During
WWII
Featuring
the collection of Steven Roth
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Contents
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Unusual Censor
Actions
·
Service Suspended-To
Asia,
·
Service
Suspended-To
·
Non-Europe
Destinations, FAM22-Via
·
Airmail to the
·
Airmail to
Europe (not
·
Airmail to
·
Airmail to
·
Air To Asia,
·
To The
·
To/From: POWs,
Internees, Clandestine Matters
·
Surface to
·
Surface to Asia,
·
In Search of
Servicemen
·
End of WWII
Unusual Censor
Actions
“Released…District
Postal Censor”; From Brazil: “
Boxed:
“Released by censor”, #634,804; black bordered: “US Examiner..” View
Air
to GB: “RTS by Censor”; broad red striped h/s View
To
POW in Germany, address incorrect, content View
Form
862, “…No
Return Address”, to Holland View
To
Holland, Cuba Airmail, “Accommodation Address” View
C39,
31 to Iran, form/label, View
1940
registry to Amsterdam, “Released”, returned 1946 View
UY6m,#860 to
C20,27, Air, NJ to Rumania, “Through USSR”, RTS
form 2911 View
C29,
HI provisional censor: “Released by I.C.B.”, to MN,12/15/41 View
C24,
MA to Norway, Form 862; C29, HI provisional censor: “Released by
I.C.B.”, to MA,1/28/42 View
Service
Suspended-To Asia,
By
Surface:
#805,
NYC to Rangoon, Burma on wrapper View
#810,
CT to Foochow, China, 11/6/41; #807 on 3ct entire, Portland, OR to Shanghai,
WX105, 11/26/41 View
#900,901,
NJ to Shantung, China, 11/28/41; #899(pair),901, Fall
River Mills, CA to Swatow, China View
#810,
Minneapolis to Nanking, China View
#804a(pair),807a,
#804(5),
Seattle to Philippines, 12/31/41 View
#810,
NYC to Thailand, 12/4/41 View
#810,
NYC to Java, 1/3/42 View
#825,
registry,
By
Air (Service Suspended, to Asia,
1/8/42;
#825(pair),831, NYC to Hong Kong, 12/16/41 View
#815,830(2),
NYC to
#825,831,
NYC to Java, 1/3/42; C21,22, NJ to Java, 12/29/41 View
#823(pair),846(pair),900,
Service
Suspended-To
By
Surface:
#805,
Wrapper to Greece View
#805,
Wrapper to Rumania View
#810,
DC to Tassin, France, 6/25/42 View
#810,
Annapolis to Holland, 12/18/41 View
NYC
to Denmark, w/ WX105, 7/28/42 View
NYC
to France: #806,857, 9/5/40 View
Two
to
#810,
Sacramento to Germany, 3/6/42 View
807,899(2),
NYC to Paris, 9/16/42
View
#805
to
By
Air (Service Suspended, to
To
C9,
C27 to Bulgaria, 1/12/42 View
C24(2), NYC to
To
#815,C29 to Italy, Benicia, CA, 1/11/42; #830(pair) to Switz.,
NYC, 11/16/42 View
Mixed
issues on 3ct entire, Keyes, CA to Holland, 11/25/41 View
#820(pair),
NYC
To Switz.: C30, 2/3/43; #905,C30, 3/1/43 View
Non-Europe
Destinations, FAM22-Via
To
Australia: #810(pair),C24(2), Jamaica, NY View
C30(2), Montclair, NJ to Congo, 6/8/42 View
C22,29, Phila to Jerusalem, 9/8/43 View
To
South Africa: #810(2),C22, San Francisco View
Airmail to the
Middle East
C24,
Bronxville, NY to Cairo, 1942, “insufficient postage” View
To Iraq: C9,22, NYC, 11/26/40 View
Airmail
to
C27,30(2), Chicago, 3/10/42 View
C29,31, Spokane, WA to Herslia; View
#807(2),
C24, NYC to Jerusalem, 7/3/40 View
Airmail
to
#808,C21,24, Bloomington, IN, 8/12/40 View
C24,
Prouts Neck, ME, 10/13/41
C27,30(2), Thetford, VT, 10/18/44 View
#815(2),831, Boston 1/31/42; C27(strip3), NYC, 11/18/41 View
#825,875,900,C23, NYC, 11/6/41 View
Airmail to
Europe (not
#817(2)
on 6ct air entire, NYC to Belgium, 4/9/40 View
To
Czech: #808,25,C23, Cleveland, OH, 9/11/40; View
To
C24,
To
Denmark: #700, Ridgefield, CT, 8/1/39; #817(2) on 6ct air entire, Chicago,
7/10/40 View
#830,
NYC to
To
Denmark: C24, Pittsburgh, 2/10/41; #825,C7, Hoboken,
NJ, 5/17/40 View
To
DC
to
To Greece: #636, 799,
composite rate, 1937; C24, NYC, 5/29/40 View
C7(2),23,24, Blue Point, NY to
#878,825(both perfins), Phila. to
#810,825(2),
St Louis to Hungary, View
To Italy: #815,C21, NYC, 6/25/40
View
To
8/28/39;
#830, Detroit to Poland, WX130 on
rev., 12/23/40 View
To
#894(3),C8,C23, NYC to Madrid, 4/17/40 View
To
To
To
To
Sweden: C24, Denver, Mourning Cover, 5/25/42; #794,796,C29,
Los Angeles, 7/27/42 View
To
Sweden: #813,883,C23(pair), Davidson, NC, 9/20/40;
C24(pair), WX105(pr) on rev, Albany, NY, 12/13/41 View
To
Switzerland: C7,9, Cornwall, NY, 7/18/40; #744,C20, NYC, 12/13/40 View
To
Prexies to
To
C24,
Airmail to
#805(2),6(2),7(3),862,872,879,
“Phony
War” mail: #806,810(5),856, NYC to England,
9/6/39 View
“Phony
War” mail to Germany: #640,806,815,794(2), Chicago, 12/11/39 View
C25(blk+sgl), Fort Sheridan,
IL(boxed killer) to England, 7/15/41 View
To
England: C25,27,28, Franklin, MA, 9/11/41 View
To
England: #699,810, Seattle, 12/10/40 View
To
To
To
To
France: #815,20, NYC, 4/25/41, Vichy censor View
To
France: C24, Punta Gorda, FL, 7/8/41, Vichy censor View
To
To
Germany: #632,698,807,C23,C24, Chicago, View
To
To
Germany during period of no Allied
censor: #808,C21 on 6ct air entire, Chicago,
7/1/40 View
To
To
Germany: #807(3),842(5),879(2),882, Chicago, 9/1/40 View
To
To
Germany: C20,23, Newark, NJ, 11/15/41 View
Airmail to
To
#699,701
on 5ct entire, NYC to Meihsien, 3/26/36; C20(strip3, pl#), Berkeley, CA to Kwangtung, 3/23/37 View
C20,22, Jersey City, NJ to Shanghai, 4/2/37 View
C9,20,22, Lincoln, NE to Ningpo,
Registered w/ r-receipt, Forwarded, 11/15/37 View
#815,25(3), Glendale (sanitarium cc) to Shanghai, 7/8/40 View
#694,696(3),817, San Francisco to Shanghai, 12/2/40; C9(2)24(3)27,
double rate, NYC to Shanghai View
C9,22(2), Los Angeles to Shanghai, 1/6/41 View
#898,910(3),C23(3), (incorrect rate) NYC to Shanghai, 9/14/41 View
Air
To
#637,C20,
Air To Asia, Africa (no China/H-Kong):
To
Australia: C6, 632,634(2), 3 domestic zones + sea, NYC, 11/29/24; #634,C19, Coconut Grove, FL, composite rate, 3/24/38 View
To
Forwarded
from N.Z.: #812,C9(2),C22 on 3ct entire, San
Francisco, 10/15/41, Auckland transit View
#815,825(3),
To N. Zealand: #815(blk+sgl), Boston
to Dunedin, 9/30/40; #815,829(pairs), N. Orleans to Wellington, 8/9/41, View
#825,831,
NYC to Cameroun, 6/26/42 View
C22,27,
C30(2),
C21(pair), Guam to CT, 3/25/40 View
FAM14
first flight (San Francisco-Honolulu-Macao), 4/21/35; C22,
C21:
HI to IL, 2/3/39;
From
Honolulu to Philadelphia: C21(2), 6/24/40; C21,
3/6/41, ‘Savings Bonds “S.O.N.
View
From/To
To India: #825,831,
Mount Kisco, NY, 9/27/40 View
To
India: C23,24 + prexies, South Boston, MA View
To
India: #825,831, Wilmington, DE, 2/21/41 View
To Java: #815, 825(3),
Van Buren, IN, 3/18/41 View
To
Morocco: #807(3, 1 added to meet deficiency),896,900,C7,C23,
NYC, 3/7/41; #905,C30, New Rochelle, 8/4/43, View
To
Morocco: #806,7,C24(2) on 3ct entire, Boston, View
C9,C22, Boston to
Nigeria, 3/18/41 View
C22,
To
To
To South Africa: C30(2), Greenville, SC, ca 1941 View
#701,
Saint Paul, MN to Manila, 7/20 View
C22,29, Philadelphia to Khartoum, Sudan & forwarded there,
8/10/42 View
To Tanganyika: #806,820,C23, Minneapolis, 4/11/41 View
To The
To
Argentina: Two similar covers: h/s: “Written in Yiddish”, NYC, 1944, Prexies View
#824+ 5 different
Famous Americans, to Cosquin, NYC, 12/17/41 View
To
Buenos Aires: #810,C9(3)C21, NYC registry, 12/1/39;
C21(2), Wilkes-Barre, 12/12/41 View
C21(2), Berkeley, CA to San Martin,
Argentina, 8/6/40 View
Other
#914(pair),
#806,825,C23, Lincoln, NE, registry to CZ View
To
To
Canal Zone: #825,
C22,
#804,807,C23,
C27,
Vieques, PR to NYC, 10/4/42 View
To/From: POWs,
Internees, Clandestine Matters
Airmail:
#807(3),835(7), Bronx to Jewish woman in Berlin, 7/31/40 View
C28(2), Glouster City, NJ to Camp Maloney, Switz., internee “escaped”, 11/16/44 View
C25, Long Beach, CA to soldier/APO 34, “POW” h/s, 1/9/43 View
#825(2), Maunawai, HI to Jerome RC,
Denson, AR, 1/27/44 View
Surface:
Heart Mountain, WY, Japanese relo. 3/29/43 View
Japanese relo center: #925, (patriotic) Hunt, ID, 3/23/45 View
To
POW in Germany via Red Cross, “offensive”
stamp (like #905) removed, 1944 View
(Free),
Chicago, 11/26/41 to Polish POW in Germany View
(Free), Card to POW in Mukden, NYC, 1944; Card, SLC to POW, Germany, ‘45 View
(Free),
From POW at Ft. Devens,
(Free)
from GI at Camp: McClean, TX POW camp, 1943 View
Surface to the
#806,7,
#810,
#807,
899(2), Paterson, NJ to
#810,
#806,7, NYC to
#887,
Surface to
#842,
NYC to Holland, 10/15/40, great PPC;
#805, Printed matter, NYC to Switz., 1940 View
To
Czech: #810, Cambridge, MA, 11/20/40; #861,864(2), Oakland, CA, 3/25/40 View
#887,
To
#810,
NYC (neat c/c), 8/8/39 to
#908(blk + sgl), Cleveland to London
w/ Czech philatelic content &
h/s, 4/6/43 View
#806,858,
#804,905,908,
Pittsfield, MA to Latvia, 3/12/45;
#803 on UX27, printed matter to
Lisbon, 1941 View
#807a(2),
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Surface to Asia,
#900,905,
#807,900,
#806,7,
#790,653,
Seattle to Somalia, 3rd class, 1940 View
#822,24+, New Bedford, MA to Brazzaville, 1942, RTS, but
original enclosures, including a check was cashed at French PTT View
#899,900(2),
Patterson, NJ to Niger; #803,842 on 1 1/2ct entire, Mount Vernon, NY to Cape
Town, 10/9/44 View
#882,
L.A. to Japan, 1/15/41 View
#804(2)807,
#869,70,75,
#862,
interesting early censor, to Australia View
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In Search of
Servicemen
#804(2),905(2),
C25,
2 covers, both w/ “Missing” h/s:
C25,
2 covers, both w/ “Missing” ms.:
#807,
US/Canada patriotic c/c, Seattle,
3/45, “Missing” h/s; Charlotte, NC, 7/44, “Missing”
(typed label) View
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End of WWII
#830,
Chicago to Czech, 12/27/45, service resumed View
“This
Unit Dissolved/FPO San Francisco”, Navy/10/2/45 View
#810,
NYC to France, 4/19/45 View
#810,
Mohegan Lake, NY to Switz, 1/13/45 View
#806,927,
NYC to Switz., 3/23/45, after service resumed on 11/6/44 View
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related covers at: Prexies Page
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