

PORTUGUESE COLONIES: MACAU 1896 (30 9) 5a surch. on 30r postal card addressed to "H.M.Customs Kowloon" with CUSTOMS LAPPA and Hong Kong cds alongside, all 30 9, fine


PORTUGUESE COLONIES: MOCAMBIQUE 1860 !7 6) Folded accounts with IBO dateline addressed to Mocambique with Marseille Company cachet, no postal markings, fine


PORTUGUESE COLONIES: MOCAMBIQUE 1896 (26 Ago) envelope to USA franked 1886 5r black + 20r rosine in combination with Lourenco Marques 1893 Newspaper 2 1/2r brown (pair) + 1895 15r red-brown (2) + 25c green (2) all tied Lourenco Marques cds's with New York roller cancel (Sep 26) on reverse, some small faults, scarce franking


PORTUGUESE COLONIES: NYASSA 1925 (15 12) registered envelope to Austria franked 1921-23 1c (2) + 1 1/2c (2) + 2c + 5c (2) = 6c (2) + 2e tied by PORTO AMELIA hexagonal ds's, horiz. crease through bottom 3 stamps


Postal Stationery: 1908 2d. registration envelope, size F, to Washington and uprated with five 1/2d. tied G.P.O. cds, New York transit and arrival backstamps.


POW Stampless cover addressed to Malta endorsed 'c/o American Military Relief Mission' with violet boxed 'Internee mail free/of postage/Shanghai P.O.', Shanghai transit and Valetta arrival backstamps, endorsed 'From Sacred Heart Internment Camp' fair. Good destination.

PUERTO RICO: 1868 (8 Sep) Cover front addressed to Humacao franked 1864 ½r green and rose horizontal strip of 3 with good margins tied by oval cancel, Puerto Rico cds in association.

Queensland - Thursday Island 1905 cover to Bank of Tasmania, Hobart (believed to be the undercover address for Tatersall's during postal ban) franked pair 2d. tied '336' numerals with cds in association, reverse with Brisbane transit and arrival cds.

Queensland - Thursday Island 1905 cover to Hobart franked 1d. and 2d. tied '336' numerals with cds in association, reverse with Brisbane transit and arrival cds; slight faults to envelope.

REUNION: 1867 (AOUT) Envelope to France franked 10c. bistre pair with left hand stamp on its side + 40c. orange pair tied by blue rhomboid of dots, full margins but close in places on 10c. pair, St Denis Reunion c.d.s. in blue alongside, boxed PD and faint maritime octagonal datestamp alongside, opened roughly, St Lo arrival backstamp, signed Calves.


REUNION: 1869 (18 JANV) Envelope franked 1859 10c. bister on yellowing (3; Yvert 3) horizontal strip of three with sheet margin at left and pair, large margins to touching, tied by blue dotted diamond cancels and blue ‘Reunion, St. Paul 18 Janv 69’ double-circle datestamp which also ties the pair on cover to Nantes, France, sender’s directive ‘ Par Messageries Imperiales’, blue company cachet and red framed ‘AFFRANCHISSEMENT/INSUFFISANT’ handstamp, transit and Nantes (Feb. 17) arrival backstamps, manuscript rate marking which also ties paid. Very fine underpaid cover.


RHODESIA: 1899 (de 14) BSAC 3d Mashonaland International Postcard in orange-brown to India with Umtali dispatch and various Indian transits, Tuticorin (28 Ja), Calicut (1 fe), Mangalore (5 Fe), taxed with segmented boxed Foreign Postage Due/Annas PLS, fine


RHODESIA: 1902 (27 NOV) 1d red stationery card illustrated with photo on reverse of native children in front of a hut with Christmas Greetings, readdressed on arrival to Italy with San Remo cds (22 12) and violet hotel cachet, small imperfections.


RHODESIA: 1944 (3 Oct) 3d Victoria Falls Aerogramme uprated 1 1/2d brown (2) tied by Bulawayo cds, with violet 'Open by Censor pink strip and diamond Passed/Censor?AB No 7' violet hs, fine.


ROMANIA /AUSTRIAN FELDPOST / CRIMEA: 1885 (July 3) folded military letter written from Bucharest with ms 'I.R. Reggimento Fanti Ad Sigismondo No 45' struck below with circular 'K.K.OST.F.P.PLOESCHTI 3/8' Fieldpost ds in red, via Hermannstadt and Laibach Bahnhof to Orzinovi (15 8) in Lombardy, fine and rare, ex Hans Kolbe


Romania 1868 (17.2.) internal entire to Braila franked 1868-70 18b. New Currency issue, four good margins tied by blue-green Ploesti cds. A fine early use of this issue that became available on 1st February. Lamy handstamp bottom right.


ROMANIA: 1877 Folded letter to Trieste with arrival bs (12 5) franked 1876 15b red-brown pair tied by blue Turgiu-Severin cds, fine


ROMANIA: 1917 Vignette colour picture postcard of T.SEVERIN sent unfranked to Vienna with manuscript ‘Feldpost’ ‘K.U.K DONAUFLOTTILLENKOMMANDO’ straight line handstamp in violet from a soldier of ‘Werft Detachmt. Marine Postelle Otsova’, Austrian Danube fleet command, fine.


RUSIA FAR EAST: 1903 (22 XII) envelope to Scotland printed on flap '"Ben" Line Steamers' franked 10k tied by blue-black PORT-ARTHUR 7 cds, Scottish TPO (Ja 25 04) on reverse, fine


RUSSIA - MARITIME: 1911 (10 8) Picture postcard of an ice breaker on the River Arthur sent to St Petersburg franked 3r. tied by BLAGOVE SCHENSK - NICOLAEVSK Steamship code b oval datestamp, better strike alongside.