Trafford Books: Books, Ephemera, Autographs, Photographs, Cigarette Cards, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History., 425, Manchester

Carton of Covers & Cards, mainly GB FDCs 1960s to modern including better types by Bradbury and Benham, plus FDCs of Sweden, West Berlin,

Covers & Cards including Spanish Civil War censored (5, one from Spanish Morocco); 1944 PC from an Italian POW in Germany;

Telegrams, British and Foreign, a collection from 1883 to 1960s, chiefly GB Post Office (70, various types), plus pictorial greetings telegrams

Holocaust Mail. 1943 rare PC from the Children's Prison Camp (K-L-V. Lager) at Rotschkowitz bei Brunn to Muhldorf with camp cachet;

Holocaust Mail. 1942 PC and 1943 Cover both from prisoners in Buchenwald Concentration Camp; the stamp on the cover partially torn away by the censor

Holocaust Mail. 1944 Letter Sheet from a prisoner at Gusen Concentration Camp, Sankt George, to Schildberg, with camp censor mark,

Holocaust Mail. 1944 PC from Sangerhausen Labour Camp, used to produce V2 missiles in the late months of the war. Posted by a Czech forced labourer

Holocaust Mail. 1943 Letter Sheets (2) from prisoners at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, one to the Litzmannstadt ghetto;

Latin America, 1884-1942 postal history mix with Brazil 1884-1901 (7, including 6 PS cards), and many later airmail covers to Europe,

First Flight covers, 1930s/60s, with many B.O.A.C. and B.E.A. Comet flights, Fiji 1942 (3), and Dutch flights (2). Also 18 aviation PPCs. VG/VF (42)

Commonwealth & Foreign covers & cards from 1880s, chiefly 20th Century with some interest in Pacific Islands, Burma, India, Iraq WW2 censored,

Wholesale quantity in UM sheets and part-sheets of 1945 Austrian definitives and postage dues, and issues of Allied Military Govt. of Germany,

Carton with GB Presentation Packs (65, mainly 1970s), numerous cigarette & trade cards, early 20th Century stereoscopic PPCs, and various PHQ cards.

World Wildlife Fund collection in three special albums, comprising 190 covers & maxi-cards plus related UM sets. Fine

GB Post Office ephemera & literature including 19th Century engraving publicising J. Young's Post Office at Malvern Link,

Great Britain Covers & Cards from pre-stamp to 1980s in two folders, on pages and loose; with much 20th Century military & censored mail.

Ralph Allen (1693-1764, city of Bath postmaster and founder of the 'Cross Post' system): 1755 cut-down wrapper to London endorsed Free, R. Allen' with

John Palmer (1741-1818, founder of the UK Mail Coach system): 1805 wrapper from Bath to Brighton signed by Palmer lower left, with large FREE cds

Great Britain 1840 2d Blue, 'KK', fine used with clear MX, four margins, just touching at two corners.