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1938-1945 WWII era Civilian Postal Links with Axis & Occupied Countries (8)
1861-1865 American Civil War - Confederate States of America (7)
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1933-1946 Holocaust era philately & ephemera (2)
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Red Cross, Displaced Persons Camps & Postage Exempt Civilian Mail (16)
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90043
WWII Czechoslovakian Army in Exile: limited edition (#78 of 500) bilingual Engli
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WWII Czechoslovakian Army in Exile: limited edition (#78 of 500) bilingual Engli
WWII Czechoslovakian Army in Exile: limited edition (#78 of 500) bilingual English/Czech philatelic folder issued by the Czechoslovak Army Post Office (in exile) in Britain, to commemorate 2 years to the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, 1941; the folder features an illustration of national resistance to the occupation on the cover, an exhortation in English & Czech on the inside cover, a s...
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90055
WWI Austrian military post - unusual routing: 13(?) II (FEB) 1918 photo picture
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WWI Austrian military post - unusual routing: 13(?) II (FEB) 1918 photo picture
WWI Austrian military post - unusual routing: 13(?) II (FEB) 1918 photo picture postcard of Absalom's Tomb in Jerusalem, published by Yaakov Bentov (Bezalel) publishers of Jerusalem, with message in Hungarian dated 6 Feb., sent by sender in the Austro-Hungarian Sanitation Service in Syria from DAMASCUS to locale in HUNGARY (unclear): originally posted stampless & tied by KuK FELDPOSTAMT 452b postm...
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90056
World War I French forces in Egypt-Palestine / Armenian Legion mail: 19-11-1916
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World War I French forces in Egypt-Palestine / Armenian Legion mail: 19-11-1916
World War I French forces in Egypt-Palestine / Armenian Legion mail: 19-11-1916 dated stampless picture postcard of the Golden Gate (Old City Jerusalem), published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, bearing short 'good wishes' message in French, from PORT SAID (Egypt) to LYON (France); mailed unfranked as military mail & tied by CORR D'ARMEES | PORT-SAID double-ring date-stamp + near full strike of nava...
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90098
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 7 FEB 1940 stampless Red Cross postcard from BAL
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Wartime incoming civilian mail: 7 FEB 1940 stampless Red Cross postcard from BAL
Wartime incoming civilian mail: 7 FEB 1940 stampless Red Cross postcard from BALASSAGYARMAT Hungary to TEL AVIV on bilingual French/Hungarian Red Cross stationary; noted "toll free" for internees of belligerent countries; passed Palestine censor T3. Appears pre-stamped by Hungarian authority in Kóvár (Koláre), a Hungarian-occupied area of Slovakia as of March 1939 close to locale. W...
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90106
Direct postal link from German-occupied Belgium: 8 NOV 1940 postmarked cover on
07490106
Direct postal link from German-occupied Belgium: 8 NOV 1940 postmarked cover on
Direct postal link from German-occupied Belgium: 8 NOV 1940 postmarked cover on Belgian Red Cross stationary from BRUSSELS (German-occupied Belgium) to HAIFA (Palestine), franked 2.05Fr & tied by machine slogan cancel; subsequently opened by the Haifa censor at left & resealed with Sach-Q10 red/white label # 71/10833 & tied by H-29 boxed censor handstamp Sach-Q21 (post-dating Sacher's last known d...
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90108
Holocaust-era 2-way correspondence on the eve of Hungary's occupation of Yugosla
07090108
Holocaust-era 2-way correspondence on the eve of Hungary's occupation of Yugosla
Holocaust-era 2-way correspondence on the eve of Hungary's occupation of Yugoslavia: 26 MAY 1941 dated message in German on British Red Cross/Order of St. John Red Cross "postal message scheme" contact form, sent from daughter in JERUSALEM to mother in recently Hungarian-occupied UJVIDEK (NOVI SAD) in Vojvodina former Yugoslavia; the form was transmitted via the Red Cross office in GENEVA whose ca...
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90110
Two-way contact with "the heart of darkness" via Red Cross: stampless British Re
07190110
Two-way contact with "the heart of darkness" via Red Cross: stampless British Re
Two-way contact with "the heart of darkness" via Red Cross: stampless British Red Cross/Order of St. John "Postal Message Scheme" contact form with German message of under 25 words, dated 8 DEC 1941, from HAIFA to TARNOW "Occupied Poland", inquiring about condition of sender's parents; passed HAIFA censor H17 (Sach-Q23, 1 month before his earliest known date of use) on way to overseas dispatch thr...
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90111
Censored Holocaust-era incoming Red Cross mail: 28 JAN 1942 stampless Dutch Red
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Censored Holocaust-era incoming Red Cross mail: 28 JAN 1942 stampless Dutch Red
Censored Holocaust-era incoming Red Cross mail: 28 JAN 1942 stampless Dutch Red Cross contact form with 25 word message dated 20 Jan, from THE HAGUE to REHOVOT, dispatched with dater; in transit 12 FEB 1942 in IRC Geneva; censored (in Palestine?) and text cut out; passed Palestine censor in TEL AVIV (2 strikes sexagonal cachet) & marked by rare "Imperial Censorship, Palestine... form may not be us...
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90112
Wartime WWII/Holocaust-era 2-way Red Cross mail correspondence: stampless Britis
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Wartime WWII/Holocaust-era 2-way Red Cross mail correspondence: stampless Britis
Wartime WWII/Holocaust-era 2-way Red Cross mail correspondence: stampless British Red Cross/Order St. John "postal message scheme" contact form with 25 word message dated 11 MAR 1942, from children in NAHARIYA to father in FRANKFURT; passed HAIFA censor H16 on way to overseas dispatch through Red Cross office JERUSALEM; as front-stamped by octagonal Crown censor "PASSED / P.204", letter transmitte...
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90113
WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish-Palestinian POW mail: 9 MAY 1942 stampless prisoner of
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WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish-Palestinian POW mail: 9 MAY 1942 stampless prisoner of
WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish-Palestinian POW mail: 9 MAY 1942 stampless prisoner of war postcard on German POW postal stationary, with message in English dated 24 April & addressed to the Workers' Council of HAIFA (here 'disguised' as "Mr. Moazat Hapoalim"), from prisoner Israel Baum at STALAG VIIIB (at LAMSDORF - aka Stalag 344) - oddly his sender's name on the return address is "Ben Chaim" (both na...
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90114
WWII Italian Jewish civilian internee mail: 9 JULY 1942 stampless cover on air m
07090114
WWII Italian Jewish civilian internee mail: 9 JULY 1942 stampless cover on air m
WWII Italian Jewish civilian internee mail: 9 JULY 1942 stampless cover on air mail stationary from AVELLINO Italy to HAIFA, manuscript marked "Prisoner of War Post | Civilian Wartime Internee Post" & tied by local postmark + local police headquarters cachet on front and Italian double-ringed censor inspection cachet on back; passed British military censor (numbered circle on reverse), Egyptian ci...
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90115
Holocaust-era mail via the Red Cross - the Slovak uprising: 31 JULY 1944 dated m
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Holocaust-era mail via the Red Cross - the Slovak uprising: 31 JULY 1944 dated m
Holocaust-era mail via the Red Cross - the Slovak uprising: 31 JULY 1944 dated message in German on stampless Slovakian Red Cross contact form, sent from NOVE MESTO to addressee Avraham Talmi in JERUSALEM; the form bears the red circular cachet of the Slovakian Red Cross representative and the cachet of the GENEVA office which received the form - here it was date-stamped 22 August 1944, before pas...
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90149
Hungarian WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish mail: AUG 1944 local BUDAPEST registered cov
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Hungarian WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish mail: AUG 1944 local BUDAPEST registered cov
Hungarian WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish mail: AUG 1944 local BUDAPEST registered cover from the "Jewish radio license reporting" bureau at Post Office 112 BUDAPEST to a Vilmos Litzmann, tied by the bureau's green boxed cachet ("Zsidó rádió engedély adatszolgáltatás") + signature endorsement for official mail reduced postage (70 Filler for the registry fee instead of 1 Pengo for the additonal bas...
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90150
Hungarian WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish forced labour mail: 20 AUG 1944 stampless la
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Hungarian WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish forced labour mail: 20 AUG 1944 stampless la
Hungarian WWII/Holocaust-era Jewish forced labour mail: 20 AUG 1944 stampless labor camp postal card ("tábori postai levelezőlap") sent by member of the 177th Jewish labor company to MEZOTUR in east Hungary & tied by the unit's 2-lined boxed cachet "ZSIDO M. SZD | H. 177" & handwritten censor reference ("Ellenorizve"). Rare postal marking for the labor units, here specifically mentionin...
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90152
Postwar military mail: 9 FEB(?) 1947 Soviet Red Cross POW card (1946 stationary)
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Postwar military mail: 9 FEB(?) 1947 Soviet Red Cross POW card (1946 stationary)
Postwar military mail: 9 FEB(?) 1947 Soviet Red Cross POW card (1946 stationary) from camp 7399/3 in AHUM (central Russia) to HAIFA, written in German from son (Dr. Felix Eulenburg - possibly adopted) to father (Dr. Berni Ascher). Message says that the newspapers are not showing a peaceful picture Palestine (i.e. the period of the Jewish insurrection), that he can hardly rest, and that Germany mus...
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90200
1948-49 War Arab POW mail: 27 SEP 1948 cover from HEBRON with typewritten Englis
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1948-49 War Arab POW mail: 27 SEP 1948 cover from HEBRON with typewritten Englis
1948-49 War Arab POW mail: 27 SEP 1948 cover from HEBRON with typewritten English & Arabic handwritten address to Arab prisoner of war at "Camp No. 1" (noted as 791 Camp by one of the transmitting authorities), franked 10m per period domestic letter rate using Egyptian Palestine overprinted single & tied by strike of the rare local postmark: although on the West Bank, Hebron was under Egyptian con...
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90201
1948-49 War Arab POW mail: [7 DEC 1948] stampless cover from TULKAREM to "Centra
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1948-49 War Arab POW mail: [7 DEC 1948] stampless cover from TULKAREM to "Centra
1948-49 War Arab POW mail: [7 DEC 1948] stampless cover from TULKAREM to "Central Detention Camp | Prisoner no. 3381 | El-sayed Mohamed Saeed Dood El-Samra | By International Red Cross | Ramallah", originally franked (Jordanian stamp) & tied by reintroduced Mandate double-ring postmark, now removed & most of postmark not visible (manuscript date written top front, presumably dispatch); front-stam...
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90249
1950 1st airmail to Russian Zone: 8 FEB 1951 "Lacol" austerity period stationary
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1950 1st airmail to Russian Zone: 8 FEB 1951 "Lacol" austerity period stationary
1950 1st airmail to Russian Zone: 8 FEB 1951 "Lacol" austerity period stationary airmail cover from JERUSALEM to old age home in "RUSSIAN ZONE" BERLIN "Germany" (East Germany) franked 40pr at the FA-2a period rate to Europe using left marginal full tabbed 40pr (Ba #34) tied by single strike of local postmark, with Israeli "zayin" censor cachet on front; handwritten arrival 14-II-51 on front; slit ...
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90296
Jordanian start & post-1967 War mail to Israel via Red Cross: 6 JUNE 1967 airmai
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Jordanian start & post-1967 War mail to Israel via Red Cross: 6 JUNE 1967 airmai
Jordanian start & post-1967 War mail to Israel via Red Cross: 6 JUNE 1967 airmail cover from LA COTE ST ANDRE France to Old City JERUSALEM "Arab Zone" (no country written), franked 0.80F & tied by 2 strikes of local postmark + round numbered censor cachet on front; 6 Day War began day before: cover routed via JORDAN as was then correct, where backstamped 10 JUN 67 AMMAN transit (last day of the wa...
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90297
Jordanian post-1967 War mail to Israel via Red Cross: 26 JUNE 1967 aerogramme wi
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Jordanian post-1967 War mail to Israel via Red Cross: 26 JUNE 1967 aerogramme wi
Jordanian post-1967 War mail to Israel via Red Cross: 26 JUNE 1967 aerogramme with correspondence in Arabic & French from WILLOWDALE Canada to RAMALLAH "ISRAEL", pre-franked 10c & tied by local machine cancel; as of 6 June locale part of Israel, but cover still routed via JORDAN, where backstamped 2 JUL 67 AMMAN transit & references to "Israel" in the address obliterated and replaced with "Occupie...
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1861-1865 American Civil War - Confederate States of America

90330
Independent States & CSA Use of US Postage > Georgia & South Carolina - 1st Day
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Independent States & CSA Use of US Postage > Georgia & South Carolina - 1st Day
Independent States & CSA Use of US Postage > Georgia & South Carolina - 1st Day of the Confederacy: Feb. 4 1861 (1st Day of Confederacy) docketed cover from SAVANNAH Georgia to CHARLESTON South Carolina, franked 3c per period (US) domestic letter rate using US #26 dull red Washington Type III stamp, tied by round grid obliterator & FEB 5 [1861] local circular date-stamp in field (1st full day of t...
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90331
1st Day of the Confederate Postal System: stampless JUN 1 1861 postmarked cover
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1st Day of the Confederate Postal System: stampless JUN 1 1861 postmarked cover
1st Day of the Confederate Postal System: stampless JUN 1 1861 postmarked cover from MOBILE Alabama to Dr. W. Hopkins of MACON Mississippi, tied by near-full strike of full-dated double ringed datestamp & boxed PAID 5 handstamp (CSA cat type B - similar but slightly different "5" digit); professionally rebacked with original cover backside; most of the original gum is intact - possibly mailed unse...
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90332
Interim Independent / Confederate Tennessee era mail: stampless "MONTVALE Tenn 2
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Interim Independent / Confederate Tennessee era mail: stampless "MONTVALE Tenn 2
Interim Independent / Confederate Tennessee era mail: stampless "MONTVALE Tenn 20th JUNE 1861" manuscript dated cover to "Hon. Howell Cobb, RICHMOND, Virginia", with manuscript notation at top right "Pd 5 Cts".Interesting postal history: the Confederacy suspended Federal mail service within its borders as of 1 June - but not in Tennessee, whose government had not yet passed an Ordinance of Secessi...
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90333
Southbound Across-the-Lines Private Express mail: JUL 30 1861 postmarked 3c star
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Southbound Across-the-Lines Private Express mail: JUL 30 1861 postmarked 3c star
Southbound Across-the-Lines Private Express mail: JUL 30 1861 postmarked 3c star-die (POD US watermarked) envelope (US #U27) from LOUISVILLE Kentucky to J. F. Dickinson of MACON Georgia, carried by the Adams Express Company, which tied its full-dated ADAMS EX. CO. circular datestamp to the embossed frank; the manuscript "2/-" near the frank was shorthand for the total express charge to pay over an...
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