Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1914-23 Covers and cards with A.P.O or F.P.O datestamps including items from Egypt or Palestine (42), Salonica or Turkey (24), A.P.O HD datestamps from G.B (7), etc. (185).
Suggested price: £ 600-700

Palestine. 1917-19 Stampless covers and cards with F.P.O datestamps comprising skeletons (18, eleven differing numbers) or double circles (10, nine differing numbers), one to Ceylon with circular "PASSED / COLOMBO / CENSOR", also pieces (16) with Army T.P.O skeleton datestamps. (28 covers + 16 pieces).
Suggested price: £ 150-180

Mesopotamia - Siege of Kut. 1915 Wrapper franked 2 1/2d (Cox perfin) from London to an Officer in Mesopotamia handstamped scarce violet "UNDELIVERED THROUGH / CAPITULATION AT KUT" with two "P. OF. W / c/o INDIA OFFICE" cachets in black. Kut surrendered to the Turks in April 1916 after a siege of 144 days. Photo on Page 73.
Suggested price: £ 250-300

P.O.Ws in Turkey. 1916-17 Postcards from British P.O.Ws in Kostamuni (2) or Bilmedik-Pozanti (2); 1916 Hellenic Red Cross card from Athens, posted in London, informing the addressee they have forwarded her letter to her son, a P.O.W in Turkey; 1917 Swiss card from Dr Vischer, the Swiss Red Cross delegate sent to inspect P.O.W Camps in Turkey, to the wife of Brig. General Smith in India reporting his visit to Smith at Brusa P.O.W camp; and...

POW Mail. Thirteen pages from a WW1 album, an attractive title page with flags and stamps of the combatant nations, the other 12 pages bearing 31 cards or letters from P.O.Ws in Germany or Austria, most to Miss Ord in Co. Durham thanking her for parcels. An interesting lot from various nationalities, most cards glued down at the lower edge only and could be removed from the pages reasonably easily with a little care.
Suggested price...

P.O.W Mail. 1917 Cover from Germany to a German P.O.W at Brocton Hospital bearing P.O.W Information Bureau label "German Prisoner of War transferred to Switzerland". Also G.B. covers to soldiers marked "Prisoner of War" (2), 1915 cover redirected to Germany with a German Not Known label and boxed "PLACE OF DETENTION / NOT TRACED", 1919 cover to Ruhleben returned handstamped "repatrie", 1916 cover to a German P.O.W at Royal Herbert Hospital...

Hospital Ships. 1916 Stampless covers and cards with green oval "H.M.H.S / GLENART CASTLE" and "PASSED BY SHIPS CENSOR", violet "Ambulance Transport "Syria"", circular "HOSPITAL SHIP / P.C / 3 / R.A.M.C" on a postcard of the H.S "Glencorm Castle" or similar violet "P.C / 29" cachet on a postcard of Marseille with A.P.O S7 c.d.s. (4).
Suggested price: £ 200-250

1940-44 Covers detained by British or US censors and released after the war with 1940 Portugal cover and 1941 Swiss cover both to New York handstamped "HELD BY BRITISH CENS / RELEASED MAR. 1946" and "RELEASED" or "HELD BY BRITISH CENSOR / RELEASED JANUARY 1946", etc. (4).
Suggested price: £ 140-160

Air letters. 1941-44 Air letters including two with printed "Official Paid" emblem; first day use from Gold Coast; Christmas Greetings air letters with various Free cachets, overprints or endorsements (9, one a front); 1944 air letter with "CHIEF MILITARY PRESS CENSOR / P.R.3 / G.H.Q / M.E" enclosing a report of Bulgarian railway employees taking to a special high speed train during air raids, sent to The Railway Gazette; West Africa air...

British West Indies. 1916-20 Covers and cards on pages showing the various postage rates which included War Tax, and the differing War Tax stamps and their uses, with items from Bahamas (4), Barbados (4), Cayman Islands, Grenada (2), St. Lucia (2), St. Vincent (2), Trinidad & Tobago (4, one postcard with manuscript Naval censor and the 1/2d + War Tax 1/2d cancelled by Naval dumb obliterators), Turks & Caicos (3), an interesting lot,...

Canada. 1915-22 Covers and cards with various War Tax stamps including 1918 cover bearing an Inland Revenue 1c War Tax stamp and 2c War Tax to pay the local 3c rate; 1922 postcard to USA franked 1c but handstamped "RETURNED FOR WAR TAX", crossed out upon reposting with a further 1c stamp added and cancelled at the Montreal Dead Letter Branch; and a postcard with G.B 1 1/2d cancelled at Quebec handstamped "MAILED ON THE HIGH SEAS / EXEMPT...