
366 auction march 2018 - 300
VICTOR HUGO: Entire letter franked with Lauré 10 c. and 20 c., tied by cds. "TOURS 22 OCT. 70" with adjacent "P.D." to the Isle of Jersey with clear arrival mark, on reverse also good strike of rare r...

VICTOR HUGO: Entire letter franked with Lauré 10 c. and 20 c., tied by cds. "TOURS 22 OCT. 70" with adjacent "P.D." to the Isle of Jersey with clear arrival mark, on reverse also good strike of rare r...

MONTGOLFIER: Entire letter franked with Siège 20 c., tied by clear star cancel "4" with adjacent "PARIS RUE D'ERGHIEN 24 OCT. 70" to Bordeaux with arrival mark of November 4. In the area of the small ...

GÉNÉRAL UHRICH: Entire letter franked with Lauré 20 c., tied by star cancel with adjacent "PARIS (60) 14 NOV. 70" to Coutances with arrival mark of November 24; 3 pages of text incl. the just introduc...

GÉNÉRAL CAMBRONNE: Letterfront with upper backflap franked with Siège 20 c., tied by star cancel with adjacent "PARIS R. ST. HONORÉ 27 JANV." to Grenoble with transit mark of Lyon and arrival mark of ...

Entire letter with 3 pages of text, tied by GC "892" with adjacent "PARIS LA CHAPELLE-ST.-DENISE 27 JANV. 71" to Lille with arrival mark of February 4; fine and scarce, sign. Robineau

VILLE DE FLORENCE: Entire letter franked with Lauré 20 c., tied by star cancel with adjacent "PARIS R. ST.-LAZARE 24 SEPT. 70" to Niort with arrival mark of September 29, sign. Calves

ETATS-UNIS: Entire letter franked with Lauré 10 c. and 20 c. (both defective), tied by star cancel with adjacent "PARIS PL. DE LA BOURSE 26 SEPT. 70" to London with arrival marks on front and reverse...

ARMAND BARBÉS: Entire letter with interesting contents, franked with Lauré 20 c., tied by light strike of GC "3997" with adjacent date stamp "TOURS 10 OCT. 70" to Le Havre and redirected to Angoulême ...

GEORGE SAND: Entire letter franked with Lauré 20 c., tied by clear "LILLE A PARIS 8 OCT. 70" to Palud with arrival mark of October 11; very fine and scarce

COLONEL CHARRAS: Entire letter with Lauré 20 c., tied by star cancel "37" with adjacent "PARIS Bt. MALESHERBES" to Chateaubriand with arrival mark of November 2 and matching reply, dated November 4, 1...

L'UNION: Envelope franked with Lauré 20 c. (slightly rounded corner) tied by star cancel "3" with adjacent "PARIS PL. DE LA MADELEINE 21 SEPT. 70" to Poitiers with arrival mark of October 20. The 'L'u...

PAR MOULINS: Bordeaux 20 c. in horizontal strip of 5, partly cut into, tied by GC "532" of Bordeaux to entire letter on flimsy paper, fine and scarce, sign. Calves and certificate Behr (2015)

Envelope with original letter dated "Hanwell (Great Britain) 31 December 1870", the envelope franked with 5 copies Lauré 20 c. tied by GC "2565" with adjacent "MOULINS-S-ALLIER 6 JANV. 71", usual smal...

Entire letter franked with 5 copies Lauré 20 c., all affixed around the edges of the cover, tied by indistinct PC, to Paris with transit mark of Dieppe of January 28, addressed to a brigadier at St. D...

Entire letter franked with Bordeaux 20 c., type II, report I, horizontal strip of 5, partly touched, tied by GC "1002" with adjacent "CHERBOURG 4 JANV. (71)" with transit mark "CHERBOURG A PARIS" and ...

BOULES DE MOULINS: Envelope with letter (not quite complete and therefore undated) franked with Lauré 80 c. and 20 c., tied by GC "1769" with adjacent "LE HAVRE 31 DEC. 70" and part of railroad transi...

Small collection of 8 entires, two with complete franking, the other ones with stamps fallen off (one partly)

UNDERCOVER MAIL: Entire letter dated "Annonay le 14 Septembre 1870" with envelope addressed to a prisoner of war and outer envelope with cds. "NEUFCHÂTEAU 12 OCT. 70" to the same person c/o Gare du No...

MILITARY MAIL: 1870, 10.8., telegram formular, franked with perforated issue 1 fr. orange, from Paris headquarters to the commander of "8e batterie 10e artillerie - camp Chalons" inquiring on the wher...

2 covers from Dübendorf March 3 resp. March 11, 1871 to France, the first one still without postage free label, instead with straight line "Franco"; in the small camp of Dübendorf the labels were not ...

"K:PR.FELD-POST-AMT 10. ARMEE CPS. 27/2" on sealed letter containing 100 Thaler to Nordheim; a rare money letter

10.9.1870, Fieldpostcard endorsed "Belagerungs-Corps vor Straßburg" to Prussia; a scarce and interesting document of the siege of Straßburg

'LAISSEZ-PASSER." dated "Paris le 17 février 1871" for a French worker and his family; at bottom checkpoint handstamp "ETAPPEN-KOMMANDO ZU VITRY S/S"

"LAISSEZ-PASSER" for an English lady retourning to London, dated "Paris le 3 février 1871", little unfresh

"VERSAILLES AUSWECHSLUNGS STELLE", blue boxed marking on reverse of opened-out envelope, franked with Siège 20 c. from "PARIS SENAT 18 FEVR. 71" to Switzerland, charged in red crayon