Lot 4327
The fine balance of the specialized collection of Allied Forces from 1914 (18 Sept.) - 1915 (9 July), comprising 18 envelopes, 14 postcards, 2 coupons, telegram, and 6 photo cards or photographs, including 1914 (25 Aug.) letter from Colonel Vaughan of the B.S.A. Police at Victoria Falls about the pending military action against German South West Africa, fine range of A.P.O., F.P.O., and censor markings with 1915 (9 Jan.) "On Active Service" card from Walfish Bay to Kimberly with "Army Base P.O./6" skeleton date stamp, censored Postage Free handstamp and handstruck "Rand Rifles", 1915 (6 Feb.) "On Active Service" registered censored envelope to Rosenbank bearing South Africa 4d cancelled by "Army Base P.O./6" double-ring date stamp and similar envelope (6 Mar.) to Claremont bearing 6d cancelled by "Army Base P.O./4A" double-ring date stamp, 1915 (12 Feb.) viewcard from Swakopmund from a soldier of the First Rhodesian Regiment Army Base P.O.6 to Hampton and viewcard from the same regiment to India, 1915 (3 Apr.) official Post Office Savings envelope to Cape Town with skeleton "5" double-ring date stamp (Walfish Bay), 1915 (17 Apr.) "On Active Service" envelope to U.S.A. bearing 1d strip of six cancelled by skeleton "5" date stamp, 1915 (24 Apr.) "On Active Service" censored card from Bethanien to Kimberly showing framed "31" date stamp (Aus) in blue and 1915 (18 May) similar card from a member of the 1st Division Railway Regiment of the Southern Force to Paarl showing framed "37" date stamp in blue, 1915 (9 July) censored envelope to a German P.O.W. in Kimberly bearing 1d cancelled by framed "44" date stamp (Okahandja), 1915 (12 May) philatelic envelope bearing South Africa values (22) to 6d cancelled by "Windhuk/Deutsch-/Südwestafrika/c" c.d.s., and 1915 (5 July) Union of South Africa telegram from Cape Town to Hälbich showing "Karibib/Deutsch-/Südwestafrika" c.d.s., Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate 7,500 - 10,000
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