Ballston Philatelics

Military / Censored Mail
1914 - 1920


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Item No. War/Conflict Country Item Description Price US $
X4249 World War I Russia P.O.W. from Nerchinsk Garrison to Danish Red Cross. 1915 (26 Dec) from Nerchinsk, Zabaykal Oblast, via Petrograd w/boxed censor. Hand-stamps in LL and reverse: Head of the Nerchinsk Garrison for War Prisoners. No postage required. $175.00
X4250 World War I Russia P.O.W. from Riga, Latvia to Danish Red Cross. 1915 (26 Dec) with oval Petrograd censor and circular handstamp of the Red Cross Bureau for Inquiries on Prisoners of War in Copenhagen. $150.00
X4318 World War I Russia 1916 POW Card from Orynin, Galicia to Vienna via Sweden; Scarce label on reverse: "Correspondence to Russian occupied territories is being accepted by relief societies of neutral countries at the Austro-Hungarian office in Stockholm & . . . Vienna." $150.00
X4320 World War I Russia 1916 Semi-Postal set on Reg. / Censored cover to Switzerland sent from Moscow. $100.00
X4258 World War I France 1917 WWI AEF Army P.O. No. 6, Gen. Pershing's Hqtrs. 1917 (4 Sep) use from Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France by Capt. James L. Collins, Staff Officer to Pershing. (During WWII Collins was a Major General and replaced Gen. MacArthur as Army Chief of Staff.) $175.00
X2115 World War I U.S. 1917 (13 Dec) - WWI A.E.F. cover from France, sent by a soldier attached to the Railway Engineers, used from the Scarce U.S. Army Post Office No. 8. Green AEF and Red Cross Censor markings. $125.00
X2124 World War I U.S. 1918 (21 Oct) - Scarce Passed by Censor dated handstamp of the USS KENTUCKY. Latest known usage of this marking. $100.00
X4319 World War I Russia 1917 Censored cover to U.S., handstamp in Armenian on reverse sent to San Francisco, CA with unclear marking on reverse. $125.00
X5146 World War I Bahamas 1918 (18 Dec) Reg. Special Delivery to Switzerland, Red Cross + War Tax stamps Nassau to Berne, with scarce 5d Special Delivery issue (SG S2, 20x cat on cover), and three different war tax issues. $200.00
X4311 World War I Poland 1918 PRZEDBORZ Local on Military cover from Gorzkowice with 2 gr. Local issue of 1918 used on arrival (17 Mar 1918). $125.00
X1155 World War I Japan 1918 - 10 Sen used from Mokpo, Korea to U.S. (Sent by Lt. Newland, U.S. Military) $75.00
X3149 World War I U.S. 1918 (31 Oct) Soldier's card from North Russia (probably at Archangel). U.S. ms. Censored + oval British Censor: PE / C 20. Sent to Monroe, Mich. Soldier probably member of 339th Infantry which consisted of men from Michigan and Wisconsin. $225.00
X3105 World War I Great Britain 1919 "On Active Service" envelope sent by General Walshe to England. ARMY POST OFFICE / P.B. 2 cancel of Archangel, North Russia and Censor handstamp: PASSED BY CENSOR / No. 1 R. $275.00