Stamps & Postal History (#148MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 501-600 of 1416. Previous|1...456789...15|Next123456789101112131415 Lot 501 WWII POW Mail: YMCA CHRISTMAS GREETINGS POSTAL CARDS: 1944 Flock of Sheep with Text in Italian from Cowra to Italy, light vertical crease. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 502 WWII POW Mail: PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS: All-different selection of Allied issues comprising generic issues x3 (two illustrated); in Indonesion dropped over Timor x2 (one with photo of Timorese soldiers); in Malay; in Urdu aimed at Indians fighting with the Japanese; in Japanese dropped over Japanese positions in Burma x4 (one illustrated); and Australian group dropped over New Guinea, in Japanese (with map in blue on the reverse) & in Pidgin x2; also two leaflet envelopes with 1) Australian & Americ View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolLGradeA-/B Lot 503 WWII POW Mail: PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS: All-different selection of Allied bilingual issues advising of the Japanese Surrender comprising dropped over Sham Shui Po Camp in Hong Kong in English/Japanese; dropped over Malaya in English/Japanese; dropped over Sarawak/North Borneo in Malay/English/Japanese; instructing camp guards to advise POWs of the surrender & "Guards should then withdraw to their own quarters" in Japanese/English/Malay x2; & "The bearer has ceased resistance..." in Japanese/English; View details Quantity6Estimate$250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolLGradeA/B Lot 504 POW Camps NSW: 1) 1945 (Nov 5) printed notelope to Italy endorsed "No 20 PWCC" (Murwillumbah; closed Nov 1945) on the reverse, 'PASSED FREE/OF POSTAGE' machine; 2) 1943 usage of Douglas Pratt PPC ("Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park") to Queensland with 1d only & AIF Censor h/s, from "TH Halassi/N452195/3 AEC/Mascot", apparently a paroled internee working at Number 3 Army Embarkation Centre; and 3) undated plain notelope to Italy from an Italian officer at "Australian 113 GH" (where he was presumab View details Quantity3Estimate$250StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeB/A- Lot 505 POW Camps NSW: Prisoner of War Control Centres No 2 (Parkes) 1/- Airmail Notelope; No 4 (Armidale) 1/- Airmail Notelope, opening fault at upper-right; No 14 (location unidentified) stampless Postal Card, creased; and No 27 (Gunnedah; open 7 months only) stampless Postal Card, soiled. Rare usages from tiny camps. (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$400StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA/B Lot 506 POW Camps NSW: BATHURST: 1939 undated plain envelope endorsed ".../Internment Camp/Bathurst" on the flap, to Sydney with very fine strike of the boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR 4' h/s in violet; and 1940 (Jan 12) cover from Germany to "PW N 1083/Bathurst NSW", forwarded to a private address in Sydney, suggesting the addressee had been paroled, twice censored at Sydney, filing holes at left. Rare. [Bathurst is 210km W of Sydney. The gaol was used as an internment camp Sep-Oct 1939 only] (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA+/B Lot 507 POW Camps NSW: COWRA: Civilian mails comprising registered Gavin cover with ' NG /12NO41/NSW' cut-down relief cds & registration label with mss "POW Camp/Cowra"; 'POW PO COWRA' cds on an Army 1d concession rate cover, registered OHMS cover with '22 AUST GARR BN' cachet & small 'POW CAMP COWRA' h/s on the label, and long registered express OHMS cover with large 'P of W Camp Cowra' h/s on the label, the last with vertical folds. (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolC/CLGradeA/B Lot 508 POW Camps NSW: COWRA: Mostly printed notelopes to Italy from Camp 12a x4 (one a 7d aerogramme used in 1946), Camp 12b x2, & Camp 12c x4 (including 1945 6d Airmail Postal Card, a 7d aerogramme used in 1946 & one a very late irregular usage of 16SE46 on a "turned" Forces Air Mail Letter Card), mostly with the appropriate camp cachets, plus another endorsed "[H]ostel H9" on reverse, 1944 Italian POW lettersheet to India & forwarded with 'POW/COWRA NSW' cachet, and an 'Apostolic Delegation/ Australi View details Quantity14Estimate$450Price Realized$340StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 509 POW Camps NSW: COWRA: 1946 (Apr 17) usage of 1/- Airmail Notelope with error 'Gefanderer-' for 'Gefangenen-' on the reverse Bakker Type 7.1, from Camp No 12A to Italy, unusually fine for these items. Rare. [Neil Russell was very keen on the printings of the notelopes & kept an eagle-eye out for varieties. The fact he found only three - see also Lots 281426 & 281410 - indicates how scarce they are. Comparison of the three errors indicates that the 1/- indicium was overprinted on notelope stock pr View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA Lot 510 POW Camps NSW: HAY: Wide-ranging collection with items identified as from Hay Camps No 6 x2, No 7 x21 and No 8 x20, many printed notelopes, better cachets including 'CAMP 7 CANTEEN/INTERNMENT CAMP HAY', 'Passed by Censor/...Lt', 'No 8 Internment Camp Hay' two variants, 'CAMP COMMANDANT/NO 8 INTERNMENT CAMP' (the cover truncated) & boxed 'PERMISSION/GRANTED' x2 (one with 'M' Omitted), better destinations including Ireland Palestine & Iraq, several airmail usages including scarce postcard rates 2/ View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 511 POW Camps NSW: HAY: 1943 (Feb 26) stampless POW Postal Card to Italy with rare 'SERVICE/PRISONER OF WAR/(CS THANE) Lt Col/Comot HAY' & most unusual 'No 7 Prisoners of War Camp/NSW Australia' cachet both in violet. We have not previously noted either cachet. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA- Lot 512 POW Camps NSW: HAY: Inwards mail comprising from Sydney, from GB where readdressed internally to Huyton Camp at Liverpool then to "Hay" in red pencil (with Committee for Refugee Members of the Legal Profession h/s on the flap & letter within), from USA with stamp removed by the censor, from GB & USA both with double-boxed 'RECEIVED/[date]/INTERNMENT CAMP/HAY' cachet, from Central Camp on the Isle of Man to "somewhere in Australia" with large 'INTERNMENT CAMP/HAY' h/s, lettersheet from Huyton Cam View details Quantity12Estimate$600Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA/B Lot 513 POW Camps NSW: HAY: BANKNOTES: 6d blue, 1/- green & 2/- red all with M Mendel/R Stahl signatures Campbell #1212a-1214a, minor blemishes, Renniks Cat $23,500 for VF. Ex Bob Emery. (3) View details Quantity3Estimate$4,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbol$GradeB Lot 514 POW Camps NSW: HAY: 1/- green with HM Robinow/R Stahl signatures Campbell #1214a, serial 'D 22819', Renniks Cat $17,000 for Unc. Ex Bob Emery. View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbol$GradeA Lot 515 POW Camps NSW: LIVERPOOL (1): c.1940 undated cover endorsed ".../Anzac rifle Range/Liverpool" on the flap, to Queensland with superb '("RE Staple")/Lieutenant/Assistant Adjutant/Internment Camp' cachet & very fine boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR 4' h/s both in violet. [This small camp at the Anzac Rifle Range was opened 15.10.1939 & was closed in early-1940, with all inmates being transferred to Orange or Hay] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 516 POW Camps NSW: LIVERPOOL (1): c.1940 undated cover endorsed ".../Internment Camp/Liverpool" on the flap, to Sydney largely very fine '("AG Stephen")/Lieutenant/Assistant Adjutant/Internment Camp' cachet & large 'PASSED BY/CENSOR/S 4' h/s both in violet, minor repaired opening tears. [From the same internee as the outwards cover in Lot 281363] View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeB Lot 517 POW Camps NSW: LIVERPOOL (2): 1941 (Oct 10) plain notelope to "No 4 Internment Camp/Tatura Vic", undated local cover-front (with 'INTERNEE SERVICE' h/s), 1945 (Oct 10) plain notelope to Italy, & 1946 (Sep) Postal Card & 1946 (Oct 7) 6d Airmail Postal Card both from POWs transferred from Cowra, all with the boxed 'APPROVED.../L NO 9' cachet in violet; also 1946 (Aug 25) plain notelope used locally with superb 'PRISONERS OF WAR/POST' h/s; the last with "sticky tape" repairs. [The camp was re-opene View details Quantity6Estimate$450Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 518 POW Camps NSW: ORANGE (1): 1940 (Aug) two covers to Sydney both endorsed "Internment Camp Orange" on the flaps, one with Sydney censor's h/s, the other endorsed "Withdrawn at the request of [the sender]" (which was permitted on payment of a fee). Unusual & rare pair. [The camp at Orange opened early in the war & closed late in 1940] (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 519 POW Camps NSW: ORANGE (1): 1940 (Aug 7) cover with '("S Anderson Lt") Adjutant/Internment Camp Orange' h/s in violet at L/L, by air to Rabaul New Guinea with part-imprint 5d Ram tied by 'ORANGE' cds. [Flown per Carpenter Airways. The sender was a merchant in Rabaul who was interned, writing to his manager] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA- Lot 520 POW Camps NSW: ORANGE (2): 1941 unprinted part-notelope to GB, and airmail "Clipper" covers to Chicago at 4/- rate & to London at 5/10d rate, all with boxed 'APPROVED.../.../O NO 7' cachet in violet; plain cover front to Sydney with '...Adjutant/Internment Camp Orange' h/s; OHMS cover front to Sydney with POW & 'CAMP PAYMASTER/ORANGE' cachets; receipt with 'INTERNMENT CAMP ORANGE' & 'CAMP PAYMASTER/...' cachets; & cover from Sydney to "Internment Camp/Orange" forwarded to "Tatura Vic" with the d View details Quantity7Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA/B Lot 521 POW Camps NSW: ORANGE (2): 1941 (July 28) plain postcard with boxed 'APPROVED.../.../O NO 7' cachet in violet by air to GB with Hermes 1/6d pair tied by Sydney cds & light Sydney censor h/s both in violet, reinforced vertical fold. Rare postcard rate, being half the 5/10d letter rate, with 1d convenience over-payment. [Richard Breckon states that concessional airmail rates for POWs commenced only in Oct 1941] The fascinating contents state: "...to give your consent for my return only alternativ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeB Lot 522 POW Camps NSW: ORANGE (2): 1944 (May 23) usage of printed notelope with error 'Gefanderer-' for 'Gefangenen' on the reverse Bakker Type 6.1, endorsed "Campo No 9 PWCC" on the reverse, to Italy with superb 'PASSED FREE/OF POSTAGE' cachet in violet & 'ORANGE' machine cancel, minor blemishes. [Camp No 9 was at Liverpool, suggesting that the sender was transferred to Orange before he could send this item] Sybrand Bakker at page 253 states "It has not been documented that this variety exists, but i View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 523 POW Camps NSW: ORANGE (2): INWARDS MAIL: 1942 cover with huge 'NAVAL SERVICE' h/s & endorsed "Censored [signature]/OIC NSS WP" (= Naval Signal Station, Wilson's Promontory) with 1d brown tied by 'FOSTER' cds, to Orange from where forwarded to Hay Camp. [The lighthouse at Wilson's Promontory is the southernmost on the Australian mainland] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 524 POW Camps NSW: YANCO: Notelopes printed x3 & plain, & stampless POW Postal Card, all to Italy, three with 'No 15 PW CAMP YANCO' cachet & one with 'No 4 POW LABOUR DETACHMENT/YANCO' cachet. [Yanco is a small town near Leeton, in the Riverina] (5) View details Quantity5Estimate$300Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA/B Lot 525 POW Camps NT: ALICE SPRINGS: 1944 cover front from Sicily to "Camp Alice Springs/NT Australia" with Allied Military Postage 'ITALY' Overprints 25c & 1L pairs tied by 'GIARDINI/MESSINA' cds, censored at Melbourne, faults but an extraordinary item. [We had no knowledge of any camp in the Northern Territory. The Australian Archives website makes no mention of any such facility. However, we did find the briefest of on-line references to an internment camp at the Alice Springs Jail. This item is the View details Estimate$100Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeC Lot 526 POW Camps Qld: GAYTHORNE: 1941-45 group to Italy comprising Red Shield Huts cover with boxed 'PRISONER OF WAR/ POSTAGE FREE' & 'Internment Camp/1st Military District' cachets in violet, with the enclosed letter datelined "1940"; five notelopes with three different 'Approved for Transmission/By Camp Commandant" cachets countersigned by different officers, one with boxed 'PRISONER OF WAR/POSTAGE FREE' unusually in black; plus registered cover from 'CAIRNS' to "Internment Camp/Brisbane" with 'Inter View details Quantity7Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 527 POW Camps SA: PRISONER OF WAR CONTROL CENTRES: Printed notelopes 1942 endorsed "No 5 POW Labour Detachment" (Mount Gambier?, but Sybrand Bakker states Mount Gambier opened only in 1944) on the flap, and 1945 x4 with 'PW RURAL EMPLOYMENT CONTROL CENTRE S1' h/s used at Mount Barker/Woodside, similar '...S11' used at Maitland, similar but lower-case '...S9' used at Bordertown & similar '...S10' used at Kadina, all to Italy. A very rare & desirable group. (5) View details Quantity5Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA-/B Lot 528 POW Camps SA: BARMERA: Batch from Camp No 9 x3 domestic covers, one with '.../NO 9 CAMP' h/s & one with 'APPROVED MAIL/No 9 INTERNMENT CAMP/LOVEDAY' h/s, plus 'Apostolic Delegation/Australia' advice with 'APPROVED/ [signature] Major/Camp Commandant/No 9 Internment Camp' h/s plus the Vatican cover in which it was forwarded to Sicily; Camp No 10 to GB, Germany x3 & Holland, all but the first with No 10 cachet & two sent by air; Camp No 14A internal cover with 'APPROVED.../...' h/s obscured by cen View details Quantity23Estimate$1,000Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 529 POW Camps SA: BARMERA: 1941 (Jan 7) printed notelope from a chemist at the Camp 14D Hospital, to Iran with elaborate address in English & Farsi (?), Indian-pattern 'P/2' censor h/s overstruck with 'ANGLO-SOVIET-PERSIAN/CENSORSHIP' cachet both in violet. A remarkable destination. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 530 POW Camps SA: BARMERA: 1945 usage of the iconic 5d Airmail Notelope BW #POW3 with 'No 14c CAMP/4th MILITARY DISTRICT/SOUTH AUSTRALIA' cachet in violet on the reverse & Adelaide machine cancel of 1945/21JNE, to Japan with the address in English & Japanese and the letter written wholly in Japanese, light stain on the address panel, the flap largely separated & rejoined, Cat $10,000. Ex EW Alderman. [The message states: "To my parents and my children...We are fine and every day we are hoping for pe View details Estimate$5,000Price Realized$8,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeC Lot 531 POW Camps SA: BARMERA: Inwards mail 1) from Zionist Federation in Melbourne to "Camp No 10" with Loveday cds in violet & forwarded to "Liverpool Int Camp/NSW" with superb 'RELEASED/Return to Sender/...' cachet, Ex Phil Collas; 2) stampless from Germany to "Internment Camp 10/South Australia" with very fine 'INTERNMENT CAMP/LOVEDAY SA' cachet; and 3) superb airmail envelope from Italy to "No 9 Camp = 4 Military District" with Italian censor label tied to the reverse by elaborate cachets. (3) View details Quantity3Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolC/CLGradeA+/B Lot 532 POW Camps SA: COOK: 1942 printed notelope to Italy endorsed "3rd Labour Detachment/..." on the flap, Adelaide censor h/s in violet, Italian censor & arrival b/s, flap reattached. Rare. Open March-Oct 1942 only. [Cook is a hamlet on the Nullabor Plain, about 1350km west of Adelaide. Some 300 Italian POWs were assigned there as labourers on the Trans-Australian Railway] View details Estimate$250Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeB Lot 533 POW Camps SA: COOK: 1942 stampless POW cover from Sicily with British Middle East censor label & cachet in violet, directed to South Australia with rare '3 POW LABOUR DETACHMENT/COOK SA' h/s overstruck with 'POW/HAY NSW' h/s also in violet, roneo'd "This letter not mine/Refuse to accept same/..." label partly affixed to the face. A marvellous inwards cover. Illustrated by Sybrand Bakker at page 166. [We haven't seen the label before] View details Estimate$350Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA- Lot 534 POW Camps SA: SANDY CREEK: 1944 two stampless POW covers from Italy - one with German Occupation censor h/s in rosine - to Italian POWs in India both forwarded to South Australia & each with very fine 'POW CAMP/SANDY CREEK SA' cachet in violet. (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA-/B Lot 535 POW Camps Tas: BRIGHTON: 1944 1/- Airmail Notelope to Italy endorsed on reverse "18 POW Brighton Tas" & processed through Launceston with scarce 6/1 censor label - damaged on opening - & cachet, Melbourne transit d/s of 20OCT/1944 (most unusually with the datehead inverted), minor blemishes. Rare. [Brighton, located north of Hobart, was one of the smallest camps, and held POWs only, not internees] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 536 POW Camps Tas: BRIGHTON: 1945 printed notelope endorsed "18 WCCT2 Brighton" on the reverse, to Italy again processed through Launceston with scarce 6/1 censor label - damaged on opening - & cachet, Melbourne transit d/s of 1JUN/1945, minor blemishes. View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 537 POW Camps Tas: BRIGHTON: 1946 uncensored printed notelope to Italy with superb strike of the rare 'Approved for Transmission by/Camp Commandant' h/s in violet, Melbourne transit d/s of 14JAN/1946, minor blemishes. [Censorship ceased at the end of the war] View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 538 POW Camps Vic: CAMP PELL: Group comprising 1942 (Sep 1) 1d Postal Card with 'MIL PO CAULFIELD' cds to Tatura No 2 Camp with message "...expect to stay here until we have been completely fitted out...after which we shall move to Royal Park...[they] boast about the 8th Labour Company's splendid reputation", creased; two stampless POW covers to Fritz Feibes - later a prominent Melbourne stamp dealer - at "Camp Pell/Royal Park"; civilian cover to Feibes at "8th Labour Coy/Melbourne" & American Red C View details Quantity8Estimate$300Price Realized$140StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 539 POW Camps Vic: DHURRINGILE: 1940 (Sep) cover to Sydney endorsed "Dhurringile Camp/Tatura"; printed notelopes to Germany x2 (both by air, one from a "Kormoran" survivor) or USA x2 (one from the POW Camp Cammander Theodor Detmers who had been captain of the "Kormoran"), two with 'POW (DHURRINGILE) OFFICERS CAMP/HQ NO 13 GROUP MURCHISON' cachet on reverse & two with 'APPROVED...COMMANDANT DHURR' cachet on the face (one of the others also with this h/s with 'DHURR' removed); and 1941 Swiss Red Cross View details Quantity6Estimate$400Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 540 POW Camps Vic: DHURRINGILE: 1943 (Sep 26) Postal Card by air with 6d Kooka added to Germany, various redirections & handstamps plus German/French label that translates as "Gone/without leaving address". Ex Phil Collas. [A poignant reminder of the brutal Allied bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 that killed or displaced thousands of civilians. Sybrand Bakker illustrates a similar item at page 228] View details Estimate$200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA- Lot 541 POW Camps Vic: GRAYTOWN: Four unstamped Postal Cards (one with German cachet translated as 'This is old mail. If you want an answer you have to use the last known address...'), three printed notelopes & 1/- Airmail Notelopes x3, all endorsed "Graytown near Nagambie" on reverse, & all to Germany with 'APPROVED FOR TRANSMISSION BY CAMP COMMANDANT' h/s on the face, two also with 'MURCHISON PW GROUP' b/s, four with 'No 13 POW GROUP MURCHISON/AUSTRALIA' cachet, plus 1946 stampless cover from Germany View details Quantity10Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 542 POW Camps Vic: GRAYTOWN: Three covers to Marine Lance-Corporal Josef Pullmann 1) May 1941 to "Feldpost M26823", the naval address for the "Kormoran", with 'zuruck' (= return) h/s on reverse; 2) Oct 1941 with 'zuruck' h/s & 3-line h/s that translates "Further mail to this person must be sent to him as a POW"; and 3) POW cover to "Graytown near Nagambie"; all with the enclosed letters. A terrific trio. (3 + letters) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$235StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolC/LGradeB Lot 543 POW Camps Vic: MURCHISON: Batch of mostly printed notelopes with a good variety of cachets including scarce boxed 'SERVICE OF PRISONERS OF WAR' x2, '13 P,W, GROUP MURCHISON', 'No 13 POW GROUP...' x2 different, 'PW GROUP...' x2 different, 'APPROVED...COMMANDANT 13B 2', etc, mostly to Germany or Italy including airmail to USA x2, Austria & post-war airmail to Germany, also 1942 address advice card to Germany with 'No 13 POW GROUP, MURCHISON' cachet, 1942 cover from a German officer to a Melbourne View details Quantity29Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 544 POW Camps Vic: MURCHISON: Sub-Camps group of mostly printed notelopes from Murchison No 13A x3 (one to the USA), No 13B x3 (one to South Africa), No 13C x2 & No 13D to the USA, good range of cachets, mostly fine to very fine. A very scarce lot. (9) View details Quantity9Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 545 POW Camps Vic: MURCHISON: Sub-Camps from Murchison No 13A printed & plain notelopes both by air with 'APPROVED...COMMANDANT 13A' cachet; No 13B printed notelope with 'APPROVED...COMMANDANT 13B 2' cachet, plain cover to Melbourne with huge '13B' cachet on the flap; No 13C plain notelope with small 'Service of Prisoners of War' cachet & printed notelope with 'C COMPOUND/...' cachet, and 1/- Airmail Notelope with 'Approved.../by Camp Command C' cachet; and No 13D plain notelope - stained - endorse View details Quantity9Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 546 POW Camps Vic: MURCHISON: 1945 stampless Postal Card endorsed "Graytown, near Nagambie" on reverse with superb 'MURCHISON PW GROUP' cachet in violet alongside, to Germany with very fine strike of cachet in German that translates as 'This is old mail. If you want an answer you have to use the last known address of the sender'. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA- Lot 547 POW Camps Vic: MURCHISON: Inwards mail from Germany or Italy a few with Middle East censorship, several addressed directly to Murchison but all with 'POW CAMP/MURCHISON' x5 or 'POW/MURCHISON' cachet x4 (two variants), mostly by air, four with the original letters, condition variable. (9 + letters) View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 548 POW Camps Vic: MYRTLEFORD: Batch of mostly printed notelopes from No 5 POW Camp most identified as from A Compound or B Compound, to Italy with various cachets including a few huge boxed types, usages by air including 6d Airmail Postal Card x3, 1/- Airmail Notelope x5 several with German Occupation of Italy censorship & a 1946 aerogramme, also 'Apostolic Delegation/Australia' notelets x4 (one with the Vatican cover in which it was forwarded), generally fine to very fine. [The camp, at Whorouly E View details Estimate$850Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 549 POW Camps Vic: MYRTLEFORD: 1943 (Dec 13) usage of 1/- Airmail Notelope with error 'Gefanderer-' for 'Gefangenen-' on the reverse Bakker Type 7.1, 'APPROVED.../No 5 PW Camp Myrtleford' cachet in violet & 'MIL PO MYRTLEFORD' cds. Rare. View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA- Lot 550 POW Camps Vic: MYRTLEFORD: Inwards covers from Italy with a good range of forms including airmail & Red Cross postcards, some with Middle East censorship, mostly correctly addressed but most nonetheless with 'POW CAMP/MYRTLEFORD VIC' cachet added (one of huge dimensions, with boxed 'NOT KNOWN/A Compound.../B Compound/.../MYRTLEFORD' cachet on reverse), one with unusual oval American 'MILITARY CENSORSHIP/ROUTED THRU/[ ? ]' h/s & 'REPATRIATED' cachet, generally fine to very fine. (16) View details Quantity16Estimate$500Price Realized$235StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 551 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 1: Batch with a few internal covers then mostly plain or printed notelopes to Germany, Austria or the USA, good range of cachets including 'CAMP PAYMASTER No 1 CAMP/17th GARRISON BATTALION', 'PAYMASTER/No 1 INTERNMENT CAMP/TATURA', 'No 1 Internment Camp/17th Garrison Battalion', 'PASSED BY/CENSOR [initials]' (stated to have been used on mail form the Camp Canteen), '1c 3rd Military District', etc, also '19 PW Camp/TATURA' (not previously noted by us; post-WWII 1946 usage View details Quantity30Estimate$750Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 552 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 1: c.1939 undated cover to Queensland with boxed POW cachet of the camp plus boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR/ V64...' h/s applied at Melbourne & the very rare boxed 'CENSORSHIP/MELBOURNE' cachet on the reverse, a little aged. The backstamp was not recorded by John Little. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeB Lot 553 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 2: 1942 POW cover but paid 2½d to "8th Labour Coy/Camp Pell" with boxed 'PAY OFFICE/TATURA 2' cachet, undated covers to Canada & Ecuador (!), several airmail usages to USA Britian Germany or Switzerland at various rates, etc, also covers from sub-camps No 2A x2, No 2B x4 & No 2C x2. (34) View details Quantity34Estimate$450Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 554 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 2: 1941 (Nov 19) cover with the rare '.../Major/OC, B Company/Commanding No 2/Internment Camp', to a tobacco company in Cuba (!!) by air at 4/8d rate with Melbourne cds plus censor labl & cachet on reverse, Havana arrival slogan - "Protect Cuban Industries" - also on the reverse. One of the gems of the collection. [Flown on the last through-service of the "California" Clipper] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA- Lot 555 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 2: Inwards mail mostly from Great Britain & United States but including items from Germany, Switzerland, Palestine & South Africa, several with 'INTERNMENT CAMP/TATURA VIC' cachet, one from GB with stamp removed by the censor & superb 'RELEASED/Return to Sender' cachet, another with 'RETURN TO SENDER' cachet, German postcard with boxed 'NOT IN/CAMP ("2")' cachet, International Red Cross cover forwarded to London (with roneo'd notice inserted by the Australian censor "You View details Quantity28Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 556 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 3 & No 4: Batch including from the sub-camps comprising from Camp No 3 x11, one with 'CAMP PAYMASTER No 3 CAMP/...' cachet & July 1941 from Singapore; No 3A x2; No 3B x4 including surface to England censored in Germany (!!); No 3C x5; No 3D x4, all to Melbourne; No 4 airmail to GB at 5/10d rate; No 4A x2 plus inwards from GB x3 (one with 'RELEASED/Return to Sender' cachet) or Vichy France; No 4C x2; and No 4D x2. (37) View details Quantity37Estimate$450Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 557 POW Camps Vic: TATURA No 3 & No 4: 1947 (July & Aug) airmail covers from German internees at Camp No 3, at 1/- rate with 3- or 4-colour frankings, both with POW & 'Approved for Transmission/...' cachets. Extremely late usages. [The National Archives website states that No 3 Camp closed in February 1946, five & six months before these two covers were sent! It also states No 1 & No 2 both closed in January 1947 & No 4 closed in August 1946] (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$300Price Realized$200StatusSold GSTGST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA- Lot 558 POW Camps WA: 1945-46 Department of the Army OHMS covers mostly to the Australian Army Canteen Service with all-different cachets from Prisoner of War Control Centres at Beverley, Dalwallinu, Kendenup, Kojonup, Kondinin, Margaret River, Newdegate, Northcliffe, Popanyinning, Tambellup, Toodyay & Wagin plus POW Control Hostel W20 posted at 'ARMADALE' & No 16 POW Camp posted at 'PINJARRA', also inwards cover from Perth to a member of the staff at "POW Control Centre W12/Narembeen WA". Very scarce g View details Quantity15Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA/A- Lot 559 POW Camps WA: FREMANTLE: 1942 (Sep-Oct) two covers & a registration envelope all from Victoria to Perth Hospital, two endorsed "Detention Barracks/Fremantle" & the other "Civilian/Internee/Fremantle", one further endorsed "discharged" & two of them redirected back to Perth Hospital. [It appears that the addressee was employed at the hospital & that he was paroled to continue working there. Haynes & Pope state internees were held at Fremantle Gaol between Sep 1939 & June 1940 only, before being s View details Quantity3Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 560 POW Camps WA: HARVEY: 1941 stampless covers & a registered airmail cover at 4/9d rate - opened-out for display - all to the Red Cross in Geneva, all with superb 'Services. Prisoners/of war. Camp No 11' cachet & with Censor No 1 x2 or No 3 cachets all in violet, large boxed 'RISPONDETE A/...' (2) or the very scarce 'REPLY TO/...' cachets on the back. (3) View details Quantity3Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA/A- Lot 561 POW Camps WA: KENDENUP: 1945 1/- Airmail Notelope endorsed on reverse "CCW2 POWI/Kendenup", to Italy, blemishes. Rare. [Kendenup Camp, 350km ESE of Perth, housed only 200 POWs. This & the next lot are the only items we have seen from this tiny camp, which is not listed by Sybrand Bakker] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 562 POW Camps WA: KENDENUP: 1945 1/- Airmail Notelope endorsed on reverse "PW Control Centre W2/Kendenup", to Sicily, sent via Melbourne, Messina arrival cds on the face, blemishes. Rare. [Kendenup Camp, 350km ESE of Perth, housed only 200 POWs. This & the previous lot are the only items we have seen from this tiny camp, which is not listed by Sybrand Bakker] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 563 POW Camps WA: MARRINUP: 1945 notelopes to Italy x4 (two with no text on outside; one a 1/- Airmail type) or Germany x3 (two are 1/- Airmail types) plus 1946 unprinted type to Italy but apparently not sent, all endosed "Marrinup" on the reverse, three additionally with 'West Australia' h/s in violet & one with the rare 'HQ NO 16 PW CAMP/MARRINUP WA' h/s, two sent via Melbourne; and another plain type addressed internally to the camp commandant with a request to stay in Australia & endorsed at the View details Quantity10Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA/B Lot 564 POW Camps WA: MARRINUP: 1944-46 6d Airmail Postal Card processed through Melbourne, and 1/- Airmail Notelopes x3 processed through 'PINJARRA', Perth or Melbourne, an unusually fine quartet. (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA/A- Lot 565 POW Camps WA: NORTHAM: 1946 (June 3) notelope endorsed within & on reverse "16 PU NODOM" which is a crude transliteration of "Northam", superb 'PATERNO/CATANIA' arrival b/s; and 1946 (July 30) 1/- Airmail Notelope endorsed "Northam" on reverse, 'GARDONE RIVIERA/BRESCIA' arrival b/s, a bit stained. [By April 1946, most POWs had been transferred from Marrinup to await repatriation. Northam Camp operated January (Bakker says May)-October 1946 only, continuing to be designated Camp No 16] (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA/B Lot 566 POW Camps WA: ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1939 (Dec 18) commercial airmail cover from Selangor at $1.80 rate with Perak/Selangor combination franking on the reverse, 'KALUMPANG' cds & registration label, 'PASSED/FOR/TRANSMISSION' h/s applied in Singapore, Darwin transit and Perth arrival backstamp, forwarded to "Bungalow 29/Rottnest Island/ Internment/Camp". A marvellous origin/destination cover. [The addressee, the sender's wife, was apparently on the Rottnest staff. Haynes & Pope state the camp on Rottne View details Estimate$250Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 567 POW Camps WA: ROTTNEST ISLAND: 1940 (June 26) to an Italian woman in Perth with very fine 'Internment Camp/ c/- Staff Officer/Intelligence Section/Perth' cachet in rosine on the flap, POW h/s & boxed Censor No 3 cachet both in violet. Ex Ron Lee: illustrated by Haynes & Pope at page 364. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA- Lot 568 POWs in Germany: Wide-ranging collection from Stalags throughout Germany many with locations noted including in Austria & Poland, four "Advice of Capture" postcards, excellent range of Stalag cachets including elaborate & pictorial types, many airmail articles with 40pf Hitler stamps or a good range of 'Taxe percue' cachets, other markings including 'Write short letters to avoid/delay' & 'Write legibly/to avoid delay!', in-camp usage of American V-Mail aerogramme, etc, also six items identified View details Estimate$850Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 569 POWs in Germany: mostly airmail covers from Australia to Stalags in Germany and occupied areas including various types of POW envelopes, several Aerogrammes including 7d Air Letter with the Admonition not crossed-through x2, a few sent via the Red Cross in Switzerland, generally fin View details Quantity30Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 570 POWs in Germany: 1944-45 quartet from Australia comprising surface & airmail covers both returned as insufficiently addressed, surface cover with boxed 'THIS LETTER FORMED PART OF UNDELIVERED/MAILS WHICH FELL INTO THE HANDS OF/THE ALLIED FORCES...' cachet (with the enclosed letter) & surface cover with boxed 'THIS LETTER HAS BEEN RETURNED BY/THE SWISS POST OFFICE.../...' cachet. (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA/B Lot 571 POWs in Italy: Bundle of Neil Russell's annotated pages with Australian OHMS envelope used to send advice of an Australian officer's capture at Tobruk, Italian Red Cross two different printed advices re correspondence to Australia, various POW Postal Cards (one unused) & Letter Sheets, etc, also three covers from Australians who escaped from Italy & were interned in Switzerland, generally fine to very fine. An interesting lot. (39 items) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 572 POWs in Italy: - companion lot of mostly airmail covers to Italy including various Red Cross envelopes (one endorsed "Repatriated" & noted as the only such item recorded from Italy), etc, also US 6c Airmail Envelope from New Caledonia via Australia to a New Zealand POW View details Quantity31Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 573 POWs in Malaya: 1942 "Selarang Incident" series of small second-generation photographs of crowded conditions, all endorsed on the reverse "Selarang Incident/Sept 1942", one badly creased/torn & rejoined and one a non-contemporary enlargement. The British-built Selarang Barracks were used to house the overflow of POWs from Changi. After four POWs escaped & were recaptured, the Japanese demanded all POWs sign a "no escape" pledge. All but 3 refused. In response, almost 17,000 men were herded ont View details Quantity11Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolC Lot 574 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: Red Cross Envelopes with Three Thin Bars x3 or Thick Bar x5 (one with Japanese Red Cross cachet in rosine), Red Cross blue/white Postal Card with camp censor Ta chop; and by air plain covers at 5d rate x2 (one shortpaid 1d) & blue/white Postal Card uprated with 4d Koala with camp censor Kinoshita chop; well above-average condition. Some with transit times of between 9 & 18 months noted. (12) View details Quantity12Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA-/B Lot 575 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: All-different identified camp censor cachets on plain cover with unnecessary 2½d payment (with the original enclosure), Red Cross Envelopes with Thick Bar x2, Red Cross blue/white Postal Card; and by air postcards red/white or blue/white x2 different types (one overpaid with 5½d Emu), minor blemishes. (8 items) View details Estimate$850StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeB Lot 576 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: All-different POW Postal Stationery comprising Red Cross Postal Cards blue/white x2 & black/white, Envelopes blue/white (with letter), black/white, or red/white with Three Thin Bars (with letter) or Thick Bar, and Lettersheets red/white or blue/white; POW Relatives Association Envelope; and generic-issue Postal Card blue/white, Envelope red/white & Airmail Envelope blue/white; six sent by air, a few are remarkably fine. Another very good lot. (15 items) View details Estimate$1,750StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA-/B Lot 577 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: Red Cross Envelopes with No Bars (rare), Single Ruled Line & typed "c/- Japanese Red Cross Society" (very scarce), Three Thin Bars, or Thick Bar, minor blemishes. Neil Russell states only one other example has been recorded with the POW Information Bureau line not obliterated. We have seen at least two others. (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$750Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA-/B Lot 578 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: Undated Red Cross Envelope with Single Ruled Line & typed "c/- Japanese Red Cross Society", largely superb strike of the very scarce boxed 'CONTRAVENES PRISONERS OF/WAR POST/SEE ENCLOSED LEAFLET' (that unfortunately is not present) in violet. View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA- Lot 579 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: Undated Red Cross Envelope with Three Thin Bars to Changi with camp censor 'H KANNO' chop most unusually in Roman characters!, endorsed "DEC/42" (presumably the date of the letter, which is not present) & "N Paton 6th Nov 44", rounded corners. [Built in January 1944 & housing about 8000 patients, Nakom Paton was the principal POW hospital camp in Thailand, some 50km from Bangkok] View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 580 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: 1943 Red Cross Envelope with Thick Bar to Changi with Melbourne machine cancel of 5JUN/1943 & endorsed on arrival "Sime Rd", small faults. Sime Road Camp was a small facility at the Singapore Golf Club! [With the letter that was sent to the Red Cross in Melbourne under cover for on-forwarding. It took almost 2½ months to be processed by the Red Cross & the censors! The golf club, now the Singapore Island Country Club, is still in Sime Road] View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 581 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - INWARDS MAIL: 1945 use of blue/white POW Envelope uprated with 5d Ram tied by Launceston cds of 28MAY/1945, endorsed "RTA" (= Returned to Australia), '.../RETURN TO SENDER' h/s largely erased & superb strike of boxed 'RETURNED IN UNDELIVERED MAILS/FROM TERRITORY FORMERLY OCCUPIED/BY JAPANESE FORCES' cachet in violet partly obscured by small OHMS redirection label. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 582 POWs in Malaya: CHANGI - OUTWARDS MAIL: 1943-44 red/white POW Postal Cards - three types, with different numbers of Japanese characters at left & one with 'Enemy Civilians Internment Camp No 1' stupidly printed in the address panel - three with personal camp censor chops of Shimogohara, Kotani or Suzuki, a few minor problems. [All the senders attest, one imagines ironically, to being in "the best of health"] (4) View details Quantity4Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA/B Lot 583 POWs in Borneo: SANDAKAN: 1943 plain cover from NSW addressed "Interned in Borneo Camp" with Sydney machine cancel plus Melbourne censor label & cachet in violet, North Borneo POW Camp cachet in violet on the reverse, endorsed "Recd 29.8.44" on the face, remarkably fine. Rare. [Between January & June 1945, in a series of "death marches", a total of about 2500 Australian & British POWs held at Sandakan were forced to march 250km inland to the mountain village of Ranau. The only survivors of the i View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 584 POWs in Borneo: SANDAKAN: 1945 (Apr 5) to "Australian POW in Borneo" c/- Red Cross in Japan with Gloucester 2½d x2 tied by Bexhill (NSW) cds, Melbourne censor label & cachet in violet, Return to Sender cachets in violet. [The Allies landed in North Borneo in May 1945, making further deliveries of POW mail impossible] View details Estimate$400Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 585 POWs in Borneo: SANDAKAN: 1945 (Aug 21) cover from the same correspondence underpaid with 1½d & 2½d only - 4d being the postcard rate - but not taxed, large 'UNDELIVERABLE/RETURN TO SENDER' cachet. With the enclosed letter that suggests Lance-Corporal Kealey was one of the few survivors: "Can't get it firmly fixed in my head that I'll be seeing you really and truly..." (2 items) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolC/LGradeA Lot 586 POWs in Neth Indies: JAVA: 1944 plain envelope from WA with Perth machine cancel, Melbourne censor label & cachet; blue/white postcard to Camp "X", Red Cross envelopes x3, one received after 23 months, one with faint endorsement on face "Received 1.4.45 Koshu Mount/Siam" after 26 months transit!, the last to a member of "G" Force captured on Java & sent to Singapore & from there to Japan and repatriated per HMS "Formidable" which is endorsed on the face. (5) View details Quantity5Estimate$600StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPSGradeA/B Lot 587 POWs in Neth Indies: JAVA: 1944 (May 15) plain envelope from WA with Perth machine cancel, to "Djawa Interment Camp/Java" with Melbourne censor label & cachet. [Endorsed on the flap "Master Jack Greeuw...": mail from children to POWs is rare. We hope Dad had been interned & not interred!] View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 588 POWs in Neth Indies: JAVA: c. late-1942 red & black/white Postal Cards to Victoria with typed advice of capture & to Tasmania with hand-written message, minor blemishes. The latter from G Lawson, a member of "Sparrow" Force, captured on Timor. (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 589 POWs in Neth Indies: TIMOR: 1943 Red Cross Envelopes with Three Thin Bars or Thick Bar, both from Tasmania, the latter with Melbourne machine cancel, a bit battered. (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$350StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 590 POWs in Neth Indies: TIMOR: 1943 Red Cross Envelope with Thick Bar, from Victoria with Melbourne machine cancel, minor blemishes. View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 591 POWs in Burma: MOULMEIN: 1943 black/white POW Envelope to "Moulemein [sic] Burma" from NSW with camp censor Adachi cachet; and Red Cross blue/white lettersheet to "Moulimein [sic] Burma" from South Australia; both censored at Melbourne, minor blemishes. The camp designation "Moulmein" is misleading. Moulmein is 65km north of Thanbyuzayat which was the northern terminus of the infamous Burma-Siam Railway. The 4800 Australians in Burma were all sent from Singapore or Java to work on the railway c View details Quantity2Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 592 POWs in Burma: MOULMEIN: POW Postal Cards printed in red & black with 'Camp War Prisoners Camp/Moulmein, BURMA' imprint being an address advice card also stating "I am with friends...", unused & another undated to Victoria with camp censor Naito chop & message "I am working for pay at 10 cents per day", minor blemishes. (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$400Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA-/B Lot 593 POWs in Burma: MOULMEIN: 1943 (Nov 5) airmail cover from Perth to "Moulein Camp/Burmah" [sic] with superb boxed 'CONTRAVENES PRISONERS OF/WAR POST/SEE ENCLOSED LEAFLET' - which is not included - & diamond ' 3 /RETURN/TO SENDER' cachets both in rosine applied at Melbourne. Gorgeous! [Probably rejected because the soldier's name was omitted] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA Lot 594 POWs in Burma: MOULMEIN: 1943 black/white POW Envelope to "Moulmein Burma" from NSW with 'MIL PO TAMWORTH No 2' cds & camp censor Adachi cachet, forwarded to Thailand with addressee's endorsement "Received Tamarkan Camp/Canburi/ Thailand/5.12.44", a transit period of "only" 13 months, a few defects but quite presentable. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeC Lot 595 POWs in Burma: MOULMEIN: POW Postal Card printed in red & black with 'Camp War Prisoners Camp/Moulmein, BURMA' imprint being an address advice card also stating "I am with friends..." with Black Text on Face at an Angle, to NSW with camp censor Naito chop, again with message "I am working for pay at 10 cents per day", minor blemishes. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 596 POWs in Burma: MOULMEIN: POW Postal Card printed wholly in black with with 'Camp War Prisoners Camp/Moulmein, BURMA' imprint & printed chatty "letter" that makes life sound wonderful & the Japanese commander an enlightened philanthropist, to Tasmania with camp censor Yamada chop, minor blemishes. Oustanding propaganda item with jolly references to food, medical care, tobacco, concerts & movies! View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Lot 597 POWs in Thailand: Series of small second-generation photographs of the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway with railway cuttings & bridges (including after being bombed by the RAF), camp scenes including hospital ward & POW theatre, POW funeral & the cemetery at Kanburi, "Golden Arrow Express" (carloads of coolies), etc, ink notations on the reverse. Exceptional background material. (23) View details Quantity23Estimate$200Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCGradeA-/B Lot 598 POWs in Thailand: 1943-45 mail to Camp No 1 (Nong Pladuk) POW Postal Card by air endorsed "RTA" & with small redirection label, with the enclosed letter; Camp No 2 (Chungkai) plain cover & blue/white POW Envelope both by air; Camp No 3 (Nike or Nieke) blue/white Red Cross lettersheet endorsed "RTA"; Camp No 4 (Tamuang) plain cover by air with censor Sato cachet, four different blue/white POW Postal Cards (two by surface both with censor Ishikura cachet, one undeliverable & returned); and an unde View details Estimate$2,500StatusUnsold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolCPS Lot 599 POWs in Thailand: 1944 black/white POW Envelope to an undesignated camp with 'HAY/NSW' cds & camp censor Matsushita cachet, with the enclosed letter. Unusually fine for such material. (2 items) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeA- Lot 600 POWs in Thailand: Red Cross Envelope with Three Thin Bars from South Australia with Melbourne censor cachet unusually in blue, to Changi where redirected to "Nak" (= Nakon Patom), unidentified camp censor cachet in violet, endorsed "Sept 42" - presumably the date of the letter - & "N Pakon 14th March 45" indicating a total transit time of 30 months! [Built in January 1944 & housing about 8000 patients, Nakom Paton was the principal POW hospital camp in Thailand] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold GST† GST on HAMMER for Australian residents onlySymbolPSGradeB Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...456789...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
