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 #4342 FRANCE 1793 (18 Jan) letter (four-page folio) headed "Aujourd'hui dix huit de Janvier, Mille sept cent quatre vingt treize, l'an 2 de la Republique Francaise a huit heures, administration du 2 Battalion Corse au Garrison de Bonifacio", signed twice by Buonaparte on pages two and three (At that time, Napoleon was a fervent Corsican nationalist and spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. He was a supporter of the republican Jacobin movement, organizing clubs in Corsica and was given command over a battalion of volunteers. Buonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland in June 1793 because of the split with Paoli, the Corsican leader). A rare and early example of Napoleon Buonaparte's full signatures on a document from Bonifacio, Corsica | Price Realized $7,000.00 |
 | Lot #4343 FRANCE 1849-70 Ceres and Napoleon (Empire) imperforate essays, mostly designed and engraved by Barre, selection of 124, various colors and types, occasional pairs and blocks, also included nine perforated Hulot-designed essays on goldbeater's skin and others, occasional flaws, mostly fine or better E | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #4344 FRANCE 1862 Re-Issue, 25c blue, three singles paying 75c rate on registered cover used in 1889 from Paris to Switzerland, Zurich transit and Uznach arrival pmk, cover faults, interesting usage  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #4345 FRANCE 1870 10c bister, yellowish, horizontal tete-beche pair, heavy hinge remnant, very fresh and fine (YT 58c), * Catalog #54a Catalog Value €7,000 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #4346 FRANCE 1887 Type Sage imperforate, Granet Reprints, selection including 5c dark green, 5c green (blocks of four and six), 10c green, 25c ultramarine, 15c blue (block of four), also imperf. pairs of 20c blue, 20c brown, 25c black on red brown and 1fr bronze green, fine-v.f. (Maury €4,690)  *Catalog #78/84var | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #4347 FRANCE 1977-78 Sabine, imperforate, complete set of 18 horizontal pairs, n.h., v.f. (YT 1962-1979var) ** Catalog #1560-1577var Catalog Value €610 | Price Realized $120.00 |
 | Lot #4348 FRANCE 1994 Opening of the Channel Tunnel, two imperforate se-tenant sheets of 36 (18 sets), n.h., v.f. (Maury 2864-77var) **Catalog #2421-24var Catalog Value €3,330 | Price Realized $450.00 |
