https://www.balkanphila.com Postal history, stamps, archives, postcards, ephemera, books Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:55:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.balkanphila.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png https://www.balkanphila.com 32 32 https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1943-jersey-german-occupation-censored-to-somme/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:25:11 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=77316 Channel Islands – Jersey: 1943 (12 October). Cover to Somme, France franked with 25pf Deutches Reich and 1d Jersey stamps tied by German Feldpost and Jersey Channel Islands datestamps with German Geöffnet censor label

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1906-isle-of-man-knockaloe-incoming-turkish-pow-cover/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:13:46 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=70263 Isle of Man: 1916 (21 September). Ottoman Red Crescent imprinted cover to Turkish civilian internee in Knockaleo, Isle of Man struck by Istanbul censor cachet and Istanbul Censor 1 datestamp, red rosette censor label and British OPENED BY CENSOR 595 label. Part flap missing but still very scarce. Very few recorded.

]]> https://www.balkanphila.com/shop/1906-isle-of-man-knockaloe-turkish-pow-card/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:13:38 +0000 https://www.balkanphila.com/?post_type=product&p=70256 Isle of Man: 1916 (15 February). Postcard from Cambridge to Turkish internee Kadri Zafir Bey in Isle of Man struck by ALIEN DETENTION CAMP * KNOCKALEO. I.O.M. * CENSORED hand stamp. Stamp fallen but scarce WWI PoW correspondence. Very few recorded from Ottoman internees.

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