Ballston Philatelics

P.O.W. and
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Item No. Item Description Price US $
X4250 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
X4249 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
X4318 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
X4343 1941 POW Correspondence, RHODES - SWITZERLAND. 1941 (24 Nov) Airmail to Geneva, cancelled: POSTA AEREA / RODI (EGEO), opened and resealed at Rhodes, with scarce censor tape and handstamp. $250.00
X4252 Italian P.O.W. in JAMAICA P.O.W. 1942 (25 May) sent by Prisoner Oswald Ricci, No. 837 at "Up Park Camp" to Jamaica, NY. $150.00
X4350 CHILE Red Cross to CANADA Red Cross Special Red Cross env from Santiago to Toronto with Red Cross handstamp on reverse. Seldom seen from Chile. $125.00
X5150 1943 (17 May) British RAF Soldier in Japanese POW Camp from Slough, UK to British POW, sent via Japanese Red Cross, Tokyo with UK Censor, Ex. 3660 and Japanese censor's chop. $250.00