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Lot# : 269 Bulgaria
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First Balkan War 1912/13: Collection well written up on leaves with covers/cards (25) including mail from the preparations prior to War being declared against Turkey on October 18, 1912 with Censor markings of Korten in manuscript, cachets of Military units and Ministry of War, two rare covers from a Foreign Volunteer unit (who could not legally join the Bulgarian Army) with "Macedonian Adrianople Legion, Veles Batallion, 4th Company" cachets in violet, further two covers from the IMRO units; mail from Serbian forces within Bulgaria and two rare cards from the Macedonian front ex Boreovan and Doirin etc. Viewing recommended.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 270 Bulgaria
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Balkan Wars 1912/13: Prisoner of War Mail, covers/cards (3) with Jan. 1913 cover from Grand Hotel Boulevard, Sofia with circular violet "Administration of the Sophia Regional Command" and manuscript "Libre de Taxe / Prisonnier de Guerre / Commandant of the Sophia Command" in red ink; 1913 Bulgarian 10 st. red postal card to Stamboul (May 12) cancelled at Stara Zagora with blue unit cachet "Staff of HQ Section / Stara Zagora" in blue and incoming cover from Mahmoud Pasha (Istanbul) franked at 1 piastre to the Grand Hotel Boulevard, Sofia with Reseal Censor "Administration of the Sophia Regional Command" at top - the sole such usage of a Reseal label recorded. A rare group.Starting bid : 300.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 271 Bulgaria
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Balkan Wars 1912/13: Red Cross mail. The Collection well written up on leaves with covers/cards (8) including Turkish 20 pa. card from Stamboul (Jan. 1913) to British Red Cross in Sofia, Great Britain cover at 2½ d. rate to Philippopolis to Nurse Sharpin at the Military Hospital with Bulgarian notation "Stage (rear-area) Hospital", May 1913 card from Dedeagatch with "Iambol Evacuation Hospital" Red Cross cachet, Bulgarian card with "Red Cross / Russe Branch" cachet and July 1913 registered franchise cover with imprinted "Bulgarian Red Cross Society, Sofia" at top to Adrianople and presumably captured by Ottoman Army when this town was reoccupied by the Turks, and a December 1912 card from Iambol with "Russian Red Cross - 'Moscow' Lazaret" cachet in red, previously unrecorded; Aug. 1913 Bulgarian 10 st. card from Dupnitsa to UK from a British Red Cross nurse with Unit cachet and message stating "postal arrangements are pretty bad, apart from the Censor" and an Aug. 1913 card from Kustendjil to Germany with "Hospital of Her Majesty the Queen" circular cachet and carried free, probably by Red Cross pouch. A very rare group.Starting bid : 500.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 272 Bulgaria
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Balkan Wars 1912/13: Collection well written up on leaves with covers/cards (40) showing the Bulgarian and Serbian occupation of Eastern Thrace and the Chatalja Front with many cancelled items utilising the Lion within Circle Military unit cachets, including cover written on captured Ottoman Telegraph form, usages from Chorlu (4), April 1913 cover from Keshan, May 1913 card from Rodosto using Ottoman cds, mail from IMRO (foreign soldier's) units near Gallipoli, fine study of mail from Adrianople between the Wars incl. Telegraph form usages (one from the Royal Palace on Dvorets Vrana near Sophia to a Lieutenant from Prince Kiril), pink Money Order form, and range of cards (July-August 1913) from the anti-Serbian Western Front. Another superb lot with viewing recommended.Starting bid : 750.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 273 Bulgaria
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1912/1915: Exhibition collection Balkan Wars, containg over eighty entires, highlighting Bulgarian mails and the changes to territories during the Wars, mail usages, telegrams and rare postmarks, pertinent to the wars. The collection contains a number of unusual items so a registered fieldpost letter franked only for the registration fee, a postal money order from Silistra to Schumen and a wealth of relevant material. Great study to be appreciated.Starting bid : 1,000.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 274 Bulgaria
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Second Balkan War 1913 (July-Sept.)/1914: Romanian Forces and Occupation of Bulgaria, the collection on leaves (31 items) with remarkable stampless cover from 6th Detachment with violet negative seal cachets (2) 6th Principal Rear Detachment cds (July 20, 1913) and Posts & Telegraphs cachet all in violet addressed to Silistria, Aug. 1913 Armata concession card to Army HQ in Pleven cancelled "Somovit-Pleven Railroad Post Office" in red (Aug. 22), 5 b. green stationery card from Berkovitsa to Serbia cancelled by "Cavalerie Z.O." cds (July 24) in violet (cert. Novakovic), Armata concession cards used ex 2nd, 4th and 7th Divisions, cover with 15 b. tied by "Vratza" cds to Pitesti, rare Romania Money Order card up-rated and mailed from Dobrich to Pitesti, July 1913 Bulgarian 5 st. card used as formula card with 5 b. tied by "Silistra" cds, Romania 1913 Franchise stamps with imperforate Proof pair, imperf. between used pair on piece and three covers, Romania Dec. 1913 Victory issue covers (7). A generally fine lot of most unusual material.Starting bid : 1,200.00 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 275 Bulgaria
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First & Second Balkan Wars 1912/13: Collection well written up on leaves with covers/cards (62) showing the Bulgarian and Serbian occupation of Thrace including Bulgarian P.O. in Salonika with card and a May 1914 5 st. green Money Order form additionally franked 15 st. to Bulgarian occupied Cavalla, Occupation of Thrace with range of covers/cards from Cherkez Khoi, Dedeagatch (1), Demirtache (using Ottoman datestamp), Dimotika (3, incl. rare up-rated card to Egypt), Drama, Gumuldjina (2), Lozengrad (4, one stampless with intaglio Lion seals), Serres (2), Svilengrad (5, one registered), Svilengrad Serbian Office (2), Xanthi; mail from the Siege of Adrianople (10, with two cards from Ludovic Naudeau, War Correspondent of Paris Temps', dated from the first day of occupation of Adrianople). Together with a group of unwritten-up cards some mailed in the (small) interim between the two Balkan wars from Thrace from the end of May 1913 (Treaty of London, 30 May), with definitive issue of Bulgaria overprinted to celebrate Victory with usages on card and on registered cover to Canal Zone, Panama; together with a fabulous letter in German dated from Russe on July 13, 1913 concerning the start of the second conflict "The steamer 'Albrecht' arrived today with the Red Cross and leaves today...for 10 days we have had no mail from Europe and no Telegraph connection...The Romanians have already occupied Tutrakhan, Silistria, Dobrich, Balchjik and Varna. Now they are marching alone and undisturbed with a large Army to Cherven Briag, Orhanie and Sophia. The situation is very dangerous". A superb collection with viewing recommended.Starting bid : 1,500.00 CHFHammer price : not sold -
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