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Confederate States of America - uncut block of 4 CSA #12 (KB - Keatinge and Ball Printing) dark-blue 10 cents stamps. Near-mint (has horizontal crease-line at center of block), original gum, unused and unhinged; well-centered. A lovely block. This stamp series was originally printed Richmond, Virginia, by Archer & Daly Printing in May 1863, but in August-September 1864, fearing the fall of the city to Union forces, the printing plates were transferred to Columbia, South Carolina, where they were produced by Keatinge and Ball. This stamp series ceased to be produced in February 1865 when Columbia was captured by the Union army.
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Item Code: 0010044 Price: €85
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Danish West Indies pre-paid postcard for 3 Cents, circa 1870-1902. Text and stamp in carmine-rose color; stamp has thick inverted frame. Uniface, in crisp unused condition.
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Item Code: 0010033 Price: €12
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France - 2 air labels belonging to the collaborationist French Volunteer Legion (LVF) of the German Army, in World War 2. The French Volunteer Legion [against Bolshevism] - the 'Legion Francais Contre le Bolshevisme' - was formed within days of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, on 22 June 1941. The movement for an establishment of such a volunteer force came not from the collaborationist Vichy regime, but rather from Fascist organizations that operated within occupied France - a creature that earned the derision of both the German government and the French public. The Legion barely numbered 2,300 men, but it served the same symbolic capacity as similar collaborationist units serving in the German ranks during the first half of the Second World War, and earned a reputation for its tough combat ability on the Eastern Front. As such, following its evolution through a few re-titled reincarnations in the ranks of the Waffen-SS in the latter half of the War, many of its veterans met their end serving France during the early years of the Vietnam war, notably at Dien Bien Phu in 1956.
These air labels were part of a series of privately produced philately promoting the Legion. These 2 labels are the 1942 bi-lingual overprints of the original issue from Nov. 1941, with 'Front De L'Est / Ostfront' (Eastern Front) in black. Similar to the aspirations of other foreign legions in German service, these labels bear strong French associations in design and language - both also retain tabs bearing the Vichy hammer emblem. The Air Tax label is the version lacking accents on the word 'Special' and 'Francais'. Mint.
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Item Code: 0010138 Price: €80
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German World War I prisoner of war camp post - a postcard from a Miss Giesaroshskaya in Vilna (presumably the lady in the photo on obverse) to Russian inmate (number 50155, Mr. Lisek Gilarovski) at Block 5, barrack(?) 18 of a prisoner of war camp in Hammerstein (West Prussia). The postcard was written on the 13th of July 1917 and postmarked on the 16th, with a German-language counterstamp ('Wilna'). The receiving camp censor stamped the card with 'Prisoner of War Communication - Hammerstein, Examined #26'.
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Item Code: 0010035 Price: €20
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Norway - corner block with gutter of 2 Norwegian 1 Ore (SG 301/38) olive-green colored stamps overprinted with a "V" (SG T49). Mint, unused, unhinged with original gum. Not water-marked. Has minor crease at bottom-right corner of block and a spot on the bottom stamp. In August 1941 the Germans overprinted certain Norwegian stamps with a "V" to celebrate what then appeared to be their final victory both over Russia and occupied Europe.
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Item Code: 0010045 Price: €7
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Poland - set of 14 mint 'Poczta Osiedli Polskich w Italii' stamps issued by the Polish Resettlement Corps in Italy, 1946. The Resettlement Corps was created by the British Government under the auspices of the War Relief Services (NCWC) in May 1946, and was tasked with processing the some-300,000 Polish soldiers in the western sphere of liberated Europe. Polish servicemen fought bravely in virtually every front of the war, on land, sea and air - in North Africa, the Eastern Front, Scandinavia, France, Italy and Britain. The soldiers could choose between emigrating from Poland, returning to [Communist] Poland, and resettling in the UK but signing a two-year contract to serve in the British Armed Forces. These stamps were printed by 'L.P.S. Off. Carte Valori' in Rome, in 1946, in various Polish denominations; they feature Polish motifs and certain issues are also overprinted in English, French or Polish with Roosevelt's "Honor the Four Freedoms".
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Item Code: 0010132 Price: €25
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