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Poland: 1939/1940 "WWII Internment of Polish Servicemen in Lithuania": Specializ

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Description

Start of the sale:
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Item n°1958956462
Sale ends:
Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Lot:
#12594
Catalog:
CG - 58. Auction - Day 4 - 22. Feb. 2024 - Collections

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1939/1940 "WWII Internment of Polish Servicemen in Lithuania": Specialized exhibition collection of 27 covers, postcards and letters, well written up on 16 pages, depicting the difficult situation and mail of the about 13,000 Polish servicemen fled to Lithuania in September 1939 and interned there, with covers and postcards sent to Germany, England, inland, or to Poland (German resp. Soviet occupied), with a lot of fascinating details and rare items as censor handstamp Königsberg in VIOLET on Lithuanian postal stationery card (one of only two recorded), the only recorded St. Andrew's cross "VI / Int / stovykl" handstamp on postcard, and others, find mail from Camp to Camp, a range of various types of Red Cross mail, special postal routes, postal rates, and many more. An extraordinary and important collection.

Condition: Cover/postal stationery
For this lot an additional 7% for Import Expenses (Taxes) will be charged.

Sales conditions

See the terms and conditions of the Auction House Fee for buyer : 23.80 %

Auction house

Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG

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Christoph Gärtner made his hobby into his profession. He started in 1984 and within two decades the Gärtner GmbH developed into a world leading mail order house for postal stationery and became a specialist for thematics and postal history.
In april 2005 the idea to build a place where collectors, customers and investors from all over the world could meet, was realized.
Since that time both, the Mail Order House and Auction House Gärtner, have been united on 2.700 m2 in the easy accessible building owned by Christoph Gärtner.
Generous viewing and storage rooms, a private auction hall, enough parking space and an underground car park are available.

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Poland: 1939/1940 "WWII Internment of Polish Servicemen in Lithuania": Specializ

Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner GmbH & Co. KG