Portugal
Covers and stamps / Azores / Portugal / Censored mail / Prisoner of War
(Azores) 1916 (Dec) stampless envelope to Sevilla, Spain with various cachets including ornate oval-framed DEPOSITO/ DE/ CONCENTADOS ALEMAES/ NA/ ILHA TERCEIRA front and back, violet four-line Mission Portugaise/ des/ Prisonniers de Guerre/ LISBONNE, two censor tapes at left side. A fine early item showing unusually fine quality handstamps throughout.
£195
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Azores / Portugal / Postal Stationery / Prisoner of War
(Azores) 1916 Red Cross stationery card to Badajoz, Spain bearing three-line DELEGACAO/ DA COMISSAO DE PRISIONEIROS/ ANGRA DO HEROISMO handstamp, violet Commission Portugaise/des/ Prisonniers de Guerre/ LISBONNE handstamp, top right with small red Deposito/ De/ Concentrados/ Alemaes handstamp overstruck with Lisbon transit.
£115
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Azores / Portugal / Prisoner of War / Red cross
(Azores) 1917 Red Cross stationery card to Chemnitz bearing ornate oval-framed DEPOSITO/ DE/ CONCENTADOS ALEMAES/ NA/ ILHA TERCEIRA handstamp and two-line CENSURADO/ 16 SET. 1917 in same ink. Good condition with long message.
£125
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Azores / Portugal / Censored mail / Postal Stationery / Prisoner of War
(Azores) 1918 (22 Agos) 1c. Ceres postal stationery card to Berlin, the message datelined from Angra, endorsed at top “Correspondencia de prisioneiros d. guerra” with local red censor cachets and violet German cachet at top upside down.
£245
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Azores / Portugal / Censored mail / Prisoner of War
(Azores) 1918 stampless envelope to “Bureau International Paix, Section civile” at Berne, Switzerland with faint Angra despatch cds bottom right, reddish violet two line dated CENSURADO, censor tape at left tied front and back by ‘203’ cachet, reverse with senders details and ornately framed oval DEPOSITO/ DE/ CONCENTADOS ALEMAES/ NA/ ILHA TERCEIRA; fine.
£475
Japan
Covers and stamps / Japan / Prisoner of War
(Bando Prison Camp) 1917 registered money letter to Shanghai bearing three label tied with usual unclear violet Prisoner of War handstamps, Shanghai I.J.P.O. arrival backstamp; vertical filing crease affecting one label, rare.
£525
France
Covers and stamps / France / Prisoner of War / Red cross
(Franco-Prussian War) 1870 Red Cross card of Lyon, franked 1863-71 Laureated Napoleon tied by ‘2145’ gros chiffres with Lyon date stamp in association, addressed to the Red Cross at Basle. On reverse Geneve-Culoz tpo cds, as well as message from french prisoner at Neuf-Brissac (Neubreisach, Germany).
£695
Portugal
Covers and stamps / Portugal / Censored mail / Postal Stationery / Prisoner of War
(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.
£75
Great Britain
Covers and stamps / Great Britain / Prisoner of War
(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.
£55
Turkey
Covers and stamps / Greece / Turkey / Prisoner of War
(Prisoner of War) 1922 stampless envelope from Turkish P.O.W. in Kioutahia to Constantinople, censored Aix Malatos with tape across backflap. Ex. Schaffer
£275
SOUTH AFRICA (Prisoner of War)
Covers and stamps / South Africa / Prisoner of War
1915 ½d postal stationery card to Germany with framed three-line 'PRISONER OF WAR' handstamp overstruck 'POST FREE/P.C./PRISONERS OF WAR' handstamp and below this straight-line "PASSED BY CENSOR".
£65
Mozambique
Covers and stamps / Lourenco Marques / Portuguese Colonies / Censored mail / Prisoner of War
1917 (4.5.) printed German ‘Correspondenca de prisioneiros de guerra’ stampless card, dated and signed by prisoner on reverse, for use exclusively from Lourenco Marques, addressed to Germany with four different cachets including local Red Cross, Lisbon and Geneva Prisoner of War cachets, Geneva machine cancel at top; fine.
£145
Portuguese Colonies - Mozambique
Covers and stamps / Portuguese Colonies / Mozambique / Censored mail / Prisoner of War
1917 stampless cover to South Africa bearing blue double-ring P.O.W. cachet, dispatch hexagonal cancel below and red South African censorship; light vertical filing crease.
£95
JORDAN: (Prisoner of War)
Covers and stamps / Jordan / Censored mail / Prisoner of War / Red cross
1944 cover to JERUSALEM bearing single franking 10m. with long bilingual address "By war organisation/of the/British Red Cross/and order of St John.....", violet censor cachet at left, Amman backstamp; some slight faults to envelope but unusual item.
£65
Denmark
Covers and stamps / Denmark / Red cross / Prisoner of War
1946 (11.4.) envelope to Odense with ‘Interneret Brev’ label tied by Esbjerg B. cds, red Red Cross cachet at left; fine and fresh showing outer frame of dots on each side.
£75
Netherland East Indies
Covers and stamps / Netherland East Indies / Prisoner of War
After WW2, the Netherlands were given permission to establish a post office in ‘Beatrix Kamp’, Singapore, where ex-Dutch POW’s of the Japanese were housed following their release. This cover dated 13 MAR 1946 airmail to Leiden, showing the K 10 Gr handstamp applied to show under 10gr and thus available for free postage, Netherlands Postoffice Singapore cds.
£65
Portuguese Colonies
Covers and stamps / Mozambique / Portuguese Colonies / Censored mail / Postal Stationery / Prisoner of War
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
£115
Jamaica
Covers and stamps / Jamaica / Censored mail / Prisoner of War
Undated circa 1940 P.O.W. cover to Germany bearing four-line violet Postal Censor/ Jamaica/ Passed/ (6) handstamp and German censor cachet and tape on reverse; fine condition