Cherrystone’s Current Philatelic Auctions

Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
November 12-13, 2024

Session 1: Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 10:00am
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Session 2: Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 1:00pm
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Session 3: Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 10:00am
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Our November 12-14, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States stamps and proofs (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada (with a fine example of 12p black), Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Israel, European Countries, with collection of Wayne Demarest's Germany and Colonies, an old-time holding of Zbigniew Cianciara's Poland, Western Ukraine, solid Russia and rest of the world. There is an additional section of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with many interesting combination usages. As always, the sale contains 220+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more

The Maitland Collection of U.S. Stamps and Inverted Centers of the World
October 29-30, 2024

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We are pleased to present two outstanding sales from the Maitland Collection - United States Stamps and Inverted Centers of the World. The focus on the United States Collection is on items typically missing from conventional collections, most notably Re-Issues, Special Printings, rare Coils, Postage Dues and of course the Inverted Jenny (which is offered in the Inverted Centers sale). Some additional highlights include a sound unused Indian Red, Grills, Bluish Papers complete, imperf. 5c in 2c block, "Fast", "Slow" and "Grounded" Jennies, and more.
The Maitland Collection of Inverted Centers of the World brings these striking errors and some of their stories to light. The United States showing is apparently complete, with 1869 Pictorials, 1901 Pan-Americans, Internal Revenues and the more modern CIA and Stock Exchange inverts. Rounding the group is the Inverted Jenny, one of the three stamps recovered from the infamous "McCoy" block. Stolen from the APS Convention in 1955, the Maitland copy is position 75, its fascinating story available at https://invertedjenny.com/position/75.
The collection continues with major rarities from Central and South America, better Canal Zone, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Peru and Uruguay.
European Countries feature the three Inverted Parliament Building errors from Austria, Inverted Madonna from Hungary, Bulgaria 50st, Athens Academy from Greece, Italian Filiberto and Postage Dues, as well as Italian Colonies, 1956 Poland 20gr Boxer, a splendid group of Imperial Russia and Spain.
The British Commonwealth is highlighted by Canadian Revenues, St. Lawrence Seaway, multiple examples of the Truro School, plus Patricia Airways. Jamaica, Labuan, New Zealand, Cook Islands, South Australia and Tonga.
Not to be overlooked, there are inverts from Belgian Congo, French Colonies, Liberia, excellent Iran and others.
These sales will take place live via CherrystoneLIVE.