAL T.P.O." (16 Nov 18) pmk, repeated alongside and again on reverse, triangular "Passed by Censor No.3759" hs, signed Nakri, fine (apparently considered to be the most elusive military marking from Palestine, only four examples recorded) | $625.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4368 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PALESTINE Military Mail 1917-18 British TPO in Palestine, five covers or cards, showing "RAK T.P.O.", "LAK T.P.O." and "PAL" and "JAP T.P.O." markings, including a 2p Registration envelope with blank type registration label, both with F.P.O. D74 skeleton datestamps, used from Gaza to Alexandria, backstamped "RAK T.P.O", used on the Kantara to Rafa TPO route, others with censor markings, one to Cairo, mixed condition, fine lot | $300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
           | Lot #4369 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH French Expeditionary Corps in Palestine 1917-19 collection of 22 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing usages from the French Detachment in Palestine during World War One, markings include "Tresor et Postes 601", Garrison Francaise de Jerusalem, registered cover with EEF franking to Limoges, "Palestine-Syrie" cachet on cover from Beirut, with "Tresor et Postes 600" cds, cachet of French Flying Corps, another with "9th Battalion of 2nd Algerian Sharpshooters", postcard from Jaffa with "Secteur 601A/D.F.P." with Jerusalem Cross cachet (previously unrecorded), Fieldpost marking of the French Military Telegraph Station at Khan Yunis (coverfront only), internal mail between French units, using EEF franking, one being a card from the French High Commissioner in Palestine, canceled by British Army Post Office SZ44 pmk, with British censor cachet, card endorsed "Legion Armenienne", showing Jerusalem Cross pmk, canceled "Tresor et Postes 601-B" (stated to be the rarest of all French FPO markings in Levant), also a cover with similar cancel addressed to Cairo, opened by censor, registered cover with oval "Detachement Francaise/Cooperative/Palestine" cachet, registered via Port Said to Cairo, British "Passed Censor 1" cachet, plus other markings, including elusive "Detachement Francaise de Palestine-Syrie" unit cachets from the Provost and Automobile Service units. A superb presentation, with many rarities | $4,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4370 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Italian Expeditionary Corps in Palestine Military Mail 1918 registered cover to Rome, with large red "Distaccamento Italiano di Palestine" military cachet, sent through the British Army Post Office SZ47, with Registry label and British 2p George V added to pay the fees, red Censor markings, also an Italian military card to Spezia, with appropriate cachets, fine-v.f. | $475.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4371 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Italian Expeditionary Corps in Palestine Military Mail 1918 (8 Dec) cover sent from Damascus, with 5pi EEF franking, tied by bilingual departure pmk, addressed to Colonel Pesanti, Commandant of the Italian troops in Jaffa, "Passed by Censor No.10" and negative seal markings, Army Post Office SZ2 and SZ62 arrival cds on back, filing fold away from the stamp, some adhesion on back, still a fine and highly elusive usage to a very small Italian unit, known as Bertoni Group, attached to the British force which advanced from Palestine into Syria, signed Diena | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4372 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Italian Expeditionary Corps in Palestine Military Mail 1918 two registered covers to Italy, one sent free through the British Army Post Office SZ18, with Registry label and 29 Oct 18 departure pmks, with two red "Distaccamento Italiano di Palestina Carabinier Reali" military cachets, the other cover is franked with 2x1pi E.E.F. dark blue, tied by O.E.T.A - E.E.F. Jerusalem (27 Dec 18) pmks, with Registry label alongside, red "Guardia Italiana Gerusalemme" military cachet, British "Palestine Censorship" handstamp, numerous markings on back, including Field Post Office GM1, Army Post Office SZ32 and others, part of backflap missing and address panel partly restored, extremely rare usage, signed Nakri | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4373 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Italian Expeditionary Corps in Palestine Military Mail 1919 picture postcard (Jerusalem) addressed to USA, with Italian and EEF franking, each canceled by smaller red "Distaccamento Italiano di Palestine" military cachet, boxed Censor handstamp, fine | $200.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4374 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Italian Expeditionary Corps in Palestine Military Mail 1919-20 seven covers or cards, showing various military cachets, including "1a Campagnia Cacciatori Italiani di Palestina Comando" (1st Company of Italian Scouts in Palestine) and "Corpo Spedizione Militare Italiano-Palestina Comando", the latter in violet (stated to be one of only two recorded), Army Post Office SZ17 pmks with three different types of Censor markings used as both unit cachets and censor verification, "Distaccamento Italiano C.C.R.R. di Gerusalemme Comando" (Royal Italian Carabinieri Detachment in Jerusalem Headquarters) cachet on card to Italy, also "Corpo Spedizione Militare Italiano in Palestine" two line handstamp on card sent via Port Said to Naples | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4375 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ZULULAND Military Mail 1906 (Mar-May) two "On Active Service" covers and postcard, one endorsed "Active Service Cpl. Whiteside 1st TMR ZFF" (1st Transvaal Mounted Rifles-Zululand Field Force), with Nkandhla datestamp, "2c" due marking overstruck with 5c (Hart type S5) applied at Durban, with London arrival; postcard canceled "Eshowe", endorsed "Fort Tollaced Zululand" and "No Stamps Available", censored and taxed on arrival; finally a cover to Natal, censored "Natal Carbineers", rare group of mail sent by members of the Zululand Field Force during Bambatha Rebellion. Also included are two picture postcards showing "Natal Native Rebellion prisoners in cage" (Chief Bambatha, with the support of other chiefs in the area, refused to accept a new tax that was being implemented by the colonial administration. Together with a small group of supporters, he launched a series of attacks against the British troops, using the Nkandla Forest as a base. The campaign, later known as the Bambatha Rebellion, culminated in a pitched battle against the colonial forces at Mome Gorge, where Bambatha and his followers were finally defeated. In general terms, the Rebellion was a response to the harsh policies that the Zulu population was subjected to by the colonial administration in Natal, as well as a number of other contributing factors) | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                  | Lot #4376 GREECE Turkish Administration 1900-12 single Frame exhibit (16+ pages), showing Ottoman administration over Southern Epirus, Southern Macedonia, various islands off the coast of Anatolia, etc. There are 38 covers and cards, good showing of Salonica, various markings, including "Salonique Dept. Militaire", "Avrat-Hissar", "Cavalla", "Daphne" (Echelle), "Drama", "Florina", "Guerebina", "Kara-Ferie", "Livadia", "Khourpechta", "Mont-Athos", "Ayion Oros", "Polygros", "Pursidjan", "Seres", "Tchotil", "Zilhova", "Aidonat", "Janina", "Zagoritz" (only recorded example on cover), "Thassos", "Chio", "Voliso", "Metelin", "Petra", "Samos", "Kariot", plus countless others on pieces, with many extremely rare pmks, truly a remarkable collection | $4,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4377 GREECE Greco-Turkish War 1897-98 four covers with Ottoman franking, used during the Greco-Turkish War, including Turkish Occupation of Thessaly covers from Pharsala and Larissa to Constantinople, the latter with negative registry seal in Arabic. In addition, there is the only recorded (!) cover with postage canceled by Ottoman negative seal of "Tirnova" (signed Nakri), with "Tournavos" bilingual pmk alongside, plus a cover from Volos, mixed condition, fine and very scarce group | $1,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4378 GREECE Dedeagatch 1913 two covers from the Bank of Salonique to Janina and Piraeus, one with single 40L, the other with 5L and 25L blue, each with control marks and tied by red "Dedeagatch" departure handstamps, Athens transits and arrival pmks, cover wear and some tape mending, fine and very scarce commercial usage, one signed Nakri, the other with 1988 Holcombe certificate | $525.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4379 GREECE Thrace 1913 exhibit page with two postal stationery envelopes, showing Ottoman negative handstamps of "Dede-Agatche" and "Xanthy", also a small piece with two strikes of 10 para stamps with "Soufli" handstamp, as well as an unusual cover franked 1Pi+2Pi imperforate stamps tied by Ottoman "Gumuldjina" seals, sent to Salonica, where the Greek Post office refused to accept this postage and assessed 3dr Postage Due on arrival, fine | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4380 GREECE Thrace 1913 (Oct) cover (missing backflap and small portion excised from back) to Dedeagatch, franked with a block of four of 20pa on 2s (Upper right stamp missing "20para" surcharge), tied by negative "Giumurdjina" seals, rare usage | $290.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4381 GREECE Balkan Wars 1912 (16 Oct) cover from Kozana franked with a vertical strip of Greece 3x10L regular issue, tied by Ottoman bilingual cancels of "Kozana". (Town was liberated but the Greek cancelation did not arrive at the Post Office), with Greek military postmark of the 18th of October added alongside, fine | $180.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
      | Lot #4382 GREECE French Forces in Greece 1915-19 selection of eleven covers or cards displayed on six Exhibit pages, showing variety of French Forces in Greece markings, including a cover with "Postes Navales/Medit.D", another from "Kapyai" with French boxed MONT-ATHOS censor handstamp, also "Yenidje Vardar", French Mission Athens for training of the Hellenic Army; "Tresor et Postes 502, 505, 506, 602", exceptionally rare "Thasos" French censor mark, Rhodes Military correspondence cachet, Naval base Seaplane Base Salonica ("Aviation Maritime Escadrille de Salonique", one of only three (!) examples recorded), Aegean Islands, etc. A superb assembly with unusual rarities | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                | Lot #4383 IRAN 1900-23 a single frame (16 pages) exhibit design to show postal markings in Persia, arranged alphabetically, 26 covers or cards, franked with stamps of India, used from Abadan to Bombay and Scotland, Money order receipts, one showing a special "Abadan Money Order" pmk, registered cover from Ahwaz to Canada, another to India, opened by censor, with Agra arrival, mail from Bandar-Abas, one incoming from Karachi, large "Opened by Censor" label, three covers from Bushire, used 1900-06 to Brussels, Hants and Zurich, plus two covers used 1914 and 1922, covers with "Chahbar Persian Gulf" departure cds, registered coverfront from Henjam, Jask Agency mail to India and Scotland, Linga Agency covers showing different types of pmks, cover from "Maidan-i-Naphtun" to USA, "Mohammerah" (today "Khorramshahr") pmks on cards and covers, also block of 6x2a tied by piece by squared-circle pmks. Finally, there are two covers from Seistan Arbitration Committee, one to Bombay another to London (Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission (1902-05), was tasked to Col. Henry McMahon who established a camp and a Field Post office No.4, disbanded after a satisfactory agreement was reached between the two countries). An interesting showing of the early British Postal Agencies in Persia ("The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area" by Alan Parsons was credited as the reference source by Mr. Kugel) | $3,750.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4384 IRAN 1916-18 two covers with Shah Ahmad franking, one from Senneh, franked on back with 6ch franked on arrival in "Cherveh" (25.8.16), showing framed "Sansur Edilmistir" (has been censored) mark (with Nakri "Opinion Report" stating that this is "one of the rarest post cancelations used in the area during Turkish occupation"). The second cover was used in 1918 (Sep) from Bonab to Tauris, where stamps were added and tied by cds, small negative seal with star (censor mark) applied on front | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4385 IRAN 1917 (15 Feb) cover from Kermanshah to Hamadan, franked on back with Provisional Issue, 12 Chahis and 24 Chahis on 1k, tied by "Kermanchah No.1 15.II.17" and "Kermanchah No.1 (Depart) 15.II.17" pmks, censored by Turkish (rectangular box) and Persian (negative seal) authorities, fine and scarce cover (Persiphila $4,000) (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #586-587 Catalog Value $ 5,250 | $750.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
           | Lot #4386 IRAN 1918-20 Censored Mail, collection of 18 covers or cards on exhibit pages, various frankings, showing variety of British Censor handstamps, including "Passed by British Military Censor", "Opened by Censor" labels, "Passed by Censor Norperforce", one on cover from Baku to Teheran, other Dunsterville's markings, such as "Censure Dunsterforce", "Dunsterforce/Censor Posts 101" on covers from Tauris, Recht, Jazvin, Ardebil, Teheran, Hamadan, also British Occupation markings, with a rare "Army Telegraphs KVN 6.XII.18" cds, marked "D.R.L.S. (Dispatch Rider Letter Service), FPO 110 and FPO 120, Russian Censorship on mail from Tauris, additionally censored by the British; cover from American Persian Relief Commission in Tauris, censored by "British North Persian Force", as well as cover from French Mountain Ambulance unit in Urmia, endorsed "Aux Armees du Caucase / F.M.", with cachets of the "Head of the French Mission" and "French Sanitary Mission in Russia/Mountain Ambulance Service", mixed condition, mostly fine or better. A definitive showing of British and Russian activity on Northern Persia post WWI | $1,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4387 IRAN Consular Mail 1920 commercial cover (slightly reduced at right) sent from Baku, franked on back with 24ch Ahmad Shah, tied by a perfect struck violet "Postes Consulaires Persannes Bacou" handstamp, Enzeli arrival and various additional markings, fine and unusually nice Baku Consular mail (Persiphila A1, $2,000+) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4388 IRAN Consular Mail 1923 commercial cover from Baku to Teheran, with violet "Postes Consulaires Persannes Bacou" handstamp on reverse, 1kr "Controle 1922" added in Enzeli and tied by 27.III.23 pmk, paying for further transmission, arriving Teheran 2.IV.23, fine Baku Consular mail (Persiphila A1, $2,000+) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4389 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND German Offices in the Holyland 1906-13 Exhibit page with four covers or cards from Jewish settlements in Sarona, Ramleh, Wilhelma and Rishon le Zion, sent via the German Post Office in Jaffa, with "Aus Sarona by Deutsche Post", "Aus Ramleh (Palestina)","Tempel-Kolonie Hamidide Wilhelma Deutsche Post Jaffa" and "Rishon Le Zion Bei Jaffa Durch Deutsche Post" markings, fine | $950.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4390 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1900 (16 June) cover to Constantinople, franked with single 2 1/2pi tied by Jaffa departure pmk, with bilingual Registry label alongside, backstamped "Yeni-Djami" on back, minor backflap faults, uncommon example of the Jaffa Registry label on cover, signed Nakri | $1,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4391 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1900 (9 May) picture postcard (Bethlehem) to Trieste, franked with 20pa magenta, tied by Ottoman Jaffa (shuk) pmk, addressed to Trieste, with arrival (22.X.00) at bottom | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
           | Lot #4392 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1900-17 selection of 20 covers and cards on exhibit pages, with Jaffa and district markings, "Aloun-Cara" (Rishon le Zion), Petah-Tikvah, Rehoboth, "Led" (Ramle), "Remle", military mail from FPO 53 and FPO 61 (between Jaffa and Jerusalem), all-Arabic "Beersheba" cancel on cover sent by an officer to Istanbul, round negative seal of the unit marking (Cavalry 2nd machine Gum HQ) (stated to be one of only three examples recorded), Gaza to Jaffa cover, another with unusual marking on card to Turkey, money order from Hafir (one of only a few examples recorded on commercial mail), stationery card from "Khan-Younesse" to Rosh-Pinna near Saffed, different markings of Haifa, including a card to the German Post office in Constantinople, another with bilingual "Caiffa", also stamps on pieces showing pmks of "Beni-Saab", "Djenine", "Zamarin", inbound cover from Beirut to 16th Division Fieldpost Office (near Nablus), plus others. A fine and scarce group | $8,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4393 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1901 (30 Nov) 20pa stationery card sent from Ashkelon to Jaffa, with "Medjdil" departure cds (Steichele 38/02), v.f., signed Sorani and Nakri, with certificates from each ("very rare cancelation on card") | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4394 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1906 "Hotel Belle Vue, Jericho, Palestine" cover to USA, franked with strip of 4x10pa green, tied by bilingual Jericho departure pmks, with a bold "Jaffa-Jerusalem" 14.2.1906, with Hotel handstamp, Saannah, Mo (Mar 11) arrival pmk on back, some cover mending, fine example of this rare TPO cancel, signed Nakri | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4395 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1914 (22 Mar) picture postcard to France, with 10pa Ottoman franking, canceled by violet "ERIHA" (Jerusalem) pmk (Coles 151), fine and very rare | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4396 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1916 (15 Oct) picture postcard (Jewish Colony Ness Zion) with Ottoman franking, tied by bilingual Jaffa pmks, sent to Sarajevo by a Lieut. Schreiber, member of the Austrian Military Mission serving as artillery instructor with the Turkish 4th Army, minor card wear, fine | $525.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4397 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1918 (5 Feb) Ottoman stationery card franked with pair of Beni-Saab provisional handstamps, sent through the Field Post Office 46, with appropriate markings, fine | $425.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4398 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1918 (12 June) inbound FL to Tulkarm, Field Post Office 48 receiving pmk, red censor label affixed over the top edge (slit on opening), with negative seal of the Telegraph office inside, signed Nakri | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4399 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire 1918 (27 June) registered cover to Geneva, franked with single and strip of four of 20pa carmine, tied by bilingual "Tiberiade" departure cds, Registry box alongside (number inserted by hand), additionally endorsed "Recomande", transit markings of Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, arriving in General on 22 August, 1918, also a red Ottoman letterseal, fine cover with unrecorded Registry mark | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4400 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire Military Mail 1917 (21 Nov) picture postcard (Dead Sea) franked with 2x10pa and single 20pa, tied by Field Post Office 68 pmks, located at "Lut Lake", sent to Jerusalem, minor creases, extremely rare origin | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4401 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire Military Mail 1917 (24 Nov) free-frank "Feldpost" cover to Cospoli, from 62nd Regiment "Mesudiye" in the Holyland, with red censor handstamp, fine and rare cover, signed Nakri | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4402 ISRAEL - HOLYLAND Ottoman Empire Military Mail 1918 (20 July) Ottoman stationery card with markings of Field Post Office 46, used by the 8th Army, 22nd Division stationed at "EL-TINE", sent to Beirut, with censor handstamp at bottom, rare | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4403 ISRAEL French Consular Post in Jerusalem 1949 (31 Jan) cover franked with 20m on 6f, used in combination with regular French stamps on locally addressed, philatelically inspired cover, v.f. and attractive | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4404 ITALY Military Air Post 1919 (13 July) cover franked with specially produced "Missione de Vienna" label, used with ordinary franking 5c and 2x10c, canceled Posta Militare 124, with two "Campo d'Aviazione Aspern" handstamps, addressed to Teramo, with "Comando Supremo" and Censor handstamp, sender's address is noted as "Italian Armistice Commission Caproni Aspern Field, Vienna, Austria", minor cover flaws, otherwise fine. Only 42 copies of this label were issued, few recorded on cover | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4405 ITALY ITALIAN OFFICES IN CHINA 1920 5c green, 10c red brown, overprinted diagonally "Shanghai", tied on "Astor Hotel Shanghai" (backflap) cover by "R.R. Consolato d'Italia Shanghai / Posta per L'Italia" May 23,1920 square datestamps, addressed to Rome, fine and interesting, albeit privately created cover, with 1997 Sorani certificate | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
     | Lot #4406 ITALIAN COLONIES Castellorizo 1921-24 selection of six covers or cards on exhibit pages, with 1921 registered cover to Smyrna, franked with unoverprinted Italian stamps canceled by specially prepared "Castellorizo Poste Italiane" Coat of Arms handstamps, overprinted stamps used in combination with unoverprinted Italian adhesives, registered cover to Greece, another to The Suez Canal in Ismailia, picture post franked with Municipal Council printed label, also a set of four overprinted "Italian Occupation Castelrosso", fine | $350.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4407 ITALIAN COLONIES Fiume 1918 20f gray brown, used, usual rough perfs, well centered for issue, signed Oliva, with his 1954 certificate. A rarity from Fiume (Sass.1, €6,500) O Catalog #1A Catalog Value $ 3,000 | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4408 ITALIAN COLONIES Fiume 1919 (29 Mar) Telegram sent to Trieste, franked with eight different stamps, including 50f, 75f, 80f, 1kr, 2kr, 5kr and 10kr (White Numerals), all but 80f with Typographed Machine overprint, also a single 5f green, all tied by Fiume departure markings, Telegraph Censor cachet, some wrinkles, fine and considerable rarity, signed Raybaudi, with his 1997 certificate (10kr on cover is catalogued at $9,750) (Sass.21, €21,000) Catalog #13-17,19-20 | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4409 ITALIAN COLONIES Fiume 1919-22 selection of five covers or cards, including two French Forces postcards, canceled "Tresor et Postes 520" and "Poste aux Armees" (13 Jan and 9 Mar 19), another ppc (defective) franked with 5c Semi-Postal canceled by a specially prepared circular cachet inscribed "Citta di Fiume/Il Comandante", additional photo postcard of D'Annunzio, personally dated and autographed (rare), plus 1922 card with "Governo Provisorio" franking, sent to Serbia, fine (during the First World War, General D'Annunzio was associated with the elite Arditi storm troops of the Italian Army. As part of an Italian nationalist reaction against the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, he set up the short-lived Italian Regency of Carnaro in Fiume with himself as Duce) | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
             | Lot #4410 ITALIAN COLONIES Fiume 1943 selection of 13 unaddressed covers, many franked with "Zona Occupata Fiumano Kupa" overprints on Yugoslav stamps, canceled "Crnilug", "Jasenak", "Novi", "Moravice", "Skrad", "Susak", others with Italian stamps, canceled "Arbe Fiume", "Bescanova", "Bescavalle", "Buccari", "Cabar", addressed to Spalato, also some loose stamps on pieces, fine and interesting lot | $575.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4411 ITALIAN COLONIES Oltre Giuba 1925 (14 July) registered cover (insured for 6,000 Lire), franked with 1L, 2L, 5L and 10L high values, tied by "Kisimaio-Oltre Giuba" departure cds, with "A" (Insured) Registry label, addressed to Bank of Italy in Mogadiscio, Italian Somalia, filing folds away from the stamps, wax seals removed from back, causing a couple of insignificant holes, still a great cover (only 1Lire is listed on cover) Catalog #Sass.12-15 | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4412 ITALIAN COLONIES Oltre Giuba 1926 (9 Aug) registered cover to Genova, franked with set of three surcharged, tied by "Chisimaio Somalia Italiana" departure cds, with transit and arrival pmks, little toning, otherwise fine, Catalog #Sass.42-44 Catalog Value €6,300 | $550.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4413 ITALIAN COLONIES Tripolitania Air Post 1934 Circuit of Oasis, complete set of seven, used on Registered cover to USA, "Tripoli Posta Aerea Curcuito delle Oasi" 14.5.34 departure pmks, Genova transit and Springfield (May 24) arrival pmks on back, fine and scarce complete set on cover, Catalog #Sass.PA34-40 Catalog Value €12,500 | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
            | Lot #4414 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of France 1940-43 collection of 25 covers and cards on exhibit pages, showing Armistice Commission markings from Vichy, Wiesbaden, Marseille, Nice, Toulon, Grenoble and Avignon, also mail from Mentone, including "Occupied Zone" and Registered mail, cards from Fontano, with and without "Occupied Zone" markings, military cards from Modane and Lanslevillard, Field Post from Menton, Toulon, Basti and Ajaccio in Corsica, etc. Also included is an official "Commissione Italiana di Armistizio con la Francia" in Casablanca, Morocco, sent 14 March 1942, censored mail from Constantine and Biskra, Algeria, military cards from Bizerte, Tunisia, etc. A fine and rare assembly | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4415 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Basa Altantica 1943 cover to Genova, franked with 25c, 30c and 50c "Base Atlantica" overprints, tied by departure pmks, Opened by Censor label at left, with arrival pmk | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4416 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Basa Altantica 1941-44 selection of 10 covers or cards on exhibit pages, including a cover with "Betasom" Registry label, sent to Genova, another with "Gruppo Sommergibili" (12.8.41) pmk, others with "Forze Subacquee Italiane in Atlantico", "Comando Base B.X", also 1944 censored covers with "Base Atlantica" overprinted 10c,15c,25c,30c and 50c (Sass. €10,350), mixed condition, minor faults noted, fine and seldom offered ("BETASOM" (an Italian language acronym of "Bordeaux Sommergibile or Sommergibili") was a submarine base established at Bordeaux by the "Regia Marina Italiana" during Italian Occupation of France. From this base, Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic 1940-43 as part of the Axis anti-shipping campaign against the Allies, sinking 109 allied merchant ships, totaling 601,425 tons, losing 16 boats themselves) | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4417 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941 25p black brown, used 30.IV.41 on 25pa Co.Ci. Parcel Card addressed to Kocevje, with official bilingual Occupation Forces seals, "Sluzbeno Postnine Prosto" handstamp, backstamped on arrival, filing fold away from the stamp, v.f., extremely rare, signed Diena, with 1952 Fiecchi and 1953 Diena certificates, Catalog #Sass.1A Catalog Value €18,000 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4418 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941 50p orange, 1d brown rose, each with handstamped "Co.Ci.", used on individual printed matter cover fronts canceled "Ortner" (11 June) and "Ljubljana" (23 June), v.f., the latter with a Croatian stamp added as a souvenir, signed Chiavarello, rare (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #Sass.2A,4A Catalog Value €18,000 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4419 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941 50p orange, used on home-made card from Ljubljana to Vrhnika, handstamped "T" and charged 1d postage due, with pair of 50p violet added on arrival. In addition, there are two commercially used covers, one franked with pair of 1d green, another with a single 1.50f red, tied by Ljubljana pmks (27 April and 30 May, 1941), used locally or to Vrhinka, with arrival pmks, signed Raybaudi, etc., one with certificate, Catalog #Sass.2B,3B,4B Catalog Value €12,000 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4420 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941 10d violet (machine overprint), 15d brown (handstamped overprint), used with the complete set of Postage Dues on registered, locally addressed cover, Ljubljana 2.V.41 cds, fine-v.f. (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #Sass.12,13A Catalog Value €9,000 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4421 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941 10d violet, used with 12 larger format stamps 0.25p-12d, each handstamped "Co.Ci.", tied by bilingual Ljubljana 27.V.41 cds on unaddressed Philatelic Club cover, v.f., with Milko Pirmajer certificate, rare (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #Sass.12A,1B-12B Catalog Value €13,200 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4422 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941 Red Cross surcharges, complete set of four, used with block of 4x1d green on registered cover from Ljubljana (26.VI.41) to Venezia, opened and resealed by censors, with transit and arrival pmks, v.f., Catalog #Sass.57-60 Catalog Value €2,500 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
              | Lot #4423 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana 1941-42 balance of the collection on exhibit pages, 26 covers or cards, with First Day of Issue (26 Apr 41) stationery card from Ljubljana to San Pietro del Carso, Trieste, various "Co.Ci." (Commissarato Civili Territori Sloveni Occupati) overprints, including an address card franked with 10d, 15d and 30d (rare), complete set on cover, postal stationery, Italian stamps used on mail from Crnomelj, Gradac v. Belokraj, Sodrazica, Straza Nov.Mestu, Krmelj, Moste pri Ljubljana, Novo Mesto, Rakek, Velike Lasce, Visnje Gora, FPO 59 pmks on Boundary Commission cards, etc., fine and definitive collection | $1,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4424 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Lubliana Air Post 1941 50p-50d complete set of 10, used on registered, locally addressed Ljubljana (12 May 1941) cover, v.f., signed Bolaffi, Catalog #Sass.1-10 Catalog Value €2,175 | $500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
        | Lot #4425 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro 1941-43 balance of the collection, 15 covers or cards displayed on exhibit pages, with a presumed FDC (Josica, 13 June 1941), commercially used Montenegro overprints on covers, one registered from Hercegnovi to Denovic, overprints on Italian adhesives, censored mail to Albania, Registered cover to Italy (Velickovic certificate), others from Andrijevica and Ljubotinj, Sv.Ctevan, Sutomore, Bar and Stari Bar, also a registered cover with red overprint on 6d King Peter, sent to Rome, fine and scarce group | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4426 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro 1941 Stamps of Yugoslavia overprinted in black, complete set of 14, used on cover from Podgorica (15.III.42) to Mallakaster, Albania, also 1d stationery card used from Danilovgrad to Podgorica, fine-v.f. (catalogue value for the complete set on cover, stationery not counted) Catalog #Sass.1-14 Catalog Value €1,875 | $240.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4427 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro 1942 "Legionari" Semi-Postal issue, overprinted in red, tied by Cetinje 9 Jan 1942 cds on unaddressed cover, faint toning, otherwise fine-v.f., signed Stolow, etc. Only 200 sets were prepared, of which majority have surface defects (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #Sass.28-41 Catalog Value €12,000 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4428 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro 1942 Red Cross surcharges in red, set of four used on cover from Podgorica 15 Mar 1942 to San Marino, with arrival (18 Mar 42) pmks on back, fine. Only 200 sets were printed, Catalog #Sass.36-39 Catalog Value €15,000 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4429 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro 1942 Stamps of Yugoslavia overprinted in red, complete set of 11 used on "Governatorato Del Montenegro" cover, registered and used locally in Cetinje, fine-v.f., only 200 of 2d rose lilac were overprinted, Catalog #Sass.49-59 Catalog Value €11,250 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4430 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro Air Post 1941 Montenegro bilingual overprints in black, complete set of eight used on flown cover from Podgorica (15.III.42) to Mallakaster, Albania, filing fold away from the stamps, with arrival pmk, Catalog #Sass.1-8 Catalog Value €875 | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4431 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro Air Post 1941 Montenegro bilingual overprints in black, 40d green, 50d gray blue, used together with 30d King Peter 30d rose and tied by bilingual Rozaj (20 June 1941) pmks on cover to Beran, with arrival pmk on back, fine cover, with 1971 Chiavarello certificate. Quantities of the 40d and 50d values are unreported, but only a few exist, especially on cover, Catalog #Sass.8/I-9/II Catalog Value €106,250 | $4,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4432 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Montenegro Air Post 1942 Governatorato del Montenegro overprinted in black and in red, tied by Podgorica and Cetinje postmarks on two philatelic covers addressed to Rome, fine-v.f., Catalog #Sass.10-25 Catalog Value €9,500 | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4433 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Zante 1941 (8 Oct) cover from Zakinthos, franked with 2L ultramarine and 50L green, each with violet handstamp, tied by departure pmk, opened by Italian censor, with label at left, arrival pmk on back, little toning, rare cover Catalog #Sass.11,24 | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4434 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Zante 1941 Greece, King Constantine 1.50L green, 30d Red brown, vertical Zante handstamp, tied on cover by "Zakinthos" 14 May 1941 pmks, addressed to Genova, with arrival pmk on back, v.f. (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #Sass.18,19 Catalog Value €9,130 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4435 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Zante 1941 Mythology Stamps of Greece, handstamped "Occupazione Militare di Zante", 5 Lepta to 25dr complete set of 13, canceled "Zante 11 July 1941" on post office forms, fine-v.f. (catalogued as used) O Catalog #Sass.5-17 Catalog Value €3,420 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4436 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Occupation of Zante Postal Stationery 1941 2d ultramarine and 5dr carmine, each with a framed "Occupazione Militare di Zante 1-5-XIX" in violet, the former canceled "Posta Militaire No.2", sent to Catione Andevenno, red censor pmk, the latter canceled "Zakynthos" (13 May 1941) and sent to Italy, some water stains, otherwise fine and rare pair of Zante stationery cards, the former with 1982 Raybaudi certificate (Interitalia 11, €3,000), the latter unlisted | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4437 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Field Post in the Soviet Union 1941-43 four exhibit pages, with eight cards or covers used by the Italian soldiers in Russia, canceled "Postal Militaire", also "Corpo Italiano di Spedizione in Russia", other markings indicate origins, including Krivoi Rog, Lugansk, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, etc., handstamps "Zona di Operazione P.M.152", "Comando Aeronautica", plus others, fine and scarce showing of Italian Military on the Eastern Front (by spring of 1943, almost 60 percent of Mussolini's expeditionary force was gone. During 20 months of combat on the Eastern Front, the Italian Army lost 3,010 officers and 81,820 men killed or captured, also 1,290 officers and 28,400 men wounded of frostbitten. During March 1943, all Italian units serving on the Eastern Front were transferred back to Italy. The heavy losses of the 3rd Alpini Division are indicative of those suffered by Italian units in combat against the Red Army. The division set out for Russia with 16,000 men and 4,000 mules and returned to Italy with 3,200 men and 40 mules. The Italians were simply swallowed up in the vastness of Russia) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4438 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Field Post in the Soviet Union 1942 (8 Feb) military card to Mantova, prepared by members of the Italian 80th Infantry Regiment, when the supplies of the regular fieldpost cards ran short. Created in Dnepropetrovsk, these cards mimicked the Cyrillic type and were inscribed "Postal Card for the Armed Forces" and "Vincere" and "Vinceremo" (we will win) at top,"Printed by the soldiers of the 80th in Russian type on the banks of the Dnieper September 1941-XIX" at bottom, violet 6 March 1942 censor handstamps, extremely rare example of the provisional card sent by an Italian soldier from Russia | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4439 ITALIAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Italian Field Post in the Soviet Union Naval and Maritime Mail 1943 (14 Mar) official fieldpost lettersheet sent by a member of the Italian Fourth Flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boards that operated against the Soviet Union in the Baltic, canceled "IV Flottiglia MAS", with "Posta Militare No.84" endorsement on back, opened and resealed by military censor in Rome, fine. A very elusive example of mail from the Italian Naval Flotilla operating against Russia (a special unit known as the 10th Light Flotilla used modified tourist motorboats called "MTM" (Motoscafi da Turismo Modificati). These MTM boats, known as "barchini esplosivi" (explosive boats) used explosive charges against enemy ships) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4440 JAPAN Russo-Japanese War 1904 (7 Aug) cover to England, sent by Grant Wallace, "U.S. San Francisco Bulletin Reporter/2nd Army Headquarters", boxed censor and military mail cachets, cover faults and repairs, rare usage, with arrival pmk | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4441 JAPAN Russo-Japanese War 1905 (8 Aug) picture postcard from a French military observer with the Japanese forces in Manchuria, datelined on reverse "Army of General Oku", rectangular box marking reads "Censored by 2nd Army General Staff", addressed to Paris, readdressed to Gironde, with arrival pmk, scarce observer mail from the Russo-Japanese War | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4442 JAPAN Russo-Japanese War 1905 (26 Mar) picture postcard to the Imperial War Ministry in Vienna, sent by an Austrian officer attached to the Japanese Army, message reads "Greetings from the battlefield of Mukden, 21 Mar 1905" (the battle of Mukden lasted 20 days. It was the final and the most decisive major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Involving 610,000 combat participants and 164,000 combatant casualties, it was the largest modern-era battle fought prior to World War I) | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
         | Lot #4443 JAPAN Russo-Japanese War Military Mail 1904-11 selection of 15 covers or cards, written-up on exhibit pages, usages include 2nd Army FPO (Nov 1904), usages from Korea, FPO 5 (Yalu River), Head Office, 3rd Supply Company card, FPO 2 (Manchuria), interesting message ("regiment near Mukden suffered 700 killed or wounded"), Gunji Yubin lettersheet from FPO 3, card from FPO 4, Sakhalin Defense Army letter, others from Lyaotung Peninsula (FPO 1), souvenir postcard (Triumphant celebration), cover to the Consul General of France in Seoul, Korea, canceled by the special celebratory pmk, etc. An excellent insight into the Japanese military activities during the war | $800.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4444 JAPAN French Aviation Mission 1919 cover and picture postcard to France, showing two different types of "Mission Francaise d'Aeronautique au Japon" cachets, the former with Japanese franking on reverse, canceled by Tokyo departure pmks, signed by the French pilot, roughly opened at top, with some cover mending, card sent free of postage, with arrival cds. (Japan invited the fourth French Military Mission, composed of 50 members and equipped with several of the newest types of airplanes, to establish the fundamentals of the Japanese Air Force) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
         | Lot #4445 JAPAN Japanese Occupation of Korea 1906-39 collection of 16 covers or cards on exhibit pages, each with Japanese franking, showing pmks of "Seoul, Corea", "Changchun, I.J.P.O.", "Pusan", "Pyongyang", "Ninsen", "Keijo" (one showing additional "Mukden-Changchun Manchuria" TPO marking of the South Manchurian Railway), registered cover from Gensan to USA, with rare Registry label reading "Gensan", registered covers from Wonsan and Taiku, portion of parcel from "Chunju", registry label "Shimonoseki" on cover from Seoul to England, late usage with "Keizyo, Tyosen" pmks, etc. A splendid showing of commercial mail from Japanese occupied Korea | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4446 JAPAN Japanese Occupation of Korea 1906-08 picture postcard from Chemulpo to Scotland, sent via Yokohama, also registered cover (4 June 1908), canceled Chemulpo, Coree, with the very rare "Imp. Jap. P.O. Chemulpo" Registry label, sent via Yokohama to Hong Kong, both displayed on exhibit page | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                   | Lot #4447 JAPAN Japanese intervention/Occupation of Siberia Military Mail 1919-20 selection of 31 covers or cards, written-up on exhibit pages, usages include Gunji Yubin card from the military hospital in Harbin, machine postmark on card (the only recorded example), card with cachet of "Hachimenjo Defense Company, Manchuria", New Year's greeting cards, Naval mail from Sakhalin, FPO 51 markings from Raikov, North Sakhalin, another from FPO 50 (Aleksandrovsk, Sakhalin), Relay FPO markings, specially issued stationery, also two Russian stationery cards used by the Japanese soldiers, YMCA covers and cards, departure from Siberia correspondence, etc., fine and interesting group | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
      | Lot #4448 JAPAN Japanese intervention/Occupation of Siberia 1919-25 selection of ten covers or cards on pages, including large cover which contained official mail from the No.3 Company of the 26th Cavalry Regiment in Manchuria, censor handstamps on cards to Japan, one reading "Nikolsk Military Police Squad/Censored", special Gunji Yubin stationery formula cards and lettersheet, plus a card from FPO 54 (Nikolayevsk), FPO 11 (Bochikarevo) and FPO 9 (Verhneudinsk) | $180.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4449 JAPAN Lyaotung Peninsula 1919 two covers from Dairen, one to USA, the other registered to Florence, Italy, with Yamato Hotel cachet, Registry label and "Dairen I.J.P.O." departure pmk, fine | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
     | Lot #4450 JAPAN Lyaotung Peninsula 1923-40 collection of 10 covers or cards, with mail from Dairen, including registered cover routed "Via Siberia" to Paris, cancels include "I.N.P.O." (Imperial Nipponese Post Office) and I.J.P.O. (Imperial Japanese Post Office), military mail sent from members of the 34th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division at Shantung Province (Japanese reinforcements were sent to Shantung to protect their interests during fighting between Chinese Nationalists and Communists), also a card from Field Post Office No.1, sent in 1932 from Shanghai (message reads "there were several soldiers killed"), interesting group | $650.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4451 JAPAN Lyaotung Peninsula 1935 (31 May) large Insured coverfront with Japanese franking, registered from Port Arthur to Shanghai, China, filing fold through one of the stamps, fine (After Japan's defeat of Russia, Port Arthur was renamed "Ryojun" and the Port Arthur-Harbin line became part of the South Manchurian Railway. After 1932, Japan regarded its lease as being held from Manchukuo rather than from China) | $200.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4452 JAPAN Lyaotung Peninsula 1937 (7 Nov) cover from the Danish Mission in Port Arthur to the home country, franked with single 10s ultramarine, endorsed "Via Siberia", with "Danish Mission S.Manchuria" handstamp on reverse | $130.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4453 JAPAN Japanese Occupation of Sakhalin 1930-31 three picture postcards (one showing "Natives of Karafuto"), canceled "Susuka" (4 Mar 1930),"Toyohara" (26 July 1931) and Karafuto Sisuka (26 Aug 1936), last one with additional "Karafuto N.Lat. 50 Boundary Exploration" handstamp, each with 1 1/2s franking. Also included is a cover with "Missio Independens de Karafuto" corner card address, sent to USA, with 2s adhesive, canceled 11 Nov 1935, filing fold and some tone spots, unusual group | $325.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4454 JAPAN Japanese Occupation of Sakhalin 1934 (27 Dec) Island of Saghalien, MAOKA, Karl Lewis illustrated cover to USA, franked with 1/2s and 9 1/2s Air Post, paying the 10s international rate, beautiful illustration and blue "To US" handstamp at bottom, with typed "N" and "C-6" on back, also oval kan sealing the backflap, v.f., unusual example from Maoka, Sakhalin | $240.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4455 JAPAN Kurile Islands 1935 (18 Apr) cover from "Chishima Ushio" to Tokyo, franked with vertical pair of 1 1/2s blue, with printed address on reverse, fine usage from Kurile Islands (known in Japanese as Chishima, the Kurile Islands lie between Hokkaido and Kamchatka Peninsula. In 1875, the Japanese took possession of the islands in return for giving up their claim to the southern half of Sakhalin) | $130.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4456 JAPAN Japanese Occupation of Taiwan 1925-35 selection of seven covers or cards on exhibit pages, with large Registered cover from Tainan to USA, franked with 50sen definitive, tied by "Tainan/Taiwan Japan" pmks, Yokohama transit and Chicago arrival pmks, another Registered cover from Taihoku to Canada, showing western-style "Taihoku Taiwan Japan" cds, cards used from Taichu, Kiirun and Ching Li, plus a cover from Pei Tou, fine and scarce lot | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4457 LATVIA Military Mail 1919-22 six Field Post cards, various units and destinations, also two covers from American Relief Organizations, sent from Tallinn in 1921 | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4458 LATVIA Military Mail 1916-18 selection of 10 covers or cards from Libau, Mitau and Windau, Naval Stations with unit cachets identified as originating from Riga, Libau and Windau. In addition, there is a registered cover with "Feldpoststation Nr.168" with handstamps of the Submarine Flotilla in Kurland, handstamped "Marinesache" and sent to Kiel, plus a postcard sent from Seaplane base in Libau, with "Kaiserliche Marine Flugstation Libau" handstamp, also a registered cover and card, the latter with scarce provisional "Daudsewas" Registry box, fine lot with several very scarce items, including the U-Boat and Seaplane base | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4459 LATVIA Military Mail 1919 (18 Jan) picture postcard to Germany, with cachet of the German consul to Latvia and Estonia, mailed through the field post office at Libau, franked with 20pf with red "Libau" overprint, tied by the "Deutsche Feldpost 168" pmk, v.f. Also included are three covers from German Volunteer units in Latvia, Fieldpost 202 and others | $550.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
             | Lot #4460 LEBANON 1923-40 collection of 19 covers or cards on exhibit pages, including Official mail "Syria-Greater Lebanon French High Commission" in Beirut, sent to Munich, mixed franking Syria/Lebanon cover from the Italian Consulate in Damascus to Florence, "Grand Liban" overprints on covers from Beirut to Aleppo and to Budapest, registered cover from Tripoli Boy's School to the American Mission in Beirut, 1925-26 Pictorial issues on covers to Singapore and Teheran, Flight covers, other unusual destinations, censor markings and Military Mail, fine lot | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4461 LIBERIA 1916 (14 June) 2c stationery entire envelope, franked with two strips of three of "L.F.F." 1c surcharges, registered from Monrovia to France, with Aydat (17.7.16) arrival pmk on back, stamps with letters out of order, inverted, etc., fine | $180.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
          | Lot #4462 LITHUANIA 1916-18 collection of 25 covers or cards, showing military mail originating in Vilnius, Kaunas, "Festungspost Kowno" and "Garrison Post Kowno" handstamps, various cachets, Registered cover with "Feldspostexpedition Oberbefehlshaber Ost" (Commander in Chief East) label, plus "Kommander der Flieger Oberbefehlhaber Ost" (Commander in Chief of the Air Services), Delivery Service, stationery card used from Warsaw to Wilno, with "Gebuhr 10 PF" circular hs, covers used in Polish districts (Bialystok, Grodno and Suwalki), registered card and cover from "Georgenburg (Litauen)" and "Uzjany (Litauen)", etc. | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
          | Lot #4463 MANCHUKUO 1932-40 collection of 20 covers or cards written-up on exhibit pages, beginning with the "Manchurian Incident", including military mail from Harbin, Shanhaikuan, Manshu, Mukden, followed by covers from the Manchu State, including registered mail, flown covers to USA, Postage Dues imposed on covers to China, etc. A solid representation (On September 18, 1931, the Manchurian (Mukden) Incident sparked the Japanese military aggression in East Asia. The Kwantung Army alleged that Chinese soldiers attempted to bomb a South Manchurian Railway train, even though damage to the railway was minimal and the train arrived at its destination safely. Nevertheless, the incident resulted in the speedy and unauthorized capture of Mukden followed by the occupation of all of Manchuria) | $675.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4464 MONACO Military Mail 1917-18 two picture postcards from Monte Carlo to Paris, showing different cachets used by the French Military Hospitals established in Monaco during WWI, tending to wounded and ill soldiers, fine | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4465 MONTENEGRO 1792 Earliest known forerunner FL sent by private courier from a Captain D.Djordjevic in Rieka to Count D.Vujic in Brcele Monastery, Virpazar, near Lake Scutari, with important historical message, actually an attempt by the Captain to persuade the Count to become the General of the Montenegrin army. Posted 80 years before postal service in Montenegro was established, this is a rare example of 18th Century Postal History of Montenegro, some minor ageing, with archival handstamp on back | $1,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4466 MONTENEGRO 1874 Prince Nicholas, 2 Novcica yellow, die proof on wove paper (93x113mm), made by Austrian State Printing Works and submitted to the Prince for his personal approval. He obviously liked the design and the issue was approved, little brown toning on back, v.f. and probably unique P | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4467 MONTENEGRO 1874 (22 May) Money order for 350 Florin, franked with 5 Novcica First printing of Montenegro (The first issue was released on the 1st of May 1874), sent by Stagecoach from Cetinje to Cattaro, where was it was rerouted to Trieste. In manuscript "franco 19 talir / primo Cattaro" (Paid in cash), endorsed "Forwarded by Diligence" (Stagecoach), fine and very early use (only three weeks after the Post office opening) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4468 MONTENEGRO 1879-81 three FLs on well described exhibit pages, showing official covers from Annexed Territory during Russo-Turkish war from Ulcinj, Podgorica and Niksic, fine and attractive trio of Montenegrin postal history | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4469 MONTENEGRO 1891 (9 Mar) Registered cover from Rieka to Hannover, franked with Second printing Prince Nicholas stamps 2+3+5 Novcica for letter abroad plus 10 Novcica for registration, tied by Rieka cds, with Cyrillic "Preporuceno" (Registered) handstamp, with Cetinje transit and Hannover arrival pmks on back, fine and attractive four color combination of Second printing Prince Nicholas stamps | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4470 MONTENEGRO 1892 (18 Sep) cover from Bar to Teodo (Tivat - Cattaro Bay) franked with 2+3+10 Novcica (Second printing) for registered letter, but postage was underpaid for 2 Novcica. As a result, the postal clerk blacked out the registration box and forwarded the cover as regular mail, without registry, with Cetinje transit and Tivad (20 Sep) arrival pmks on back, filing fold away from the stamps, scarce usage from "New Montenegro" | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4471 MONTENEGRO 1892-94 exhibit page with two covers, one to Germany correctly franked with second printing of Prince Nicholas stamps 2n+3n+5n, tied by Danilovgrad cds, with Rieka & Cetinje transits and Heidelberg arrival pmks, the other cover was sent from Anglo-Montenegrin Trading Co. in Podgoritza to Vienna franked with 7 novcica, second printing, paying beneficiary 7 novcica rate to Austria | $375.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4472 MONTENEGRO Government in Exile - Bordeaux 1916 (16 Jan) cover from London to General Martinovitch, redirected via Montenegrin P.O. at Bordeaux where two different "Return" labels were applied and cover returned back to England (due to the Austrian Occupation), fine and extremely rare incoming mail from England | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4473 MONTENEGRO Government in Exile - Bordeaux 1916 cover (a "window envelope") from New York, with handstamped label "Montenegro (Service des Postes en France) Retour a L'Envoyeur Le Destinataire N'Ayant Pu Etre Touche", opened and resealed by censor, oval "Ouvert Par L'Autorite Militaire 301" markings on both sides, also an unused label, some cover flaws, extremely rare | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4474 MONTENEGRO Government in Exile - Bordeaux 1916 Newspaper wrapper from Paris to the French Ministry in Cetinje, redirected via Montenegrin P.O. at Bordeaux where two different "Return" labels were applied and cover returned back to France (due to the Austrian Occupation), fine and rare incoming mail from France | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4475 MONTENEGRO Government in Exile - Bordeaux 1916 overprinted "S.P. du M. Bordeaux" (Service Postale di Montenegro) on French stamps, 5c-1fr, complete set of 11, 50c used, others l.h. or h.r., occasional disturbed gum, fine (these stamps were available for use from 6 to 27 June 1916, when they were withdrawn due to protests from the French postal administration), *O Catalog #YT 1-11 Catalog Value €2,075 | $600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4476 MONTENEGRO Government in Exile - Bordeaux 1916 overprinted "S.P. du M. Bordeaux" (Service Postale di Montenegro) on French stamps, 5c-1fr, eight different, canceled on pieces, fine-v.f., rare and undervalued, O Catalog #YT 1/11 Catalog Value €500 | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
          | Lot #4477 MONTENEGRO Government in Exile - Bordeaux 1917-27 highly interesting selection of covers and cards on 10 exhibit pages, with good historical background explanations, showing variety of mail from this turbulent time, including a registered cover from the Montenegrin Ministry of War to the American Military Attache in Greece, Gaeta issue, with the rare 25pa Postage Due, "Free Montenegro" overprints, British Trans Adriatic Force, censored card, Montenegro National Defense Directorate at Geneva, Foreign Ministry at Rome letter to USA, etc. A wonderful historical archive | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4478 POLAND 1918 (27 Nov) cover to New York, franked with horizontal strip of 3x20h green, tied by Lwow departure pmks, red "Wojskowa Cenzura Lwow" military censor hs, also Money Order with 50h and 20h Postage Due used from Krzeszowa to Krakow, with 16 Jan 19 arrival, fine "forerunners" displayed on exhibit page | $180.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
           | Lot #4479 POLAND 1918-20 selection of 22 covers or cards, showing the early years of Independent Poland, with Lublin overprints, first definitives, registered mail and postal stationery, Semi-Postals, including Red Cross set of four, Polish Occupation of Minsk Litewski, registered cover used 26 Apr 1920, Austrian stamps on cover and parcel card, overprints on German General Government definitives, Polish I.Corps stationery cards, with additional franking, fine and interesting lot | $550.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4480 POLAND 1919 Suwalki, two covers and card with provisional Suwalki markings, including "Poczta Polska St.Suwalki", two with "40gr" indicating Postage Paid, Registration and Censor handstamps, fine and uncommon selection (at the end of July 1919, the Paris Peace Conference granted the town of Suwalki to Poland. As the newly-established border was disapproved of by the Polish government, it organized the Sejny Uprising on August 23, 1919. The Polish-Lithuanian War erupted for control of Suwalki and other towns in the area. The war ended in September, but during the Polish-Bolshevik War, the town was captured by the Communists and, after the Battle of Warsaw, it was again passed to the Lithuanians. It was eventually retaken by the Polish Army) | $240.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4482 POLAND 1919 (23 Jan) registered cover from Oderberg to Upper Silesia, franked with Krakow 25/80h pair, tied by bilingual "Oderbwerg Bohumin" pmks, provisional Registry handstamp at top, fine and uncommon usage of the Krakow provisional overprints in Eastern Silesia (After the division of Cieszyn/ Silesia in 1920, Bohumin became part of Czechoslovakia. Following the Munich Agreement, it was annexed by Poland in 1938 and by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II) | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4483 POLAND 1919 (31 Jan) registered cover from Tarnow to Myslenice, franked with Krakow overprints 15h and 50h (lower right corner folded over), placed over the Austrian registry label, further endorsed "Zlamane" and "Uszkodzone" (postal markings were damaged), filing fold away from the stamps, signed Rachmanow and Bojanowicz | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4484 POLAND 1919 (16 Apr) registered covered to Poznan, franked with five different Krakow overprints, including two Postage Dues, tied by "Fr.Gl.Poczta Polowa" pmks, with corresponding military "Frontowa Glowna Poczta Polowa" hs, Registry box below (number filled-in by hand), Poznan (18.4.19) arrival pmk on back, filing fold away from the stamps, rare usage of Krakow overprints on cover with Field Post markings, signed Mikulski | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4485 POLAND 1919 (6 Feb) registered cover from Lwow to Krakow, with Austrian (Lemberg) Registry label, bearing "Poczta Polska Lwow S. Oplacono- zarach.p." four line (Paid) hs, "65" and "6" filled-in by hand, furthermore "Wojskowa Cenzura Lwow" censor hs, with Krakow (8.II.19) arrival pmk on back. A fine example of 65h cash franking on commercial mail | $240.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
       | Lot #4486 POLAND 1919-20 Military Mail, selection of 13 covers or cards on exhibit pages, various "Poczta Polowa" Fieldpost markings from Lwow, Przemysl, Krakow, including W.P.12, "Glowna Frontowa Poczta Polowa" pmks, French Military Mission "Tresor et Postes 309", with "Misya Francuska" and other markings applied by the members of the French units from Brzezany and Lwow, also Eastern Silesia covers from Cieszyn, "S.O." overprints on registered cover from Bielitz to Nowy Sacz, "Frontowa Poczta Polowa No.28" Field Artillery Regiment card to Wieliczka, fine | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                | Lot #4487 POLAND 1914-18 World War I - Vistulla River Flotilla, single frame (16 pages) exhibit with 20 covers or cards, showing Postal History of the Naval Flotilla along the Vistula River, created on 30 July, 1914, when Austria declared war on Serbia, with a variety of markings, destinations, postal rates, Headquarters FPO 186, "S.M.S. Dunajex" and "S.M.S. Goplana", plus many others, fine and rare group, difficult to assemble. In fact it has taken Mr. Kugel more than two decades to put it together. | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
      | Lot #4488 POLAND 1914-18 German Vistula Flotilla, collection of 11 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing Postal History of this Naval Flotilla along the Vistula River, various stations, Warsaw, Thorn, Modlin, Wloclawek, Fieldpost markings, Panzerboot "Weichsel", Navigation office in Garwolin, "Headquarters Vistula Flotilla Station Bonczki", etc. | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
               | Lot #4489 POLAND Bug and Styr River Flotillas Naval and Maritime Mail 1916-18 collection of 16 cards or covers, written-up on exhibit pages, showing mail from the small naval flotillas employed along the Bug and Styr Rivers in Poland and Ukraine. Headquartered at Dorohusk and Rozyszcze, these flotillas consisted of old paddle steamers equipped with machine guns. They were used by Austro-Hungarian Empire against Russia. This collection shows special handstamps "Imperial & Royal HQ of the Bug Flotilla" with anchor in the center, 4th Army markings, card set in 1917 from Chelm, Transport Detachment companies, "K.u.k.Bugflotille" handstamp on card mailed from Dorohusk, others from FPO 448, 524. 357, 448, censored cover from Chelm to Holland, sent by Major Verspyck, one of the senior officers of the Flotilla, cachets black out by censor (only known cover, rather than card), finally the fieldpost card with "K.u.K Flotillenweft Rozyszcze", FPO 172 pmk, sent to Vienna (one of only two examples recorded). A fine showing of this virtually unknown footnote of Polish military/naval history | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4490 POLAND Local Post on Territory Occupied by 10th Army 1918 (30 Aug) registered cover to Dorpat, franked with 10th Army 30pf and 60pf adhesives, used in combination with pair of 20pf Germania stamps, all tied by "Minsk Gouv," departure cds, violet Registry box and Dorpat arrival pmks. Also included is a stationery card from Borysow Minski to Wilejka, franked with 40k on 30k 10th Army surcharge, tied by violet departure pmks, with Postage Due handstamp (20k) charged on delivery, with Wilejka arrival pmk, fine and exceptional quality, the latter with Mikulski certificate (these local stamps were issued for use by civilians in the portion of the Eastern Front controlled by the 10th Army, whose territory included portions of modern-day Poland, Russia and Belarus) (Fi.1-3, PLN zl 33,000zl $8,450) (Mi.1-3, €4,500) | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4491 POLAND Polish Locals - Bialystok 1916 Forwarding station, receipt stamp for 25pf, signed Wolfsohn, "Stadthautmann" cancel, also 25pf dark blue, imperforate proof on gummed paper, minor crease, otherwise fine (F.1, PLN Zl 9,500 ($2,432) *O | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4492 POLAND Polish Locals - Bialystok 1916 7 1/2pf Postgebiet Ob Ost stationery card addressed to Ekaterinoslav, with surcharged 1m on 25pf signed by "R. Wolfsohn", tied by "Der Deutsche Stadhauptmann Bialystok / Briefstempel" pmks, minor toning, fine and extremely rare card, signed Mikulski (Fi.1, PLN Zl 60,000 $15,366) | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4493 POLAND Polish Locals - Bialystok 1916 cover addressed to Sweden, franked with surcharged 1m on 25pf signed by "R. Wolfsohn", tied by "Militarkreisamt Bialystok Stadt" pmks, showing return address of Mr.Tabaczinski in Bialystok, fine and very rare cover (Fi.1, PLN Zl 60,000 $15,366) | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4494 POLAND Polish Locals - Mielnica 1919 (3 Jan) registered cover from Mielnica to Lwow (addressed to equivalent of "workmen's compensation insurance company"), franked with Austrian 40h handstamped "Poczta Polska" and tied by violet "Mielnica" handstamp, date inserted by pen, corresponding Registry box alongside, extremely rare | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4495 POLAND Polish Locals - Myslenice 1919 (4 Jan) "Magistrat Krol. Woln. Miasta Myslenice" (administration of free City of Myslenice, with corresponding red label on back) registered cover to Warszawa, franked with pair of Austrian handstamped 10h magenta and single 30h Postage Due, tied by faint departure pmks, minor cover faults, rare usage | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4496 POLAND Polish Locals - Skalat 1919 (14 Nov) registered cover posted from Skalat, franked with overprinted "Poczta Polska" on Austrian 5h green (2) and 40h olive, tied by departure cds, red "Dowodztwo XIII.Kompani Etapowej" (HQ of the Polish Army unit) hs, minor cover faults, rare local usage, signed Mikulski (after WWI, Skalat was seized by local Ukrainian activists, who declared it part of Western Ukraine. Tensions escalated, resulting in Polish-Ukrainian War. On July 16, 1919, the town was captured by the Polish Army) | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4497 POLAND Polish Locals - Skalat 1919 (16 Nov) money order receipt for 1,000kr, showing "Poczta Polska Skalat" overprint and corresponding pmk, addressed to Lwow, fine and scarce piece | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                 | Lot #4498 POLAND Polish Occupation of Cieszyn and Zaolzie 1938-39 collection of 44 covers or cards, neatly displayed on 16 exhibit pages (one frame), presented alphabetically by postmark, starting with Cieszyn (Teschen), Zaolzie, Orava, with registered cover from Strumien to Court Prosecutor in Cieszyn, continuing with covers from Bledowice Dolne, Bogum ("Pozdrowienia z ziem Polskich odebranych Czechom w koncu 1938 r." Greetings from Polish territory taken from Czechs at the end of 1938), Bziecmorowice, Bystrzyca n/Olza, Dabrowa Slaska, Darkow, Domaslowice Dolne, Frysztat, Jablonkow, Karwina, Kocobedz, Ligotka Kameralna, Lazy Slaskie, Mosty Slaskie, Orlowa (registered cover addressed to President Roosevelt in Washington), Nawsie, plus many others, some with handstamped Patriotic slogans, including on covers with Czechoslovak stamps, flown cover from Stonawa to England (uncommon foreign destination from the annexed Cieszyn territory), covers from Morawka, Czerna Beskidzka, Skalite, Sucha Hora, Jaworzyna, with special "Wyzwolona Jaworzyna w Polskich Tatrach" - (liberated Jaworzyna in Polish Tatry Mountains). A definitive presentation of this interesting historical chapter | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4499 POLAND Polish Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union 1939-42 four covers of cards from Polish POWs in Starobielsk (7 Dec 1939), Ostashkov (3 Na 1940), Dubno (19 Mar 1940) and Kozielsk (14 Jan 1941), the latter incoming from German Occupied Warsaw, marked "Kriegsgefangen", censored "POB 11, C-41", with arrival in Moscow pmk (most of the inmates in Kozielsk were murdered by NKVD in Katyn forest), mixed condition, but very elusive items | $950.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4500 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers in Sweden 1945 (23 Mar) cover from Wabrezno to Stockholm, addressed to a Polish Sailor interned in Sweden, framed "Cenzura Wojskowa" and "Attache Morski w Stockholmie" handstamps, additionally opened by Swedish censors, red crayon notation indicates "ubyl to Angli 12.VI.45" (Left for England), rare | $150.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                   | Lot #4501 POLAND Polish Army in Great Britain 1941-44 collection of 26 covers or cards on exhibit pages, with "British Liberation Army" markings, incoming mail, various FPOs, "HQ Polish Recruiting Mission" cachet, Polish Navy mail, Polish Army Corps bilingual Field Post cachet, censor hs, unusual destinations (Northern Rhodesia), Official Mail, cover to USA, with mixed Polish Government in Exile stamps, with U.S. 6c Air Mail, all canceled by "Poczta Polowa 137" cds, etc. Included in this collection are two covers from Polish Training Battalion in Owen Sound, Canada, one with Polish Military Mission cachet, marked "Secret", sent to General Dembinski by courier to the Chief of Staff in London. A fine chronicle of Polish Army and Navy in England and Canada | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                                    | Lot #4502 POLAND Polish Army in Great Britain 1942-47 large collection of 100+ covers and cards on exhibit pages, including Indian Army Postal Service, used by the Polish Army in Teheran, Kirkuk (Iraq), Egypt. Including Naval Mail, incoming letters, Central Mediterranean Force, mail from Palestine, Baghdad, incoming and outgoing mail, one to Kenya, Polish Forces Middle East covers, Polish Troops in Italy, Lebanon, plus countless others, each cover with its own story, well described, with numerous elusive items, some from remote locations, demonstrating the powerful presence of the Polish Army under British Command | $4,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4503 POLAND Polish Army in France 1940 (26 Mar) two covers from the Officers Training Center at "Les Sables d'Olonne" to Paris, each with red or violet "Armee Polonaise" markings, fine | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                      | Lot #4504 POLAND Polish Army in the Soviet Union 1941-42 collection of 28 covers or cards from various camps in the Soviet Union, extensively described on exhibit pages, starting with Buzuluk, Tatischevo, Tock Lager, Yangi-Jul, including a cover from Scotland to London, marked "Wyjechal do Rosji" (left for Russia), forwarded by diplomatic pouch and handstamped "O.B.C. (opened by censor) in Yangi Jul GHQ, incoming mail from Kokchtav and Ayaguz, registered cover from Katta Kurgan (Uzbekistan) to GHQ in Yangj Jul, triangular "C" and "Rej.B.C.W." (Rejonowe Biuro Cenzury Woskowej) censor mark, Military Post No.3000 pmk on receipt for Money Order, Fieldpost covers from Dzhalal Abad Camp, also from Shakhrisabz Camp, Military Post No.3003 pmks on cover to Teheran, covers to and from Kanimekh Training Camp for Airmen, also a cover from the same camp to Teheran, carried by Polish courier, with British censor marking applied on arrival, covers from Guzar Camp, Vreskaja Camp, Malan and Lugovoy Camps, Tokmak, etc. Also included is a proof strike "Poczta Polowa Polskie Sily Zbrojne w ZSSR", Polish circular pmk used on incoming mail from Port Said to Buzuluk, passed by British censor, cover sent by courier from the Polish Embassy in Kustanai to Commandant of Field Hospital in Shakhrisabz, "Glowna Poczta Polowa" markings, registered mail from Ashkhabad Evacuation Center, etc., mixed condition, remarkable assembly of historical significance | $4,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4505 POLAND Polish Army in the Soviet Union 1942 "Dojdziemy" single used on large part of cover (half of the back missing), canceled by Field Post No.300 in Cyrillic, with numerous additional markings, addressed to Polish Red Cross in Teheran, signed Bojanowicz. Also included is a vertical tete-beche proof printed from defaced cliche, plus a privately designed "Stan" souvenir sheetlet | $500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
             | Lot #4506 POLAND Polish Army in the Soviet Union 1942-43 selection of covers or parts of documents, with cover sent through civilian mails to embarkation point in Tashkent, with Soviet franking, canceled "Pol. Sil Zbr. W. Z.S.R.R. D-Two" cancel, postal receipt for three incoming registered letters with "Tokmak" cancel, cover sent 12.7.42 to "Vrevskaya", cover to Tolense in Kyrgyzstan, with Fieldpost and Postage due markings, censored at "Dzhalal Abad", registered cover set 18.4.42 to the Polish Military governor at Yangi Yul, another registered cover sent 20.4.42, cover from Sukotino in Northern Kazakhstan to Yangi Yul, various strikes of Polish Military units, etc., mixed condition, faults noted, rare assembly, ex-Chris Kulpinski | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4507 POLAND Polish Army in the Soviet Union 1943 proof of unadopted design of 80gr (green) showing Polish troops in U.S.S.R 1941-42, designed by A.Horowicz and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson on gummed paper with serial number 66, v.f., extremely rare P | $270.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
            | Lot #4508 POLAND Polish 2nd Corps in Italy 1945-46 collection on exhibit pages, including a cover from a Corporal in a British Controlled Polish Repatriation Camp to Polish Embassy in Rome, from there via Red Cross to Warsaw, Registered and First Day Covers with Second Polish Corps issues, including a souvenir sheet of four, surcharged values, Air Post, with set of five overprinted "Poczta Lotnicza", canceled "Poczta Osiedli Polskich Bartletta", Red Cross Mail (Rome to Geneva), VFW cover to the Catholic League in Chicago, plus unused set of three National Anthem souvenir sheets, fine lot | $525.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4509 ROMANIA 1918-19 Bessarabia, Parcel Card with Russian franking, used from "Oknitsa" (5 Jan 1918), also two registered covers to New York, one from Acherman, with bilingual censor label, the other from Borsca, via Chisnau, with arrival pmk | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4510 ROMANIA Russo-Turkish War (Romanian Field Post) 1877 (20 July) FL from Craiova to the Romanian Military Headquarters in Poiana, large, but indistinct military cachet on reverse, with receiving pmk (21 July) on front, faint toning, otherwise fine, neatly described on exhibit page | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
     | Lot #4511 ROMANIA French Military Mission in Romania 1917-20 collection of 14 covers or cards, perfectly described on exhibit pages, showing different types of French Military Mission in Romania, with "General Berthelot/Commander of Mission", "French Military Mission 2nd Army" and "MMF in Romania" cachets, military markings from Bucharest, Constanza, French Navy "Secteur du Danube Commandant Naval Francaise" (Tumu Severin), Relief Coordination Mission, French Aviation Aeronautical Section and Aerostation units, censored mail, military endorsements, etc. (The French Military Mission to Romania, led by General Berthelot was to help Romania during World War I. French officers, aviators and medical staff trained and supported the Romanian Army) | $1,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4512 ROMANIA Romanian Soldiers in Siberia 1920 two covers from Cadet Buchen to his family in Czernowitz, Bukovina, one "American YMCA" soldier's mail cover franked with Russian imperf. 1r brown & red, tied by oval Vladivostok (15.7.20) pmk, addressed to Romania, showing return address of "Romanian Concentration Point at Staraja Rieka", Cernauti (7 Oct 1920) arrival pmk on back. The second cover is franked with imperf. pair of 1r, showing part of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia departure address, Czernowitz arrival pmk on back (Romanians served in the Austro-Hungarian army and were in POW camps in Siberia. Few were apparently recruited by the Allies and became part of the International Intervention Force). These two covers are possibly the only known from this little known chapter of history) | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                | Lot #4513 ROMANIA Romanian Occupation of Transnistria 1941-44 single frame (16 pages) exhibit with 28 covers or cards, showing Postal History of the Romanian Occupation of Odesa and the area that lies between the Dniester and Bug Rivers, with registered and censored mail, Romanian franking on cards used from Tiraspol, Odesa, stationery cards from Birzula, Odesa, Official and inbound mail, Posta Militar No.52, No.54, covers from small post offices such as Ananiev, Balta, Golta, Kadzelnaia, Moghilev, Oceacov, Ovidiopol, Rudnita, Smerinca, Dubasari, Slobozia-Tiraspol, Grigoriopol, mixed condition, fine and rare group. (In 1941, after Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union, Romania controlled the entire region between Dniester and Southern Bug rivers, including Odesa as local capital. The Romanian-administered territory, known as the Transnistria Governorate was divided into 13 counties: Ananiev, Balta, Berzovca, Dubasari, Golta, Jugastru, Movilau, Oceacov, Odesa, Ovidiopol, Ribnita, Tiraspol, and Tulcin. This expanded Transnistria was home to nearly 200,000 Romanian-speaking residents. The process of Romanianization which ensued, resulted in mass deportation of between 150,000 and 250,000 Ukrainian and Romanian Jews, the majority were murdered or died in the ghettos and concentration camps) | $2,700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4514 RUSSIA 1919 picture propaganda postcard "Dogs of Entente", leaders of White Anti-Bolshevik forces (Denikin, Kolchak and Yudenich), strings pulled by Western Powers, fine | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4515 RUSSIA 1919 70k brown, used on registered cover headed "Legation de Suisse en Russie", canceled 2.5.19, addressed locally in Petrograd, with same day arrival pmks on back Catalog #150 | $350.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
      | Lot #4516 RUSSIA French Military Mission to Russia 1916-18 collection of 12 covers or cards, plus one coverfront, perfectly described on exhibit pages, showing different types of French Military Mission to Russia cachets and "F.M." (Franchise Militaire) endorsements, sent by diplomatic pouch to France, cards sent by military instructors involved with heavy artillery, French Aviation units stationed in Kiev and Kamenetz-Podolsk, Medical units, etc. A fine group | $475.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4517 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1919-21 selection of six covers or cards on exhibit pages, with censored cover from Birsk to Ufa (stated to be the only known cover from the White Occupation of Ufa), Kolchak surcharges, one cover from Omsk to Bogorodsk, card from Irkutsk to USA, Blagoveshchensk parcel card and cover, censor markings, etc. | $425.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4518 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1921 (3 Feb) registered cover from the Russian Exile Army Post Office, Tresor et Postes 506, survivors of the Denikin's and Wrangel's Army evacuated from South Russia, with "Russian Army/ Russian Post Office Constantinople" military cachet, sent to Algeria, via the French FPO 506 in Constantinople, fine. A rarity | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4519 RUSSIA Russo-Turkish War 1878 (14 Mar) large Registered cover franked with 2k, 5k and vertical strip of 3x8k, paying 31k, tied by "Polevoye P.O. Kavkaz Korp.2" (Field Post Office No.2 Caucasian Corps), addressed to Kamenetz-Pod., with Kiev transit and arrival pmk (30 Mar) on back, fine and extremely rare usage from Igdir or Bayazet (today Turkey) | $1,700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4520 Armenia 1915-17 two postcards from Kars to Baku and Paris, with Russian military markings, one with Censor cachet, fine-v.f., extremely rare examples of the Russian military activities in Armenia during WWI | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4521 Armenia 1920 (3 Nov) registered cover to Tiflis, franked on back with HH Monogram surcharges, including 1r on 1k orange (block of four), pair of 3r on 3k, single 50r on 1r and 100r on 3.50r, all tied by Erivan departure pmks, with Tiflis arrival (5.11.20) on front and back, fine | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4522 Armenia 1921 (11 Feb) cover from Erivan, addressed to the editors of "Voice of Caucasus" in Tiflis, franked with 100r on 5r Romanov, used in combination with defective vertical strip of 5r on 5k lilac claret (cover roughly opened at right), backstamped on arrival (17.2.21), extremely rare example of the unissued and unlisted 5r Romanov with HH Monogram surcharge | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4523 Armenia 1922 (17 Oct) registered cover from Alexandropol to USA, franked on back with gold kopeck surcharges, 2k on 2r imperf. single, 4k on 1,000r imperf. pair and 5k on 50r perforated single and vertical pair, all tied by departure cds, showing the return address of G.Blackwell, Near East Relief Agency, Constantinople, with New York Registry (16 Nov) and Hamilton, N.J. (17 Nov) arrival pmks, rare usage from present-day Gyumri, extraordinary franking on cover Catalog #338,362,366a | $325.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4524 Armenia 1922 (20 June) registered cover from Erivan to USA, franked on back with gold kopeck surcharges, 10k on 100r perforated strip of four, 2x10k on 2,000r imperf., with New York (July 22) and Boston (July 24) arrival pmks, some overall toning, rare usage Catalog #341,367 | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4525 Armenia Postal Stationery 1921 5r stationery card additionally surcharged "30 kop.", with Turkish stamp (portrait of the Sultan blocked out) added below, all canceled by "Kars 1 on 10.1.337" (1921) pmks, v.f., fine and rare souvenir of the official annexation of Kars | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4526 Far Eastern Republic 1920 (2 June) Japanese picture postcard sent to Harbin, franked with 5r on 5k claret, tied by Chita railway cancel, with arrival (11.6.20) alongside, overall toning, extremely rare usage Catalog #N3 | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4527 Far Eastern Republic 1920 (14 July) cover headed "Swedish Red Cross" in Chita, addressed locally to the representative of the German Red Cross, franked with surcharged Ataman Semenov 3x5r on 5k claret and single 10r on 70k brown & orange, tied by Chita departure pmks, minor cover flaws, rare usage, signed Mikulski Catalog #N3,4 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4528 Far Eastern Republic 1921 (30 Jan) cover from Vladivostok to Constantinople, addressed to the agent of the Russian Volunteer Fleet in Galata, franked on reverse with 10k on 3.50r DVR overprint, tied by departure pmk, with transit markings of Shanghai (9 Feb), Port Taufiq (13.III), Alexandria (14.III) and arrival pmks, unusual destination | $325.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
         | Lot #4529 Far Eastern Republic 1921-23 collection on exhibit pages, 14 covers or cards, showing registered mail from Vladivostok, provisional government stationery card to Austria, Anniversary overprints on registered covers to Latvia, another used locally, Chita issue on postcard from Pervaya Rechka to Hamburg, also a registered cover from Petrovski Zavod to Moscow, Diederichs issue, one to Shanghai, etc. | $625.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4530 Georgia Georgian Consular Post Office in Constantinople 1921 (24 Jan) registered cover to Tiflis, franked with blue surcharge 7pi on 70k, tied by Constantinople departure pmk, repeated on back, assessed 20k Postage Due, with oval "Doplatit" and "20" inserted by hand, with arrival (7.2.21) pmk on front, fine and rare commercial usage from Georgian Consular Post Office in Constantinople, one of only a few genuine covers recorded | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4531 Georgia Georgian Consular Post Office in Constantinople 1921 (24 Feb) philatelic cover addressed to Tiflis, franked with nine different surcharges, tied by Constantinople pmks, filing folds away from the stamps | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4532 Berg Republic 1922 2k, 5k, 10k perforated, also 2k and 5k imperf. singles, used or unused, mounted on exhibit page along with a commercial cover franked with 5k and 10k Star overprints, tied by "Grozny-Tersk" (29.8.22) pmk, repeated at left, addressed to Gudauty Sukhum, with arrival (9.9.22) on front and on back, rare usage, signed Mikulski (with his expertising invoice from 1992 stating only 10 covers from Berg Republic are known) | $1,200.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4533 Berg Republic 1922 (31 Aug) registered "Dr.M.Brender" cover to Berlin, franked on back with 5k lilac single and two blocks of four, paying 45k rate, tied by Vladikavkaz departure cds, Moscow transit (7.IX.22) pmks, filing fold, partially through the stamps, fine early usage from Vladikavkaz, with provisional Berg Republic Star handstamps, signed Ursul (Vladikavkaz is one of the largest cities in the Russian Caucasus, along with Grozny, and was the capital of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which comprised most of today's Chechnya, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria) | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
            | Lot #4534 South Russia 1918-20 collection of 20 covers or cards, neatly displayed and written-up on 12 exhibit pages, with registered mail from Taganrog to Rostov, from Nakhichevan to Novorossiysk, another from Novocherkassk, Civil War usages from the Crimean Peninsula, registered covers from Sevastopol, Yevpatoria, Simferopol, plus mail from Kuban, showing pmks of Armavir, Ekaterinodar, including rare usages of surcharges on Postal Savings stamps, plus Parcel cards with Denikin franking, mixed condition, good representation of the turbulent era | $2,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4535 RYUKYU ISLANDS 1914-26 (Forerunners), two cards used from Naha and Okinawa Gushikawa, fine and neatly displayed on exhibit page | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4536 SAUDI ARABIA - Turkish Administration 1913-17 four covers or cards, including "Djedda" 20pa postal stationery card sent 18 Jan 1915 to Vienna, showing the only recorded example of the official negative seal used for censorship, another "Djedda" departure pmks on Registered parcel tag to Zanzibar, 1916 postcard from Medina, sent 27 Feb 1916 to a Turkish doctor in Berlin, with large Ottoman Red Crescent Society Medina Hospital Post Office cachet (one of only two recorded), plus a cover sent by a Turkish officer from Medina to Istanbul, with special seal cachet of the Medina Wireless Telegraph Post Office (only recorded example) | $2,800.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
    | Lot #4537 SAUDI ARABIA - Turkish Administration 1916 selection of five covers and additional stamps on pieces, neatly displayed on exhibit pages, showing some of the most elusive markings from Hejaz, including large piece of a money order franked with 20pa red brown tied by a clear "Taif" pmk, postal card from "Tebouk" (the northernmost station on the Hejaz line), picture postcard to Beylerbey, with octagonal pmk of "Mekke", negative military seal of the "Hejaz Command" and censor hs, with arrival pmk, another postcard sent by a Turkish soldier from Mecca to Medina, negative seal of "Mecca of the Revered, Headquarters Command", plus cover and card from Medina to Istanbul, the latter with Damascus-Medina TPO mark, mixed condition, rare O | $2,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4538 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1917 Picture postcard of Cairo sent as "Souvenir de la Mission Militaire Francaise du Hedjaz 1916-1917" message, with blue "Base Militaire Francaise De Suez" cachet, sent during the period when the Expeditionary Corps was forming in Egypt | $180.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4539 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1917 (6 June) Tresor et Postes 601, cover sent from Hejaz to the French Army Base in Port Said, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Mission", fine and rare cover, only a few recorded from this military campaign (Although the contribution of the French in Arabia during WWI is not as well known as that of the British, they played an important part in the war on the Hejaz Railway. Established in 1916 under the command of Col. Bremond, the French Military Mission (40 officers and 1,000 Muslim troops from North Africa) operated in all sectors of the Hejaz Railway. French units were attached to the southern armies of Princes Ali and Abdullah in the Hejaz, as well as to the northern army under Prince Faisal. The artillery battery of Captain Rosario Pisani provided vital support for the Bedouin in their attacks against the well entrenched and heavily armed Ottoman defenders. Pisani's units took part in several raids with T.E. Lawrence and made up part of the great offensive push to capture Damascus at the end of the war) | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4540 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (18 Apr) Tresor et Postes 601, cover to France, with violet authorized cachet "Mission B.- Detachement de Yambo/Le Chef de Detachement" , franked with five different Hejaz stamps, tied by bilingual Ottoman "Yambo" pmks, showing return address of Sgt. Rachid "Mission du Hedjaz par S.P. 601 Jerusalem", with Villemonble (11.6.18) arrival pmk | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4541 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (14 Feb) Tresor et Postes 601, cover sent from Hejaz to Port Said, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Detachement", large "F" (French) handstamp, with British Army Post Office transit and Port Said (16.II.18) arrival pmks on back, filing fold, fine and rare usage | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4542 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (25 Sep) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M.", sent from Hejaz to Lyon, with military departure cds and violet authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise Au Hedjaz / Le Chef de Mission", with emblematic "France" in center, return address "Mission Mil.au Hedjaz par Secteur 601 Armee L'Orient", very rare | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4543 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (27 Feb) Tresor et Postes 601, picture postcard from a medical officer in Hejaz, with military departure cds and red authorized cachet "Le Medicin Major Mission Francaise Au Hedjaz", fine | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4544 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (June) cover from Mecca to Paris, franked with 1pi blue, tied by all-Arabic departure pmk, violet "M.M.F.Hedjaz" (French Military Mission) Fieldpost handstamp, "Djedda" and Port Said transit pmks, arriving Rosny sous Bois (21.7.18), filing fold away from the stamp, fine and highly unusual usage through the civil post office in Mecca | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4545 SAUDI ARABIA - French Military Mission 1918 (Apr) Tresor et Postes 601, cover endorsed "F.M. CSRG Mission Militaire de Hedjaz Yambo SP 601", sent to Gironde, with blue authorized cachet "Mission Militaire Au Hedjaz / Parc D'Artillerie" and "Ambulance / Le Medicine-Chef" in black, fine and previously unrecorded Artillery Instruction cachet used by a small French detachment sent to Yambo (at the time, a minor port on the Red Sea) | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4546 SAUDI ARABIA - Hejaz 1921 (Dec) cover franked with 1/2pi and 1pi Hejazi stamps, sent to Egypt, with bilingual "Djedda" and Port Tawfik arrival pmks on back, cover faults, markings intact | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4547 SAUDI ARABIA - Hejaz Military Mail 1925 (20 Mar) picture postcard sent by a sailor on the "Schiaffino", via its on board post office to a colleague at the headquarters of the naval base at Spezia, Italy, v.f., unusual "forces abroad" usage in Jeddah. (In 1924, the Wahhabis under Ibn Saud (the Sultan of Nejd) invaded Hejaz and in the following year took control of the country, forcing the abdication of Amir Hussein. Due to internal unrest, the Italian government grew concerned about the safety of its nationals in Hejaz and sent the destroyer "Schiaffino" to Jeddah to "show the flag". This warship remained in the area from February to April 1925) | $325.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
           | Lot #4548 SERBIA 1900-26 Turkish Administration. Collection on exhibit pages, 16 covers or cards, showing pmks of cities and small villages in Serbia, including "Pirlepe", "Resne", "Uskub", "Monastir", "Doyuran", "Korchova", "Krouschova", "Neveska", "Ochri", "Priboy", "Tachlidja", "Pizrend" (Kosovo Region, rated as "very rare" by C&W), "Kara Tova", plus many other pmks on pieces, some extremely rare. Also included is a cover from "Kolachine" (Montenegro) | $2,800.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4549 SERBIA 1909 bilingual postal card with "Zubeftsche" pmk, Ottoman franking, tied by bilingual pmk, with Enver Pasha's portrait, fine and colorful item, signed Nakri | $280.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4550 SERBIA 1901-03 King Alexander, unissued 1 Para carmine rose, imperforate essay on thin, ungummed paper, h.r., v.f., signed Velickovic, with his 1987 certificate (the issued stamps of this series consisted of nine denominations ranging from 5 Para to 5 Dinar. Essays of 1 Para stamp were prepared for potential use on newspapers. However, this value was never issued, possibly because King Alexander was assassinated in 1903) E | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4551 SERBIA 1903 King Alexander, unissued 1pa-5d, ten different, first eight perforated, with gum, last two imperf., without gum, some minor flaws, mostly fine-v.f. Prior to Alexander's assassination in 1903, a new set of stamps, more pleasing to the king, was designed and printed in France for issuance on the Royal Birthday. The stamps were shipped to Belgrade, but never released (without the subsequent surcharges) *(*) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4552 SERBIA 1913 3d yellow, bottom sheet margin interpanneu single, canceled "Belgrad 7.7.14 Preporuke" cds, v.f., signed Diena. (The 3 dinar yellow depicting King Peter in a military cap is the scarcest of all stamps of Kingdom of Serbia in used condition. Most of the stamps printed were not placed on sale and destroyed during World War I), O Catalog #127 Catalog Value $ 1,750 | $270.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4553 SERBIA Serbo-Turkish War 1876 (5 Oct) 10 para (Prince Milan) stationery card (Second issue) for internal mail, uprated with 10 para red brown (IVth printing), addressed to Samara, Russia, canceled by "Vojena Posta 4" FPO 4 cds, to pay correct postage fee of 20 para for postal stationery card sent abroad, boxed in Cyrillic "Vojena Posta" (Military Mail) handstamp, Moscow (14 Oct) transit and Samara (23 Oct) arrival pmks, card reduced at top, with minor additional flaws, otherwise fine and extraordinary military usage to Russia, sent during the Serbo-Turkish War | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
            | Lot #4554 SERBIA Serbo-Turkish War 1876-78 collection of 24 covers or cards, Military mail showing FPOs 1,2,4,5,6,8, HQ handstamps, Sumadija Kor, Timok Kor & Pirot cds, used stationery postal cards with various military handstamps, money letter and mail abroad (Russia, Austria), cover from the Royal Serbian War Ministry to Vienna, mail to and from annexed territory, etc., mixed condition, mostly fine. A highly interesting lot of this elusive material | $1,800.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4555 SERBIA Serbo-Turkish War 1877 (17 Sep)10 para stationery card (slightly reduced at top), uprated with 10 para Prince Milan (IV printing) tied by "Sabac" cds and sent to Napoli. The return address in manuscript shows "Army of the Brzna, Italian Legion, Belgrade", with a complete message describing the difficulties of the campaign and hoping for an end to the fighting. Unusual and rare item from an Italian volunteer Garibaldi Legion in Serbia during the Serbo-Turkish War, card folded in the middle, minor flaws | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4556 SERBIA Serbo-Turkish War 1878 (8 Aug) Military stationery card uprated with 20 para Prince Milan (IV printing), tied by the military "Vojena Posta Prokuplje" cds, addressed to Austria, with transits of Military HQ and Civilian Post Office at Belgrade, "Maurer" 24.9.77 arrival pmk on front. A rare example of mail sent abroad during the Serbo-Turkish War | $325.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4557 SERBIA French Forces in Serbia 1916 cover and card of French Aviation Mission in the Serbian Army showing "Tresor et Postes 502" and "Aviation Francaise de L'Armee Serbe", "Escadrille No.91-S Le Chef D'Escadrille" cachets, fine | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4558 SERBIA French Forces in Serbia 1917 (27 July) cover headed "Cercle des Intimes - Salonique", sent from Monastir (Bitolj) to the Commandant of the French Escadrille 525, with the Serbian Army on the Salonica front bearing previously unrecorded (!) cachet "Commission Secours De Monastir Necessiteaux Israelites" (Commission to aid Jewish needy of Monastir), cover somewhat ragged, backflap missing, but surely unique and historical item (at the turn of 20th century, Monastir's Jewish population reached nearly 11,000. During World War I, Monastir suffered two years of bombardment and invasions. More than 5,000 Monastir Jews fled their homes and lived as refugees in the surrounding area. When the war was over, Monastir's Jews numbered just over 3,000) | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4559 SLOVAKIA 1939 "Cesko-Slovensko", 60h (Milan Stefanik) die proof in dark carmine on card, engraved by Bohumil Heinz, pencil signed by him on back, v.f., rare (Bohumil Heinz (1894-1940) was a Czech graphic artist and engraver, known especially as the author of many postage stamps and banknotes) P | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4560 SLOVAKIA 1939 "Cesko-Slovensko", Andrej Hlinka, unoverprinted 50h green (perf.10 1/2) and 1kr carmine (perf.10 1/2 x 12), n.h., fine-v.f., rare ** | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                                                                                                                             | Lot #4561 SLOVAKIA 1939-45 a complete 10-frame (160 pages) exhibit collection on pages, 250+ covers and stationery cards, starting with a card from Racistorf to Brno, used 14.III.39 (First day of "Independent Slovak State"), censored cover from Bratislava to Barcelona, covers with Czechoslovak definitives and Air Post stamps used in Slovakia, other forerunners, covers with the blue reprinted Stefanik stamps, three covers with the complete set of overprints to 10kr, extensive Hlinka stationery cards with various pmks, Registry markings, mail from Annexed territory (Jurgow, a town in Spisz, Poland), Slovak censor markings, Railway and Postal Bus pmks, Slovak Military Mail from units on the Eastern and on the Italian Fronts, Slovak occupation of Ukraine cover from Goloha-Pristan, German Fieldpost in Slovakia, mail from Camps for German children, Postage Dues, various destinations, many to Bohemia and Moravia, Serbia, USA, etc. A superb in-depth study and presentation | $2,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4562 SYRIA 1910 cover to USA, franked on back with horizontal strip of 4x10pa green, tied by bilingual "KATANA" pmks, with 7.12.1910 Beirut transit, fine and scarce usage under Turkish Administration, from a small town, signed Nakri | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4563 SYRIA 1918 (4 Dec) registered cover to France, with 2pi EEF franking, tied by Army Post Office SZ22 departure pmk, sent from Aleppo, with Arab Governor Aleppo seal, "Passed by Censor No.10" hs, additional strikes on back, also "Opened by Censor" label and Lyon arrival pmk. During the British presence in Syria, civilian mail was franked with Egyptian Expeditionary Force adhesives (used there from 21 Sep 1918 to 23 Feb 1922) | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4564 SYRIA 1919 (23 Nov) cover from Damascus to Cairo, single 1pi E.E.F. franking, tied by bilingual "DAMAS" cds, with "Churia" Cairo arrival on back | $140.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                  | Lot #4565 SYRIA 1924-43 collection of 47 covers or cards on exhibit pages, various usages and frankings, including overprinted French stamps, Air Post, Commemorative issues, Free-French Forces in Syria, Official and Military Mail, covers from Alexandretta and Alawite Territory, including Air Post and Official "Territoire Autonome de Alaouites" cover, 1930s covers from Djebel Druze lands, Euphrates Territory, Latakia, military mail, etc., mixed condition, excellent collection of Syrian Postal History | $1,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4566 SYRIA Military Mail 1919 (22 May) "OAS" cover to Alexandria, Army Post Office "SZ62", censor cachet and backstamped "Military Post Office Alexandria" (27 May,19) on arrival, roughly opened at top, fine. The British Military Post Office SZ62 was set up in Damascus where it operated until 24 June, 1919, closing when Syria was turned over to the French authority | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4567 SYRIA Military Mail 1919 (26 Mar) registered cover mailed by a Captain Davidson to a Lieut. Roper in Alexandria, franked with pair of 1pi E.E.F. Mandate stamps, tied by bilingual ALEP departure pmk, censored, showing several markings on back, including Arab Governor Aleppo hs, delivered "Alexandria" and "Field Post Office SZ11, 9 Apr" (Mustapha Barracks, Alexandria) arrival, filing fold away from the stamps, very scarce registered cover with EEF franking from Aleppo | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4568 SYRIA Military Mail 1919 (9 Feb) picture postcard to England, with "Field Post Office D.C.5" (Feb 9 1919) departure pmk, fine (FPO DC 5 (HQ 5th Cavalry Division) operated in Aleppo from 26th Oct 1918 to 3 Mar 1919) | $130.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4569 SYRIA Issues of the Arabian Government 1920 (8 Mar) cover with a stamp of the Arab Government overprinted for the proclamation of the Kingdom, canceled by violet bilingual "DAMAS" cds, filing folds away from the stamp, fine usage (An Arab government for eastern Syria was established in Damascus in 1919, and Emir Feisal (formerly of Hejaz) was crowned King on 8 March 1920) | $160.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4570 SYRIA Kilis - Provisional Issue 1921 1p violet, tied by Kilis departure pmk on cover sent via Aleppo (10.2.21) to Galata, with arrival (1.III.21) on back, filing folds away from the stamp, fine and rare commercially used cover (in 1923, Kilis was returned to Turkey) | $750.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
     | Lot #4571 SYRIA French Occupation 1919-20 collection of nine covers or cards on exhibit pages, with Tresor et Postes 600 cover with EEF franking from Beirut to France, handstamped "Trupes Francaise de Levant Maisons des officiers", others include "Tripoli-Syrie", "Djon (Liban)" pmks, official mail with "Haut Commissariat de La Republique Francaise en Syrie et en Armenie" and "Haut Commissariat de La Republique Francaise en Syrie" cachets, also a card from Beirut with cachet of "Network Commission in Syria-Cilicia", registered cover "Tresor et Postes 601" sent by a Sergeant in the "Armenian Legion" (very rare), etc. | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                 | Lot #4572 SYRIA French Occupation 1920-23 collection of 34 covers or cards on exhibit pages, "T.E.O." (Occupied Enemy Territory) overprints, various frankings, origins and destinations, registered mail from Alexandretta, Beirut, "O.M.F." (French Military Occupation) overprints, covers from Broumana and Alexandretta, Official mail with "Palmyre" marking, mail from small villages (Alie, Djadj, Saidnail), overprints on Arab Government Stamps, mail from Damascus, Currency Depreciation Issue, surcharged 1pi stamp with red control mark on cover to England (very rare), Air Mail franking, including specially created handstamps (one coverfront), Military Mail from various Tresor et Postes FPOs, unusual "Legion Syrienne 1er Escadron Libanais" cachet, Naval Mail, etc., mixed condition, mostly fine or better | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4573 THAILAND Military Mail 1918 (Aug) picture postcard ("La Bravoure de nos Fusiliers Marins") from France to Bangkok, with a good "Corps D'Aviation Siamois/En Europe/9 8/19 (Wings)" cachet in violet, Istres cds, endorsed "F.M.", some toning, otherwise fine and extremely rare, previously unrecorded marking from Siamese pilots under training in France, mounted on exhibit page, along with another card sent by a Siamese student at the military aviation school to Siamese Military Mission in Paris, forwarded to "Groupement Siamois/T.M,885" | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4574 TURKEY Military Stamps 1898 two covers franked with stamps issued for the Army in Thessaly, one with the complete set of five, canceled "Larissa (Yenidje)", the other with vertical gutter pair of 20pa rose, canceled by bilingual "Larissa" cds, paying the letter rate to Erzurum (Anatolia), rare commercial usage, signed Nakri, with his certificate Catalog #M1-5 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4576 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Armenia 1914 unmailed Russian picture postcard (Vladivostok), with Turkish 20pa Landscape, tied by Ottoman Fieldpost Office 34 operating in Russian Armenia, with provisional bilingual "Ardanoudsce" 22.11.14 pmk in violet, signed Nakri. A fine and only recorded example of this marking from today's Ardanuc, a town in Artvin Province in Turkey's Black Sea region, 32 km east of Artvin | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4577 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Armenia 1914 Russian picture postcard (Skyline of the Batum district of the city of Artvin) to Constantinople, franked with Russian 7k blue, tied by violet all-Arabic negative seal "Artvin Kymakamligi 7 Tesrini sani 1339" (Artvin Government 20 Nov 1914), repeated alongside, fine, with 2002 Nakri certificate ("This is the only recorded item used during the first days of the occupation bearing Russian stamp tied by Artvin temporary post seal") (Artvin (now located in northeastern Turkey 30km from the Black Sea) was annexed by Russia following Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78. The town was mostly inhabited by Armenians. In the early days of WWI, Turkey seized Artvin, which was later retaken by the Russians, who subsequently withdrew following the 1917 Revolution. When WWI ended with the Ottomans on the losing side, British troops moved into the area in 1918, followed by Democratic Republic of Georgia, which was than invaded by the Soviet Red Army. Artvin was eventually ceded to newly established Turkey under the Treaty of Kars in 1921) | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4578 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Armenia 1915 Ottoman stationery 20pa postal card sent from Artvin to Marash City (in the Halep Province), showing provisional bilingual departure pmk "Artvin 4 Kanunievvel 1330" (17 December 1914) and "Halep" 2 27 Jan 1915 arrival cds alongside, fine example of the rare Artvin provisional pmk, one of only three recorded, signed Nakri, with his 2002 certificate. Also included is a piece with three Turkish stamps bearing the same Artvin pmk | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4579 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Armenia 1918 Ottoman 20pa stationery entire envelope to Kerkuk, additionally franked with 20pa carmine and diagonal half of same, tied by two strikes of FPO 30, fieldpost office in "Gyumri" pmks, with the negative censor marking of the Chief surgeon of the 21st Caucasian Mobile hospital, "Diarbekir" transit on front, "Sivas" and Kerkuk arrival pmks on back. Interesting application of the 20pa bisect, used due to the shortage of 10pa stamps in the HQ of the Caucasian Army. Apparently, the only recorded cover from Gyumri. In addition, there is a military free frank from "Kars", showing a circular censor strike alongside | $1,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4580 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Azerbaijan 1918 cover (with letter of contents) with Ottoman franking (partly covering a double-eagle censor handstamp with Cyrillic markings), canceled by negative FPO 62 pmk, sent from Nakhichevan, via Tabriz to Istanbul's Uskudar, with star and crescent "Commander of the 9th Caucasian division", showing sender's address of "9th Caucasian Division, Head Veterinarian, Major Luft Bey", fine and extraordinary usage from Nakhichevan, with Pulhan certificate | $1,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4581 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Georgia 1918 picture postcard (Tiflis) franked with Ottoman adhesives, canceled FPO, sent by a Turkish officer (hence requiring the payment of postage and the postal tax) from the Georgian capital to Kizil-Toprak, boxed censor handstamp, fine (usage possible for only a brief period at the end of WWI) | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4582 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Georgia 1918 cover with Ottoman franking, mailed by an officer in the 13th Caucasian Division to Aleppo, with "Batum 1" military pmk, boxed censor handstamp, Istanbul transit and arrival pmks on back. Also a small piece with Turkish adhesives, canceled "Tchourouk-Sou" (located between Batum and Tiflis), fine and rare pair, neatly displayed on exhibit page | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4583 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Batum 1918 Ottoman Money Order transfer form, sending 6,000 piasters to Istanbul (small piece of the form missing at bottom), franked on both sides and paying 23.5 piasters with 18x50pa and 2x20pa (one faulty) stamps, the ones on back tied by military all Arabic "Batum 2" (15 Sep) pmks, three stamps on front with "Batum 1", with all Arabic "Besiktas 1" arrival applied on both sides, with 2002 Nakri certificate ("This is the only recorded full money order from Batum during the Turkish occupation") | $1,400.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4584 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Batum 1918 Ottoman Parcel card used to send a package from 10th Caucasian division on 12 June, 1918 by Commander Captain "Garif" at Field Post Office No.57, located at "Leghva" to Istanbul, paying 9.20 piastres with 20pa, 5pia and block of 4x1pia, all tied by Field Post Office 57 pmks and showing "Batum 7" on reverse along with Istanbul 25 July 1918 arrival, with 2002 Nakri certificate ("This is the only recorded entire showing FPO 57 used in Georgia and the only recorded item showing Batum 7 cancelation") | $1,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4585 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Batum 1918 selection of seven pieces with Ottoman franking, canceled Batum 1 through Batum 8 (without Batum 4), trial pmks prepared for potential branch offices in Batum, fine and very rare group O | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
   | Lot #4586 TURKEY Turkish Occupation of Persia 1916-18 selection of 4 covers or cards on exhibit pages, with postcard showing Fieldpost Office Hamadan pmk (the only recorded example of this use from the Ottoman military post office), another postcard sent through FPO 47 at Hamadan (Shawarim in Turkish), sent by a Turkish officer to his son in Istanbul, franked with 20pa+10pa (correct postcard rate of 20pa plus 10pa war tax), canceled by all-Arabic circular with belt for date and vertical bars in segments "Sahra Postasi 47-5.7.19932 = Field Post 47-18.9.1916", confirmed "Hamadan" endorsement alongside, with crescent censor mark of Baghdad and Istanbul arrival pmk (Nakri certificate" "a magnificent exhibition item of the highest caliber and undoubted highlight of Persian and Turkish philately"). In addition, there is a 20pa stationery entire envelope used from "Mahabad" (Nakri certificate: "A magnificent exhibition item"), plus a Russian stationery card used from "Hoy" to Balikesir, with negative Field Post office 28 seal, Ottoman censor mark (Nakri Opinion report: "this is the only recorded item from Hoy city during the Ottoman occupation, also the only recorded FPO negative seal used outside of Turkey"). With additional pieces showing mixed Turkish and Iranian adhesives, which might have originated from covers sent by Turkish officers who did not enjoy free-franking privileges | $1,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
            | Lot #4587 TURKEY Ottoman Empire - "Lost Territories" postmarks 1900-12 collection on exhibit pages, showing some Arabic and Ottoman markings on 17 covers and cards used in "Tachlidja" (Montenegro), "Tripoli d'Afrique" (Benghazi), "Derna", "Masrata", "Adjilat", "Homs", "Rhodes" and "Rhodes (Echelle)", "Leros", "Patnos", "Kalymnos", "Nissyros", "Stankeui", plus countless others on pieces, some "extremely rare" | $3,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
               | Lot #4588 UKRAINE 1918-23 collection of 20 covers or cards, neatly displayed and written-up on 15 exhibit pages, Shahiv stamps, including 30sh on postcard from Kiev to Kharkov, registered cover from "Sviatye Gori" to Enakievo, Trident overprints, different types from Enakievo, Korsun-Sadki, Kharkov, Kiev, including violet and red overprints on Romanov stamps, Odessa, Podolia, Poltava, with money orders from Zinkov, Kamenetz-Podolsk, also from Gomel and Kalinkovichi. There are some unused stamps, as well as a Money Order with "RUB" overprints, registered from Kharkov to Tver, plus 1923 Famine Relief Semi Postals set of four, used in combination with RSFSR franking on registered cover from Kharkov to Valencia, Spain. An excellent nucleus for further expansion | $1,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4589 WESTERN UKRAINE 1918 (21 Nov) cover to Kalusz, franked with 20h light green, provisional Lviv overprint, tied by bilingual Stanislawow departure pmk, minor wear, otherwise fine. A rarity on cover, signed Mikulski Catalog #4A | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4590 WESTERN UKRAINE 1918-19 cover and card from Lviv to Slovita and from Kamionka-Strumilova to Vienna, each with Austrian franking, showing provisional undated departure datestamp, the card with censored handstamp, both neatly displayed on an exhibit page | $1,800.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4591 WESTERN UKRAINE 1919 (21 Mar) registered cover from Stanyslaviv to Proskurov, franked with two pairs of 50sh carmine Ukrainian National Republic currency stamps, tied by bilingual Stanislawow departure pmks, with corresponding Registry and Expres labels, violet "Ekonomat Direct. Pocht" with trident & "Poburenny" director's handstamps, filing fold and minor cover wear, fine and extraordinary usage of Kiev's Ukrainian Currency stamps on mail in Western Ukraine, signed Mikulski | $525.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4592 WESTERN UKRAINE 1919 registered cover addressed to the Provincial Court in Kolomyia, franked with 4x5h unoverprinted Austrian stamps, used with 30sot Registry adhesive, canceled by bilingual Kolomyia cds, filing fold away from the stamps, backflap missing and other cover defects, signed Mikulski | $1,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4593 WESTERN UKRAINE 1919 (28 Apr) cover franked with single 6sh orange on front and overprinted Bosnian Postage Dues 2sh (2), 4sh and 7sh on back, used locally in Stanislaviv, filing folds, otherwise fine Catalog #11,30,32,35 | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4594 WESTERN UKRAINE 1919 (17 May) patriotic Ukrainian postcard franked with single 20sh green, used locally in Stanislaviv, little toning, otherwise fine Catalog #15 | $650.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4595 WESTERN UKRAINE 1919 (23 May) registered cover from Kolomyia to Stanislaviv, franked with horizontal strip of 4x5sot on 15h, pair of 10sot on 3h and 50sot Registry label, filing fold away from the stamps, fine and rare combination Catalog #5,6,F2 | $700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4596 WESTERN UKRAINE 1919 two registered covers used locally in Stanislaviv, franked with both low and high values, v.f., displayed on an exhibit page Catalog #81/94 | $150.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4597 WESTERN UKRAINE Romanian Occupation of Pokutia 1919 registered cover from Kolomyia to Pechenizhyn, franked on back with C.M.T. surcharges on 15h and 50h, tied by Kolomyia cds, with Austrian Registry label on front, faint but clear Romanian Censor handstamp, filing fold away from the stamps, rare usage, signed Mikulski | $575.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4598 YEMEN 1900 20pa Ottoman stationery card with additional franking, sent from Sanaa to Taiz , with clear departure and arrival pmks, fine and scarce usage, signed Nakri | $260.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4599 YEMEN 1900-15 Ottoman Administration, selection of cancels, mostly on pieces, Sanaa, Souk-ul-Hammiss, Taiz and Zeidie, fine O | $130.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4600 YEMEN 1900-18 two covers with Ottoman franking, one from Hodeida to Trieste, with smaller town pmk, the other from "Moka", franked on back with 1pi ultramarine, tied by bilingual departure cds, Suez transit and Paris arrival pmks (the espresso coffee drink was named after this city by the Italian engineer inventor Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. At the time Mocha was a famous leading producer and trader of coffee worldwide with a history going back 500 years, and also became known for its unique Yemini wild Mocha coffee beans). Also included are stamps, two on pieces, showing good strikes of "Beit Berich", "Lahie", "Menahe", "Hodeida" and "Hudeida", neatly displayed on two exhibit pages | $1,100.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
  | Lot #4601 YEMEN 1911 (21 Oct) registered cover to Egypt, franked on back with Ottoman 2x20pa and 1pi, tied by bilingual "Beit-ul-Fakih" departure cds, with Registry box and 19 Dec 1911 arrival datestamp on front, fine, previously unrecorded usage from Beit-ul-Fakih | $1,200.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4602 YEMEN 1913 (20 Aug) picture postcard to France, single 10pa franking with bilingual "CAMARAN" departure pmk, Port Tafiq transit pmks, fine usage from Camaran island, signed Nakri | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4603 YEMEN 1914 (19 Oct) picture postcard (Pyramids) to England, with single 20pa franking, tied by "SALIF (Yemen)" departure pmk, fine usage from Yemen (shortly before Turkey entered the war on 2nd November, 1914) | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4604 YEMEN 1915 (15 July) official "Administration Sanitaire de L'Empire Ottoman" cover, sent from Hodeida to Kamaran Island, forwarded to Salif, delivery attempted but unsuccessful and cover returned to sender, three months later, fine, with clear markings on both sides | $450.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
 | Lot #4605 YEMEN 1928 (Mar) registered cover franked with 2 1/2b black and 2 1/2b black on orange, sent by Lt.Colonel Corazzini of the Italian Military Mission in San'a to his wife in Italy, paying internal postage to Italian Eritrea where two adhesives were added to pay for further transmission to Bologna, with Massaua Registry label at bottom, transit and arrival pmks, filing fold away from the stamps, fine and rare cover (a small force of Italian officers was sent to Yemen in the late 1920s as military advisors to help the Imam's troops put down tribal unrest. As a non-UPU country, letters from Yemen to overseas destinations were required to have additional stamps of a UPU country) | $5,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
        | Lot #4606 YUGOSLAVIA Occupation Issues 1941-43 selection of 16 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing forerunners of Italian Occupation, with cards from Sibenik, Split, Cetinje, Ljubljana, Field Post 40 from Bihac, registered cover from Topolo, censored mail from Dubrovnik to Belgrade, FPO markings from Croatia (Mostar, Ragusa and Karlovac), Military Headquarters Zagreb and FPO 100 (Niksic) markings, 1941 mail from Knin and Senj, "Italo-Croat Boundary Commission" card from FPO at Susak, another with mixed Italian and Croatian stamps, mail from FPO 47 at Karlovac to Firenze, mixed condition, occasional faults noted, mostly fine-v.f. | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                            | Lot #4607 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History 1914-50 accumulation of 1,200+ covers and cards in carton, United States Military, American Expeditionary Force WWI, APOs, censor markings, WWII, official mail, foreign postage, unusual destinations, interesting frankings, including a good showing of 1938 Prexies, also Flights, Postage Dues and much more. Acquired years ago, mostly one by one, many with the original descriptions and prices paid, left intact for further study and research, mixed condition, solid assembly | $5,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                           | Lot #4608 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS AUSTRIA 1914-16 collection of 500 picture postcards, mostly Official cards for the Red Cross/War Welfare Office/War Relief Office, various artists, military units, New Year's greetings, landscapes, etc., each with a different serial number, used and unused, some with franking, censor cachets, destinations and different origins, mixed condition, mostly fine | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                  | Lot #4609 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS CROATIA 1940-44 selection of 30 covers or cards on exhibit pages, with Anti-Soviet and Anti-Semitic propaganda cards, War Art exhibition, Wilhelm Busch commemorative postmarks in red and in blue (both very rare), etc. | $500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                             | Lot #4610 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS FINLAND 1940-63 accumulation of 400 covers and cards, mostly WWII military mail, propaganda cards, Karelia overprints on cover, postal stationery, commercial mail, censored and registry markings and much more, including military mail from 1963 and 1983 franked with the "Faltpost" labels. A fascinating holding, with excellent potential | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                      | Lot #4611 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMAN COLONIES 1889-1914 balance of collection on 22 Exhibit pages, with covers and cards from Mariana Islands, including "Sydney-Hong Kong Seepost" and "Jaluit-Line Seepost" cards, Marshall Islands, registered covers from Jaluit, TPOs from China, Kiautschau, with maritime and Tsingtau-Kiautschou, Tsingtau-Weihsien, Tsingtau-Tsinanfu Bahnpost markings, Cameroons, with "Kameroun/Biafrakuste" pmk, also "Bonaberi-Nkongsamba Bahnpost", "Deutsches Schutzgebiet" (German Protectorate) markings on mail from the Colonies to Germany, German Offices in Turkey, with "Send No Food to Turkey" handstamps, cards from Samoa, German New Guinea, Marshall Islands Atoll Post, etc. | $2,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                                                                                                                  | Lot #4612 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY - WWII Postal History 1933-45 Commemorative and Semi-Postal Issues of the Third Reich, exhibit on 145 pages, showing 275+ covers and cards, special postmarks, complete sets on cover, including many better items (Wagner Operas complete set on registered cover), also Bohemia & Moravia, Generalgouvernement Occupation of Poland, Olympics and Zeppelin pmks, Brown-Ribbon Horse Races, souvenir sheets, Hitler's Birthday, Nazi Party propaganda and slogans, etc., colorful and attractive assembly | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
              | Lot #4613 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY - WWII Postal History 1940-45 balance of the large exhibit showing mail from German Occupied "Low Countries", 28 covers or cards from Netherlands, "Deutsche Dienstpost" official and business correspondence, used as early as 2 June, 1943, registered mail from Amsterdam, one with Hitler's Birthday cachet, parcel card from the Dienstpost office in the Hague, others used from Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, Dutch National Socialist Party covers, one with a patriotic label, another with "NSDAP in den Niederlanden" cachet; Belgium, covers from Bruxelles, Brugge, Eupen-Malmedy, including Parcel card with German franking, mail from smaller towns in the area which were ceded to Germany, Kapellen, Andeflues; Luxembourg, including specially prepared Deutsche Dienstpost markings, registered mail with overprinted Luxembourg stamps, postal stationery, propaganda cards | $230.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                       | Lot #4614 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY - WWII Postal History 1941-45 balance of the collection on exhibit pages, 100+ covers and cards from German Occupied Serbia, Lithuania, Estonia, Soviet Union, Poland, Macedonia, Latvia, censored mail from Laibach, Greece, Adria, Ukraine, with better frankings, commercial mail, postal stationery, parcel cards and much more. Every item has been chosen for this exhibit with a specific purpose, neatly described, occasional stamps included. A solid collection, well suited for expansion or break-up | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                     | Lot #4615 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GREAT BRITAIN Military Mail 1900-19 balance of an exhibit on pages, showing 27 covers and cards used from British Intervention Forces in China during Boxer Rebellion, British Navy in the Baltics in 1919, including "OAS" card from Estonia, Naval Mail from Latvia, APO Y1 from Turkey, Italy, FPO No.11 from Sinho, China (faulty cover with Hong Kong and C.E.F. franking to India), FPO 9 (Yangtsun), FPO 5 (Shanghai), FPO 6 (Shanhaikuan), FPO1 (Peking), British Navy in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, including a postcard addressed to an "Observing Officer" of the non-intervention-board in Palermo, British Forces in Ethiopia, including mail from the Abyssinia Contingent, British Ambulance Service, British Forces Sudan, Albania, Dardanelles, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Austria, also a cover used 1901 from Pretoria to Port Elizabeth, all with detailed descriptions, mostly fine or better. An unusual opportunity to obtain a solid jumpstart for expansion, each item here is normally offered individually | $1,600.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                     | Lot #4616 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - FORMER RUSSIAN REPUBLICS 1920-23 collection on 21 exhibit pages, including Azerbaijan (12 covers or cards), showing high value surcharges, Transcaucasian Federated Republic, late usage from Tiflis to Trebizond, registered cover from Alexandropol to USA; Batum (four covers or cards with British Occupation overprints); Georgia (10 covers or cards), various combination frankings, usages from Poti, Kutaisi, Manglis, Telavi, etc.; Armenia (three covers or cards), registered mail, stationery cards and lettersheets, occasional stamps and trial color proofs, mixed condition, mostly fine or better | $2,700.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
       | Lot #4617 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - Covers and Postal History 1918-22 selection of 13 covers or cards on exhibit pages, early RSFSR, registered covers with new definitives, Air Mail 45r on cover, Star surcharges, plus 1923 USSR Agriculture Exhibition on cover, fine lot | $325.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                    | Lot #4618 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS TURKEY 1880-1917 Ottoman Empire, collection of Turkish stamps used in former Yugoslavia, neatly identified on pages, with clear markings Bosnia, Mostar, Novi bazar, Uskub, Monastir, Bitolj, Prizerin, etc. In addition, there are Turkish stamps used in Bulgaria, Yemen, etc. O | $900.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                                        | Lot #4619 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS TURKEY 1895-1916 Postal History collection of 100+ covers or cards from the Ottoman Empire, covering various areas, including Rhodes, Thrace, Dedeagatch, Adana, Angora, Alexandretta, Azizie, Bakdjedjik, plus many others arranged alphabetically through Zoungouldak, many registered and censored items, some attractively franked, mixed condition, excellent lot for a specialist | $2,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
          | Lot #4620 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS TURKEY 1900-18 selection of 65+ covers or cards, various origins and destinations, different Ottoman frankings, usages include "Eregli", "Osmanie-Thasos" (faulty card), "Amasia", "Bzebdin" (Lebanon) to Mexico, also Samos, Aleppo, Uskub, Scutari, Halki, Brouse, Prinkipo, Damascus, Adana, Beyrouth, Smyrna, etc., mixed condition, mostly fine markings, acquired many years ago ($50-$200 price range) | $1,300.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                        | Lot #4621 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE COVERS and POSTAL HISTORY "Where in the World", 1900s-40 philatelic geography lesson, with 24 covers or cards on exhibit pages, showing use of stamps from A to Z countries and territories, with Spanish Colonies, registered cover from Aguera to Holland, covers from Batum, Carpatho Ukraine (1939 cover from Chust to Budapest), Danzig (Port Gdansk registered cover to Lodz), Elobey (cover to Hamburg), Fezzan, Graham Island, Hatay, Inini, Jersey (WWII German Occupation Fieldpost cover to France), Latakia, Memel, Oltra Giuba (registered cover to Rome), Pakhoi (registered cover to Hanoi), Quelimane (1918 censored card to South Africa), Rouad (censored cover to Cairo), St. Pierre & Miquelon, Tete (censored cover to USA), Upper Volta, Victoria Island (British Antarctic Expedition), Wallis & Futuna, Xeimarra (cover from Northern Epirus), Yemen (registered cover from Sanna) and Zambezia (registered cover to Geneva), fine and informative collection, with dozens of scarce items | $2,500.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
                                        | Lot #4622 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE COVERS and POSTAL HISTORY 1900-50s accumulation of 500+ covers and cards, showing strength in French Colonies, particularly Omnibus sets, "France Libre" overprints, including French India, St. Pierre & Miquelon, French East Africa and others, occasional South America, British Commonwealth, topical related items (Women's Rights, Suffragists, etc.), mixed condition, many better items, inspection recommended | $7,000.00 To bid in this auction, please login or create a new account. |
