1857 10k brown and blue, used, large margins all around, v.f.
Estimate: $300
U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Covers
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Covers
We are pleased to present our February 28-March 1 2017 sale, with 1,528 lots, including Part III of the Heinz Gappe (H.G.I Company) inventory of Flight and Zeppelin covers of the world, as well as properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. There are selections of attractive United States, Western European countries with Austria, Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Danzig, Saar, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, with many interesting flight covers from the Gappe holdings. In addition, we are featuring an important collection of Russia, especially Air Post, with many rarities, errors and varieties. As always, our sale includes selections of better South America, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 130+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers, including group lots from the ex-Gappe stock. This entire sale is online at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. Please check with us often, as additional scans are continuously uploaded. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
Lot #1079 - Russia
Lot #1080 - Russia
1857 10k blue and red, upper right corner sheet margin single, two-line "(P)olang(en)Ɓpril" datestamp, fresh and v.f. positional piece, signed Diena
Estimate: $2500
Lot #1081 - Russia
1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, close but clear at top, tied by framed Taurogen 19 April 1858 departure datestamp on complete FL to Moscow, with "Speditions-Geschaft John G. Kniep Tauroggen" forwarding agent's handstamp on back, letter folded vertically and horizontally, fine and scarce forwarded item, ex-Small collection
Estimate: $3500
Lot #1082 - Russia
1858 10k black, frame only, with central oval blank, plate proof on thick, unwatermarked paper, trial perforations, v.f. (Zverev $2,500)
Estimate: $1500
Lot #1083 - Russia
1858 10k brown & blue, brilliant colors, pen canceled on coverfront addressed to Vyborg, red St. Petersburg 8 Jan. 1858 departure datestamp at bottom, fine and rare early usage
Estimate: $500
Lot #1084 - Russia
1858 20k lilac and green, perforated and gummed trial color proofs on stamp paper, one with colorless "2" watermark, the other without watermark, h.r., fresh, fine-v.f., very rare, only 100 of each printed, with Mikulski certificate for each
Estimate: $3000
Lot #1085 - Russia
1858 20k lilac & green, perforated and gummed trial color proof on unwatermarked paper, fresh and v.f. (Zverev $1,500)
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1086 - Russia
1858 20k blue & orange, horizontal pair, thick paper, canceled "38" (Riga) in oval dots, brilliant colors, right stamp with clipped perforations at bottom and at upper right, otherwise fine and rare multiples, one of only seven pairs recorded, ex-Mikulski
Estimate: $2000
Lot #1087 - Russia
1858 20k blue & orange, thin paper, vertical pair, top stamp showing round colored flaw in last letter of "Pochtowaja" at top of oval, canceled on small piece by "Vileyka" 15 March, 1872 (!) pmk, bottom stamp with couple of shorter perfs, lifted and replaced on piece, fine and unusually late usage, one of the only seven known pairs, ex-Mikulski
Estimate: $5000
Lot #1088 - Russia
1858 30k carmine & green, thin paper, with 1865 town cancel, all perforations intact, fine and late usage of this scarce stamp, with Mikulski certificate,
Cat. Val. $2,750
Estimate: $1500
Lot #1089 - Russia
1858 1k (two), also 30k carmine & green, used in combination with 5k black & lilac (1865 issue) on FL from Moscow to France, red "Aus Russland Franco" and blue Prussian entry (7 Dec), various transit and arrival postmarks on back, filing fold away from the stamps, fine mixed issues franking
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1090 - Russia
1858 10k brown & blue, selection of 32 used stamps, all multiples, including a block of four, nine horizontal or vertical pairs, three horizontal or vertical strips of three (one used on piece together with a pair), various shades and cancels, mostly fine-v.f., ex-Mikulski
Estimate: $2000
Lot #1091 - Russia
1858 30k carmine & green, tied by "1" in dots on FL from St. Petersburg to Pernau, red 6 Feb,1862 departure and arrival postmark on back, lettersheet refolded, fine and rare single franking
Estimate: $750
Lot #1092 - Russia
1866 Vertically Laid Paper, 1k horizontal strip of four, plus 2x5k lilac & black, canceled on piece, fine-v.f., scarce
Estimate: $250
Lot #1093 - Russia
1866 Horizontally Laid Paper, 1k black & yellow and 30k carmine & green, paying 31k on registered cover used in 1877 (12 December, numeral "1" inserted by hand) from Yaransk to Vyatka, departure postmark repeated at right, fine usage, with intact wax seal, arrival pmk on back
Estimate: $500
Lot #1094 - Russia
1866 1k black & yellow and 30k carmine & green, paying 31k on registered cover used in 1877 (6 Mar) from Yaransk to Vyatka, arrival pmk alongside on front, fine usage, with intact wax seal, departure and arrival pmks repeated on back
Estimate: $500
Lot #1095 - Russia
1866 1k and 30k, paying 31k on back of a registered cover used in 1879 (4 Mar) from Sevsk to Moscow, filing folds away from the stamps, fine and scarce registered usage from a small town, with (6 Mar) arrival pmk
Estimate: $500
Lot #1096 - Russia
1870 3k green & black, error "V" in groundwork (instead of "3"), horizontal pair, used with additional 20k on FL from Moscow to England, with appropriate departure and Manchester arrival postmark on back, little toning, filing fold through 20k, otherwise fine
Estimate: $300
Lot #1097 - Russia
1866 30k carmine and green, vertically laid paper, block of four with central Apr. 7, 1873 St. Petersburg cancel, pinhole through the upper left stamp, otherwise v.f. and rare block, ex-Faberge
Estimate: $500
Lot #1098 - Russia
1879 (8 Mar) registered cover franked with 1k, 20k and pair of 5k, paying 31k, stamps tied by "Seletz" two-line datestamp, addressed to France, near Geneva, with Postal Card No.3 transit and Geneva arrival pmks on back, fine and scarce
Estimate: $500
Lot #1099 - Russia
1884 Vertically Laid paper, 3.50r and 7r unused with large part original gum, heavy hinge remnants, fine-v.f., signed Diena, etc.,
Cat. Val. $2,000
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1100 - Russia
1884 Arms, 3.50r and 7r unused with large part original gum, heavy hinge remnants, fine-v.f., signed Diena, etc.,
Cat. Val. $2,000
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1101 - Russia
1884 Arms, 7r black and orange, sheet margin single, n.h., v.f.,
Cat. Val. $2,400
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1102 - Russia
1889-1905 3.50r and 7r (horizontal or vertically laid paper), each cancelled 1905 Reserve Field Post ("Zapasn. Polv. Pochta"), fine and scarce usage of these high values during the Russo-Japanese War
Estimate: $250
Lot #1103 - Russia
1910-17 five items including four covers, two registered, all addressed to Petrograd including one to the Minister of the Imperial Court, His High Excellency the Count Fredericks for transfer to His Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovitch, another to the Grand Duke Constantine, also a ppc from London to the Bulgarian Legation in St. Petersburg, all five with the scarce State Chancellery arrival pmks, ex-Leonard Tann...
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