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 #5449 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1872-1991 balance of the M.C.Gilhausen collection housed in 8 albums, including 2-volume specialized collection of Bavaria, with No.1, dozens of imperforate singles, various cancels, unaccepted proofs and essays, another volume with 1872 Large and Small shields, numerals, mostly used, but also unused blocks of four, shades and perforation varieties, other Old States, some better Oldenburg, Bremen, etc. Post World War II volumes include one dedicated to "the postal war" (East and West Germany), with covers franked with Black Berlin overprints, used in combination with Posthorn overprints of the Bizone and SBZ overprints and Leipzig Fair issue of the East Zone, October 1948 special pmks used during the 100 days of the Berlin Airlift, double franking east and west zone issues, West Berlin usage of East Berlin stamps, Communist slogan countered with rubber handstamped messages, postal stationery Communist slogans obliterated in West Berlin, others returned by East Berlin authorities as inadmissible, plus many ot  *O | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
| Lot #5450 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1920s-1970 balance of a consignment in carton, with a duplicated collection of Berlin on pages into 1970s (incl. red and black overprints, some signed), stock book with West Germany, excellent Third Reich with many better singles and sets (high catalogue value), also DDR in multiples, plus few booklets, mostly unused, much never hinged, also hundreds of commercial covers *O | Price Realized $900.00 | |
| Lot #5451 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1923 Inflation (Berlin surcharges and Rosette Issue), large specialized collection in five volumes, many hundreds of singles, multiples, used and unused varieties written-up on pages, studies of rates, printings, shades, etc., some of the used stamps (none of the rarities are included) have been expertized, with many unusual items included, also some covers, generally fine-v.f., Ex-Gilhausen */**O | Price Realized $475.00 | |
| Lot #5452 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1933-2005 Third Reich collection in a SAFE hingeless album, missing Iposta, Ten Year and Ostropa souvenir sheets, otherwise mostly complete, with regular issues and Semi-Postals, Wagner set (both perforations), Olympics and Hitler souvenir sheets, Air Post with 1933 Chicago Flight set of three, etc., also Federal Republic, collection in three Lighthouse hingeless albums, missing the Posthorn set and a few others, otherwise apparently complete, with semi-postals and some back of the book items, few earlier items l.h., many n.h., v.f. Also included a collection of earlier issues (1872-1933) used and unused *O** | Price Realized $2,000.00 | |
 | Lot #5453 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1945-49 Allied Occupation - AM Post, a definitive collection formed by Mr. Gilhausen, with thousands of used and unused stamps and dozens of covers, neatly arranged and written-up on pages and housed in 7 albums, German, American and English Printings (made by Harrison and Sons in London, to replenish the original Washington production), dozens of pages identifying the numerous Plate Flaws listed by Krogman, plate flaws listed by Michel, Schantl and Krogman, multiples, Plate Blocks, postal stationery, censored mail, combination frankings, etc. An excellent collection of the AMG Issues, ex-Gilhausen *O | Price Realized $2,200.00 |
 | Lot #5454 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1948 Buildings Series, a definitive collection formed by Mr. Gilhausen, with thousands of used and unused stamps and dozens of covers, neatly arranged and written-up exhibition style on pages and housed in 13 albums, almost each value is represented in depth, studies of comb and line perforations, floating value figures, perforation errors and varieties, misperforated, part imperforate stamps, imperforate singles and pairs, some used on covers, oversized stamps, large and small stamps, retouches of the printing plate, diamond perforations, double impressions, paper folds, plate markings, covers representing the various rates, plus much more. An excellent, well researched and beautifully presented collection of the "Buildings"  *O | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #5455 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1948 Currency Reform, Carpet and Posthorn overprints, balance of a specialized collection formed by Mr. Gilhausen, with hundreds of inverted and double overprinted on Regular Issues (Mi.36-51) also pairs with and without overprints, overprinted on back, tete-beche overprints, also many inverted and double overprints on the numeral series, including 12pf gray and unissued values (Mi.52/68), stamps on cover, mixed frankings, usages during Bizone through the early Federal Republic period, many interesting and valuable items, mostly fine-v.f., many signed Schlegel, Dr.Bohne, etc., high catalogue value ** | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #5456 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1948-1990 Berlin, collection complete in two Lindner albums, n.h. and post office fresh, black and red overprints signed Schlegel, others absolutely pristine, v.f., ** Catalog #Mi.1-879 Catalog Value €6,500 | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
| Lot #5457 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY 1960-90 large dealer's stock of sets and souvenir sheets, various quantities, n.h., v.f., **Catalog Value $7,089 | Unsold |
