Military Postal History Society (MPHS) AUCTION 215

 

Closing 10 June 2020

(NOTE: was 30 May 2020)

 

Submit Bids to:

Roger Santala

2244 Fairview Place

Billings, MT 59102-0614

rogrmt6kjwj3h2hj34555@gmailDJKJWHSH9991.com9kjwh2hshdgeg44598

 

 

Please note that there are two separate lists for Auction 215.  Both will close on 10 June. (NOTE: previous closing was 30 May.)

Lots 192-197 and 201-205 from auction 213 are available at a 30% discount at the consignor suggestion. Take a look! 

 

 

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Descriptions: In general, envelopes are regular size, typically #6, UOS. Franking is usually described. The use of “entire” is to indicate postal stationary. Selected images of the material are included on the website. For additional information, questions, and selected images, please contact the Auction manager  

 

ABBREVIATIONS

 

OS = Otherwise Stated; UOS = Unless OS

APO = Army Post Office. Number is in cancel UOS

FPO = Fleet Post Office

PC = postcard; PPC = picture postcard

V-Mail = processed and with envelope UOS

OEF = Operation Enduring Freedom

OIF = Operation Iraqi Freedom

RO = roughly opened

 

 

Censorship: NC = No Censor

C = Censored, varieties include:

SC = Self-Censored

BC = Box Censored

CC = Circle Censor

HC = Handwritten Censor

RC = Racetrack Censor 

S    = Signature 

 

 

 

LIST 1

 

   1. War Department envelope with Fort Sheridan IL cancel 9/5/1897. Cover wrinkled left. F+. $15..

   2. Envelope addressed “First Regiment OG CO I, Camp Bushnell, Columbus Ohio” 5/1/98. F+. $20..

   3. PC “kiss me in your dreams”. Canceled with “maneuver camp number two 1904”. F+. $25..

   4. PC of US capital. Canceled with “maneuver camp number two 1904”. Stamp missing. VF. $25..

   5. PC of Vermont scenery. Canceled with “Fort Ethan Allen” 4/19/06. Stamp damaged. VF. $15..

   6. PC of soldier with girl captioned “carry arms”. Canceled with Fort Slocum NY 6/23/10. VF. $20..

   7. PC of soldiers captioned “in line for mess”.  Canceled “Pine Camp NY 8/7/11”. VF. $20..

World War I.

8. PC of artillery “ready to fire”. Canceled “Beacon NY Beekman Mili. BR.” 7/30/16. This branch operated for less than four months. Swanson shows “one example known”. VF. $40.. 

 

 

 

   9. PC of flag.  Canceled “Jacksonville military BR. 12/20/17”. Frank with 2 booklet Washingtons. VF. $20..

 10. PC of Norfork church. Canceled “Newport News VA Aviation BR” 1/22/18. VF. $20..

11. PC of aircraft over Pensacola Bay. Canceled “Pensacola FLA Aeronautical BR” 10/18/18. VF. $20..

 

 

Intra war.

12. USS Isabel. US Navy in China. Jan 17 1929. Legal sized official envelope with “Yangtze patrol” and killer bars. Sent to Washington DC. Diagonal band through address detracts little. Overall VF. $15..

 

 

 13. USS Rochester. U.S. Navy in China. Attractive Chinese and English language bicolor envelope. Ship cancel omits year but based on stamps including the wide 5 ¢ “wing globe”, it is from the 1930s. VF. $12..

 14. Guam. U.S. Navy to Cavite Philippines. 9/33. Single usage of 20 ¢ transpacific airmail stamp to pay the interisland rate. Cover has vertical bends and light staining. F+. $10..

 15. HMS York Philadelphia visit 9/25/35 franked with 3¢. Canceled “HMS York mail office”. F+. $10..

 16. HMS York Washington DC visit 11/4/35. Franked with 2¢ Washington. Canceled both “HMS York mail office” and Washington DC. F+. $12..

 17. HMS York New York visit 11/9/35. Franked as above. Canceled both “HMS York mail office” and NY. F+. $12.. 

 18. USS Black Hawk. “Asiatic station” 10 Sep 1940 postmark. Also includes rarely seen “return for additional postage” from the ship. VF. $13..

World War II

Patriotic covers 

19. “Official” patriotic from Navy Yard Pearl Harbor. On legal size cover from 12/7/43, an advertisement to buy war bonds. VF. $15..

 

 

20. Domestic US VJ day. Unusual patriotic stating “Potsdam ultimatum! I hereby accept terms” with Hirohito discarding Hari Kari sword (sword so labeled). Used with 3¢ US victory stamp and Japanese commemorative from 1894. Postmark Maud, Mississippi. Unaddressed. VF. $15..

 

 

APO New York

 25. Africa/Aden. APO 663. 4/20/44. Sender FPO. Envelope marked “free” with naval censor. Sender gunners mate on liberty ship SS Anson Jones. VF. $40..

 26. Africa/Algeria. APO 512. 5/23/43. Envelope marked “free” with CC and tape residual. F+. $8..

 27. Africa/Algeria. APO 512. 2/19/43. Envelope marked “free” with RC and tape “open by Army, US examiner No.”. VF. $15 

 28. Africa/Algeria. APO 528. 7/23/43. 6¢ airmail entire. VF. $6..

 29. Africa/Algeria. APO 529. 4/25/43. 1¢ Jefferson PC. Addressed APO 816 rerouted APO 523. Good typewritten note on reverse. CC plus signature. VF. $8..

 30. Africa/Algeria. APO 534. Sender APO 512. 4/21/44. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. S. F+. $6..

 31. Africa/Algeria. APO 536. 5/2/43. V mail stationary marked “free”. S. VF. $10..

 32 Africa/Algeria APO 750. 9/4/43 sender APO 528. Franked with 6¢ airmail. RC plus S. $5.F+..

 33. Africa/Egypt. APO 787. 11/15/45. Sender general officer HQ AMET. Airmail envelope franked with five ¢ “toward United Nations” and 1¢ FDR. NC. VF. $10..

 34a. Africa/Egypt. APO 788. 9/11/44. Free franking. VF $8..

 34b. Africa/Gold Coast. APO 625. 1/13/43. APO in sender’s address. Very low censor number: 417. RC + S. VF. $12..

 35a. Africa/Sudan. APO 608. 4/4/43. Return address 13th Ferrying group 44th squadron ATC. 6¢ airmail entire VF. $13..

 35b. Africa/Tunisia. APO 521. 7/27/43. Free franking with RC and S. VF. $6..

 36. Belgium. APO 154. 10/11/44. Sender APO 230. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. RC and S. VF. $12..

 37. Belgium. APO 571. 10/3/44. Sender APO 230. 6¢ airmail entire. RC. VF. $15..

 38. Corsica. APO 530. 6/19/44. Sender FPO/unit MTB Ron 16 (Indicates motor torpedo boat squadron 16). Naval censor. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. VF. $12..

39. England. APO 505. 12/19/43. Sender APO 638. Franked with 6¢ airmail. On reverse 14 BPO cancel and unusual small rectangle censor “base censor US Army” with in and out markings. VF. $20..

 

 

 40. England. APO 507. 4/3/44. Franked with shifted 6¢ airmail. VF. $8..

 41. England. APO 508. 6/16/44. From nurse. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. F+. $8..

 42. England. APO 511. 2/8/44. Free franking. RC plus S. VF. $4..

 43. England. APO 516. 2/13/44. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. RC plus S. VF. $4..

 44. England. APO 518. 10/15/43. Franked with 3¢ “win the war”. APO 871 canceler on reverse. NC. VF. $8..

 45. England. APO 519. 5/X/45. Free franking to Canada. RC plus S. VF. $8..

 46. England. APO 551. 3/8/45. Franked with 2x 6¢ airmails. Sender’s address indicates 517th Repl. Co. not a hospital. RC plus S. VF. $5..

 47. England. APO 513. 12/X/43. 6¢ airmail bicolor entire. Sender a nurse forwarded to USNTS Sampson NY. 14 BPO canceler on reverse. CC. VF. $10..

 48. England. APO 527. 8/25/43. Free franking. Sender APO 634. RC plus S. VF. $5..

 49. England. APO 560. 2/18/44. 6¢  bicolor airmail entire. RC. VF. $6..

 50. England. APO 569. 5/8/45. Free franking on envelope with curious cachet, Hirohito delivering bouquet to hospital “so sorry accident keeps you from making guns for honorable Yanks”. VF. $8..

 51. England. APO 586. 10/4/44. 6¢ airmail entire with additional postage. Sender APO 558. Enclosure of two Belfast postcards. VF $12..

 52. England. APO 757. 2/18/44. Senders HQ Det SHAEF. Franked with 6¢ airmail. RC plus S. F+. $5..

 53. France. APO 52. 8/2/44. Sender APO 141. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. S. F+. $10..

 54. France. APO 112. 1/28/45. Sender APO 350. 6¢ airmail entire. RC plus S. $10..

 55. France. APO 95. 10/19/44. 6¢ airmail entire. RC plus S. VF. $6..

 56. France. APO 143. 9/26/44. 6¢ airmail entire. Sender APO 176. RC plus S. VF. $8..

 57a. France. APO 176. 1/13/45. Registeredmail,  6¢ airmail and 20¢ Prexie. APO and registry marks on reverse. RC+S. VF. $10..

 57b. France. APO 333. 3/7/45. 6¢ postal stationary  italicized “airmail” sticker also tied by postmark. Small opening tear on back flap VF. $8.. 

 58. France. APO 505. 3/29/45. Sender APO 18081. Franked with two 3¢ “win the war”. RC plus S. VF. $8..

 59. France. APO 513. 9/19/45. Addressed to England. NC. VF. $6..

 60. France. APO 526. 10/23/44. Sender APO 562. 6¢ airmail entire. F+. $10..

 61. France. APO 548. 12/4/44. Sender APO 758. 6¢ airmail entire. CC plus tape residual. F+. $8..

 62. France. APO 552. 9/11/44. Sender APO 403. 6¢ airmail entire receiver on reverse. RC plus S. VF. $6..

 63. France. APO 554. 10/22/45. Sender APO 777. Franked 6¢ airmail on ARC envelope. NC. VF. $8..

 64. France. APO 562. 10/9/44. Franked with 6¢ airmail. Four page letter included mention of stamp collecting. VF. $12..

 65. France. APO 573. 2/17/45. 6¢ airmail entire. RC. VF. $10..

 66. France. APO 802. 9/1/45. 6¢ airmail entire. NC. VF. $8..

 67a. Germany. APO 102. 12/16/44. Franked with 6¢ airmail. RC + S. F+. $10..

 67b. Germany. APO 202. 7/13/45. Franked with 6¢ airmail and airmail label. NC. VF. $12..

 68a. Germany. APO 553. 5/6/45. Franked with 6¢ airmail. RC plus S. VF. $20..

 68b. Germany. APO 555. 3/19/45. 6¢ airmail entire. RC plus S. VF. $15..

 69. Germany. APO 570. 6/13/45. Franked with 6¢ airmail. Sender APO 758. NC. VF. $25..

 70. Germany. APO 575. 4/19/45. 6¢ airmail entire. Sender APO 758. RC plus S. VF. $15..

 71. India. APO 689. 5/19/45. Free franking. Sender APO 433. Has Berkeley CA parcel post markings on front. VF. $8..

 72. Iran. APO 523. 6/23/43. Franked with 2x 6 ¢ airmails. From LTC G. Buell. Printed return address “Corps of Engineers, United States Army Iranian district” crossed out by Buell. Cover missing small part of back flap. F+. $8..

 73. Italy/Sardinia. APO 509. 8/18/44. Free franking. Sender APO 512. RC plus S. VF. $8..

 74. Italy. APO 512. 11/22/44. Six sent bicolor airmail entire. Sender APO 372. RC plus S. VF. $6..

75. Italy. APO 520. 5/30/45 arriving envelope franked with 6¢ airmail. APO 520 marking on reverse. “In route to US” and pointing finger with “returning to US – left no forwarding address”. NC. F+. $10..

 

 

 76. Italy. APO 525. 3/3/44. Sender APO 650. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. S. F+. $5..

 77. Italy. APO 538. 2/1/45. Sender APO 520. 6¢ airmail entire with additional 6¢ postage due. S. VF. $10..

 78. Italy. APO 540. 11/15/44. Sender APO 520. Free franking. RC plus S. VF. $5..

 79. Italy. APO 542. 10/19/4X. Sender APO 464. 6¢ airmail bicolor entire. RC. VF. $5..

 80. Italy. APO 542. 11/29/44 sender APO 464. 6¢ airmail entire from nurse. Enclosure is envelope corner clipping with 10 ¢ and 2¢ prexie. S. VF. $10..

 81. Italy. APO 547. 6/27/44. Sender APO 464 franked with 6¢ airmail. RC. VF. $6..

 82a. Italy. APO 550. 3/13/44. Sender APO 758. 6¢ airmail on USO envelope with cachet “idle gossips sink ships”. CC plus tape. VF. $10..

 82b. Italy. APO 786. 4/14/44. Sender APO 520. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. RC. VF. $5..

 83. Northern Ireland. APO 577. 1/5/44. Sender APO 813. Franked with 6¢ airmail. RC plus S. VF. $15..

84. Norway. APO 544. 8/22/45. Sender’s address’s task force A. Franked with 6¢ airmail. Note Oslo poster stamp on verso. Mild folding top. NC. F+. $25..

 

 

 85. Palestine. APO 682. 2/8/45. Franked with 3¢ “win the war”. CC plus tape. VF. $40..

 86. Scotland. APO 506. Six sent bicolor airmail entire from nurse. S. VF. $12..

 87. Sicily. APO 777. 9/11/43. Six sent bicolor airmail entire sender APO 525 415th Ftr. Sq. RC. VF. $15.. Note  88.

 88. Italy. APO 767. 6/5/44. Free franking on envelope cachet with bomber, pi wings, Army shield. Sender APO 650 415 Ftr. Sq. VF. $10.. Note same sender and unit as  87. 4 APO’s.

APO Miami

  89. Brazil APO 603. 10/22/45. Franked 6¢ airmail. Sender APO 603. NC. Envelope & stamp nibbled upper left. F. $15.. 

APO San Francisco

  90. Australia. APO 501. 12/14/43. Sender APO 32 126 Inf. Franked with 6¢ airmail. “foreign language” written on front. CC plus tape. VF. $8..

  91. Australia? APO 545. 6/7/43. Sender’s address “C/O postmaster Los Angeles”, possibly in transit overseas. Free franking. VF. $15..

  92a. Australia. APO 8267. 12/7/42. Canceler San Francisco. Free franking on Armed Forces postcard, probably in transit overseas. VF. $12..

 

 

  92b. Hawaii. APO 950. Fort Armstrong. Undated oval postmark on pair of 6¢ Eagle airmail’s along with special delivery stamp. Received 4/43. VF. $10..

 

 

  93. Japan. APO 24. 2/9/46. Chaplains mail franked with 6¢ airmail. NCl. VF. $5..

  94. Philippines. APO 500. 4/27/45. Canceler reads “American base forces” free franking. CC plus S plus tape. VF $8..

   95. New Guinea. APO 503. 12/4/43. 6¢ bicolor airmail entire. S. VF. $8..

  96. New Guinea. APO 502. 12/17/42. Free franking. S. VF. $8..

  97. New Guinea. APO 503. 5/2/43. Free franking on envelope with printed sender’s address port detachment be and curious palm tree design on reverse. CC plus tape. VF. $8..

  98. New Guinea. APO 565. 1/11/44. 6¢ airmail entire additional 6¢ airmail stamp. RC. F+. $8..

U.S. Navy

  99. U.S. Navy Hebrides. Base hospital number 3. “BH-3” and 4/19/45 in the postmark. Reduced ½ inch on left. F+. $6..

100. U.S. Navy. New Hebrides. Navy 140, advance base. 2/22/44. Franked 6¢ airmail reduced ¼ inch on right. VF. $6 

101. U.S. Navy. Seabees second brigade Vmail. Illustrated v-mail from March 1944. Design shows Japanese flag with July 4 topical. Note know envelope remains. VF. $12..

102. USMC. Fifth Marine division 5/15/45. USMC printed corner card. Interesting letter on matching stationary. VF. $10..

World War II others.

103. Cyprus. British FPO 291. 8/16/41. 10 D stamp used on small airmail cover to London. Triangular censor with crown #2705. VF. $8..

104. Lithuania. German occupation. “Hollander Dienst 1”. Official cover postmarked 3/25/44 using 12 pf. “Ostland” over printed Hitler head. Note – the envelope is made from recycled advertising paper. Part of the back flap is missing exposing the design. VF. $12..

United Nations Operations.

105. UNEF. Yugoslavia 1956 – 1957. Multiple cachet’s. Canceler “posta Odreda JNA*Egipat*UNEF”. Gaines 154 (a) I I – 154 (B). VF. $8..

106. UNEF. Yugoslavia. 3/18/60. Cachet. Canceler “Posta Odreda JNA UAR (Egipatska Olast)*UNEF” Gaines 154 “F”. VF $8..

107. UNEF. UNEF HQ. 9/25/62. Registered Lebanese postage. Canceler’s “UNEF 1” and “Beyrouth RP chargement” on reverse. Gaines 200 (E)1. F+. $8..

108. UNEF. Sweden. 5/28/63. “Svenska FN Bataljonen A Egypten”. Gaines 133 (B). VF. $8..

109. ONUC. Canada. Forces air letter to UNEF Pisa Italy. Philatelic. VF. $6..

110. ONUC. Denmark. Unit cachet “Danish ONUC command HQ ONUC – BP 7248 Leopoldville Congo” 6/11/64. Gaines 037 – 200 (a). VF $6..

111. ONUC. India. Three first-day covers. 1/15/62. Cachet FDC “Indian contingent United Nations force” FPO 716, 771, and 777. Gaines 064 a. VF. $15..

112. ONUC. Ireland. 3/18/64. UN ONUC airmail envelope franked with Leopoldville meter. Gaines 068 and meter U75. Wrinkled at right. $5..

113. ONUC. UN official. UN ONUC airmail envelope. No franking, marked” pouch”. F+. $6..

114. UNDOF. Iran. 1/29/75. Envelope with Israeli postage and canceler. Sender’s address “IranBatt UNDOF HQ Damascus”. VF. $10..

115 UNDOF. Poland. Two covers 1982 with different cachet’s. Cancels “Warszaw 60” and “Oplata Pocztowa Zryczaltowana”. VF. $12..

116. UNDOF. Poland. Two covers 1983 with different cachet’s. Cancels as above. VF. $12..

117. UNIFIL. Nepal. 9/20/78. UN aerogram free mail. Cancel “United Nations interim force in Lebanon”. VF. $12..

118. UNIFIL. Norway. 3/18/83. Envelope with unit emblem and Norwegian postage cancelled with “2062 Gardemoen LuftHavn Hercules Norway” includes explanatory note with flight crew information. Verso FN-Bataljonen 19.3.83. Gaines 104(c). VF. $10..

119. UNIFIL. Ghana. UN interim force in Lebanon envelope with Ghana cachet and canceler “United Nations interim force in Lebanon Ghanbatt”. 12/2/85. Includes signed letter of response. Gaines 053 (B)i. VF. $15..

120. UNIFIL. Ghana. UN interim force in Lebanon envelope with French postage. Cancelled both “United Nations interim force in Lebanon Ghanabatt 8 Feb 1985” and “poste aux armees 14/2/1985” Gaines 053 (B). VF. $12..

121. UNIFIL. Netherlands. Free mail on Dutch “departement Van defensie” envelope with “Veldpost 95” canceler. 11/25/80. Gaines type 99 (a). VF. $12..

122. UNIFIL. Netherlands. Airmail envelope with Dutch postage registered “Napo” 25 and ”Veldpost 95” canceler. 10/10/80. Gaines type 99 (a). VF. $12..

Zip APO’s

123. U.S. Navy. FPO AP 96349. USS Mobile Bay. 12/17/98. Addressee APO AE 09724. Marked “Missent to 09781” with APO 09781 canceler on reverse. VF. $8..

124. Canal Zone. APO 34002. Germany Schulschiff “Deutschland”. 4/19/82. Cachet envelope franked with US postage to West Germany. APO 34002 canceler with killer bars indicating “Republic of Panama US Mil Postal Service authorized by Panama Canal Treaty”. VF. $12..

125. APO AE 09873. 2/93. Has rectangular “postage free US Marine Corps” franchise mark in upper right corner. VF. $8..

126. U.S. Navy. FPO AE 09566. USS Cape St. George. 6/12/93. Addressee APO AE 09821. Cachet envelope franked with 29 ¢ “Basketball Centennial”. Marked “missent to 09721 American Embassy Moscow USSR”; additional markings and rectangular USPS officially sealed tape on reverse. F+. $15..

127. Belgium. APO AE 09724. Portion of parcel front mail priority mail with St. Paul meter $4.20. Addressee APO AE 09724. Marked “Missent to Beijing”. F+. $10..

128. Bosnia. APO AE 09789. 8/12/96. Free franking on envelope with E Co. 51st INF. Cachet. VF. $12..

129. Iraq. APO AE 09815. 2/7/08. Free franking on envelope with 525th MI brigade cachet. VF. $12..

130 East three. Iraq. APO AE 09342. 10/3/05. Free franking on envelope with 525th MI Bde cachet. VF. $12..

 

LIST 2

 

 

Pre-WWI

201. Mexican war August 1847 stamp was folder letter from Mississippi Gov. Albert Gallatin Brown to Gen. George Brooke US Army New Orleans. Letter is faded but readable. Refers to the Battalion sent from Mississippi to Mexico and their support. $80..

 

 

202. U.S. Navy 1855 stampless legal size cover “Boston express mail” postmark and “FREE”. Addressed to “James Guthrie Treasury Secretary, Wash. DC – Proposal for building the Marine Hospital at Chelsea Mass”. Cover has many folds and some margin tears, but is a scarce example of a contractor proposal from the period. $24..

203. Franco-Prussian war. Stamp was two-page letter. Postmarked Wiesbaden, 18.8.70, as it was forwarded. Rectangular box marking on reverse – “Bei der feldpost zur Abholung Bereit 278” – faint, but readable. $25 103.

204. POW cover. Ceylon, 1902. Diyatalawa camp censor hand stamp on cover from Eugene Durr, a German to his wife. Durr was Captured near Bethlehem, OFS, on July 15, 1900. He was transported to Ceylon aboard the SS Dilwara. $80..

 

 

205. POW cover. Natal 1900. ZAR and British censor tapes on cover from Pretoria 10 FE 00, to a recently captured Boer prisoner, “Petrus Erasmus, C/O governor, Central Gaol, PM Burg, Natal”, back stamp Lourenco Marques 9 MR, Durban 24 MR and Pietermaritzburg 28 MR. As noted in the 7/18 CCSG bulletin, “Erasmus was captured near Acton Homes, Natal on January 18, 1900. Without a POW camp to send them to, jail seemed a logical alternative.” Cover with central vertical fold, otherwise fine. $80..

 

 

World War I

206. AEF APO 734. 3/14/18. Free franking from Capt. Schneller 32nd Div. Eagles a. 601 censor. VF. $15.. 

207. AEF. APO 715. 5/9/18. Free franking with eagle censor a 256. VF. $15..

208. AEF. Free franking from fourth balloon co. with US Army MPES machine cancel base censor included within wavy killer barvariant A7101 and circled 154 censor. Unusual . VF. $25.. 

209. AEF. Canada. Halifax embarkation censorship mark plus “Soldiers mail on Foreign Service” and Halifax OCT 18 1918 postmark on small size cover to New York. Elusive item: small number of soldiers embarked from Halifax. Roughly opened on right margin, clear of censor mark. VF. $45..

 

 

210. AEF. Air service. APO to APO. Small size cover from Lt. WF King, aviation clearance office, Le Harve, APO 760, OCT 1918 (type a 3001 in blue) to Lt. Sidney Isaacs, Air Service. Interesting letter enclosed, referring to the work. Opened on two sides, small tear top margin. $25. F+..

211. AEF. Italy. Large “901” postmark (type a 4302). Dated 19 Sept 1918. AEF Postal History 2nd ed. gives earliest date of 20 Sept. Also features American ambulance service censor mark in black, rather than the Eagle regimental Mark. Postmark light but readable. Rare item. $75..

 

 

212. AEF. Provisional postmark “752” (type A 8201) in blue. Nice example of a typical unclear postmark; also a partial light AEF flag postmark, July 1918. Used on British “green envelope”. Slightly trimmed with small adhesive tape stain on top margin, and 1/3 inch tear on right margin. $20..

213. AEF. Paris peace conference. APO 975 (type A4200). Feb 1919 used on postcard. Cryptic message: “will have something interesting to tell you in a few days.” Postmark is well struck, but some letters in “service” missing. $35..

214. AEF. APO 713 A “type A4001” from Jan 1919 on European size cover to US. Slightly smudge postmark, but good example from one of the few alpha sub APO’s that were open. Roughly open on the left margin. $15..

215. AEF. APO 731 A. Large size double circle (type 4021) from 5 Avr 1919. Clearly struck postmark on postcard. Card has vertical fold through center, clear of postmark. Very few alpha sub APO’s existed. $20.. 

216. AEF. Handmade wrapper on thin paper for Stars & Stripes newspaper. Infrequently saved by recipients. Several tears on top and right margin, and 2 inch on back, but overall presentable. Postmark type A 3001 from APO 716, 2/9/18. $20..

217. WWI POW card. Austrian held as Italian POW free franking on Red Cross card with Italian military and censorship markings sent to Zürich Switzerland. 26.9.18 VF. $10. 111.

Between the wars.

218. National military home cancellation. 2¢ Washington on small envelope. F+. $10..

219. U.S. Navy. USS Chaumont legal size cover postmarked Agana harbor, Guam OCT 31 1940. Halloween. Small opening tear in upper left corner mostly on back. Includes printed 1940 “tentative itinerary” and two Life magazine letters to the editor about the ship. $10..

220. U.S. Navy. USS Lang. Bahamas June 1939 legal sized official cover. Nassau BWI in killer bars. Most unusual civilian Nassau dated postmark struck on front! VF. $16..

221. U.S. Navy. USS Pennsylvania machine postmark October 3, 1923 on cover with enclosed letter on ship stationary from signalman on board while in San Pedro. Well-written letter discusses torpedo practice. $15..

World War II

222. Eight patriotic covers all US cancels. Four with occupied nation stamps. 1942- 44. F+. $8..

APO’s

223. Newfoundland. APO 801D. OCT 14 1941 on patriotic cover with one and 2¢ ”for defense”. VF $8..

224. Newfoundland St. John’s APO 801. July 13, 1941 cancellation 3x1 ¢ “for defense” and boxed “passed by censor Newfoundland base command United States Army”. AC Roe cover. VF. $10..

APO New York

225. Africa/Morocco. APO 767. 5/7/44. Sender APO 650. Free franking on war ballot with RC. VF. $12..

226. British Guiana. APO 857. Two 1943 covers one with APO number in postmarked and one with the number removed. Frank respectively was 6¢ airmail and 6¢ prexie. Both with RC number 406. VF. $16..

227. Belgium. APO 117. 5/31/45. UC8. VF. $6..

228. Belgium. APO 155. 2/26/45. Airmail envelope franked with five ¢ Korea occupied nation and 1¢ Washington/Greene. HC. VF. $12..

229. Belgium. APO 157. Sender APO 149. 12/21/44 airmail envelope franked with 6¢ airmail. RC. VF. $15..

230. Belgium. APO 305. Sender APO 230. 10/10/44. Used on 1.20F French postal card showing Petain. Message to George Sloan Nassau Street NYC dealer regarding FDC allied occupation stamps. Sender indicates “somewhere in Germany”. Unit 1340 engineer Battalion. This unit fought in the Huertgen forest in this timeframe. $12..

231. Belgium. APO 571. Sender APO 228. Unit 344 Harbor Craft Co. 1/11/45. RC. F+. $15..

232. Belgium. APO 588. Sender APO 230. 9/17/44. 6¢ airmail entire. RC. VF. $15..

233. China. APO 627. Sender APO 879. 10/23/45. Machine APO cancel on UC8 addressed to Territory of Hawaii VF. $10..

234. France. APO 571. Sender APO 230. 7/15/44. Bicolor 6¢ airmail entire  from Normandy. RC. VF. $10..

235. France. APO 647A. Sender APO 149. 7/8/44. Free franking from Normandy. HC. F+. $10..

236. England. APO 562. Sender APO 557. 6/6/44. D-Day usage with 6¢ airmail on airmail envelope. RC. VF.$8..

237. India. APO 886. 3/19/43. Free franking with provisional straight-line censor over brown paper tape “CENSORED-U. S. ARMY”. Small size cover with unusual red/blue patriotic “V” cachet. $24..

238. Iran. APO 680. Machine postmark September 1944. Election war ballot (printed in red) Erie Pennsylvania on legal size cover. $12..

239. Surinam. APO 602. 6/9/43. 6¢ airmail on airmail envelope. RC.$6.101.

APO Miami

240. Ascension. APO 877. 11/29/43. Free franking to VFW in New Jersey trimmed on right edge. Censor mark 18025 in pink. $14..

241. Brazil. 6/16/43. 6¢ airmail entire with brown tape and provisional censor on reverse. Roughly opened right side. $12..

242. St. Lucia. APO 867. 5/18/42. Philatelic cover franked with 3¢ “for defense”. NC. VF. $8..

243. Puerto Rico. APO 851. 10/19/47. Five ¢ bicolor airmail entire. Fort Brooke San Juan. VF. $5..

APO New Orleans

244. Ecuador/Galapagos Islands Mailed to APO 662. Incoming registered cover to APO 662 from Lima Peru December 1943 routing postmark’s from Miami embarkation Army PO and registration mark from APO 662 on reverse. Censor tape on left. Crease through center of cover and small piece upper left corner missing. Scarce incoming mail to Galapagos. $25..

245. Panama. APO 838. 6/7/45 6¢ airmail entire to US. $10..

APO San Francisco.

246. New Guinea. ABF. Sender APO 929. 12/14/42. Free franking on Australian YMCA cover with ”USAFIA 223 passed by censor” $8..

247. Solomons. Sender APO 25. 4/18/43. 6¢ airmail on patriotic cover “stamp em’out!”. RC. Roughly opened top. $10..

FPO

248. U.S. Navy. USS Bryant(sender) and USS Uhlmann. Feb 1945 registered cover franked using prexies (5×20c and one 5c) and four “when the war” 3c. USS Uhlmann registered postmark and Navy 10492 postmark on the back. $12..

249. U.S. Navy. Japan. V-J Day/Tokyo Bay legal size cover from USS Sheridan postmark SEP 2 1945. Blue cachet from “third amphibious force – Tokyo force” includes an anchor and machine gun. Trimmed on right with some stains and bends. Navy censor. Non-philatelic usage to sender’s spouse. $15..

Allies

250. Canada. HMCS Avalon – Newfoundland. Pair of June 1945 covers (Newfoundland stamps) with blue postmarks, “Avalon FMP No. 2”. European size covers. One cover is missing back flap. $10..

251. Ceylon Royal Navy. HMS Anderson. “British fleet mail” postmark on a small size cover July 1945. Blue boxed censor mark from “… Naval establishment no. 66”. Enclosed letter to US Sgt. at APO 9. $35..

252. Czech field post. “Czechoslovakia field post – CSRP” cancel on wrapper franked 1d orange King George. 18 JU 44 to London address. VF. $15..

253. Gibraltar. Pair of small covers from two different members of the “Black watch”. BR FPO 465 postmarks Jan 1941 and Oct 1941 using Gibraltar stamps. Triangular censor marks no. 16 and 29 inviolate,” passed by censor GIB”. A few folds. $16..

254. Lebanon. British FPO 558 (Tripoli). 7/4/44 on blue border aerogramme. Violet shaped censor 6186. $10..

255. FPO 584. ?Polish field force. 30 JA 43. On a registered letter envelope with FPO DSM 534 registry label. Part of envelope flap missing. $10..

Other mail

256. Australia. Airmail cover with district 1 censor from Pialba Qld. Docketed Australia – New Zealand – United Kingdom via America per clipper, franked 5/10d including a 5/ Robes. Carried Sydney to Auckland by a TE AL, then on the last clipper flight to the US (departed Auckland 25 November”. A very nice two ocean clipper cover. $100..

 

 

257. Belgium undercover address. 1943. Illustrated Publibel postal card (medicine:Aspro) with a German censor hand stamp to undercover address, rua Terreiro do Trigo, Lisbon (office de la correspondence familial) message of thanks for shipment of fish and oil. Manuscript notation on back “Mr. Lacy, rua Marques da Fronteria 8, Lisbon”, another undercover address connected with the Belgian Consulate in Alberta. Attractive and unusual. $70.

 

 

258. Belgium undercover address. 1944. Postal card with German censor stamp to undercover address OCA, rua do Loreto 10, Lisbon. Cards forwarded to Belgian Embassy London. $40..

 

 

POW/internment mail

259. Spanish Civil War. Brazil/France 1939. Airmail cover from Brazil to Manoel Fortes Taboada, Campo da Gurs, Grupo Latino Americano, with paper tape and left tied by CENSURE MILITAIRE hand stamp and plain brown tape at the right.  The addressee was a member of the Republican Army not the International Brigade. In June 1939, Camp Gurs France held 34 Brazilians. $100.

 

 

260. Canada Internee. 1941. May/June. 2 covers from Shanghai to William Koenig, camp N, each with the same Int. Op. Censor hand stamp but two different types of Canadian censor tape. $80.

261. Canadian internee. 1941. Incoming mail from Brazil to Siegfried Weil, camp N, with Int. Op. and civil censors and base APO back stamp. Weil arrived in UK as a refugee in 1939 originally housed at Kitchener camp, he was transported to Canada on the SS Ettrick on 3 July 1940. http://www.kitchenercamp.co.uk/documents/siegfried –weil – documents. $40.

262. Canadian internee. 1941. Incoming cover from Brazil to Erwin Brauner, camp N, with Int. Op. and civil censors, and base APO back stamp. Small tears at top. $30..

263. Italian POW. 1945? “Service of prisoners of war” postcard with faint boxed Prisionier de Guerre cancel and “passed by censor” in English and Afrikaans. Sent from South Africa to Italy. $20.

264. Italian POW. 1945. “Corrispondenza-Prigionieri Di Guerra” folded letter marked postage free with unboxed “Prisoniers De Guerra” censor stamp and two line “passed by censor” in English and Afrikaans. Sent from South Africa to Italy. $20. 111.

266. Switzerland. Swiss Army “affaire militaire” on franked cover with “Feldpost 16 Poste de campagne” cancel 4. X. 44, stamped “Camp d’ internment Militarie Marly-Le-Grand” addressed to Red Cross Geneva. VF. $20.

Postwar

267. Denmark. Cold War. 1951 legal size envelope from US Embassy, “military asst. advisory group – Denmark” from Ms. Ward to a US bank attractive registered covers sent through Danish post office. $10..

268. Cyprus. RAF in Akrotire, postmarked FPO 53 from November 1959. Forces air letter with details about visiting the brewery and sampling several pints of the product. $10..

269. Greenland. APO.  23 March 1962. Envelope cachets with “Camp Century Greenland US Army polar research and development Center” in purple on envelope franked with three Greenland stamps but an Army Air Force Postal Service cancellation. $20..

270. Greenland. APO 121. Jul 24 1962. Envelope with “Sea lift for security – 1962 Arctic operations MSTS” cachet and USNS Chattahoochee stamp with S, franked 4¢ Homestead Act stamp, APO cancel. $20.. 

271. Korea. DMZ local post. 23 April 2005. A highly illustrated local post “stamp” tied with a rubberstamp marking onto a postcard. “this postcard was carried to the demilitarized zone 23 April 2005”. Also franked with 350 won Korean postage and civilian postmark. $12..

 

 

UN operations

272. UNDOF. Syria. 15/9/81. Two AusBatt cachets on envelope with “Poliski Kontyngent UNDOF” resembling meter as franking. F+. $8..

273. UNIFIL. Lebanon. 5 Feb 1979. Free franking with “United Nations interim forces in Lebanon” cancel on United Nations interim forces in Lebanon envelope hand stamped by French contingent. VF. $10..

274. UNIFIL. Lebanon. Dec 5 1983. Return address Markku Mikkola C/O UNIFIL PO Box 20 CCPO New York. Airmail envelope franked with 20 sent United Nations stamp and canceled UN New York cancellation to New York address. Pouch mail?. VF. $8..

275. UNIFIL. Lebanon. Dec 23 1983. Large manila United Nations interim forces in Lebanon envelope franked with 40c UN stamp and 80c UN meter to Belgium. Pouch mail? VF. $8..

276. UNIFIL. Norway. 4.5 K in Norwegian postage canceled by “FN-Bataljonen” 5. 12. 85 on United Nations interim forces in Lebanon legal size envelope. Gaines type 104(c). VF. $8..

277. UNTAG. Namibia. Australian FPO A1 18 JY 89 on envelope with cachet of Australian flag and an outline of Namibia with front end loader. Gaines 006(a). VF. $8..

 

APO’s Bosnia and beyond.

278. Bosnia. APO AE 09789. OCT. 23 1986. Free franking on envelope with 51st infantry cachet. Return address Tuzla East/Steel Castle. VF. $8..

279. Iraq. FPO AP 93426. Sender FPO AE 09509 2nd LAR. Free franking with marine post office FPO cancellation. VF. $8.. Thanks to Dave Kent.

280. Iraq. FPO AE 09586. Sender FPO AE 09509 CSSD – 29 HQ. Free franking with marine post office FPO cancellation. VF. $8.. Thanks to Dave Kent.

281 Iraq. FPO AE 09366. Sender FPO AE 09509 HQ BN 2ndMarDiv. Free franking with marine FPO cancellation. VF. $8.. Thanks Dave Kent.

282. Iraq. APO AE 09359. Sender APO AE 09347 125th signal. Free franking with military Postal Service cancellation. VF $8.. Thanks to Dave Kent.

283. Iraq. APO AE 09359. 9/28/04. Free frank with Air Force Postal Service cancel. VF $8.. Thanks Dave Kent.

284. Iraq. APO AE 09309 – 9998. 11/10/04. Sender with 379 ESFS. Free franking with military postal unit 1 cancellation. VF $8.. Thanks to Dave Kent.

285. Iraq. APO AE 09348. 11/5/04. Sender with 161st INF. Free franking with army post office cancellation. VF. $8.. Thanks to Dave Kent.

286. Iraq. APO 09334. 10 MAR 2005. Sender APO 09345. Free franking with army Postal Service cancellation. VF. $8.. Thanks to Dave Kent.

287. Iraq. APO 09342. Envelope with 525th MI brigade cachet free franking and two army post office cancellations 12/28 and 12/29 respectively. VF. $10..

288. Iraq. APO 09310. 3/21/11. Sender at FOB Fenty. Free franking with smudged APO cancellation. VF. $8..