
1938 One Penny postal stationery envelope diagonally overprinted SPECIMEN, archival note at top


1939 four-line date overprint on Achmed Zogu 10q and 25q envelopes, some ageing around edges and light corner creasing bottom right.

1941 4p.50 postal stationery card up-rated 3p. to BAGHDAD, Iraq tied 'ALEY' cds, overstruck with arrival cds, at base violet framed censor cachet; fine commercial usage.


1944 (1 Nov) Prisoner of War Post ‘SIX PENCE’ on 1/- formula stationery letter sheet used to a Corporal at Stalag VIII A with Auckland despatch cancel, German censorship on front and local DDA/ 9 on reverse; fine condition.


1945 registered stationery envelope uprated with two 3a., insured for Rs. 100 to Bombay, British Legation (Nepal) cds, front bearing two-line registration handstamp.



1948 15s registration stationery to Melbourne, Australia additionally franked with pair of 80s., endorsed “Sample Mail”, green label applied after folding over the envelope and tied three violet cachets with two punch holes, further green label stating contents as ‘Silver clip’, this tied by a Singapore transit; unusual.


1951 6a. registration stationery envelope, insured cover for Rs 5000 to Bombay, bearing a multi franking on reverse at 7r. 6a. 6p. tied indistinct cds, front bearing registration label INDIAN EMBASSY NEPAL; small central filing hole, a fine franking.


1951 6a. registration stationery envelope, insured cover for Rs 5000 to Bombay, bearing a multi franking on reverse at 7r. 6a. 6p. tied indistinct cds, front bearing registration label INDIAN EMBASSY NEPAL; small central filing hole, a fine franking.


Circa 1900 2pf postal stationery card with a fine coloured drawing of (maybe) a postal official behind his counter without his trousers, inscribed REVERS at base; fine and unusual.

Greece 1911 75L. postal stationery parcel card to Switzerland additionally franked with six 25L. Hermes tied Pireaus cds; very fine and attractive.

Japanese Occupation - Johore: 1944 4c. postal stationery card tied Batu Pahat date stamp and Japanese censor chop at centre. Addressed to Kukup, a small village in SW Johore, written in Jawi; fine and clean condition.

Japanese Occupation 1943 5c. Burma State Crest stamp affixed over KGVI stationery image, tied by bilingual Seikgyi Kanaungto cds; fine and clean condition.


Mauritius Used in - Postal Stationery) 1885 Queen Victoria 8d. grey envelope with Seychelles cds with reverse ‘C’ index, to Beau Bassin, Mauritius with arrival cds on reverse. The B64 obliterator unclear on stamp image. One of only three known usages of the 8d envelope on Seychelles. Less than a dozen Mauritius postcards and envelopes have been recorded sent abroad from Seychelles within the period of their usage.


MAURITIUS: 1862 9d. purple postal stationery envelope on blued paper, two, with Type 1, 1 with Type 3 embossing on reverse, fine.

Mozambique: 1917 1c Ceres postal stationery card to Switzerland bearing double-ring P.O.W. cachets, dispatch hexagonal cancel at centre and black South African censorship


New South Wales 1899 uprated 1/2d. postal stationery wrapper to Levuka, Fiji with 1d. tied Ship Mail Room Sydney cds, on arrival redirected with red manuscript Nukualofa, reverse with Haapia Tonga cds; fine and unusual.


New South Wales 1909 3d postal stationery registration envelope uprated by 2d. and cancelled White cliffs, the envelope originating at Nuntherungee, an outpost 40 miles west of white cliffs. The straight-line town marking in violet is possibly the only one recorded, as the post office closed in 1893.


Newfoundland 1920s 1d postal stationery card with printed ‘Amateur Radio Station’ report on reverse; very fine condition.


NYASALAND: 1896 (JY 16) British Central Africa 2d. black ‘EXTERNAL’ postal stationery card cancelled Blantyre B.C.A. c.d.s addressed to Germany with Hamburg arrival and Zanzibar transit on front, Chinde transit on reverse, message written from ‘Edina Plantation’ Lomba district, very fine.


Oil Rivers 1893 1d. postal stationery card to London cancelled by double ring Benin cancel, Benin River cds bottom left overstruck Paid Liverpool Br. Packet cds; fine and striking with full message.