Sale #165

1912 Rhein Main card to Weisbaden, franked 5pf Germania & 10pf air label, tied Frankfurt/14.6.12 commemorative d/stamp, a similar card with same franking at Darmstadt/22.6.12. (2)

1914-18 WWI postcard range all housed in plastic sleeves incl. 1914 Marburg R.P mobilisation, Taking the French Trench, Crown Prince Wilhelm, The Poor Orphans, Cavalry Flight in Poland, English Dud Shells, De Lousing Clothing, Germany & Austria - make the enemies sing to their tune, Bathing for Officers, Carl Beeker Chromos, East Prussian Relief Fund, French Anti Kaiser, Battle of Lonwy, invalid charity card, Help Build the Bridge Again...

1927-49 first flight covers (5) 1927 Deutsches Lufthansa Braunschweig - Brocken special Hindenburg card, 1928 AB Aero fourth experimental flight Bremen - Malmo with cachet - scarce (believed only 25 items flown on this leg), 1931 Do-X flight Lisbon - Rio De Janeiro, posted on board, franked 4mk Zeppelin stamp, red cachet, 1948 B.E.A Berlin - Hamburg with cachet, 1949 another for Berlin - Dusseldorf. (5)

1933-44 Third Reich good to FU (few M) collection in a Lighthouse hingeless album commencing with the 1933 Hindenburg Defin set of fourteen, also a selection used on individual pieces displaying slogan cancels, 1933 Wagner set of nine (Cat. £450), also the Perf 14 set of five (Cat. £190), 1933 Chicago flight Zeppelin set (Cat. £1200), 1934 Air set II, 1935 OSTROPA M/Sheet VFU with exhibition pmks, small tone above 3pf val (Cat. £1400), 1935...

1933-45 Third Reich, fine M or UM collection housed in a Lindner hingeless album, a fairly complete run through. Highlights incl. 1933 Opening of Reichstag set, 1933 Wagner set to 25pf, 1934 Air set, 1934 Hindenberg Memorial set, 1934 Welfare Fund, 1935 Railways set, 1935 OSTROPA set, later M/Sheets incl. off VFU, 1938 Winter Relief, 1939 Motor Show, 1939 Nurburgring Races set, 1939 Postal Employees set, 1939 Danzig Optd set, 1939 Winter...

1935 OSTROPA M/Sheet, VFU with Konigsberg Exhibition cancels (2) affixed to envelope (not tied) addressed to Dresden, slight faults, SG.MS576a.

1936-37 M/Sheets (4) all FU, SG.MS 635/7 & MS 618, also 1959 Beethoven M/Sheet UM, 1959 Lubeck M/Sheet in special folder, six other stamps from 1930's each on piece with special cancel. (12)

1937-39 propaganda cards (8) incl. Hitler portraits (5), Goering, 1939 Party Rally, 1943 Day of the NSDAP in Gen Govt.

WWII FELDPOST COVERS accumulation incl. 10900H German Military to Romania (4), FPN 28843 General Command 6th Army Corps Eastern Front (3), FPN 02044 Propaganda Staff G, FPN 29957C 8th Battery Artillery Rgt 216 (2), FPN 34903 Labour Battalion 1/331 (4), Panzer Jager Replacement Battalion 17 (2), Family Correspondence incl. from fiance - later her husband who volunteered for the Waffen SS, some from his period in SS Hospital etc. (56)

1940's propaganda cards 'The German Soldier' set of eight, unused.

1953 Philatelic Exhib set in top marginal UM blocks of four, SG.1097/8. Cat. £272. (8)