Scarce postmark and cachet

Interesting cover to Liverpool from Philadelphia

Scarce - HIggins & Gage no. 6 - fine unused

Scarce - HIggins & Gage no. 5 - fine unused

Real photo picture postcard of Harrogate Royal Baths to Cairo Barracks.

Attractive philatelic cover.

Scarce E.A. A.P.O.60 postmark

A nice registered cover to Paris used with the Cook Islands 1892 first issue set of four, and an additional one penny, featuring RAROTONGA cds and AUCKLAND transit mark on the reverse. A little staining around the adhesives but a scarce issue on cover.

This is a scarce Vatican City 1938 2 lire definitive with an image of Pope Pius XI, used on a registered picture postcard of Rome at night. Good condition.

This is a good strike of the POLISH FPO 101 cancel on an unaddressed envelope with an Egyptian 10 mil commemorative used in 1946. Good condition.

This is a registered cover from Ronneby, Sweden locally used with the scarce orange TJANSTE FRIMARKE 25 ore stamp. Good condition for its age.

This is an underpaid French picture postcard sent to Serbia, where it acquired a gutter pair of the 5 para postage dues. Cancelled at Belgrade in 1899. Card is creased (see photo) but the stamps are very rare.

This is a neat registered cover from SANTA ISABEL (FERNANDO POO) sent by a Spanish bank and addressed to London. Good condition.

This is a 1925 postal stationery airmail cover sent from Los Angeles to Bermuda via New York in an airship. The stamps are cancelled with a red airmail postmark of NEW YORK. Good condition.

This is a Turkey 20 para stamp used at LATTAQUIE in Syria in 1907 on a picture postcard of an archaeological cemetery scene on the Syrian coast. Addressed to London. Good condition.

A fine 1892 5 ore postal stationery postcard with a black and white vignette of the Grand Hotel Haglund, Goteborg and their rubber cachet in violet. There is an additional 5 ore adhesive and the postmark is a PKXP 81 T.P.O., addressed to Stafford.

Philatelic sheet featuring the 1927 set with very nice strikes of the special postmark

A privately printed 11c postal stationery envelope used in the Republic of Salvador in 1888 to London. On the front are a purple ENCAMINADO POR BLANCO Y TRIGEUROS cachet and a postmark from the town of sending. On the reverse are a blue mark from the company which produced and sent it; a New York transit mark and a red London EC arrival mark. Fascinating, scarce and fragile item.

This is a 1946 envelope from a German P.O.W. in Luxembourg, with the purple cachet of the censor sending it out from the camp. It features a crown shield inscribed CONTROLE PAR EXAMINATEUR with "175" in manuscript. Addressed to Frankfurt. Very rare.

This picture postcard of Derna was sent during the Italo-Turkish War of 1912 with two strikes of the POSTA MILITARE IV DIVISIONE TRIPOLITANIA postmark, addressed to Turin. Good condition, fascinating item.

A picture postcard of Palermo used on board the "SOLUNTO" Italian steamer in 1908. Addressed to Tunis. Good condition.

This is a 3c Liberian postal stationery postcard used at BASSA on December 20th 1892, and sent to the Netherlands via Liverpool. There it received the PAID LIVERPOOL BR PACKET mark in red (on 11th January 1893). Tear on top edge (see photo), hence low price.

A registered Lithuanian airmail cover with four values from the airmail set of 1924. Flown from Kaunas to Danzig, and featuring an arrival mark three days later on the reverse.

This is an envelope registered from the Austrian Post Office in Beirut in 1905, sent to Sydenham, London. It has a 2 piastre overprinted Austrian adhesive. Features a BEIRUT cancel and registered label, and arrival mark in London nine days after postage. The reverse flap is embossed PEAK FREAN & CO.

An interesting cover with a 25c Italian adhesive, used in TRIPOLI DI BARBERIA with a squared circle cancel, addressed to London, in 1909.

A registered cover sent from Reykjavik to New York in 1939 using the previous year's set of three Iceland Independence 20th Anniversary commemorative stamps. Good condition.

This is a picture postcard of the Vatican used with two nice strikes of the ROMA U.P.U. CONGRESS special postmark sent to Paris. Good condition for its age.

This is a 3pf Berlin local adhesive featuring Kaiser Wilhelm, used on its first day of issue (27th January 1889) on a local cover posted in Berlin and cancelled PACKET FAHRT. Interesting item.

This is a Norwegian picture postcard of Christiania, used on 25th August 1903 with a very good strike of the rare trial Columbia machine cancel featuring the circular datestamp of KRISTIANIA and NORGE in bars.

A German postal stationery postcard used at the German Post Office in Constantinople in 1881 to Frankfurt. A beautiful strike of the KAIS-DEUTSCH P.A. cancellation.

A good strike of the Berlin Hoster cancellation used on the last day of 1886 on a postcard to Fiddichow, featuring an arrival mark there on 1st January 1887.

This is a very neat flown cover from Tirana, Albania to Vichy, France sent in 1926 with a set of airmail adhesives from the 5 Qind value up to 3Fr. There is also a Par Avion cachet and the cover was printed by Adria Aero Lloyd (Albanian Airlines).

This is a specially printed 5 heller postal stationery card commemorating the Internationale Jagd-Ausstellung held in Vienna in 1910, with a special turquoise cancel. The picture is a painting of Emperor Franz Josef hunting.

This is a fragile piece of Concentration Camp mail - a letter written in Auschwitz in 1943 by Michael Berezinski and sent to his family in Radom, Poland. It has an Auschwitz postmark on a 12pf Hitler adhesive.

This is a very fine strike of the 1934 Scout Jamboree advertising slogan used at Riga, Latvia on 28th June, on a 35 santimi definitive for a cover sent to London. Nice item.

A 3c German postal stationery postcard used in 1913 from Konstanz, and having the boxed BODENSEESCHIFFSPOST ship marking. Good condition.

This is a neat flight cover with an eye-catching set of Swiss airmail adhesives from 15 to 50, used in 1923 to Munich, Germany, with a Swiss FLUGPOST airmail cancel. Very nice item.

This is a 1941 1 dinar Yugoslavia postal stationery postcard with an additional 1 dinar stamp overprinted SERBIEN, posted in Belgrade, addressed to Vienna, with a German censor mark. Interesting item.

This is a flown picture postcard with the scarce Switzerland 40c airmail stamp, used from Zurich to Cheltenham in 1925. Good condition.

A scarce Gronland 40 ore Polar Bear blue adhesive in good condition, on a picture postcard of a Polar Bear on an ice floe. Sent to London in 1955.

This is a very scarce HABSBURG OE:LLOYD datestamp from the Austrian shipping line OSTERREICH LLOYD which ran Mediterranean routes. It was posted on board the "Habsburg" in February 1903, addressed to Berlin, but with a message written in English, on a picture postcard of Adriatic fishermen. Good condition for its age.

This is an 1887 USA 90c violet postal stationery envelope in blue, in fine unused condition.

A very good strike of the NEW YORK SHIP LETTER DUE 6 CTS double-circle marking with 'A 83' between the concentric circles. Addressed to Exter, New Hampshire. Hard to find item; very good condition.

A superb example of the scarce ODESSA-BATUM Parokhod (steamer) postmark on a 4 kopeck definitive, used on a picture postcard of a Crimea beach scene.

This is a nice pictorial envelope from a Portuguese company - an import/export agency - used with three adhesives from Lisbon to France in 1938. Slight central crease, but very pretty.

An eye-catching cover with eight Japanese Occupation adhesives cancelled with two strikes of a special cancel commemorating the 3rd anniversary of the commencement of Daitoa Senso (the Pacific War). Used in Seremban, Negri Sembilan. Fascinating item of military geo-political postal history.

A fine example of the 1925 postal stationery postcard issued to commemorate the 75th birthday of Czech President Masaryk cancelled with the special commemorative postmark for the International Olympic Congress in Prague.

A spectacular flight postcard flown on 1st June from Brussels to Paris, and back, to commemorate the first Salon Aeronautique held in Brussels in May 1937. The card features two Belgian adhesives with the special postmark of the SALON INT'L AERONAUTIQUE; the transit mark from Brussels airport; a pictorial commemorative label of the Salon, and a cancel on a two French stamps in respect of the return flight. On the picture side is a dramatic artistic impression of a plane in flight.

In 1919, after the German Occupation, the Belgians didn't know what to use for postmarks - this is a postmark made in the American format featuring the year in the centre, but no exact date. On a Verviers viewcard. Scarce item.

This is a Danish entire sent using the 181 TPO duplex, addressed to Flensburg, with the Danish 4 Skilling stamp and further marking indicating the direction of the Travelling Post Office. Interesting item.

A fine 1900 postal stationery postcard with a black and white vignette of the Hotel Kongen, Copenhagen, used from Copenhagen and addressed to Brussels, with the 10 ore imprint.

An underpaid picture postcard from the UK to Egypt (picture of Longleat House), sent in 1904 with a King Edward VII halfpenny adhesive, and featuring three Egyptian Postage Due stamps: a single 1 piastre, and a pair of 2 milliemes both overprinted "3 milliemes". Very scarce usage.

This is a good strike of the abandoned 1940 Olympic Games commemorative slogan from Helsinki, Finland to Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, and also featuring a continuous Finnish censorship mark and a UK censor label at the side. Fine, unusual item.

A fascinating mourning letter card originally printed privately in France to commemorate two visits of the Russian Fleet (Cronstadt 1891 and Toulon 1893) and overprinted in 1894 with the dates of birth and death of Tsar Alexander III to commemorate his demise. Excellent condition.

This is a very pretty picture postcard of Saigon Botanical Gardens with three strikes of the YOKOHAMA MARSEILLE NO 1 ship marking on Indo-Chine stamps. Addressed to Strassburg, Allemagne. Excellent condition.

This is a very pretty, privately produced postcard commemorating the 1893 visit of the Russian Fleet to Toulon, France, with two imprinted 1c black 'Peace & Commerce' stamps, each postmarked. Slight top right corner defect, hence low price.

This is a special LUXOR WINTER PALACE envelope used in 1929 with a set of four Prince Farouk 9th birthday commemoratives, each cancelled with a good strike of the Hotel's own postmark. It has a slight centre crease, but otherwise fine. Very pretty item.

An unused 20 pfennig Danzig commemorative postal stationery postcard celebrating the 19th Universal Congress of Esperanto, held in Danzig from 28th July to 4th August 1927. Fine unused condition.

This is a very scarce Ruralpost datestamp of IBRAHIMIA to RAMLEH on a 3mil Egypt adhesive, sent in 1926 to Port Said, with an arrival mark the same day (thanks to their very efficient railway system), and a message in French. The picture is a French-made printed sunset.

This is a very pretty special 1937 envelope with the set of three Holland World Scouting Jamboree adhesives, used with neat commemorative strikes and two additional pictorial publicity labels advertising the celebrations. Good condition, fine item.

This is a 1911 picture postcard of the Borobudur Reliefs, used on the travelling post office B between Soerabaya and Bandoeng. It features a purple cachet of the TOEGOE Hotel at Djokjakarta, Java. Fascinating item.

This is a neat 1901 cover with a 10 heller Montenegro adhesive used at Cettinge to Berlin. Good condition for its age.

This is a scarce 40c plus 40c Monaco postal stationery reply card with three additional adhesives making up the rate to Gothenburg, Sweden, where it was sent in 1929. Good condition.

This is a neat postal stationery postcard featuring the K.K. FAHRENDE POSTAMT No. 1 Austrian T.P.O. posted at Krakow in 1874 and addressed to Vienna. The message on the reverse is in Hebrew/Yiddish. Interesting item.

This scarce item is an airmail envelope which travelled from Brussels to Elisabethville, Belgian Congo, and back to Brussels, on Sabena Airways in 1935. It reached Elisabethville in a week, and returned in a week. It features five very pretty airmail stamps. Perfect condition.

This is a picture postcard of the town of Dunkirk with a superb cachet of the TRAIN SANITAIRE EST P.O. No. 7, used to Paris in 1915. Very scarce item.

This is a picture postcard of Sulina, Romania, from the turn of the 20th century, with a pictorial ship postmark of the TULCEA-GALATI steamer. Good condition.

This is a 1912 picture postcard used with two excellent strikes of the PERM-NIZHIN steamer cancellation. Good condition.

This is a picture postcard of Stanford University, San Francisco after the 1906 Earthquake, oddly used in Honolulu, Hawaii a couple of months later. It was addressed to Sheffield, endorsed "Printed Matter" but deemed understamped and charged with a very scarce T 5 CENTIMES tax mark in violet, applied at Oahu. In addition, there is the 1d F.B. English charge mark.

Fascinating and very pretty item

This is a somewhat rusty cover with two strikes of the Austrian P.O. at JAFFA on a pair of Turkish 20 Para overprints on 5 kreuzer Austrian adhesives, used on a cover to England. Scarce item.

This is a highly interesting First Flight By Glider commemorative postcard from 1933 with a picture of the glider pilot and the postmark featuring his name (Robert Kronfeld) in the cancellation. The postcard has the commemorative pictorial cachet and arrival mark in Semmering; apparently he took eight days to get there from Vienna!