1782-1917 Imperial Postal History collection, written up exhibition style (mostly in English) on pages, starting with pre-philatelic, covering the various outposts of the Russian empire, including Poland, Russian Far East including China, numerous comments by postal clerks and officials, uncommon destinations and more. There are 309 exhibition pages, with 554 covers, folded letters, parcel cards, postcards, money orders, stationery entires,...
U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
Welcome to our June 2014 Sale, with 1667 lots of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World.
This four-session auction commences with quality United States, with unused examples of Scott's Nos. 2 and 12, both with original gum, Special Printings, inverted Candle and Stock Exchange errors, Zeppelin Plate Blocks, Postage Dues and Revenues. Autographs of Jefferson, Napoleon, Peter the Great, Roosevelt, Marylyn Monroe and others are featured as well.
The foreign section includes China (good selection of Dowagers, ex-Holcombe), Scandinavian countries, with Denmark, Finland and Sweden, France and Colonies, Germany and German Colonies, Great Britain (with another unused 10sh Edward I.R. Official), British North America (Newfoundland with unused De Pinedo, Balbo double impression and Martynside flight covers), British Commonwealth, Baltic Countries, Italy and Italian Colonies, Korea, Poland, Russia (with an exceptional collection of Imperial Postal History offered intact) and Soviet Union, Switzerland and many others.
As always there are over 120 lots of Large Lots and Collections.
The entire sale is online, with additional images added daily and on request.
This is a public auction taking place live at our 57th Street Galleries and online at CherrystoneLIVE. A limited number of printed catalogues are available. Cherrystone Auctions 119 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 [email protected]
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Lot #1257 - Russia
1858 10k brown and blue, beautiful deep color, tied by "393" numeral in dots cancel on outer FL from Dorpat to Riga, with corresponding departure (29 Nov 1858) circular postmark and "Polucheno" arrival datestamp -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1258 - Russia
1902 7k dark blue, imperforate single, displaced background as often, v.f., with Hovest certificate -
Estimate price: $500-500
Lot #1259 - Russia
1902 25k dull green & lilac, center inverted, cancelled Zhitomir (30 Mar 1906), well centered, v.f., signed Mikulski. A rare inverted center, known only used, -
Estimate price: $3000-3000
Lot #1260 - Russia
1913 Romanov Tercentenary, trial color die proofs selection of eight different, including 2k brown, 3k orange brown, 4k emerald green, 14k ultramarine, 15k purple, 20k black, 35k olive brown and 50k gray blue, v.f. and rare group -
Estimate price: $4500-5000
Lot #1261 - Russia
1913 Romanov Tercentenary, bi-color trial color die proofs selection of four different, including 15k green & purple, 35k lilac & green, 50k blue & magenta and 70k orange red & ultramarine, v.f., scarce -
Estimate price: $2300-2500
Lot #1262 - Russia
1913 Romanov Tercentenary, die proof of blue center only (Nicholas II), also 35k magenta, die proof of frame only, v.f. -
Estimate price: $900-1000
Lot #1263 - Russia
1919 (5 Apr) registered cover from Moscow to Petrograd, paying 3r with five imperforate blocks of 4x10k dark blue, used in combination with pair of perforated 50k, fine and scarce usage, with arrival (8 April) pmk on back -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1264 - Russia
1923 (18 Oct) cover from Moscow to Munich, paying 45r (1923) plus 12k (gold), with 5r and 2x20r RSFSR, used in combination with 12x1k imperforate (gold) definitives. With the October 18 conversion value at 550r to 1r gold, the 45r (RSFSR) equal just over 8k (gold) for a total of 20k, which was the correct rate for foreign letter rate, fine mixed RSFSR/Soviet definitives cover, with "Obmen 250r" red surcharge (variety displaced overprint) on...
Lot #1265 - Russia
1923 10r gray, imperforate sheetlet of 25, with intact inscription at bottom, n.h., usual gum wrinkles, v.f. -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1266 - Russia
1924 Definitives (typographed) 6k black, perforated and gummed trial color proof, also 6k blue imperf. sheet margin single, plus invalidated proof of Red Army soldier (1r), value and inscriptions omitted, v.f. -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1267 - Russia
1925 Definitives (watermarked), 4k black (two) invalidated perforated and gummed trial color proofs, also 8k olive (typographed), fine -
Estimate price: $140-150
Lot #1268 - Russia
1925 Definitives (watermarked), 2k, 5k and 8k varieties, each pre-print fold, first two used, last one n.h., fine-v.f., unusual -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1269 - Russia
1925 (4 Aug) registered cover (actually Imperial 7k stationery entire envelope with dark violet Ukrainian trident handstamp) from Moscow to England, correctly paying 40k foreign registered letter rate with 4x10k dark blue (perf. 12); on back there are 5x5k on 1k Foreign Exchange Tax stamps, tied by a large violet handstamp, London transit and Colchester arrival pmks, fine and unusual franking -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1270 - Russia
1925 Definitives (watermarked), complete set of 22, n.h., fine-v.f. (Zagorsky 76-97) -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1271 - Russia
1925 Definitives (watermarked), complete less 30k and 40k, 20 different, n.h., fine-v.f. (Zagorsky 76-90,93-97) -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1272 - Russia
1925 Definitives (watermarked), complete less 4k, 30k and 40k, 19 different, n.h., fine-v.f. (Zagorsky 76-78,80-90,93-97) -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1273 - Russia
1926 Definitives (watermarked), 8k lithographed, vertical gutter pair, folded between stamps, l.h. at top, bottom n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 118) -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1274 - Russia
1926 (28 Oct) registered cover from Moscow to Sofia, franked with Esperanto Congress 7k horizontal gutter pair and single 14k, paying correct 28k foreign registered letter rate, with 25k on 7k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents value "1175" rubles indicated by pen, Sofia arrival (3 Nov) cds on back, fine, possibly unique example of the rare gutter pair on cover -
Estimate price: $4500-5000
Lot #1275 - Russia
1927 8k on 3k (lithographed), 8k on 8k green (typographed), each with surcharge inverted, l.h., fine and scarce -
Estimate price: $900-1000
Lot #1276 - Russia
1927 registered cover from Moscow to Switzerland, franked with six different (two imperf.) "8k" surcharges, with 25k on 7k Foreign Exchange Tax stamp on back, Geneva arrival, fine. A rare cover -
Estimate price: $900-1000
Lot #1277 - Russia
1927 Esperanto, 14k thin paper, vertical pair imperf. horizontally between, perf. 10 3/4:10 1/2, small h.r. at top, v.f. and extremely rare genuine error (not to be confused with the part perforated imitations, privately made from the less expensive imperforate pairs on thick paper) (Zagorsky 184Pb) -
Estimate price: $6000-6500
Lot #1278 - Russia
1931 (25 Sep) 5k stationery card additionally franked with diagonal half of 5k green, used from "Romnya Poltava", with cds (bisect previously cancelled and not tied on this card), with "Novaya Bukhara" arrival postmark alongside, fine and scarce usage, with 2008 Mandrovski certificate -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1279 - Russia
1935 Tolstoy, 3k perf. 14, vertical pair, imperf. between, used, v.f. (Zagorsky 429) -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1280 - Russia
1937 Pushkin, 28 souvenir sheets, n.h., occasional flaws, mostly fine-v.f. (Zagorsky Bl.1) -
Estimate price: $450-500
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