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 #5497 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1857-1991 advanced collection formed by George Shalimoff, virtually complete in eight large Scott's albums, starting with volume I which contains Imperial Russia, including No.1 (small faults, with Sismondo certificate stating "unused", but sold on its own merits), also five additional used examples, various pmks, one with pen cancel, 1858 10k (No.2, 20 used examples, including one with rare "1" experimental small numeral cancel), also 20k and 30k (3,4) used, Third Issue (5-10) unused, also dozens of numeral dot cancels, including 30k, St. Petersburg local (No.11) unused block of four, also four used singles (various dates), 1865 1k, 3k, 20k and 30k unused (12,13,17-18), also dozens of used color varieties, interesting pmks, canceled on pieces, used in Poland, etc., 1868-79 1k-30k unused (19-30), plus some pairs and larger multiples, also vertically laid paper, numerous examples used (19c/28a), from there unused, with 1883-84 Posthorns without Thunderbolts (31-40), numerous shades, also used, as well as unuse *O | Price Realized $18,500.00 |
 | Lot #5498 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1908-23 collection on pages, mostly definitive issues, hundreds of mostly unused singles, sets, blocks of four and larger, sheetlets with bottom imprints, color and perforation varieties, early and late printings, Railroad, meter, mute cancels, used in Finland, gutter blocks, printing varieties, including double center, shifted background and center, missing background, complete offsets on gum, misperforated varieties, missing centers, double impressions, overprinted Obrazets, proofs and more. In addition, there is a set of the 1913 Romanov Tercentenary, 1919 Army of the Northwest overprints, with unissued values, etc. A comprehensive and valuable collection assembled by George Shalimoff  *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #5499 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1909-19 Single-frame, 16-page exhibit of varnish lines of Imperial and early Soviet Russia, George Shalimoff's study using ultraviolet photography, with stamps, panes, blocks, shifted and missing lines, double lines, varieties such as missing backgrounds, shifted, double and inverted centers, paper folds, etc. The study of this particular work was published in Rossica, British Journal of Russian Philately and the American Philatelist (July 1978). In addition, there is a binder with numerous panes of 25, some larger, fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #5500 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1919-91 George Shalimoff's collection of errors and varieties, many hundreds on pages, housed in three volumes, one dedicated to RSFSR and early definitives, used and unused perforation and color varieties, listed and unlisted, shades and paper varieties (wove, granite, thin, thick, ordinary, chalky, white, yellow), vertical and horizontal screen varieties (rasters), scarce line and comb-perforations, plate flaws, dozens of fantails (imperf. at right, bottom, left, top, also occasional pairs imperf. between), perforation and color shifts, cliche varieties, souvenir sheets showing various types and positions, some blocks and se-tenant pairs and strips, gutter pairs, printing varieties, occasional imperf. singles and pairs and more, many double and inverted overprints, all neatly identified, many better items, generally fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $10,000.00 |
 | Lot #5501 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1929-39 definitives 1k/30k selection of seven different perf. or imperf. sheets of 100 (2k imperf. single and pane of 99), mostly watermarked (1k orange unwatermarked), n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #420/613A | Unsold |
| Lot #5502 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1943-49 large stock of sheets and part sheets, mostly per 200, noted medium better sets such as 1944 Lenin, Fighter Planes, 1949 40k Soviet Army (Scott 1333), Machine & Boatworks (1364-65), Lomonosov (1320-22), Cape Dezhev (1323-24), also 1944-45 Leningrad and Stalingrad souvenir sheets (50 of each), all canceled to order, fine-v.f., enormous catalogue value | Price Realized $2,300.00 | |
| Lot #5503 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1958-2007 collection complete in 9 albums (mostly KABE), thousands of stamps, souvenir sheets, miniature sheetlets, some modern booklets and special sheets (high new issue cost), some unlisted items, minor varieties, n.h., fine-v.f. An opportunity to acquire a complete collection of 50 years of Soviet Union and Russia ** | Unsold | |
| Lot #5504 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1975-76 stock of eight different sets, quantities of 300-2,000 of each, all in sheets, with Space, Flowers, Paintings, Birds, etc., n.h., v.f. (Scott No. 4392, 4394-98, 4404a, 4454-58, 4465-69, 4475, 4481-85, 4489-93) **Catalog #4392/4493 Catalog Value $37,533 | Unsold | |
| Lot #5505 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1980-91 large stock of thousands, housed in three large bins, complete sets in full sheets, various quantities, including se-tenants, Semi-Postals, etc., n.h., v.f., huge catalogue value **Catalog #3226/6045 | Price Realized $500.00 |
