Turkish P.O.Ws. Registered front with upper flap and censor seal (unfortunately missing the remainder of the reverse) from Constantinople to "Capitaine M. Fossa, Officier Aviateur, Prisonnier de Guerre Ottoman, Daouria, Russie" sent via the Red Cross in Geneva, with a Geneva backstamp; 1917 card from Tashkent to Austria and a P.O.W lettersheet from "Calverista Barracks" with blue oval "FREE FROM PRISONER OF WAR / P.C / 5 / MALTA", both with...
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Lot #565 - other countries
Greece - Turkish P.O.Ws. 1915 (Oct) Covers from Turkey franked 1pi +10pa or 1pi + 5pa pair, both to a Turkish P.O.W at Mudros on the Island of Lemnos, backstamped at Stamboul and Piraeus with Turkey censor seals and handstamps, one with red boxed "CENSORED". Very scarce, the addressees possibly captured at Gallipoli. (2). Photo on Page 96.
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #566 - other countries
1915-19 Covers and cards written up on pages including items to or from P.O.Ws in Germany (37), France (11), Holland, Switzerland, an unusual 1919 card from a British P.O.W in Sweden presumably en route from Germany to G.B, and a few picture postcards. (58).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #567 - other countries
1915-20 Covers and cards, mostly to or from German P.O.Ws, including 1916 stampless cover to a P.O.W from the S.M.S "Cap Trafalgar" at Martin Garcia Island, Argentina; 1916 Greek 10L postcard to a German crew member of the Turkish ship "Timur Hissar" held P.O.W at Ithaca; 1917 cover from a German Naval internee at Castillo del Morro, Havana, with a Cuban censor seal and cachet; 1919 Netherlands Indies 121⁄2c envelope from a German Naval...
Lot #568 - other countries
Austria/Bulgaria/Russia - British P.O.W. 1915-18 Covers and cards from P.O.Ws in Bulgaria (3); from (4) or to (2) civilian internees in Austria, and two intriguing 1916 postcards apparently from an Englishman, Dr H.T Price, held P.O.W at Stretensk, Siberia. (11).
Suggested price: £ 130-150
Lot #569 - other countries
Australia/New Zealand. 1917 Australian "Prisoners of War Letter Free" printed envelope from Liverpool, unusually sent to Rabaul with oval crowned "PASSED CENSOR / 29 AUG 1917 / RABAUL", a little staining; and a 1916 USA 5c envelope to "Julius Henniger, prisoner of war, Motuihi, New Zealand". (2).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #570 - other countries
Bulgaria/Lady Paget Hospital. 1916 Stampless cover from a member of Lady Pagets Hospital to Serbia, posted from Sophia after the hospital staff were captured by the Bulgarians, with violet circular "SERBIAN RELIEF FUND / UNIT / LADY / PAGET’S / HOSPITAL" and red boxed "PRISONNIER DE GUERRE", Sophia and London Paid machines. Very unusual. Photo on Page 96.
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #571 - other countries
Burma. 1919 (Aug 11) Stampless cover to Switzerland headed "Civil Detainees Letter, Postage Free" with manuscript "Passed Censor 11/8" and a "SHWEBO" c.d.s on the reverse, fine and scarce.
Suggested price: £ 160-180
Lot #572 - other countries
Egypt/SWA/Malta. 1915-20 Covers and cards with 1920 cover from the Segregation Camp at Suez (with cachet and enclosed letter, trying to get his release and return to Palestine), 1919 lettersheet to Jerusalem from Palestine Internee Camp at Helouan, mail from or to (2) Ras-el-Tin Camp, 1918 Swiss card from the Bureau International de la Paix to Sidi Bishr Camp, also covers from Malta and Aus, South West Africa (3), etc.
Suggested price...
Lot #573 - other countries
France/P.O.W Ships. 1915-18 Covers and cards including a cover from the P.O.W ship "Phryne" at Le Havre and a registered cover to the ship, cover from a Bulgarian P.O.W at Camp de Serres, etc. (8).
Suggested price: £ 80-100
Lot #574 - other countries
France & Italy. 1918-19 Covers and cards from (13) or to (8) German P.O.Ws held by the B.E.F in France, mostly in working companies, including three advice of capture cards. Also 1919 cover from a U.S P.O.W Camp in France, 1919 P.O.W letter sheet from Italy with A.P.O L1 c.d.s and a Photo of the British P.O.W Camp at Genoa, an imitation P.O.W lettersheet dropped as propaganda over the German lines, and a card from a British soldier with...
Lot #575 - other countries
Germany. 1914-18 Covers and cards to or from P.O.Ws including New Zealand 1d envelope to an engineer from the S.S "Otaki" held P.O.W at Brandenburg, covers from G.B returned with the cachet "PLACE OF DETENTION / NOT TRACED" (3, two with German explanatory labels), card with boxed "Picture Postcards / are returned / by the Censor", Hamburg-America Line Marine Lazarett Hamburg cachet, stationery cards from German occupied Belgium, card from a...
Lot #576 - other countries
Germany - Ruhleben. 1914 (Nov 11) Picture postcard of the Ruhleben racetrack with the Ruhleben c.d.s and boxed "Russenlager" censor cachet (unrecorded by Bachenheimer but known used for the first few days after British internees were moved into the camp). Also two later cards and a used 1⁄3d local post card. (4).
Suggested price: £ 70-100
Lot #577 - other countries
India. 1914-19 Covers and cards from Ahmednagar (5) including a 1⁄4a postal stationery card with a printed Christmas greeting picture on the front, or from Yercaud. (6).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #578 - other countries
Netherlands. 1914-18 Covers and cards from (18) or to (2) British internees, from (6) or to (2) Belgian internees, or from German internees (2, one a lettercard of the S.S "Sindero" written on the ship and posted at Rotterdam), various towns, some from P.O.Ws being repatriated from Germany. Also a Dutch card from the Internee Hoofdbureau at The Hague, a letter from the Chief Postal Censor forwarding a letter to Zeist, and an R.N.B Christmas...
Lot #579 - other countries
Norway. 1916-17 Cover from Trondheim to a P.O.W in France and postcards from Loken, all from German internees from the minelayer S.M.S "Berlin", which was torpedoed off the Norwegian coast, the cover with a red "PASSERER" label on the flap, the cards with the cachets "Krigsfangepost Norge" and "Oberleutuant / U. Orltester Lageroffizier", or oval "KONTROLLERT / I2" and circular "DEUTSCHES INTERNERUNGS LAGER / LOK", both with small "geprift...
Lot #580 - other countries
Norway. 1917 Stampless picture postcards both from "R.A Clarke, British Internment Camp, c/o Vaktchefen, Jorstadmoen, Faaberg, Jernbanestation" to Kent, with red London F.S Paid machines. Clarke was interned in Norway when "H.M.S India" was torpedoed off the Norwegian coast. (2).
Suggested price: £ 120-140
Lot #581 - other countries
Portugal - Azores/Switzerland. 1917 Stampless cover from a German internee at Angra do Heroismo, Azores, various cachets; and 1916-18 covers and cards to or from British or French internees in Switzerland (8), cards concerning money received for bread parcels to prisoners (2), and a Christmas 1917 greetings postcard from the British camp at Lestimetorge. (12).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #582 - other countries
Portuguese Colonies - Mozambique. 1916 (Oct 16) 10r Postal stationery postcard to Switzerland cancelled at Lourenco Marques, with violet oval "PROVINCIA DE MOCAMBIQUE / LOURENCO MARQUES / SERVICE DE PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE" and straight line "PASSED CENSOR", fine and scarce. Photo on Page 96.
Suggested price: £ 200-240
Lot #583 - other countries
Portuguese Colonies - Mozambique. 1916 (July 17) Stampless cover to Switzerland endorsed from a P.O.W in Lourenco Marques, with the same oval cachet and censor cachet as used on the previous postcard, a Lourenco Marques datestamp, the reverse with a South African censor seal tied by a Basel arrival c.d.s. Fine and scarce.
Suggested price: £ 200-240
Lot #584 - other countries
Sierra Leone. 1914 (Nov 19) Stampless postcard from Germany to a P.O.W in Sierra Leone, with red P.C censor cachet, corner creasing, otherwise fine and scarce.
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #585 - other countries
USA/Guam. 1916 Stampless picture postcards from the S.M.S "Cormoran" interned at Guam with Kais Deutsche Marine Schiffspost No. 8 c.d.s, or from the S.M.S "Prinz Eitel Friedrich" interned at Newport News (2) with similar No. 3 datestamps. (3).
Suggested price: £ 100-150
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