Envelope with 12½ cent 's Gravenhage-Mazowiecky (Poland) 31.VIII.1939, day of the Gleiwitz attack, one day before the invasion of Poland, stenciled note TERUG AFZENDER/ Postverbinging met/ Polen tijdelijk/ niet mogelijk, (back to sender, Postal connection with Poland temporarily not possible (with misspelling verbinGing)

Letter (with full content) from 'sGravenhage 17.V.1943 to a POW in Osaka Camps Japan with German OKW 'b' (Berlin) censor, written ontv. 7 aug 43 (received 7 aug. 1943), without Japanese censor

Envelope (12½ cent) to Trondheim 15 April 1940 and printed matter (2½ cent) to Oslo 15 April 1940, both with label (slightly different) Terug afzender/ Postverbinding met/ Noorwegen tijdelijk/ verbroken. (back to sender, Postal connection with Norway temporarily severed), on April 9, German troops attacked Norway (operation Weserübung), small toned spot

3 air mail letters to the Netherlands, from Netherlands Indies 8.5.1940 with Indies and Singapore censor and red RETOUR AFZENDER/ postverbinding opgeheven, from Palestine (2 perf. holes) Jerusalem 10 May 40, censored and, on reverse, written no service and cancel return to, and from South Africa 15.V.40, censored with purple mail service suspended/ postdienst gestaakt

Postcard 3 on 4 cent Kollum-Scheveningen 9.V.1940 (sent from Kollum) with Verbinding Verbroken/ Retour Afzender (broken connection, return to sender), and on May 24 remailed with pair 1½ cent gray dove (after restoration of postal service)