Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) 1938 5pf ‘Flugtag Hannover’ private stationery card with image of biplane, cancelled with special cancel, special pictorial cancel, base with recruitment message for men and women aviators; fine condition.
£65
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) 1938 6pf Hindenburg card celebrating ‘Deutschlandflug Nationalsozilistisches Fliegerkorps’ used on first day of meeting with Hannover slogan cancel; a couple of light stains top left on back, a scarce used card
£125
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Bicycle / Exhibitions / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) 5pf Germania 1902 card for Dusseldorf Exhibition depicting the ‘Kunstpalast’ showing people in front of Exhibition Building and includes at right a cyclist, used with Exhibition cancel.
£50
Bolivia
Covers and stamps / Bolivia / Ethnic / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) Early 1900s 2c. card with blue image depicting a group of local Indians, cto with framed BOLIVIA ORURO handstamp; fine condition.
£110
Bolivia
Covers and stamps / Bolivia / Ethnic / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) Early 1900s 2c. card with blue image depicting a local man with greetings message written across image and annotated from Cochabamba 1.8.1906; good condition.
£85
Bolivia
Covers and stamps / Bolivia / Ethnic / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) Early 1900s 2c. card with blue three-quarter image depicting a group of three local Indian men, cto with Ururo Bolivia handstamp, fine condition.
£110
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) late 1890s set of six 5pf Saalburg bei Homburg, Roman Villa cards, fine unused
£145
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia / Postal Stationery
(Post Offices in China) 1898 (11.4.) 4k. ‘Kitai’ overprinted postal stationery card to Cassel, Germany cancelled by three fine strikes in blue of Russian Post Offices in Shanghai, French maritime cds Ligne N Paq. Fr. No.2, arrival at bottom left, a fine card.
£295
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia
(Post Offices in China) 1902 (7 VIII) picture postcard of home of Grafen Waldersee in Peking, to Paris franked Russian unoverprinted 4k. tied rare Shanghaikwang 26½ mm single-circle cds repeated below, at left arrival cancel of 13.9. Tchilinghirian only records two recorded examples of this cancel, used as transits, this is an outward cancel and shows an arrival.
£325
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia / Postal Stationery
(Post Offices in China) 1904 (15.12.) 7k. ‘Kitai’ overprinted postal stationery letter card to Hamburg, Germany, uprated with similarly overprinted 5k. and 10k. tied by cyrillic Shanghai cds with another strike at left, reverse with Victoria Hong Kong transit and Hamburg arrival.Selvedge stuck together at left and right with some perf separtions, tone spotting at right, without message.
£275
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia
(Post Offices in China) 1907 (13.1.) cover to Helmond, Netherlands bearing single franking 10k. ‘Kitai’ overprint tied by small double-ring Shanghai Zagar PK cds (Tchil. Fig. 497), red stright-line Par Transsiberien handstamp at centre, arrival backstamp.
£95
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia
(Post Offices in China) 1907 (30.3.) 7k. ‘Kitai’ overprinted postal stationery envelope uprated 3k. to M. Gladbach, Germany cancelled by two fine double-ring cyrillic Shanghai cds (Tchil. Fig. 497), arrival backstamp. Fine and clear cancels.
£375
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia / Postal Stationery
(Post Offices in China) 1908 (15.5.) 4k. ‘Kitai’ overprinted postal stationery card to Burgstadt, Germany cancelled by cyrillic Peking, index a cds with another strike to left, arrival cancel of 15.6. at bottom left; good condition with full message.
£95
Russia
Covers and stamps / China / Russia / Censored mail
(Post Offices in China) 1918 (21.3.) 4k. stationery card to Shanghai uprated with 3k vertical pair tied by Chita index ‘b’ cds, centre of card with fine example of rare Shanghai censor in red, reverse of card datelined Pelschanka (bei Tschita)on origin; some heavy folding creases at left not affecting the stamps.
£345
Hong Kong
Covers and stamps / China / Hong Kong
(Post Offices in China) 1918 cover to Los Angeles, USA, bearing single franking 10c. tied by Canton cds, reverse with Hong Kong V cancel; good condition.
£75
Israel
Covers and stamps / Israel / Postage dues
(Postage due) 1952 (13.II.) envelope to Haifa from Higgs Hope, South Africa, underfranked with violet ‘T/ 17 ½c’ handstamp and local framed charge handstamp with red “24” added in manuscript, with 1949 Postage Dues 2pr pair ad a 20pr tied bilingual Haifa date stamps.
£55
China
Covers and stamps / China / Great Britain / Medical / Olympics / Postage dues
(Postage Dues) 1948 (24 Aug) airmail cover to Shanghai bearing single franking 1/- ‘1948 Olympic Games’ tied ‘Blood Donors’ Birkenhead slogan cancel, underfranked with tax handstamps and manuscript, reverse with 1948 Postage Dues blocks of ten of $10000 on $300 and $30000 on $1000 tied by Shanghai cds. Fine and scarce.
£495
China
Covers and stamps / China / Postal Stationery
(Postal Stationery letter card) c.1920 3c. ‘Wheatear’ folded letter card to Seattle, WA, USA additionally franked 1st Peking 1½c. pair and 4c. (rounded bottom right corner) to make the 10c rate, The stamps are cancelled with bilingual Canton cds, repeated on reverse, the stamp image not cancelled. Without message inside, short note on front.
£385
China
Covers and stamps / China / Picture Stationery
(Postal Stationery) 1897 1c. card with fine black and white image on reverse, printed and not hand-drawn, initialled T.R. of traffic passing through the (Peking) gate; fine unused.
£75
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany
(Postal Stationery) 1933 (9.8.) 15pf carmine Hindenburg card used from Munich to Zurich, Switzerland with slogan cancel; slight crease at right edge, a scarcer card whose colour was changed shortly after issue.