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Postal Auction August 2024 - 347

Bids to be received by Monday 19th of August 2024 1:00 PM

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Lot 73
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KOREAN WAR: Group of around 50 letters mainly from the an original correspondence, many with original envelopes, includes both Canadian Camps and overseas, then some 1950s letters from the same soldier to his mother from London Ontario Wolseley Barracks, with some mixed condition but overall fine, making a fascinating read.

Estimate £ 500.00
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Lot 74
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MARITIME: An extensive lifetimes collection of worldwide Antarctic, Arctic and polar covers in eleven binders and stockbooks with just over 1400 different covers and cards from middle to modern periods, a huge amount of material some nicely written up on pages in Dutch, also includes some thematic stamp ranges, miniature sheets and more. Noted dozens of operations and expeditions, Italy 1942 marine censor, 1908-32 per Islands Falk, French. Southern & Antarctic Terr. 1965 Adelie Expedition Thala Dan cover incl SG 35 5f (Cat £90), 1960s Aluminaut submarine covers, Russian Expeditions incl signed, Japan Expeditions, 1900 Marine Schiffpost, 1931 SS PLANCIUS Neth. Indies, 1973 Nemo USA Naval Underseas Center group, 1960s-70s Rovers' undersea expeditions, 1905-1925 Danish Biological stations, USS Thresher Nuclear submarine one 1967 cover with Lost at Sea overprint & a cacheted covers, Monaco ranges stamps and covers, dozens of 1960s-1980s in smaller cover albums, an enormous collection of 1400 mainly all different. Incredibly low starting price only £1.45 per cover.

Estimate £ 2800.00
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Lot 75
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Maritime: Bahamas 1901 PAQUEBOT in blue on cover bearing Bahamas QV 2½d blue tied MIAMI cancel with blue Paquebot h/s underneath addr to New York. Hotel Colonial Nassau headed envelope. Utica recevied 1 on reverse.

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 76
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Maritime: KNSM SS Simon Bolivar; 1937 Cover Barbados to UK bearing 1½d orange defin tied boxed K.N.S.M / S.S. Simon Bolivar / 15 APR 1937 with PAQUEBOT PLYMOUTH arrival cds alongside.

Estimate £ 45.00
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Lot 77
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Mexico: Earlier to middle covers, cards and postcards some uprated with attractive combinations noted 1919 5c imperf, PPC of Custom House Tijuana, 1921-24 official on wrapper, 1941 Libre De Porte h/s to USA, 1929 regd official wrapper, 1943 censored to Red Cross Central POW service Italy & Geneva, 1902 PPC to Bohemia, 1923 advertising env., 1941 regd to USA with registered embossed labels on reverse in red & 1927 cvr with labels in blue, cover to USA cancelled EBANO SLP large squared h/s in violet, 1927 Radio Card used to UK, etc, intr group. (32).

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 78
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Mexico: Wells Fargo postal stationery envelopes; trio of covers incl 1886 12c green to London via New York (very poor condition), 1889 10c red P/S env Mexico to San Francisco, 1896 5c blue Hermosillo unaddr with 176 MESSENGER oval. Two are average, one is poor, hard to find. (3).

Estimate £ 40.00
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Lot 79
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MILITARY MAIL: WWI & WWII selection of covers and cards all from Military personnel with WWI Germany Felpost cards and lettersheet all with different handstamps of the various regiments (10) & Belgian card with Military cds; then two Third Reich items from WWII with Feldpost letter sheet endorsed with Eagle and Swastika cds and a 1939 attractive official looking envelope with cachets/ Handstamps and an attractive Eagle and Swastika seal in red on the reverse (faults). Useful lot ( 13)

Estimate £ 50.00
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Lot 80
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P.O.W. MAIL:WWI Accumulation of covers sent to Copenhagen,Denmark, ALL stampless with group of small envelopes bearing TOLNA (Hungary) cds and triangular censor marking in purple (18), larger envelopes with 'K.U.K. OFFIZIERSTATION / KRIEGGEFANGENE / THERESIENSTADT' handstamp and triangular censor in shades of purple (8) and another with red censor, group of fronts with Osnabruck (Germany) special cancel (4) and further envelopes with postmarks of PRAGUE (2), LUGOS (Romania), ZYWIEC (Poland) & BUCZACZ (Ukraine)all with censor markings. Very good lot in better than average condition (32, plus 4 fronts)

Estimate £ 100.00
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Lot 81
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POSTAGE REFUNDED - Violet handstamp on four 1949 Covers Bath to China to same correspondence bearing 1s & 3d adhs tied Bath wavy line machine cancel each addr to different town in China incl Peiping, Nanchang, Tsingan & Igfeng, Some creases, most unusual and interesting group. (4).

Estimate £ 180.00
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Lot 82
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Russo-Japanese War: 1904 PPC of Druskieniki Niemen to Petrograd and 5th Squadron sumi Hussar Free post cachet in violet, Light age tones otherwise good strike.

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 83
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Russo-Japanese War: 1904 PPC of Kharben Church to Kiev and 10k Mountain East Siberian Regt Military Camp cachet in violet, Kiev TPO part cancel, sound.

Estimate £ 30.00
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Lot 84
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SCANDINAVIA AIRLINES & LUFTHANSA First Flight covers collection written up on leaves in loose-leaf binder with over 95 different covers from 1954-56 includes mostly German flights to dozens of destinations incl 1954 to Buenos Aires, Frankfurt to Manila, Dusseldorf to Sofia, to Madrid, many internal German flights, to London, Paris, 1955 press flight New York to Hamburg with five special cancels on reverse for Manila, Ramna, Dambulla, Murree & Oslo. Fascinating lot in very fine condition. (Approx 95).

Estimate £ 95.00
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