1933-47 Commercial air mails, covers and cards to various destinations, flown by Imperial Airways, K.L.M, Lufthansa, Air France or Ala Littoria, differing routes and rates including wartime clipper rates up to 390m, many censors and registered covers. Handstamps include bilingual "Insufficiently prepaid for air mail" (2, another cover charged 51⁄2d in G.B), oval "O.A.T" (2), 1947 25m air letter to Canada with boxed "BY AIR TO (UK) ONLY",...
Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
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Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
The Martin Lynes Collections of Forces Mail, Postal Mechanisation and Holy Land; British Post Offices Abroad from the Mike Kitson Collection; USA, Canada & West Indies Wreck Mail from the Collection of Robin Gwynn, RDP; Boer War; fine Antarctica; Worldwide Postal History from a retiring dealers stock; KUT Polish Camp Mail; Extensive G.B and Irish Postal History with Registered Mail, Railway Letters, Uniform Penny Post and Irish T.P.Os.
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Lot #177 - holy land crash covers
1936-37 Covers from Haifa to England, the first (20 Aug. 36) franked 15m, recovered from the "Scipio" crash at Mirabella Bay, handstamped red "DAMAGED BY / WATER"; the second cover (28 Sep. 37) recovered from the "Courtier" crash at Phaleron Bay, the stamps washed off, handstamped violet boxed "DAMAGED BY / SEA WATER / IN AIR PLANE / ACCIDENT", forwarded in a London R.L.S ambulance envelope. (3).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #178 - holy land crash covers
1936 (Aug 21) Cover from Tel Aviv to Germany franked 7m and 8m, recovered from the "Scipio" crash at Mirabella Bay, handstamped red "Mit Luftpost befordert / Flughafen Nurnberg / Furth", the reverse with a Munich label printed in German explaining that it was recovered from a plane crash in Crete. Fine and scarce.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #179 - holy land crash covers
1936 (Aug 21) Postcard from Tel Aviv to Germany handstamped violet "Aus verunglucktem Flugzeug / geborgen / Munchen Bahnpostamt 1", from the "Scipio" which crashed in Mirabella Bay, Crete. Also 1937 (Dec 1) cover from Jerusalem franked 5c pair to the USA, upper right corner damage, twice handstamped boxed "DAMAGED BY SEA / WATER" and "T/20", from the "Cygnus" which crashed at Brindisi. (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #180 - holy land crash covers
1937 (Sep 28/29) Covers from Jericho to Germany bearing 5m pair or from Er Ramle to Scotland franked 13m, both recovered from the "Courtier" which crashed in Phaleron Bay. The cover to Germany sealed with a transparent printed seal "Amtlich verschlossen" with a Munich c.d.s and the violet cachet "Aus verunglucktem Flugzeug / durch asst geborgen"; the other cover with violet boxed "DAMAGED BY / SEA WATER / IN AIRPLANE / ACCIDENT", both fine...
Lot #181 - holy land crash covers
1937 (Dec 1) Cover from Haifa to Vienna franked 15m, recovered from the "Cygnus" crash at Brindisi, handstamped violet "Bei Flugzeugabsturz / durch Wasser beschadigt" with a Vienna arrival c.d.s (Dec. 11). Central vertical fold and part flap missing, otherwise fine, this scarce cachet only used on mail to Austria.
Suggested price: £ 100-100
Lot #182 - holy land crash covers
1968 (Apr 6) Cover from Harrow to Kfar Saba, Israel, franked 1/-, with violet boxed cachet in Hebrew which translates as "Letter damaged in aeroplane crash". The BOAC flight on April 8th from London to Sydney made an emergency landing when an engine fell off two minutes after its original take-off and the plane caught fire; four passengers and a Stewardess were killed.
Suggested price: £ 110-130
Lot #183 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
1936 Covers (7), a front addressed in arabic to Cairo, pieces (7), and a registration label all with British F.P.O datestamps. Also 1937 War Office cover with enclosed note from the War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha. (17).
Suggested price: £ 70-80
Lot #184 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
Refugees/Internees. 1939-50 Covers to or from Jews, mostly refugees or held as internees or P.O.Ws, including cover from G.B to P.O Box 1000 in Mauritius and a Mauritius 10c postcard from P.O Box 1000 to Peru both with triangular censor cachets; cards from P.O.Ws in Germany (2); lettersheets from internees in Australia (2); covers and cards to or from refuges in France, Japan (2), Italy (3), Rhodes, Switzerland, Australia, China or Egypt;...
Lot #185 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
1938-45 Correspondence from USA to S. Jacobsen in Germany (3), Kitchener Jewish Refugee Camp at Richborough in Kent (3) or as a soldier in the Pioneer Corps (14). Also a 1939 card from Belgium, sent whilst en route to Kitchener Camp, and 1939 covers or cards from G.B, Italy (Pfo "Orazio" c.d.s and Cristobal Paquebot), Hungary or Palestine all to Kitchener Camp. The camp was run by the Council for German Jewry in G.B; it was disbanded in...
Lot #186 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
1940-48 Forces mail, mainly with F.P.O datestamps numbered from ‘28’ to ‘789’, also Australian F.P.Os (7, one with boxed "Travelling PO / 6 AUS. DIV. / Reg No."), NZ F.P.Os (2), Polish or Indian F.P.Os, forces mail posted into civil P.Os (4, one with violet "Censor T.J.F.F. Signals"), mail from Jewish Brigade soldiers, a few airgraphs and some ephemera, official mail, ingoing covers, airmails including clipper rates up to 3/-, 1943 stampless...
Lot #187 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
Australian Forces. 1940 Registered cover with Australia 3d tied by Railhead P.O R.M.I c.d.s and blank type registration label with manuscript "123 T.P.O 2AIF". Also covers with Australian 9d tied by Railhead P.O R.W.1 c.d.s or Palestine stamps tied Base P.O B.W.1 or Div. Supply H.Q P.O S.M.1 datestamps. (4).
Suggested price: £ 70-100
Lot #188 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
Censors. 1939-45 Covers with various Palestine censor seals printed on blue, red, pink, green or white paper, one cover to Bolivia bearing a "Returned To Sender By The Censor" label with an enclosed censors slip in Hebrew; also censor handstamps including ‘Permit’ cachets and a stampless cover with red boxed "POSTAL CENSORSHIP / 2 FEB. 1940 / HAIFA". (49).
Suggested price: £ 150-180
Lot #189 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
Literature. "The Jewish Standard", the weekly Jewish newspaper published in London, volumes 2-4 (April 1941 - March 1944) bound in three volumes, much useful information on Jews in the war in G.B, Europe and worldwide. (3 vols.).
Suggested price: £ 60-80
Lot #190 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
Fleet Mail. 1948 Covers with "BRITISH FLEET MAIL / 12" c.d.s (3), one philatelic franked by G.B stamps, the other two stampless covers sent locally both with "MAIL OFFICE / H.M NAVAL BASE HAIFA" dated cachets (one also with F.P.O 731 c.d.s). Also other covers from the Haifa Naval Base (2), and covers (4) or address labels (2) to the F.M.O Haifa. (11).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #191 - holy land 1936-48 forces mail and world war two
Internee/POW Mail. 1941-48 Stampless covers from Italian or German internees at Haifa (2), Acre, Bethlehem (2) or Jaffa; stampless O.H.M.S cover with "CENTRAL PRISON / ACRE" cachet; 1940 stamped cover to Switzerland addressed "c/o Inspector General, C.I.D, Jerusalem" with a cachet of the C.I.D; 1941 cover to the Commandant of No. 11 P.O.W Camp at Latrun; and cards from Italian P.O.Ws at Camp 321 Latrun (2), all fine. (11).
Suggested...
Lot #192 - holy land iji ships and cyprus detention camps
IJI Ships. 1939 Cover from the "L’Agence Juive Pour La Palestine" to the S.S "Agios Nikolaos" in Greece; 1946 cover from Italy (faults) to Transit Camp No 1 at Bari with scarce bilingual "REPATRIATION SHIP / FENICE. - "ELIYAU GOLOMB""; 1947 wrapper from Tel-Aviv addressed to "Mr Boyd France, Special Reuters Correspondent on board the "Ocean Vigour", care of Hon Lt. Colonel Martin Gregson Commanding the 6th Airborne Division and the troops on...
Lot #193 - holy land iji ships and cyprus detention camps
Cyprus. 1948 Covers to Palestine franked Cyprus 2p or to Bulgaria franked 2pi + 1pi cancelled at Famagusta, written from Camp 62 or Camp 69 (with the ships name "Morpori" added) both with differing Hebrew cachets of Camp 69, the cover to Palestine handstamped "SERVICE / SUSPENDED" with a Dead Letter Office backstamp. (2).
Suggested price: £ 250-300
Lot #194 - holy land iji ships and cyprus detention camps
Cyprus. 1947 Covers to Palestine bearing Cyprus 2pi or 1pi pair both cancelled by violet dated "HQ. 3 CAMP / DATE .... / STAFFS (SPECIAL) CYPRUS", written from Camp 69 (ship "Haoved Hazioni") or Camp 70. The first with a vertical fold, otherwise both fine and scarce. (2). Photo on Page 40.
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #195 - holy land iji ships and cyprus detention camps
Cyprus. 1948 (July 28) Cover from Camp 67 to Palestine with Cyprus 2pi tied by "XYLOTYMBOU / CYPRUS" skeleton c.d.s with violet Hebrew cachet of the Committee of the State of Israel for Cyprus Detainees dated 1 AUG 1948, fine and scarce.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #196 - holy land iji ships and cyprus detention camps
Cyprus. 1947 Covers from Camp 67 (ship "Moledet") to England franked by six Cyprus 2pi stamps or from Camp 68 (ship "Hatikwa") to Palestine both cancelled by "XYLOTYMBOU / CYPRUS" skeletons, and a cover from Camp 62 (ship "Shabtai Lozinski") to Palestine with 2pi tied by "KARAOLOS / CYPRUS" skeletons. Three fine coves, all showing the ships upon which the senders were captured. (3).
Suggested price: £ 250-300
Lot #197 - holy land iji ships and cyprus detention camps
Cyprus. 1948 Covers to Palestine franked Cyprus 2pi, sent from Camp 60 with "KARAOLOS / CYPRUS" skeleton c.d.s or from Camp 66 with "XYLOTYMBOU / CYPRUS" skeleton c.d.s; 41⁄2pi air letter cancelled at Famagusta, written from Camp 64 (ship "Aquba") to USA; USA Parcel Post tag to Camp 55 ship "Mordai" with Paterson N.J c.d.s and Palestine Customs Jerusalem Parcel Post handstamp; cover from Czechoslovakia (one stamp remaining, another removed)...
Lot #198 - holy land Postal stationery
Formula Registration Envelopes. 1921-26 G Size envelopes used to Europe, all franked with Palestine overprint issues, one cover to Germany with currency control labels. A fine and scarce group, comprising Dorfman types PR1 (2), PR4 (3) and PR8. (6).
Suggested price: £ 300-400
Lot #199 - holy land Postal stationery
Formula Registration Envelopes. 1926 G Size envelope type PR8 used from Nablus to England bearing 1922 4m and 2p, redirected upon arrival, bearing the scarce G.B. label "GR / This Packet has been diverted from the usual route, as it appeared to be unsuitable for transfer by the Mail Apparatus", precancelled with a London c.d.s, an unusual use. Photo on Page 40.
Suggested price: £ 100-150
Lot #200 - holy land Postal stationery
Formula Registration Envelopes. 1927-28 G Size envelopes used to Europe all franked with 1927-45 definitives, two insured with red labels applied. A fine group comprising types PR7 and PR10 (4). (5).
Suggested price: £ 200-250
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