1914-20 Covers and cards including 1916 postcard from the Commander of the Japanese Naval Ship "Hizen"; 1920 cover from Czechoslovakia to Alexandria sent "c/o Public Custodian", opened and resealed with four "PUBLIC CUSTODIAN / OF ENEMY PROPERTY / IN EGYPT / CAIRO" seals then forwarded to a P.O. Box in Cairo; 1916 picture postcard to "The Soldiers & Sailors Families Association, British Consulate, Noumea" with message "For the British...
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Lot #400 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Ephemera/Postcards/Christmas Cards. Picture postcards (35) including real Photo cards of a tank at the front, damaged buildings at Whitby and Lynn caused by German air raids or bombardments, departure of the Guernsey war contingent, Czechs participating in the Italian war demonstration in London, 1915, etc.; Christmas cards (14); hand painted menus (3); an album kept by an R.A.S.C soldier mainly in Egypt containing various photos, cards, etc...
Lot #401 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
July-Sept 1914, including Service Suspended mail. The interesting selection of covers and cards including July 30 cover from Russia to Scotland with Russian censor cachet and seals made from small pieces of paper; July 31-3 Aug registered cover and cards (2) from G.B to Germany delivered with German censor cachets (one ‘address unknown’ returned to G.B in December); July 29 card from Austria to London returned handstamped "ZURUCK"; August...
Lot #402 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Undercover Addresses. 1917 Cover to Cambridge with a return address in Berlin, bearing Dutch 121⁄2c cancelled in The Hague; 1915 cover from German occupied Brussels to England endorsed via the Red Cross in Geneva; and 1917 front from the "Deutscher Hulfsverein" in Stockholm to New Moschi in Tanganyika addressed care of the Chief Civil Secretary at Windhuk, with an E.A Censor cachet applied upon arrival. (3).
Suggested price: £ 100-120...
Lot #403 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Submarine "Deutschland" Mail. 1917 Cover franked 20pf from Giessen to Chile marked "Tauchbootbrief", with special "Bremen T.B" c.d.s, a three line "Zuruck" cachet applied when the voyage of the submarine "Deutschland" was abandoned.
Suggested price: £ 70-100
Lot #404 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Civil Censorship. 1914-19 Covers and cards with various censor cachets or seals including triangular "PASSED / CENSOR / 6" of Rangoon on a telegram from Aden; triangular Sudan numbered censors of 1919 (2); circular "BRITISH / CENSORSHIP" numbered cachets on 1919 German postcards (2); 1915-16 boxed "RELEASED BY THE / BRITISH MILITARY AUTHORITIES" (2); 1916 G.B cover to USA with blue label "Returned to Sender by the Censor"; 1916 G.B postcard...
Lot #405 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Civil Censorship. 1915-19 Asia covers, all censored, various cachets and seals, eight with Straits Settlements censor seals, 1915 cover from Indo-China to Singapore with "Passed by Censor" cachet, etc. Also an uncensored 1915 cover with ‘Eastern & Oriental Hotel, Penang’ datestamps. Condition a little mixed with some staining, several very fine. (19).
Suggested price: £ 240-260
Lot #406 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Victoria Cross. c.1918 Photographic postcard of John Alexander Christie signed below in ink "yours faithfully J.A. Christie V.C". Christie won the Victoria Cross at Fejja, Palestine, on 21/22 December 1917 for single handedly repelling an enemy counter-attack on a recently captured position.
Suggested price: £ 70-100
Lot #407 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Belgian Forces. 1915-26 Covers and cards (68) and fronts (2) from or to Belgian forces including stampless covers with datestamps of the Refugee village of Elizabethville, Co. Durham (2), mail from Ste Addresse (5) or Le Havre (special), hospital cachets, post-war mail from Germany (5), etc. (70).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #408 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
General Nivelle. 1916 (July 9) Stampless F.M cover from Paris with "2 ARMEE / LE GENERAL COMMANDANT" cachet, signed "Gnl. Nivelle", to his wife in Besancon. Nivelle commanded the French 2nd Army at the Battle of Verdun, was promoted to C. in C. of the French armies on the Western Front in December 1916 but was replaced in May 1917 following major mutinies in the French army.
Suggested price: £ 80-100
Lot #409 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
French Forces. 1914-29 Covers and cards including air force cachets (3), Naval mail (3, two from Egypt), 1917 French Military Mission in Rome, forces in Tunisia (10, one with cachet "Aviation-Militaire / Service Postal / SUD TUNISIEN"), Algeria (2), Corfu, Turkey (2), Alexandria, Beyrout, Germany (16, one to a soldier with 20pf postage due interpanneau strip of three tied by "Tresor et Postes" datestamps), also ephemera (2) and four unused...
Lot #410 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Saudi Arabia - French Military Mission. 1917 Cover to France bearing Saudi Arabia 1917 rouletted 1pa, 1⁄4pi, 1⁄2pi pair and 1pi tied by bilingual "YAMBO" datestamps with the signed cachet "MISSION B. - DETACHMENT DE YAMBO / Le Chef / de / Detachment", fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 78.
Suggested price: £ 300-350
Lot #411 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Austrian Forces. 1914-18 Covers and cards including "Desinficiert" cachet on card from the Epidemic Hospital No. 1, cachets of other hospitals, trains, air forces, P.O.W work companies, the Navy with named cachets from submarine 31F and S.M.S Erzh. Karl, Franz Josef 1, Gaa, Alpha, etc. (53).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #412 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German & Austrian Forces. 1914-18 Covers and cards written up in an album, various F.P.O datestamps and cachets, censors, occupation of Belgium stamps and stationery, also a few picture postcards and stamps. (167 covers).
Suggested price: £ 150-200
Lot #413 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German Forces. 1914-18 Covers and cards (55) including mail from Turkey (4), Russia, hospital cachets, "Feldflieger-Abteilung Nr. 40", etc., also picture postcards and photos (13) including pictures taken at the front, and an Ausweis. (69).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #414 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German Forces in East Africa. 1915 (Mar 22) Stampless Feldpost cover to Morogoro with fine "TAVETA / DEUTSCHE / FELDPOST" c.d.s, arrival backstamp of Morogoro (Apr. 5), very scarce. Photo on Page 78.
Suggested price: £ 160-200
Lot #415 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German Forces in Egypt. 1916 (Aug 14) Stampless Feldpost card to Berlin from Field Hospital 213 at Bir El Mazar in Egypt with superb bilingual "FELDPOST / MIL. MISS. / 1 EXPEDITIONSKORPS" c.d.s (Aug. 27). Fine and very scarce from Egypt, the 1st Corps F.P.O apparently unrecorded. Bir El Mazar was captured by the Australians on September 19th. Photo on Page 78.
Suggested price: £ 150-180
Lot #416 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German Forces in Ottoman Empire. 1917-18 Stampless covers and cards, one from Cilicia with scarce bilingual "FELDPOST / MIL. MISS. / BOSANTI" c.d.s, others with similar type Konstantinopel datestamp (6) or with a ‘Deutsche Feldpost’ c.d.s with three stars (4, written from Damascus (2), Stamboul or Aleppo), all fine. (11).
Suggested price: £ 140-160
Lot #417 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German Navy. 1900-18 Covers and cards with "KAIS. DEUTSCHE / MARINE- / SCHIFFSPOST" c.d.s. with various numbers from differing ships, two stamped, otherwise all stampless. Three 1900 items sent from China during the Boxer Rebellion, the others all World War One period, many on picture postcards. Also 1915 card with "Marine - Feldpost / S.M.S "Pillau"" cachet. (92).
Suggested price: £ 600-700
Lot #418 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
German Navy. 1914-18 Postcards with "KAIS. DEUTSCHE / MARINE / SCHIFFSPOST" datestamps (26) including items from the U-Boat Flotilla, or cachets, also picture postcards (13) including real Photo cards of naval aviators, and a photo. (42).
Suggested price: £ 150-180
Lot #419 - forces mail first world war - 1914-19
Russia/Georgia. 1916-21 Covers comprising 1916 cover to London with "PART OF A MAIL CAPTURED / BY GERMANS AND DELAYED" cachet; 1917 registered cover from Baku; and 1920-21 registered covers (5) from Tiflis or Tibilisi to the British Trade Corporation in Constantinople bearing various 1919-20 issue Georgia stamps (one cover with one stamp removed); another 1920 cover with "BRITISH CONSULATE / BATOUM" cachet and A.P.O Y1 skeleton c.d.s with...
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