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Showing posts with label censor mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censor mail. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Concentration Camp Letters from Oranienburg and Luettringhausen

Two Concentration Camp Letters Oranienburg and Luettringhausen

Concentration Camp Letters Oranienburg and Luettringhausen
Concentration Camp Letter
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Germany World War II: Two letters from the Concentration Camp Oranienburg (20.04. 44) and the special prison Lüttringhausen 26.11. 1939).

Both by the same inmate to his family. Both are complete and in good condition.

More Postal History: HERE

Monday, January 11, 2016

Republic of China WWII Letter Censored

Republic of China Censored Letter to USA 1942

Chinese Postal History

Fuzhou China, Republic Period, World War 2: Strip of 4 Sun Yatsen 10 Cent stamps, tied by bilingual MINROW – FOOCHOW 1942. (福州闽侯县)

Sent to California, USA. Opened and resealed by Censor, C. 255

Some wear, a part at upper right side is missing due to rough opening..

More Postal History: HERE

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Two Japanese Covers mith multicolor Franking to Austria

Two Japanese Covers multicolor Franking to Austria 1953-54




Japanese Cover to Austria registered Japanese cover

Two airmail covers sent Nishiyodogawa as registered mail to Vienna.

1953 via Geneve, 1954 via Zuerich, opened by censor and resealed.

Mixed franking with a 24 Sen Signing of Peace Treaty-val. (Sakura 222).  
Moderate wear.

More Japanese Postal History: HERE


Sunday, April 10, 2011

SMS Adria Marine Fieldpost 1915. Censor Mark

Dubrovnik Ragusa vintage postcard with people in national costumes.
„Zensuriert S.M.S. Adria 7.II.15 Marine-Feldpost“ – cancellation.


SMS Adria Marine censor

Pola to Koenigshof. Fine condition.

Friday, April 08, 2011

Two censored Covers Wien to USA from Post World War II.

Two censored covers sent Wien to the USA, a registered one to Los Angeles and on to Newark, which has been returned.


censored covers sent Wien to the USA

Both have been opened by censors and have been resealed with a brown tape.

Both are in fine condition.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Censored Chinese Letter 1940: Minhow, Fuzhou to Denmark

China 1940: Censored Letter Minhow, Fuzhou to Denmark





Republic of China, W.W.II: Scarce cover sent Minhow, Fuzhou to Charlottenlund in Denmark. Franked with a 50 cents Martyr stamp. Bilingual Minhow Foochow cancellation. Opened by Nazi censors. "C" - Censor Mark at front. Scarce destination.

Sender was H. S. Kierkegaard.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

WWII: England. Field-Post Cover from War Ship. 1941

W.W.II: England. Field-Post Cover from War Ship. 2 cancellations: "From H. M. Ship Passed by Censor and Field Post Office S. P. 50".

col-4778  Cover from War Ship 1941 cancellation

Sent to Bridgeport in England. Fine condition.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

WW2: Postcard to Jewish Immigrant Shanghai. Censored.

W.W.II.: 15 Pfennig Hindenburg Deutsches Reich Postcard + 2 stamps. Berlin, Air-mail to Moscow, then by train via Siberia to Shanghai, 22. 03. 1941. Red Nazi Censor - strike (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ).




Postcard by Martha Sara Loewinsohn to Paul Wahrburg, a Jewish Gentleman who fled from the Nazi and immigrated to Shanghai. Interesting text, hard to read though since it is written rather small.

Scarce document related to Jewish refugees to China.

More Postal History: HERE