Postal Auction May 2024 - 344

Bids to be received by Thursday 2nd of May 2024 1:00 PM

Lots (1150)

Lot 37
POSTAL HISTORY

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
Lot 38
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Maritime: Bermuda 1936 POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS - Circular h/s in magenta on cover to Scotland bearing Bermuda ship ½d & 1 tied NEW YORK PAQUEBOT machine cancel. Fine.

Estimate £ 28.00
Lot 39
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Maritime: KNSM SS Cottica; 1934 Cover Portugal to British Guiana bearing 1.60e defin tied boxed violet K.N.S.M / S.S. COTTICA / 23 APR 1934 with Georgetown arrival cds alongside. Horizontal bend otherwise fine.

Estimate £ 25.00
Lot 40
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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
Lot 41
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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
Lot 42
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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
Lot 43
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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
Lot 44
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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
Lot 45
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Romania: Earlier to middle covers, cards and postcards some uprated with attractive combinations noted 1923 airmail to Prague, 1923 to Constantinople, regd to USA, 1922 P/S card to Plauen, 1922 Cernauti to Dorohoi, 1920 Censor postcard with farmer ploughing photo, 1916 regd to Switzerland,1911 GARA REDU to Switzerland, etc, intr group. (22).

Estimate £ 60.00
Lot 46
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Romania: Earlier to middle covers, cards and postcards some with attractive combinations noted 1935 airmail Brasov to Czech., 1922 QUADRO NOX advertising postcard to drug company, 1940 Censor, 1940 Beius to Paris censor, 1944 Cenzurat sent locally, 1941 airmail Censored, 1941 Censor from Tiraspol to Sibiu, 1948 RPR ovpt 3l & 1l OVR, etc, intr group. (35).

Estimate £ 65.00
Lot 47
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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
Lot 48
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South & Central America: Group of 18 commercial mainly airmail covers addr to Switzerland including Costa Rica 1949 with Special Delivery form affixed, El Salvador 1938 combn postcard, Uruguay 1946 regd combn, Chile 1930 airmail combn 1p & 5p, 1996 Isla De Pascua, Paraguay 1951 Congress ovpt on blk of 4, Bolivia 1891 10c orange P/S env (redirected), Honduras 1931 combn, Cuba 1908 PPC used with 2c red on obverse, 1943 Peru censored to Red Cross Ginebra etc. Intr lot (18).

Estimate £ 75.00

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