USA 1938-51 FOREIGN SURFACE RATE COVERS WITH PREXIES. Collection...

USA 1938-51 FOREIGN SURFACE RATE COVERS WITH PREXIES. Collection of 141 covers to foreign destinations, surface rates paid by Prexy Issues, single frankings (mostly 5¢ Monroe), multiples or mixed frankings with other series or commemoratives. Highlights include Oct 1939 ‘4th Regt.U.S.M.C./Shanghai, China’ and 'Semper/Fidelis’ postmark on cover to New Jersey; 1943 Central Park picture postcard with 3¢ to Suriname, censor marks; 1947 Centennial Stamp Expo cancel, to Shanghai; Paquebot cover with 5¢ tied by Goteborg-New York postmark, Swedish ship; block of 4 1½¢ overpaying rate to France; 1940 New Jersey to Iran, forwarded to Philippines, Indian censor; 1946 diplomatic pouch handstamp, to Office of Political Action in Tokyo, 1¢ pair plus Texas commemorative; 1938 registered cover to tea plantation on Java, blocks of 4 for ½¢, 1¢, 2¢ and 3¢; Hartford, CT, to Gdynia, Poland, three 2¢ (1¢ overpaid), postmarked Sept 27, 1939, manuscript 'Poland momentarily in Germany’; June 1939, to Straits Settlements, five 1¢ formed into 'H’ pattern, hand-drawn woman in hat at left (sender?); 1948 registered & return receipt to Sweden; 1947 registered to Switzerland franked with 7¢ plus Stamp Centennial 3¢ & 15¢ souvenir sheet; couple Tin Can Mail covers, one 20¢ single franking, one with 3¢ and 20c postage due marking; Dec. 1940 Radio City Music Hall picture postcard to Tallinn, Estonia, delivered during Soviet occupation; several APO postmarks, some postcards or uprated postal cards; more. Foreign destinations include Aden, Albania, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Cameroun, China, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia (with Aden censor), England, Honduras, Iceland, Israel, Malta, Mexico, Montserrat, Morocco, New Zealand, North Borneo, Norway, Pakistan, Samoa, South Africa, Sweden, Trieste, Zanzibar. Numerous postal markings for returned mail (various languages), postage due (stamps of Canada, France, Great Britain, Poland, Trinidad), censor markings & tape, unclaimed, 'Service Suspended’ (China, Dutch East Indies, France, Greece, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Manchukuo (1947), Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sarawak). Fine to very fine. Difficult to duplicate. (Estimate 1500 - 2000 US$)

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