 | Lot #5131 BULGARIA First Balkan War 1912-13 collection of 46 covers, cards, Parcel and Money Order forms, neatly displayed and written-up on exhibit pages, starting with first day of fighting, Field Hospital cachet on cover from Kaybilare (17 Oct 1912) to Rustchouk, numerous Army unit cachets, including "Bulgarian Army Occupation Forces Authority", "First Field Army and the Headquarters of the Cavalry Division", Field Hospital "Yambolska Military Hospital" (addressed to Geneva), Money Order for 9 Leva sent from "Gumurdjina" to Sofia, bilingual markings on cards and Telegraph form from "Kavala" (today, a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia), also "Kechane", "Koukouch", "Lozengrad", "Okdjilar", "Porto-Lagos", "Pravechta", "Saray", "Soflou" and "Sofoulia" (one of only two recorded), "Tsaribrode", "Zaribod-Gare", various markings from "New Bulgaria", used in Xanthy, Dedeagatch, Soloun, other towns in Eastern and Western Thrace, few Registered (rare), also card and cover from the Second Balkan War, used from Odrin and Samokov, mostly fine. An insightful presentation (The First Balkan War was an unmitigated disaster for the Ottoman Empire. Bulgaria mobilized nearly 600,000 men and fielded a well equipped and professionally trained army, focusing on actions in Thrace and Macedonia)
| $2,400.00 Bidding Closed |
 | Lot #5132 BULGARIA First Balkan War 1913 ("Liberated Towns") exhibit page with postcard and two 5st stationery cards with bilingual (Cyrillic/Latin) pmks, including "Alpolou" (18 Jan 1913), Dedeagatch (14 May) and "Dmotika" (9 Feb), first and last addressed to Sofia, the other to Smyrna, minor card creases, otherwise fine. The "Alpolou" marking is considered to be one of the rarest from this period, only two or three examples recorded
| $475.00 Bidding Closed |
 | Lot #5133 BULGARIA First Balkan War 1913 (28 Feb) Ottoman Patriotic envelope (red Coat of Arms on reverse), sent from Lozengrad to Rousse, with red cachet in Cyrillic, reading "Hospital of the Community of St. George of the Russian Red Cross Society", bilingual arrival pmk (4.III.1913), fine and rare, if not unique marking (although not an active participant in the fighting, Russia provided humanitarian assistance to its Slavic brothers in Bulgaria during the conflict)
| $230.00 Bidding Closed |