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 #5515 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1836-1917 balance of the George Shalimoff's Imperial covers collection, 90 covers or cards in three binders, with several stampless, including Russia No.2 used from Moscow, boxed 1st Division three-line departure datestamp, another pen canceled, other Moscow town cancels, three and four-color combination frankings, 3k "V" in background on cover, St. Petersburg dot cancels, insured Wax Seal letters, registered covers, used in Finland, advertising cachets, 1899 7k advertising Empress Maria lettersheet used from Peterhof, 1851 10k stationery envelope from St. Petersburg to Vilnius, Ship mail cards "Parokhod Perm-Nizhniy" to San Francisco, two others "Batum-Odessa", one to Italy, covers franked with 1915 semi-postals, also Russian Offices in China, cover from Tientsin to London, another from Chifu to USA, Russian Levant cover from Smyrna to Aleppo, with Ottoman dues added on arrival, other registered covers from Constantinople to USA (Yaremdji correspondence), "Collect on Delivery" and "Express" labels on cards,  | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #5516 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1844-73 "Aus Russland" collection of 34 items, mostly written-up exhibition style on pages, with 18 stampless FLs and 5 covers with German "Aus Russland" and "Franco" markings, others are FLs or covers with Imperial franking (mostly three-color), 33 are paid to destination, one is "Porto", usages from Odessa, Kharkov, St. Petersburg, Kronstadt, Berdiansk, Warszawa, Friedrichstadt, etc., variety of markings, in red, blue, framed and unframed, fine and interesting group | Unsold |
 | Lot #5517 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1848-1917 Imperial picture postcards, 165 used and unused, depicting various places, regions, people and structures, with four cards from Russo-Japanese War, Singer sewing machine cards, also five early Soviet propaganda cards, mixed condition | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #5518 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1881-1917 St. Petersburg, Geometric Numeral Cancels collection in two volumes, George Shalimoff's single frame exhibits, with 47 postal stationery and covers used domestically and to foreign destinations, printed matter items, various types of numeral markings on Imperial stamps, few ex-Faberge O | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #5519 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1913 Romanov Tercentenary, an interesting, mounted collection of 22 covers or postal stationery, plus various cancels and usages, registered postal card, a railroad example, a couple of mourning covers, private overprint and more, fine-v.f. *OCatalog #88/104 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #5520 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1913 Romanov Tercentenary, the George Shalimoff five-frame Exhibit collection on pages, with 1k-5r unused, four die proofs, each individual value shown where it was used to pay a specific rate, purpose of use, letter, postcard, etc., ordinary mail, registered letters, stationery cards, printed matters, postage dues, postal money orders, telegraph money orders, domestic and foreign parcels, Collect-on-Delivery, insured declared value mail, postings at railroad stations, aboard trains, ships, special services, wartime censorship and special Mute cancelations, overpaid and underpaid, destinations, including China and Japan, registered mail from Finland, Russian Offices in Shanghai, there are three items franked with 5r, also with surcharged values, all neatly written-up, well selected and exceptional collection of the popular pictorial issue from Imperial Russia. In addition, there are three large albums which formed the basis from which exhibit items were removed and it includes used and unused sets, cancelati  *OCatalog #88-104 | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
 | Lot #5521 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1917-23 Inflation covers, collection of 56 items, written-up exhibition style on pages, with multiple revalued and devalued frankings, many on both sides, (one with 140 stamps), rates identified, many better combinations, one with both RSFSR and Soviet adhesives, others include Imperial franking used during RSFSR, different departures and destinations, including Switzerland, Germany, USA, Latvia, Austria, Bulgaria, fascinating insight into early Soviet postal history | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
| Lot #5522 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY 1923-2003 balance of George Shalimoff's collection, housed in three cartons, mostly covers and cards written-up on pages, various binders including early Soviet covers with Foreign Exchange stamps on back, flight covers, Arctic Drifting station and Ice Breaker commemoratives, two covers addressed to Krupskaya (Lenin's wife), WWII covers, some with Stalin's propaganda slogans, censor markings, 300+ Soviet Space covers 1958-1990 in five albums, various commemorative and special cancels, photo picture cards and 28 covers autographed by various Cosmonauts, 1971-91 three binders with 230 different illustrated one-sided postal cards, also illustrated envelopes (Zagorsky 1-181),1992-2003 Rossija postcards (94 used and unused), many interesting and unusual items, inspection recommended | Price Realized $2,100.00 |
