Lot 562
| | Estimate: $500T | Realised Price : $380 |
1915 (22 Mar) cover to Switzerland showing circular 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/ FREE' cachet in green (Emery CA.222), 'MAJOR' censor cachet in green signed 'W S Henton Lieut' (unrecorded censor, similar to Emery CA.224A), Geneve arrival backstamp. Very early usage |
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Lot 563
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c.1916 Liverpool Camp usage of PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE printed in black envelope (ASC X3.5, Emery PSPE.3) to USA, with Lieut Col. Holman censor cachet (CA.231) and 'PASSED BY/CENSOR,S.D.' (CM.43) in violet at left, slight soiling and opened out |
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Lot 564
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1916 (27 Jun) cover to Sydney with circular 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' cachet in violet (Emery CA.222) and two strikes of Berrima datestamp, some faults |
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Lot 565
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1916 (20 Nov) usage of circular 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE' printed in black envelope to USA from 'G.A. Mayer/Capt./Berrima' endorsed on flap (one of two active duty German officers in German New Guinea) 'Lieut. Col R.S. Sands' censor cachet (Emery CA.228) and straight-line 'Moved C.E.S. No.49' scored over in pencil, original contents portraying the life of a P.O.W. on printed letter-head, with pen stroke through 'LIVERPOOL' and endorsed 'Berrima'. Significant WWI item |
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Lot 566
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1917 (15 Nov) usage of PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/FREE printed envelope (Emery PSPE.5) used Liverpool Camp to South Australia, Lieut Col. Holman censor cachet (CA.235) and 'PASSED BY/CENSOR.' in violet at left, complete with enclosure being a sheet of 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AUSTRALIA' stationery (PSNP.2). Letter in English, envelope a little roughly opened |
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Lot 567
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1940 airmail cover to NSW posted from HMAS 'Sydney' while stationed at Alexandria, Egypt for repairs, with HM Ships tombstone cachet in blue, adhesives tied by 'SYDNEY PAQUEBOT' cancel (Hosking No. 693) with square town die, also British Admiralty Records brochure giving account of the 'Bartolomeo Colleoni' sinking by HMAS 'Sydney' |
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Lot 568
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1942 and 1951 Official Registered Envelopes inscribed 'POSTAGE PAID/5d' at Melbourne, or '5½d' at Sydney ('MELBOURNE' obliterated), former with mss. 'Badge', latter curiously from Army Medal Section to Philatelic Trader, Fritz Feibes, who had been interned as a P.O.W. at Tatura during WWII |
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Lot 569
| | Estimate: $150 | Realised Price : $115 |
1944 (18 Jul) rare use of PPC ('KANGAROO') from Australia to USA by U.S. Serviceman from the series supplied to Australian Forces, U.S. Censor marking |
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