Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 6

Smirna in World War I 1915/18: Exhibit collection (64 covers/cards) on leaves showing the beginning of Censorship on overseas mail from Smirna with Censor cachets of Constantinople in black, violet and red, red perforated circular seals on reverse of covers (and two usages of the much rarer seal in green); usages of the rectangular perforated red Censor label; fine 1915 Parcel Card multi-franked at 34½ piastres with 1914 issue incl. 25 pi. olive-green used to Vienna via Bulgaria, 1915 Parcel Card to Lausanne multi-franked at 13½ piastres and another at same rate to Germany; 1915 censored in Smirna to American Hospital in Konia, 1916 Parcel Card to Austria via Bulgaria at 11½ pi., 1916 Parcel Card to Hamburg at 19 pi. 10 pa.; 1917 cover to Holland with Censor Reseal; 1918 cover to a Fieldpost in Hungary with Reseal Censor on reverse; covers (2) to Switzerland taxed on arrival etc. A fine lot with detailed writing-up for rates and routes.