Censored
1916 reply-half postcard from an Austrian prisoner of war in a camp in Russia. There are Austrian and Russian Red Cross cachets, a Russian censor mark and a blue pencil mark from a postmaster to all it to go freepost! Reference: 264H |
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1918? cover with a partial KuK ETAPENPOSTAMT? SCUTARI postmark dated 17.X.18?, a Zensuriert mark, a KuK Etappenstation Kommando mark and a KuK Dragoner Rgt No 13 Marsch Schwadron cachet. Reference: 244H |
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1940 censored airmail cover to Manchester with the stamps cancelled by a poor BRIDGEPORT CONN postmark dated 7.DEC.1940. It has been opened and resealed by a censor label. "VIA TRANS ATLANTIC" cachet. Reference: 233H |
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Envelope from Sofia to Berlin-Charlottenburg, franked with 5 lev blue Express Letter stamp + 2 lev carmine Recovery of the Dobrudja from Roumania issue of 1940, cancelled 20 September 1940 (day of issue), with German censor sealing strip & cachets on front and reverse; without arrival datestamp on reverse. A scarce cover of the period. Reference: 139 |
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WW2 postcard from a prisoner of war camp in Bombay to Venezia with British and Italian censor marks. Reference: 206H |
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1945 censored cover with stamps cancelled by a KOBENHAVN OMK machine postmark dated 24.AUG.1945 and opened and resealed by Danish censor tape. There is also a partial boxed C.P.H.Q. 2/T.A.F. / TRACING SECTION cachet and a partial FIELD POST OFFICE 306 postmark dated 3.SP.45 on the reverse. Reference: 205H |
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No value imprint military postal card stated to be of the Japanese Occupation of North China, c1941; all in native scripts, including the message on the reverse, with Censor handstamps. Some very light creasing, otherwise in good condition for this, and very scarce. Reference: 117 |
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Small envelope headed American Red Cross Service Club, with MS endorsement APO 519 c/o Postmaster, New York City, datestamped Salisbury 20 November 1942, censored with sealing strip marked Examiner 861: with contents, being a neat typed letter, and 3 photographs of Dick Gardner in uniform. In fine clean condition save for a small tear to the flap on reverse. A scarce World War Two Red Cross memento, which has survived intact and almost pristine. Reference: 113 |
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1944 censored airmail cover to Alexandria with POSTE NAVALE postmarks dated 31.8.44, a French naval cachet and Egyptian censor marks. Reference: 071H |
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WW2 censored airmail cover to Hull with stamps cancelled by a feint LISBOA postmark dated 17.JUL.? Reference: 037H |
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1943 cover from Havana to Los Angeles with 1/2c Victoria + 10c black airmail (SG 459 + 386). It has been opened and resealed by "EXAMINED BY 4011" tape. Reference: 002H |
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AUSTRALIA Wartime Airmail, Mt Wilson NSW to Beaminster, Dorset on airmail envelope handstamped 'California Clipper' & MS 'Clipper via NZ & USA', with 2 x 2/- Kangaroo, 1/- Lyre Bird, 6d Kookaburra & 4d Koala, the 5/10 wartime Trans-Pacific airmail route: straight-line 'Passed by Censor' h/s No S19 in violet over sealing strip, fine appearance. Reference: 102 |