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1944 Occupied Poland to Switzerland

1944 Occupied Poland to Switzerland

12gr PS card registered, uprated with 60 gr + 20 gr Hitler heads; cancelled d/r cds Tarnow Krakau 8 April 1944, with registration label; red boxed h/s Zuzustellen; red boxed 2185; red swastika censor’s cachet; Swiss orange label ”Zivilpost’ Celigny; b/s d/r bridged cds Céligny, Genève 18 April 1944

1936 Tunis postal card

1936 Tunis postal card

Parcel card with Tunis CP (colis postaux) label 8567, franked with parcel post stamps 5 x 2fr, 20c, 2 x 5c (SG P44, P46, P52) for 10fr 30c total rate, + 10c quittances fiscal stamp; superb Regence de Tunis cachet; 2 Marseille transit h/s; blue crayon m/s mark (4758?) and red ink ‘3.92’; Marseille PLM boxed railway d/s 26 Oct 1936; with some faults but a spectacular and rare item

France-Alsace Railway cancel 1875

France-Alsace Railway cancel 1875

m/s Souvrance par Roulins, Doubs’ + blue firm’s cachet; 25c + 15c Cérès cancelled PC du GC 420 Belfort, 15 June 1875; with courier
conveyeur ‘cachet ondulé’ Laissey 15 BES.B (24); b/s Mulhausen 16 June 1875, a good Alsace railway item

Honduras Expedition 1941

Honduras Expedition 1941

Commemorative envelope for the “Richardson Pan-American Highway Expedition, Detroit to Cape Horn”; from Honduras, 20 March 1941; block of 8 1c yellow cancelled with barred d/s

Ecuador-Peru Border War 1941 Censored to GB

Ecuador-Peru Border War 1941 Censored to GB

10c, 20c, 50c (SG 579, 600, 558) pictorials cancelled with unclear d/r cds; sealed with British censor’s label ‘Opened by Examiner 4092’ PC 90 label; from Guayaquil to London h/s “Ecuador Pais Amazonico”: 22 October 1941 during the Ecuador/Peru Border War (6/7/41 to 15/1/42), no b/s:

Greece Currency Inspection 1936 to French Morocco

Greece Currency Inspection 1936 to French Morocco

On front 7d pictorial and on reverse 8d pictorial + 2 x 50 lepta on 20 lepta; cancelled with d/r bridged cds Peireus (Athens) 7 November 1938, to French Morocco; red crayon “Surtaxe insufficante” (endorsed by signature); opened and resealed by currency control authorities; tied by large cachet; b/s m/c d/s CASABLANCA 10 Nov 1938

South Africa (Natal) to USA 1919 censored

South Africa (Natal) to USA 1919 censored

S. Africa 2d & ½d cancelled d/r cds PORT SHEPSTONE, NATAL 20 February 1919; s/r censor cachet “Passed Censor 10/99” (by the British War Office?); to USA; no b/s, clear strikes

USA rural free delivery box holder 1952

USA rural free delivery box holder 1952

US 1c Jefferson PS card green on buff + green boxed imprint ‘revalued 2c P.O dept’; local post Monroe, Washington, 20 February 1952; addressed only by large red h/s ‘Box Holder Local’; on reverse advert for Monroe store; part of the rural free delivery service, fine example

Denmark parcel card 1993

Denmark parcel card 1993

Danish parcel card ‘Bulletin d’Expedition’ from Virum to Newcastle, 20 April 1993; franked with 9 copies of 10kr 3 lions arms issue bistre-yellow & 3kr pictorial; cancelled large d/r cds Virim, for a parcel of paper

Denmark to Ireland, 1945, doubly censored

Denmark to Ireland

Denmark 3 x 15o portrait issue + 2 x 20o pictorial, cancelled Copenhagen 20 July 1945, to Dublin; opened by Censors and resealed with censor’s sealing tape by Denmark and Britain; tied with circular cachet crown 377 of Denmark; British ‘Opened by Examiner 6936’; no b/s