
(1936 Berlin Olympics) 1936 (1.8.) Rhein-Main special zeppelin flight with four Olympic stamps and a 50pf Zeppelin with toning around perfs, at left very fine strike of rare red Olympiafahrt cachet.

(Advertising Stationery) 1930s 8pf. Ebert with fine illustrated camera card for Photo-Porst of Nurnberg; very fine unused.


(Air Transits) 1941 (9.9.) cover to Dallas, Texas franked New York S.Y.S. $1, $2 and $5 tied by Shanghai cds, fine blue-violet AIR TRANSIT 6 double ring handstamp, ‘OPENED BY CENSOR’ tape applied at left, tied on reverse with small framed ‘31’, whilst at right there is a ‘64’ both in ink of Air Transit h/s; some glue staining around stamps.


(Bavaria - Picture Stationery) 1901 5pf. ’15. Mittelfrankisches Bundesschiessen in Lauf’, used from Lauf to Hamburg; top right corner crease, generally good used condition.



(Bavaria Picture Stationery) 1910s 3pf double stationery card bearing images of two Trains, the reverse of one with text entitled (translated) “The Locomotives of the former Palatinate Railways”; fine unused.


(Bremen transit mail) 1817 entire from Leeds, England to Bolzano, Italy, endorsed "via Hambrg" but instead routed via Bremen with straight-line E.P.B. handstamp, red desptach date stamp and red manuscript rates on front; light horizontal filing crease at top, a scarce routing handstamp.


(British Post Offices) 1928 (13 AP) registered cover to England franked Great Britain 1½d. and 3d. tied Army Post Office 1 cds, fine handstamped registration label at left, reverse with further despatch, Liverpool and Gosport registered cancels; fine registered item.

(British Military Offices) 1937 (30 Aug) cover to England franked Great Britain 1½d. cancelled by Field Post Office No.1 cds, then based at Tientsin. The envelope is endorsed at top left “Posted on mannouvers1937/ Field Post Office No 1/ Headquarters 1st Division/ Youngshung” (Yangtsun). Fine condition and unusual usage of tne Coronation stamp.

(British Post Offices in China) 1918 (MR 25) company envelope to London franked strip of five 2c. tied Shanghai Br. P.O. /1 cds; light horizontal filing crease


(China Combination I.P.O.) 1901 (17 Apr) card to Leipzig, from Swatow where domestic postage was paid in cash and bilingual cds applied, the 4c on 3c black surcharge stationery card bearing red framed I.P.O. handstamp and image tied Hong Kong cds, arrival cancels at left. The card with ‘Reply’ erased, a very rare usage of this stationery card.


(China I.P.O.) 1901 2c. postal stationery envelope to Leipzig, bearing bilingual Amoy cds where cash was paid for the internal postage, very unusually a 2c. stationery envelope has been used together with pair 4c. to make 10c. overseas rate all cancelled with two fine framed I.P.O. handstamps of Amoy and three cds, arrival backstamp. The backflap is missing but a very rare example of cash paid on a stationery envelope.


(Chinkiang Local Post) 1894 registered cover to Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, Shanghai franked Golden Mountain 1c. (2) and 5c. tied by two Chinkiang Postal Service handstamps (The two 1c. stamps have been previously cancelled – they were often sold cto for collectors at the Post Office. The left-hand 1c. tied by same cancel tying 5c. and central cancel tying both 1c.), very fine REGISTERED handstamp, numbered “15” , reverse with dated Chinkiang cds and Shanghai arrival cds, also with full wax seal of Municipal Council Chinkiang with remains of string. Small cut to corner of envelope and opened out for display, a very rare commercial registered cover.

(Chinkiang Local Post) 1896 rice paper wrapper franked Golden Mountain with Clouds 1c blue postage due tied oval-framed TO PAY handstamp, reverse with Chinkiang Postal Service date stamp.


(Chinkiang Local Post) Undated ‘Captain Binns’ cover bearing oval-framed ‘TO PAY’ handstamp with pair 1895 ½c. Postage Due with red overprint tied Chinkiang Postal Service cancel which is repeated top right and on reverse. The red overprint is rare on cover.

(Danzig) 1934 10pf. Schopenhauer illustrated stationery card sent registered airmail cover to London, additionally franked set of three tied Danzig Schopenhauer Gedenkfeier cancels of first day of issue. Without message or arrival.

(Danzig) 1936 (31.7.) plain card with long message to England franked two 10pf. cancelled Danzig- Oliva d cds, charge handstamp for ‘1/2d.’ applied in London with Postage due applied and tied cds. Some paper abrasion on reverse.

(Danzig) 1939 (25.11.) plain card with type-written message to Copenhagen, Denmark franked at 15pf overseas postcard rate with Deutsches Reich overprinted 15pf. tied slogan cancel. A rare single franking.


(French Legion) Accumulation including carmine and blue Mi III/i missing accent in vertical marginal pair with normal, III/III with broken foot to ‘F’ in corner marginal pair with III/V missing accent on ‘special’, overprinted corner marginal block of four, position 24 missing dot over ‘i’, plus a single with the variety; fine mint never hinged.


(French Post Offices) 1879 (3 OCT) mourning envelope to France, endorsed “per English mail” bearing mixed issue franking Ceres 15c. pair and Sage 5c. tied by ‘5104’ large numeral lozenge with Shang-Hai Chine cds, unclear red French maritime datestamp, reverse with Marseille A Lyon tpo and arrival cds. Most of backflap missing and slight ageing but still a good example of a more unusual franking.


(French Post Offices) 1882 cover to Southampton franked Sage 2c. (2), 3c. bistre on yellow pair and a 15c. tied ‘5104’ large numerals with Shang-Hai cds below, arrival backstamp. A fine, unusual way to make up the 25c. rate and with very rare multiple of 3c.