Czechoslovakia. Cover. This exhibition collection for the main part relates to the transition period of Spring 1945, when Nazi Germany relinquished control over the Protectorate. The collection is researched extensively written up and is some 70cm high on about 600 album pages, filling to capacity two substantial boxes. There are many covers from former Sudetenland offices under the central control of Dresden, post April 1945 transferred back to Czechoslovakia after end of WW2, particularly official letters from the SNB (Sbor Nadroni Bezpecnosti - State Security Corps, responsible for the expulsion of ethnic Germans) at Brezno, to the new head office, restored again to Prague.. There is also present his collection of Czechoslovakia going back from the 19th century onwards, which as with the Sudetenland, is extensively written up page for page. The cover section of the Austro-Hungarian Empire/Czechoslovakia has at least 300 items. There will no doubt be scarce items here, however it is definitely to the Sudetenland as the best, this beig the finest collection of postal history we have ever had the pleasure to offer of this area. There are 1000s of Items here when you consider the stamp postmark collection incorporated into the cover collection, this having a thousand or so covers. For the most part, the covers are organised 'A-Z' and has Czech language restored from the German, for example Bilina/Bilin, Cinvald/Zinnwald, Duba/Dauba, Filipov/Philippsdorf, Hamr/ Hammer am See, Jablonec and Nisou 1/Gablonz 1, Kozly/Kosel und Brux, Ledvice/Ladowitz uber Dux, Machnin/Machendorf, Nebocady/Neschwitz uber Tetschen-Bodenbach, Obrnice/Obernitz uber Brux, Podmokly/Bodenbach, Radio/Radi, Slunkov/Schluckenau, Telnice/Tellnitz,Ustek/Auscha, Valkerice/Algersdorf uber Tetschen-Bodenbach, Wolmsdorf/ Wolmsdorf and Zakupy/Reichstadt to name but a few. There are so many scarce covers here from the Sudetenland, needless to say over time and for various reasons, some of these villages/ small towns do not exist anymore in their own right. It is quite extraordinary to see the lengths that the postal authorities went to in order to restore normative Czechoslovakian postal services, often with so called deliberately 'mute' postmarks (or the German equivalent excised) and replaced by for example Czech straightline cancels, as would be expedient at the time. Highlights everywhere, fancy cancels, liberation, registered usage, postal stationery envelopes including recycled and attempts to overprint any links with Nazi associations, etc, etc. The actual Sudetenland collection is for the most part alphabetized and includes some important collateral. It is logical, in depth and comprehensive. The collection itself was sent to us without the binders and are no longer available. This is an opportunity for the postal historian that you definitely do not want to miss, a collection 35 years in the making. A good number of covers here would sell separately for the equivalent or $10/$20+++ in their own right. However the overall value is in the encyclopedic scope of the whole collection 'A-Z', representing far more than the sum of its parts. Please view carefully, (we ask the viewer to try and respect keeping the order for other potential students to enjoy as well). Approx. 30 kg.