1838 outer FL from Odessa to Genova, disinfected, showing Odessa Quarantine Station markings on departure, second disinfection at Brody, with usual cover slits, charged on arrival
Estimate: $250
U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
Our October 12-13, 2021 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World will take place at our Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE. This 1,458 lot sale begins with United States, with 19th and 20th Century single rarities, graded items, proofs, essays and back of book material. The Foreign section focus is on Asia, with an outstanding collection of Large Dragons of Shanghai, used and unused individual rarities and a powerful balance lot. There is Japan with Offices in Korea, followed by stamps and Postal History of Imperial Korea, Mongolia, as well as Russian Offices in China, with Chinese Eastern Railway Stations. European countries include Austria, with local issues, France & Colonies, German Colonies, Italian States & Colonies, Poland, Russia, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, an important collection of Persia and select rarities from the rest of the world. The sale concludes with Large Lots and Collections, with hundreds of albums comprising a collection formed by Solomon Goldberg and sold on behalf of the UJA of New York. Additional lots range from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and cover lots. Scans of the large lots are continuously being added.
Sale Terms
Lot #1081 - Russia
Lot #1082 - Russia
1858 30k carmine & green, thin paper, used, colorless watermark "3" shifted completely to bottom, irregular perfs in places, well centered, fine, signed Eisold, etc.,
Cat. Val. $2,500
Estimate: $900
Lot #1083 - Russia
1881 (26 Sep) money letter (opened for display, slightly reduced at top), sent from Stretensk in Trans Baikal Territory to Helsinki, Finland. The letter contained 50 rubles. The postage was 53 kopecks (calculated on back at 21 kopecks for weight, 25 kopecks for insurance, and 7 kopecks for registration). Sent by Johan Albin Stierncreutz, who was the captain of an Amur River steamship
Estimate: $150
Lot #1084 - Russia
1883 (24 July) 7k stationery entire envelope sent from the Tiflis railway station to Captain I. K. Kirpotin at the camp of the 1st Caucasian rifle battalion in Suram (Georgia), postmarked "Tiflissk. P. O. Poti-Tiflissk. ZH. D." (only recorded example) and "Pocht.Vagona Poti-Tiflissk Zh.D. Vagona Poti-Tiflissk. ZH. D.", some toning, but this is the earliest recorded mail from the Tiflis station branch office, which opened in 1873 (the Poti-...
Lot #1085 - Russia
1885 (14 Aug) 4k stationery card sent by the explorer Sven Hedin from the Tiflis railway station to his father in Stockholm, with Moscow transit and Stockholm arrival pmks, fine (Hedin, on the first of many trips to Russia, was on his way to Balakhany, a suburb of Baku, to act as tutor to the son of Erhard Sandgren, who worked for Nobel Oil. He writes "Dear Dad and Mom, I am now in Asia. We left Vladikavkaz at 6 am Tuesday morning. We...
Lot #1086 - Russia
1903 (11 Mar) cover franked with 2x10k dark blue, sent by Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich (brother of Tsar Nicholas II) from Gatchino to his former tutor Ferdinand Thormeyer in Carouge, Switzerland, with German "Vom Auslande uber Bahnpost 11 Eingerschrieben" Registry label, bearing the Romanov Crown and Michael's cipher on the backflap, v.f.
Estimate: $250
Lot #1087 - Russia
1916 (19 Feb) cover franked with 10k dark blue, addressed to Petrograd, Shlisselburg Fortress, with oval Prison Censor cachet, v.f. (During Imperial times the fortress was used as a notorious political prison. Among its famous prisoners were Ivan VI, who was murdered in the fortress in 1764, and Lenin's brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was hanged there as well)
Estimate: $100
Lot #1088 - Russia
1917-24 Madagascar Postes & Telegraphes "Collection de Berne" Archive, five large sheets, dated 8 November, 1924, numbered 5-8, with 126 different horizontal (few vertical) strips of three, tied by red overprints and countersigned by the secretary and director of Post and Telegraph in Berne, Switzerland, with virtually complete R.S.F.S.R., including surcharges, Early Soviet Commemoratives and Definitives, plus Semi-Postals, Air Post (C1-5...
Lot #1089 - Russia
1918 (12 Apr) postal card sent by an Englishwoman in Kharkov to her brother in England, franked with two each 1k and 3k imperf. and 10k/7k Arms. The lady witnessed the German occupation of Kharkov on 8 April: "Yesterday morning we heard cannonading in the distance. The commandant went out to meet them and say we surrender and in the evening they arrived in great numbers", fine and interesting eyewitness account
Estimate: $150
Lot #1090 - Russia
1922 10,000r (with periods after Cyrillic letters) on 40r slate, type I and II, usual disturbed gum, h.r., fine-v.f., signed Dr.P.Jemchouhin and Mikulski, rare,
Cat. Val. $1,300
Estimate: $500
Lot #1091 - Russia
1924 50k brown, typographed, l.h., large margins all around, fresh and v.f.,
Cat. Val. $6,750
Estimate: $2500
Lot #1092 - Russia
1924 15k lemon, l.h., well centered, fresh and v.f. example of this extremely rare stamp, showing rich color and full typographed characteristics, without the usual inclusions and faults, with 1988 Mikulski certificate ("very good quality, with full original gum, small trace of a hinge"),
Cat. Val. $25,000
Estimate: $12500
Lot #1093 - Russia
1925 18k violet, watermarked, imperforate lower right sheet corner margin single, without the usual chalky lines, n.h., v.f., rare
Estimate: $2500
Lot #1094 - Russia
1925 Lomonosov, perforated and gummed essays on thick, gummed paper, n.h., v.f.,
Cat. Val. $100
Estimate: $100
Lot #1095 - Russia
1926-28 Lenin, 1r brown, 2r dark violet, 3r green, three imperforate horizontal pairs, mostly l.h., last one n.h., with handstamped guarantee mark, very rare, only a few "sets" exist (Zagorsky 128,129,221Pa)
Estimate: $10000
Lot #1096 - Russia
1927 10th Anniversary of October Revolution, 5k deep brown, imperforate single, h.r., disturbed gum and folded at right sheet margin, fine,
Cat. Val. $1,650
Estimate: $250
Lot #1097 - Russia
1928 (28 May) parcel card from Moscow to New York, franked with a combination of three different Regular Issues, including 50k brown (watermarked), 40k carmine and 2r (Lenin), minor toned and paper clip rust spots, otherwise fine and attractive. Also included is a registered cover from Leningrad to USA, franked with 4k definitive issue, used in combination with two Semi-Postals
Estimate: $200
Lot #1098 - Russia
1929 Pioneers, 10k olive brown, 14k slate, each perforated 12 1/2x12x10 1/2x12, l.h., fine-v.f., scarce,
Cat. Val. $565
Estimate: $300
Lot #1099 - Russia
1933 Order of the Red Banner, 20k black, red & yellow, perf. 9 1/2, n.h., v.f.,
Cat. Val. $8,000
Estimate: $2500
Lot #1100 - Russia
1934 Fedorov, 20k carmine rose, 40k indigo, imperforate vertical pair, l.h. at top, bottom stamps n.h., v.f., signed Mikulski, etc.,
Cat. Val. $3,350
Estimate: $2000
Lot #1101 - Russia
1935 Spartacist Games, complete set, n.h., usual gum, fine-v.f.,
Cat. Val. $940
Estimate: $200
Lot #1102 - Russia
1935 Kalinin, 3k, 5k, 10k and 20k set of four perforated trial color proofs in brown, v.f., rare
Estimate: $6000
Lot #1103 - Russia
1935 Kalinin, 20k brown black, imperforate horizontal pair, h.r., v.f.,
Cat. Val. $3,000
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1104 - Russia
1938 First Trans-Polar Flight, 20k brown black & red, vertical pair imperf. between, canceled to order (with original gum), v.f., extremely rare, with 2016 Zagorsky certificate (Zverev $6,500)
Estimate: $4250
Lot #1105 - Russia
1946 Sverdlov Theater Square, 20k red brown, horizontal strip of three, imperf. between and at left, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 983Pa)
Estimate: $500
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