U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
December 4-5, 2018
Welcome to our December 4-5, 2018 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World. With 1,550+ lots, this auction features properties of various owners including George V. Shalimoff’s award winning collections of Russia, M.C. Gilhausen’s Germany and Colonies, David Mace’s collections of China, Chinese Provinces as well as Foreign Offices. Our December sale is well represented with solid United States, South America, Asia, Great Britain and British Commonwealth and rest of the world. As always, there are 150+ large lots and collections, many offered intact, with individual country collections, worldwide accumulations in cartons, exotic flight covers, topicals, including a substantial collection of Boy Scouts on Stamps, plus many others. Browse the entire sale at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. A limited number of printed catalogues are available upon request.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #4160 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE Chagall, Marc (a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format), signature in English and in Hebrew, on 1967 United Nations First Day cover bearing the souvenir sheet issued in his honor.  | Price Realized $180.00 |
 | Lot #4161 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE Hitler, Adolf. Ca 1935 original black and white photograph (125:180mm), with embossed Nazi Party emblem at bottom, signed by Hitler, with "Heinrich Hoffman Photoberichterstatter der Reichsleitung der NSDAP" (Hoffman was the official photographer of NSDAP), hs on back, some peripheral toning, otherwise fine and rare signed photo | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #4162 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (1883-1945, Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce, Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism). A partly printed document (immigration matters) headed "Vittorio Emanuele III Re d'Italia", boldly signed and dated (1935) by the King Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947, King of Italy 1900-1946), and countersigned at bottom "Mussolini" | Unsold |
 | Lot #4163 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), military general and the first emperor of France who is considered one of the world's greatest military leaders. ALS, four-page folio, date-lined St. Cloud, 17 August, 1808 to his stepson Prince Eugene Napoleon (Eugene Rose de Beauharnais, Duke of Lichtenberg was the first child and only son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Josephine Tauscher de la Piggeries, first wife of Napoleon), addressed "Mon Fils", interesting text in which Napoleon discusses the affairs of State, Austria, War in Spain, troop movements. Endorsed at bottom "Votre Affectionee Pere" and boldly signed "NAPOLEON". A rare Napoleonic letter, of historic significance | Unsold |
 | Lot #4164 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE Resnik, Judith Arlene (1949-86), an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed during the launch of mission STS-51-L. Resnik was the second American female astronaut in space, logging 145 hours in orbit. A Nasa staff photograph (dated 1978), signed Judith Resnik, v.f. | Unsold |
