(Postal Stationery) 1902 3 Cents on Four Cents unsevered reply stationery card with ‘LOCAL’ handstamp and locally overprinted ‘Specimen’; small ink stain on outward section. As intended only for local use, no UPU distribution specimens prepared. Only one card known locally handstamped ‘Specimen’ for presentation purposes.
(Postal Stationery) 1905 36c. envelope registered to Switzerland with despatch cds, red oval Registration date stamp with blue manuscript number, French maritime octagonal date stamp, arrival backstamp. Good clean example.
(Postal Stationery) 1913 1d. red on blue letter card very fine unused.
(Postal Stationery) 1916 1d. envelope to Herisau, Switzerland uprated with horizontal strip of three ½d. tied Akropong cds, Dodowa transit cds to left showing inverted year, Accra transit backstamp that has been overlaid with the censor tape which is itself cancelled with arrival cds.
(Postal Stationery) 1920 25q. blue on rose letter card fresh unused, a scarce item.
(Postal Stationery) 1933 (9.8.) 15pf carmine Hindenburg card used from Munich to Zurich, Switzerland with slogan cancel; slight crease at right edge, a scarcer card whose colour was changed shortly after issue.
(Postal Stationery) 1940 10s envelope to Lebanon, USA additionally franked 2s and 3s ‘Chakri Palace’ tied by two large bilingual Ubon cds, Bangkok transit backstamp; top right corner crease affecting design otherwise fine and fresh.
(Postal Stationery) 1940 2½c. S.Y.S. card endorsed “By best route” and addressed to Norway with 2½c. Martyr and pair 5c. SYS added tied dotted framed local cds, three-line violet censor handstamp bottom right; horizontal crease, a fine wartime card.
(Priamur and Maritime Provinces) 1922 (1.11) registered cover to Troy, N.Y., USA franked Sept 1922 1k on 2k., 2k., 3k on 4k., 4k. and 10k. (2) plus two 15k. without frame, Vladivostok despatch cancels and both Cyrillic and English registration labels, reverse with Seattle transit and arrival cancel.
(Priamur and Maritime Provinces) 1922 (13.5.) registered cover to Troy, N.Y., USA franked 1921 unoverprinted 2k. (2), 4k. (2) and 10k. (2) plus Far Eastern Republics 1920-21 perf 7k. on 15k. (4), Vladivostok despatch cancels and both Cyrillic and English registration labels, reverse with Seattle transit and arrival cancel. Ex Dick Scheper.
(Prisoner of War) 1918 (18 Jun) 1c Ceres postal stationery card to Rastadt, Germany cancelled by fine Santarem cds, Censura N39 handstamp and four-line violet Commission Portugaise/ des/ Prisonniers de Guerre/ LISBONNE; good condition for these.
(Prisoner of War) 1918 printed envelope to Porto Alegre, Brazil from German prisoner at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, reverse with censor tape and arrival cancel.
(Prisoner of War) 1922 stampless envelope from Turkish P.O.W. in Kioutahia to Constantinople, censored Aix Malatos with tape across backflap. Ex. Schaffer
(Private Postal Stationery) 1927 5pf. Schiller cards for 4. Bundestag and 33. Stamp Day set of 10 cards with a rather battered envelope; some cards with slightly bumped top right corners., fresh condition.
(Propaganda – Matthes Vignette) 1941 (22.4.) Feldpostkarte to Kassel with vignette showing portrait of Churchill and inscription ‘Wertlose Marke’ cancelled Sangerhausen cds, military cachet at centre; fine condition with full message.
(Propaganda) 1940 (30.5.) Churchill propaganda card showing part of type II feldpost, additionally franked with 12pf + 38pf issue for regular postage between M. Gladbach and Berlin; good condition with full message.
(Propaganda) 1940s Generalgovernment, Occupation of Poland, 12Gr. stationery card addressed to Luxembourg, additionally franked with cut-out from Churchill propaganda card tied Krakau cds; fine condition, probably cto only.
(Propaganda) 1941 (10.11.) postcard used from Berlin to Eberswalde, franked only by cut-out of the Chamberlain propaganda card, tied slogan cancel; some staining and ink water affected. A most unusual usage that appears to have been accepted.
(Propaganda) 1941 card depicting an image of Stalin with legend ‘Wert keinen Pfennig’, produced after the invasion of Russia and produced in the same style as the earlier Churchill and Chamberlain cards, only known produced by Gerst of Bremen; very fine unused, a rare card.
(Prussia) 1809 entire to Paris bearing straight-line CASSEL handstamp, red HESSE handstamp bottom right and at left two-line Fco.Westhal/ Granze entry cancel, red arrival backstamp; fine and clean condition.