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Sale 320
U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
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Lot 1064 |
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Victory in Europe, Three pages including a "Safe Conduct" flyer with a facsimile Eisenhower signature offering safe conduct to any German soldier wishing to surrender; three covers with French local issues including pair of St. Nazaire 50c green (Mi. 1, €600) and St. Nazaire 4.50 Taxe Perçue inscribed "ILGT" instead of "ILOT" (latter not shown); Admiral Karl Dönitz (1944 Telegram included) was now Fuhrer. He sent representatives to sign surrender documents to Eisenhower, to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (cover signed "Montgomery of Alamein)" and to the Soviets.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1065 |
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Post-War, Four pages including a signature of Harry Truman, the U.S. President at the end of the war, across a Brazilian stamp picturing him; a British pictorial Victory cancel; two covers addressed to the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, a photo of that body in session; a German propaganda card from 1933 showing Hitler looming above Nuremberg in the glory days of the Party Rallies; two early post-war German covers bearing stamps with Hitler's image obliterated; and a 12pf "Futsches Reich" propaganda forgery (Mi. 17, €320), block of 4, original gum, N.H.; also an unaddressed V-J Day cover (2 Sep 1945) cancelled aboard the USS Missouri, the ship on which MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender (not shown).
Estimate 500 - 750
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