

1904 5c printed matter rate cover to Toulouse with octagonal Buenos Ayres A Bordeaux and postcard to Cayenne, French Guiana cancelled Bordeaux A Loango. Good examples of the two lines that regularly called at Dakar. Ex Grabowski, on his album page.


1904 cover to England plastered front and back with 1876 ¼c. pale green (all singles) with Pontevedra cds, blue manuscript “T/ 25” tax marking, Redruth arrival backstamp; some stamps damaged overlapping the edge, a spectacular late usage.

1904 insured parcel card to Switzerland franked 5pi on 1k. and 10pi. on 2k. tied Constantinopel I date stamps, Vienna transit at base, fine condition.

1904 picture post card of Monrovia troops addressed to Germany, endorsed "Feldpost" with oval 'DEUTSCHE SEEPOST/LINIE/HAMBURG/WESTAFRIKA/27/11.04/XXXVII' date stamp, MUNICH arrival cds to left; good condition.

1904 picture post card to England franked 2c (2) and 3c tied by scarce 'PRASLIN GRAND ANSE' cds with another strike to left, 'SEYCHELLES' cds on reverse; good example of usually illegible cds.

1904 picture postcard (half of double Sarajevo view card) to Geneva franked 20h. pink and black tied Sarajevo cds, underfranked (should have been 25h.) with blue manuscript charges and 10c. Postage Due applied with Geneva cds.


1904 picture postcard ‘Klong Balangpoo – Bangkok’ to Paris, franked 1899-1904 1a. olive-green tied large bilingual Chantaburi bilingual date stamp, to left a good example of the negative seal; a couple of small stains but generally good example.


1904 picture postcard ‘Siamese young woman’ to France, franked 1899-1904 1a. olive-green tied large bilingual Chantaburi bilingual date stamp on front, reverse with smaller English language Chantaboon cds and good example of the negative seal; gernerally good condition.


1904 printed envelope from Chief of Service of the Judiciary, from Cayenne to Drome, France bearing Cayenne Guyane despatch cds, octagonal maritime Cayenne A Fort De France LC date stamp, violet Official cachet front and back, signed on front, arrival backstamp. Ex Grabowski.

1905 (11/6) Austria 5h postal stationery card to Jajce without additional 5h., Sarajevo despatch cds, black ‘T’ handstamp, blue manuscript charge and 10h postage Due applied and tied Jajce cds. Message being a reservation at the Grand Hotel.


1905 (13.5.) decorative Red Cross envelope, illustrated front and back to Bergedorf, Germany franked 1904 War Orphans Fund 10k., arrival backstamp; very fine and attractive.


1905 (15 May) stampless picture postcard to London annotated “par Napo” with ornate circular FRANCA/ Iquitos handstamp, Iquitos date stamp bottom left, Southampton Packet-Letter transit. On arrival violet manuscript “No such number” plus signature. Small tear at base of card, still a good example of Amazon river mail.


1905 (24 Fevr) 10c. black and blue stationery card used Abomey-Calavi to Cotonou and 1909 10c. red and blue card Cabole to Germany; fine condition.


1905 (4/5) Feld-Postkarte registered to Paris franked 1902 Germania 5pf (2) and 10pf (3) each tied by Gibeon cds, registration label bottom left and Paris arrival at right; fine and scarce.

1905 1d postal stationery card used to Germany cancelled by fair strike of Birchircara village cds. With full message, unusual cancel on overseas mail.

1905 1d. orange-brown picture postal stationery card ‘Gold Mine and Works Charters Towers’ used to South Australia with fine Gatton cds.

1905 1d. picture postal stationery card ‘Gold Mine and Works Charters Towers’ used to Erfurt, Germany and uprated ½d. green tied by ‘472’ numeral obliterators, slightly unclear cds to left, arrival cds, with message on reverse.


1905 1g blue ‘Melikt’ overprinted stationery card cto 21.II.1905 used later to Berlin with bilingual Harar cds (7.3.) in combination with French Somali coast 10c. tied Djibouti Cote Francaise Des Somaliais with cds repeated at right, arrival cds between them; good condition.

1905 4m. on 5m. postal stationery card to Wiesbaden, Germany, cancelled 'Halfa' cds, 'Hallal-Louxur Amb.1 ' and 'Bani-Suwef-Cairo' TPO transits, arrival cds at left.


1905 A.R. registered cover from Haiphong to Yokohama, Japan bearing mixed issue franking of 25c. group type and Grasset 2c with three on front and twenty-one on reverse, to make up the 75c. rate. The obverse bears two different framed ‘R’ handstamps and framed ‘A.R.’; good clean condition.