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Hôtel des ventes de Provence

146 - POSTCARDS – PHILATELY / WORLD WAR I (1914–1918) / VAR – Set of 20 envelopes and 1 postcard with military postage, 1914–1919, correspondence from military hospitals and medical units in the Var department. Letterheads: French Red Cross – Society for the Relief of Wounded Soldiers (Var departmental committee and Toulon committee, auxiliary hospital stamps nos. 32–38, “Semeuse” 10 c and 25 c, including one for Geneva), Auxiliary Hospital 105 – Toulon, Assistance to Convalescing Soldiers – Depot No. 112 in Le Beausset (town hall stamp), Quinze-Vingts National Hospice – Bandol Convalescent Home, Hyères City Hall “closed by necessity” (stamp of the Casino Municipal Hospital, 1915), “Bretagne II” military hospital ship (Toulon, 1917, ship’s stamp). Stamps: Auxiliary Hospital No. 52 and Mont des Oiseaux Supplementary Hospital in Hyères, S.S.B.M. Hyères Committee (Hospital No. 33), Hyères Military Hospital (postcard), Supplementary Hospital No. 5 on the Giens Peninsula, Supplementary Hospital No. 9 and Temporary Hospital in Bandol, a hospital in Toulon, chief medical officer (with his letter from 1916), Military Hospital 86 in Fréjus (military postal control strip), Red Cross Soldiers’ Home in Brignoles, commander of the Brignoles prisoner-of-war camp (envelope bound for Germany). "Correspondence of the Armed Forces of the Republic" postcard featuring allied flags, Toulon hospital postmark. A fine collection of local philatelic items. Old pencil annotations. Showing signs of use; creases, tears, and missing sections on some envelopes.

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€80 - 200

Sale fees

22%

POSTCARDS – PHILATELY / WORLD WAR I (1914–1918) / VAR – Set of 20 envelopes and 1 postcard with military postage, 1914–1919, correspondence from military hospitals and medical units in the Var department. Letterheads: French Red Cross – Society for the Relief of Wounded Soldiers (Var departmental committee and Toulon committee, auxiliary hospital stamps nos. 32–38, “Semeuse” 10 c and 25 c, including one for Geneva), Auxiliary Hospital 105 – Toulon, Assistance to Convalescing Soldiers – Depot No. 112 in Le Beausset (town hall stamp), Quinze-Vingts National Hospice – Bandol Convalescent Home, Hyères City Hall “closed by necessity” (stamp of the Casino Municipal Hospital, 1915), “Bretagne II” military hospital ship (Toulon, 1917, ship’s stamp). Stamps: Auxiliary Hospital No. 52 and Mont des Oiseaux Supplementary Hospital in Hyères, S.S.B.M. Hyères Committee (Hospital No. 33), Hyères Military Hospital (postcard), Supplementary Hospital No. 5 on the Giens Peninsula, Supplementary Hospital No. 9 and Temporary Hospital in Bandol, a hospital in Toulon, chief medical officer (with his letter from 1916), Military Hospital 86 in Fréjus (military postal control strip), Red Cross Soldiers’ Home in Brignoles, commander of the Brignoles prisoner-of-war camp (envelope bound for Germany). "Correspondence of the Armed Forces of the Republic" postcard featuring allied flags, Toulon hospital postmark. A fine collection of local philatelic items. Old pencil annotations. Showing signs of use; creases, tears, and missing sections on some envelopes.

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Auction details

Toulon and the surrounding area
Tuesday, November 10
10:30 AM
1190, route Nationale 8
83190 Ollioules, France

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Hôtel des ventes de Provence +33 4 94 98 26 33 contact@hdvprovence.fr
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