1943 HVAR, Partisan mail

Under the 1941 Rome Treaties, Hvar officially remained part of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), though it was actually occupied by the Italian army. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, the National Liberation Committee briefly took control of the island. This ended on January 19, 1944, when the German 118th Jäger Division (738th Regiment) invaded. Postal records from this turbulent period are scarce, and surviving items are exceptionally rare.

 Letter from the Episcopal Ordinary, sent from Hvar (11.XII.43) to Humac Donji, Nerežišće, island of Brač, censored by partisans on Hvar. This is the only such letter that I have seen so far.

1945 SPLIT, Rare cancel Tijesno

Tijesno (today Tisno) is a small city located partly on the Tisnjan peninsula and partly on the island of Murter (see on map).

1945 Split provisional issue, a fragment of a letter, sent from Tijesno (7.VI.45), franked with 50kn (20kn for letter and 30kn for registration). Very rare cancel Tijesno.

1941 BANJA LUKA, Unique letter

The stamps were overprinted in 'Jović Printing Works' in Banja Luka on 18.04 or 19.04.1941 and delivered to the post office. They remained on sale until 23.04.1941 by which time the entire stock of 1000 stamps of each value was sold. Formally, the Banja Luka provisional issue was valid until 30.04.1943 and on the entire territory of the Independent State of Croatia. All known postal items, except the one, were sent from Banja Luka...

 

1941 Banja Luka provisional issue, express registered letter, franked with 22.50 kn and 1 din, sent from Zagreb (24.IV.43) to Banja Luka (25.IV.43). The only known express delivery letter and the only letter using the issue posted outside Banja Luka. Certificate Ercegović, Vilfan, Marinšek.

Confinement colony of Pisticci

Pisticci concentration camp was the first Italian confinement colony established as a center of agricultural work (centro di lavoro agricolo). The total capacity was 1000. Internees and detainees were exclusively male, mostly Slovenian and Croatian civilians as well as some Greeks and Poles.

Postcard sent from confinement colony of Pisticci region Matera (28.6.42) to Ljubljana, censored by the administration of the colony. 

1945 LJUBLJANA, An early postcard

After the liberation of Ljubljana in May 1945, all postal traffic was suspended until June 6. Postal items from the first half of June are rare. According to the directive, all shipments in the Ljubljana region should be censored at the post office Ljubljana-1. However, despite the fact that most shipments were from this region, Ljubljana censorship did not work, so censorship was carried out in transit or at the final destination.

1945 Ljubljana, postcard sent from Ljubljana (10.VI.45) to Sviljanac Serbia, free of charge as the sender was a military person, censored in Zagreb. Very early item.

The front side of the postcard - Ljubljana at night.