1884 20c purple, trial color proof in india, top sheet margin and imprint pane of 40, card mounted, with some wrinkles and tears, otherwise fine and spectacular multiple -
Estimate price: $350-400
United States & Worldwide Stamps
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions United States & Worldwide Stamps
We are pleased to present our March 18-19 sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World.
You are invited to browse through this select offering of 1600 lots representing virtually every area of International Philately.
The United States section ranges from Special Printings to better cacheted FDCs. Foreign Countries include Western Europe, with Austria, France and Colonies, and specialized German Area (with excellent Locals and Occupation Issues). Great Britain and British Commonwealth are also well represented. In addition, there are numerous rarities from South America, Asia, including China and Japan, Eastern Europe and Russia. As always there are over 100 large lots and collections, balances of estates and much more.
Lot #1468 - Uruguay
Lot #1469 - Uruguay
1889 25c Liberty, perforated sheetlet of nine in dark gray, each stamp with security punch and overprinted "Waterlow & Sons Ltd - Specimen", v.f. -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1470 - Uruguay
1895 Liberty, 25c brown & black, center inverted, used, fine example of this rarity. It is believed that only 40 examples were sold at a post office counter before the error was discovered, and the remaining copies were destroyed. Of the 40 that were used, only a small percentage were recovered and saved, making this an exceptionally rare error, -
Estimate price: $950-1000
Lot #1471 - Uruguay
1908 1c carmine and dark green, 2c green and dark green, centers inverted, l.h., few minor toned spots on gum, 2c with corner crease, otherwise fine-v.f., scarce unused, -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1472 - Uruguay
1908 2c green and dark green, center inverted, cancelled to order, some toning, v.f., -
Estimate price: $190-200
Lot #1473 - Uruguay
1908 Cruiser "Montevideo," 5c orange and dark green, center inverted, cancelled August 25, 1908, v.f., with 1987 PFC (YT 176a) -
Estimate price: $240-250
Lot #1474 - Uruguay
1919 Statue of Liberty, perforated composite sheetlet of nine, three different values, each stamp with security punch and overprinted "Waterlow & Sons Ltd - Specimen", v.f. -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1475 - Uruguay
1987 N$51 Exports, imperforate sheet of 25 stamps on watermarked, gummed paper with impression of black color of a different stamp (Scott's 1241) and inverted impression of colors, with normal issued perf. sheets of the two stamps, n.h., v.f., with 2007 Carlos Hernandez Rocha certificate -
Estimate price: $270-300
Lot #1476 - Uruguay
1988 N$66 Euskal Erria, imperforate sheet of 25 stamps on watermarked, gummed paper with misplaced inverted impression of black, n.h., v.f., also a normal issued perforated sheet of 25 included for comparison, with 2007 Carlos Hernandez Rocha certificate -
Estimate price: $270-300
Lot #1477 - Uruguay
1988 N$51 Centenary of Fire Department, imperf. sheet of 25 stamps on watermarked, gummed paper with double impression of black, once inverted and misplaced, n.h., v.f. -
Estimate price: $240-250
Lot #1478 - Uruguay
1989 N$210 Map, imperforate sheet of 25 stamps on watermarked, gummed paper with misplaced inverted impression of the red color (Map), folded along the middle row (five stamps creased), otherwise v.f., with a normal issued perforate sheet of 25 included for comparison, with 2007 Carlos Hernandez Rocha cert. -
Estimate price: $230-250
Lot #1479 - Uruguay
1992 Entrance to Sacramento Colony, $600 brown and yellow colors misplaced, black color inverted, fine used, with 2007 Carlos Hernandez Rocha certificate (“original and the only stamp known”). A regular stamp is included for comparison -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1480 - Uruguay
1991 N$360 Margarita Xirgu, two imperforate sheets of 25, one with light brown color completely omitted and yellow inverted, the other with brown color inverted, n.h., v.f., with a normal issued perforate sheet of 25 included for comparison, with 2006-7 Carlos Hernandez Rocha and Alex Rendon certificates -
Estimate price: $350-400
Lot #1481 - Uruguay
1993 WWF Greater Rhea Bird, imperf. sheet of 25 with margins on four sides, double impression, one inverted, inverted impression is from the 0.20 value stamp of the same issue, inverted impressions are also displaced, with a normal sheet of 25 (misperforated in the 4th row, also with a set of four plate number top right corner margin blocks), plus an additional 0.50 imperf. sheet of 25, double impression, one inverted, inverted impression is...
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