Search Results for: 1945
Lot Number: 57
| Date: 1945, Jun 28 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Australia Description: Airmail from ships of the Royal Navy, air letter posted and censored on the ship, then red tomb stone censor mark applied, franked 'British Fleet/12/28 JU/45' (Sydney) instead of postage stamp, addressed to South Africa. Image. |
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Lot Number: 108
| Date: 1945, Apr 24 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Egypt Description: Early post war airmail double rate censored cover Cairo to New York, bs 17/5, via Miami 15/5, franked 205ml (overseas letter 22ml+ 32ml regn + 2x 75ml/5gm air fee, sealed New York censor tape even thogh entered through Miami. |
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Lot Number: 137
| Date: 1945, May 17 Est. price: £12.00 Category: France Description: Official 'Postage Paid/Taxe Percue' airmail cover from 'Minstre Des Postes, Telegraph et Telephone' to New York, bs 19/5/45, canc Bureau du Courrrrrier Officiel Paris/17/5/45, red oval "O.A.T." cachet applied in London for onward air transmission to New York, red framed cachet "Paris TLIF Etranger Courrier Officiel Taxe Percue Par Avion". Written up on exhibition page with account of the route taken, and the ordinary and airmail surcharge rates which were applied to that item. |
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Lot Number: 223
| Date: 1945, Feb 2 Est. price: £20.00 Category: India Description: WWII censored registered (label) airmail cover, BOMBAY to PHILADELPHIA, bs 16/3, via Miami 14/3, sealed India censor tape (removed) was tied by India hexagonal DHC (Bombay) censor mark. Franked 2R 14 1/2 annas (2R 11 1/2 total air mail rate + 3 annas registration, Flown BOAC to Lisbon via Cairo and Gibraltar, then Pan Am FAM 18 to New York. |
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Lot Number: 224
| Date: 1945, Apr 24 Est. price: £60.00 Category: India Description: India to LIBERATED CZECHOSLOVAKIA via UK, airmail cover addressed to Jicin (Czech) franked India 24 1/2 annas in Lahore, Indian PC 90 censor seal tied hexagonal Crown/Passed/DHB/4 = Karachi, also initialled ? Military ***Censor/**136 partially hidden by censor seal. On 5 May 1945, in the last moments of the war in Europe, the Prague uprising (Czech: Prazske povstani) began. It was an attempt by the Czech resistance to liberate the City of Prague. |
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Lot Number: 307
| Date: 1945, Jun 18 Est. price: £55.00 Category: South Africa Description: Johannesburg to Harrison, USA, airmal cover, 21x10cm, franked at the treble rate of 7/6d (5/- + 2/6d), red boxed 'O.A.T.' hs, solid violet trilingual 'airmail' hs. |
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