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98 - Militaria: Correspondence/Censorship/WWI World War I 1914–1918 - Rare Set of 4 Documents from the Austro-Hungarian Feldpost - Censorship from Lublin and Feldkirch - An exceptional and highly specialized collection of period documents consisting of four authentic postal items (three correspondence cards and one complete envelope) attesting to imperial and royal (K.u.K.) military postal censorship during the Great War.This cohesive lot illustrates the operation of the Austro-Hungarian field postal service in occupied Polish territory between 1916 and 1917. Three items were sent from the Lublin area to Switzerland (Lausanne), and the fourth was sent from Chęciny to the imperial capital, Vienna (Wien), in Austria.The series features a remarkable variety of original postal marks highly sought after by philatelists: circular date stamps from the Lublin relay offices, linear administrative censorship marks in red and black ink, as well as the official verification stamps from Feldkirch ("Zensuriert K.u.K. Zensurstelle Feldkirch") and Kielce. Each item is carefully preserved on a period collector’s descriptive mount. A certified authentic lot of absolute rarity.

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€40 - 60

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26%

Militaria: Correspondence/Censorship/WWI World War I 1914–1918 - Rare Set of 4 Documents from the Austro-Hungarian Feldpost - Censorship from Lublin and Feldkirch - An exceptional and highly specialized collection of period documents consisting of four authentic postal items (three correspondence cards and one complete envelope) attesting to imperial and royal (K.u.K.) military postal censorship during the Great War.This cohesive lot illustrates the operation of the Austro-Hungarian field postal service in occupied Polish territory between 1916 and 1917. Three items were sent from the Lublin area to Switzerland (Lausanne), and the fourth was sent from Chęciny to the imperial capital, Vienna (Wien), in Austria.The series features a remarkable variety of original postal marks highly sought after by philatelists: circular date stamps from the Lublin relay offices, linear administrative censorship marks in red and black ink, as well as the official verification stamps from Feldkirch ("Zensuriert K.u.K. Zensurstelle Feldkirch") and Kielce. Each item is carefully preserved on a period collector’s descriptive mount. A certified authentic lot of absolute rarity.

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Auction details

"The Memory of Wars" by Vasari Auction: Testimonies, Documents, Photographs, Postcards, Stamps
Sunday, November 8
02:00 PM
86 cours Victor Hugo
33000 Bordeaux, France

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Vasari Auction +33 5 56 20 47 93 contact@vasari-auction.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 150,000 lots published

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