Hong Kong. 1904. Treaty ports. Port Edward Wei Hai Wei boxed date stamp in violet. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1904. Treaty Ports. Port Edward- Wei Hai Wei boxed date stamp in violet. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1880. Superb example of Swatow 's2' obliterator on 5c Crown CC. Very scarce.
Hong Kong. (British Post Offices In Yokohama). 1863. Four cent grey perf 12 1/2 with very fine 'Y/1' obliterator. Rare stamp used in Yokohama.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1866. Two cents bistre cancelled by Shanghae date stamp in blue on 1st issue. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1900. Small piece bearing SG 38, 10c purple/red tied by oval 'Liu Kung Tau' rubber hand-stamp in violet (Webb Type A) with adjacent Hong Kong transit. A very fine item.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Hoi-How date stamp on 20c on 30c orange-red.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Hoi-How date stamp on $1 on 96c grey. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1900. Ship Marks. 'H.M.S. Aurora' on four cents grey. Nice item.
Hong Kong. 1900. Ship Marks. 'H.M.S. Aurora' on four cents grey. Superb.
Hong Kong. 1801. Treaty Ports. Swatow date stamp on five cent yellow. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1894. Treaty Ports. Swatow date stamp on ten cent purple/red. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1888. Treaty Ports. Swatow date stamp on ten cent green. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1885. Treaty Ports. Swatow date stamp on five cents blue. Superb.
Hong Kong. 1895. Pakhoi Customs double ring on five cent blue. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1890. Kowloon Customs double ring on two cent green. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1902. Block of four 20c sage green and purple cancelled by Tientsin date stamp.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1907. British Post Office in Tientsin 20c brown and grey. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1889. Foochowfoo date stamp on 20c on thirty cents orange. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1893. Foochowfoo date stamp on ten cents red/purple.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1887. Ten cents green cancelled by Foochowfoo date stamp.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1887. Five cents blue cancelled by Foochowfoo date stamp.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1891. Two cents carmine cancelled by Fochowfoo date stamp.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1890. Thirty cent violet cancelled by Fochowfoo date stamp.
Hong Kong. 1912. University postmark on 10c purple/blue and 12c yellow/purple.
Hong Kong. 1912. University postmark on KEV11 5c orange and green and 6c purple and scarlet.
Germany. (British Military Mission in Berlin). 1920. Photographic post card of the 'British Delegation, Berlin' addressed to London cancelled by 'British Military Mission/ Berlin' hand-stamp in violet on face. Very fine and scarce dated 'Berlin Xmas 1920.'
Seychelles. (Cocos Island - Indian Ocean Survay Flight). 1939. 'Archbold Expedition envelope addressed to 'Box 5, Post Office, Campsie, N.S.W.' illustrated with map of Trans-Indian Ocean Flight and small photo of the crew affixed bearing Australia SG 165,1d green tied by Port Hedland date stamp '4th June 39' , Dutch Indies SG 341, 5c blue tied Batavia '6/6' and 'C & W. Ltd./ Cocos/8th June' on reverse and 'John Clunies Ross' monogram on face initialed at Chagos (no post office) forwarded to Seychelles bearing SG 137, 6c orange tied Victoria 'June 19' and Kenya SG 137, 15c black and rose tied by Mombasa date stamp '23rd June' and signed by Captain P.G. Taylor. Only 6 covers known.
North Borneo. 1940. Envelope addressed to Holland bearing SG 306, 4c bronze and purple and SG 309, 10s violet and bronze (pair) tied by Lahad Datu double ring '9th April 40' with 'Lahad Datu 'Passed By/ Censor' label and German censor label tied by circular German censor cachet in violet on reverse. Very rare label not recorded by Morenweiser.
Seychelles. (Silver Jubilee). 1936. Registered Air Mail envelope addressed to New York bearing Silver Jubilee SG 128, 6c grey and blue, SG 129, 12c green and indigo, SG130, 20c brown and blue and SG 131, 1r slate and purple tied by Victoria/Seychelles date stamp 'Feb 26th' with framed 'Registered/ No' and boxed 'R/Seychelles' on face with New York/Reg arrival '26/3' on reverse. Nice item routed via Bombay by sea and Karachi on Imperial Air via London.
Seychelles. (Office Mail). 1940. Registered stamp-less envelope headed 'On His Majesty's Service' addressed to New Jersey cancelled Victoria/ Seychelles 'Jy 4th 40' with framed 'R/Victoria/ No' hand-stamp and 'Passed by Censor/ Seychelles No. 1' in violet on face with New Jersey arrival 'Oct 20' on reverse. Over 3 1/2 months to travel.
Seychelles. (Silver Jubilee). 1936. Registered Air Mail envelope addressed to England bearing Silver Jubilee SG 128, 6c grey and blue, SG 129, 12c green and diago, SG 130, 20c brown and blue and SG 131, 1r slate and purple tied by Victoria/ Seychelles date stamp 'March 5th 36' with framed 'R/Seychelles' on face routed via Mombasa and Nairobi '29th March' on reverse. Nice item.
Malaya. (Labuan). 1930. Registered Straits Settlements postal stationery envelope 'fifteen cents' indigo upgraded with SG 229, 6c red tied by Labuan double ring '9th Oct 30' with matching registration label addressed to Canada with Singapore transit and Kingston arrival 'No 20' on face. Very fine.
India. (International Commission In Laos). 1961. Air Mail envelope addressed to London bearing SG N21, 2np brown, SG N22, 6np grey (2), SG N23, 13np bright carmine (pair) and SG N24, 50np orange tied by 'F.P.O. No 744' double ring Scarce item from the International Commission in Laos.
China. (Prisoner Of War Mail - Isle Of Man). 1918. Prisoner Of War folded envelope headed ' Prisoners of war' with 'Nicht hier schreiben' on reverse, endorsed 'Wolheim 21689, Camp 4, Compound 2, Hut 2a, Aliens Detention Camp, Knockaloe, Isle of Man' dated '23rd Dec 1918' addressed to 'Frau Bertha Wollehim, Changsha, Province Hunan, China' with circular 'P.C.' on face, routed via Siberia and Manchuria with Imperial Post Hankoww transit '16th Feb 19' and Changsha arrival '19th Feb' on reverse. Wonderful item of Prisoner of War Mail from Knockaloe Camp written by a Jewish Internee to his wife in Changsha, China.
Its a real pleasure to add a magnificent selection of French Colonies from Africa, Asia, The Caribbean and Oceania. Very fine pre-stamp, British Post Office, Charged Mail, Advice of Receipt, Printed Matter and postage due mail. A lovely selection of censor mail, some with five or six censor cachets and labels, routed Trans-Africa, two Ocean or over the Atlantic with some unusual destinations.
A few items from the Dr. Edward Grabowski collection, this amazing sale sold in three parts by Spink. Also interesting Tahiti and New Caledonia from Tony Eastgate's life time work.
Over the next few months we hope to add many items to grace the finest collections.
A strong area of stock is our China from Imperial to WW2 with many fine censor covers and Air Transits. A good selection of the overseas Post Offices, Austrian, British, French, Japanese and Russian with offices in Manchuria. Many mixed combinations, I.P.O's .
Coming soon the John Marc Sitarek accumulation of China, French Post Office and Indo-China with magnificent French Detachment in the Boxer Campaign covers.
John Marc also had a fine selection of the Chinese Labour Force which are not often seen, he built this selection over thirty years. One of the darker aspects of World War One was the plight of 12,000 Chinese workers who were recruited by the British Army from the North of China in 1916 to serve on the battle front in France as labourers, trench diggers, munitions carriers, mine disarmers and corpse bearers under often inhumane conditions. A large number were also struck down by the devastating Spanish flue of 1918.