An interesting cover sold by Gartner of Germany in their recent auction was this 1947 commemorative item
sent from the World Jamboree on 10 August 1947 by a Scout from the Lithuanian Displaced Persons
Contingent. Posted to Lübeck, Germany, (which was situated in the British Zone), the country
having been divided up between the American,
French, British and Russian zones soon after the
war. Many of the Scouts attending the Jamboree
under the Displaced Person contingent came
from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine and
were provided with tents by the American,
French and British armies. A total of 213 Scouts
attended from the various D.P. camps, which
included 36 from Estonia and about 40-50 from
Ukraine. Despite spending some time searching
in "Google", I cannot find out how many Scouts
came from Lithuania. During and after World
War II, until the early 1950s, Scouting and
Guiding flourished in these Displaced Persons
camps with Scout and Guide groups often provided a postal delivery and other basic services. Although this
rare cover was not illustrated in the catalogue, it was shown online with an estimate of €150, and sold for €600
(About £480) plus 22% buyers premium.
Sold by Gartner in their auction held at the International Stamp show in New York during June was this very
scarce postcard. In 1915 During World War I, this Scout
Postal item was sent from German and Austrian occupied
Russian Poland and written by a member of the Polish
Legion of the Austro-Hungarian Army. On the left it
shows the unit cachet in red "KOMENDA
IV.KOMPANII 4.BAONU", as well in black the double
circular K.U.K. Fieldpost No, 118 cancel dated 7 June
1915. Posted to Łódź and delivered by the local Polish
Scout Post, it has the three ring oval cancel inscription
"POCZTA SKAUTOWA IV-L" (The "IV-L" signifies the
4th Scout Group of Łódź). This is the first Scout postmark
from Poland and one of the earliest Scout postmarks
from anywhere in the world. Very few examples are recorded and this is considered to be the best of them all.
Some high prices were recently obtained on eBay for 1957 World Jamboree philatelic items with some
making at least double the market price. Sold by "Downland2", well over 100 lots were offered by him over
three weeks. He informed me that he was not a
Scout, but a collector of GB commemoratives and
had kept the Jamboree part of the collection as he
had enough material to do an evening's
presentation to local philatelic clubs. As he had
visited most of the clubs in his local area, he has
decided to sell. The highest price made was for the
set of three 1957 coil leaders which made £485
(€580, US$ 680) which was below the market price, when they can be found. A
registered cover from Umm Said in Qatar made £256, and the next highest price
was for the cover showing the testing labels which sold for £238. Although there was only one bidder, the two
registered covers both sold for £120, which is about double the market value.
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