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 #4294 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Czechoslovak Legion Post in Siberia 1919 (2 Mar) picture postcard sent from Nagasaki, Japan, forwarded via the French Military Mission in Siberia, bearing a fine strike of "Mission Militaire Francaise en Siberie / Armee Tcheco-Slovaque / Hydro Glisseurs / Lo Commandant", sent to Paris, with slogan arrival and "Recu 6.6.1919" by pen, minor card creases, fine example of the French Military Hydro-Planes unit assisting the Czech Army in Siberia  | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #4295 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Czechoslovak Legion Post in Siberia 1920 (18 July) cover from Smichov to the Finance Department of the Czech Legion in Siberia, with "Polni Posta Ceskoslovenskych Vojsk" arrival (5 September inserted by hand) arrival in Vladivostok, red manuscript notation indicates that the unit has left for America when this cover arrived, further endorsed "Do Vlasti" (to the homeland) indicating the cover is to be sent back to sender. An unusual item, with markings indicating that an emergency post office still remained in Vladivostok even after the Czech contingent was no longer in Russia, some backflap wear, otherwise fine cover, ex-Schafer | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #4296 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Czechoslovak Legion Post in Siberia 1920 (9 Sep) picture postcard from Singapore, franked with 4c Straits Settlements, used by a member of the Czech Legion evacuating Siberia via the "President Grant" (U.S. ship served as the United States Army Transport, which made two voyages repatriating Czechoslovakian troops from Siberia to Trieste), with two strikes of "Polni Posta Ceskoslovenskych Vojsk / President Grant" handstamps alongside, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
