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 #5511 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIAN AREA 1860-1923 collection of hundreds of used and unused singles and sets, neatly arranged in a large stock book, with comprehensive Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire, including Cities overprints, also errors and varieties, Wrangel Army overprints, extensive Russian Civil War Issues, with Far Eastern Republic, including "Vladivostok 1923" Air Post overprints (four different, each with Ceremuga certificate), also Chita and Vladivostok issues, General Semenov surcharges, Priamur and Nikolayevsk issues, South Russia, Denikin and Crimea issues, Army of the North-West, Kolchak issues, strong selection of early Soviet Local handstamps (Olekminsk, Pavlovsk, Rogatschev, Petrovsk, Schuja, Cherkassy, Tomsk, Spassk, Serafino, Wjatka and many others). Overall a solid collection, mixed condition and some reference material, many fine or better *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #5512 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIAN AREA 1862-1920 collection of hundreds of used and unused singles and sets in a large Scott Specialty album, with Wenden, Russian Offices in China (including 1904 10k "Kitai" on vertically laid paper used), some interesting pmks, varieties (60a), marginal pairs and blocks, Russian Levant with No.1 unused, 2-3 used (one with Rossica certificate), study of watermarks and cancels, varieties including inverted background and overprints, Cities overprints apparently complete with many varieties, Wrangel overprints, unauthorized Russian Steamship and Navigation Company in Odessa issue ("wild Levant"), Civil War issues, with Miller Army sets and some bogus items, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Batum, Far Eastern Republic and Siberia, Georgia, South Russia, Ukraine, etc. A good, comprehensive collection, with occasional covers, errors and varieties, some WWII German Occupation and Soviet Occupation of Germany, some reference material included, mostly fine-v.f.  *O | Price Realized $4,750.00 |
 | Lot #5513 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIAN AREA 1899-1922 small stock book with several hundred used and unused, including Civil War and WWI issues, Armenia with lots of inverted overprints, Batum, Russian Offices in China, Ukraine, Far Eastern Republic, Army of the Northwest, Siberia, South Russia, Latvia Occupation overprints, etc., mixed condition, mostly fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #5514 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIAN AREA 1918-23 Civil War Issues, also Armenia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Ukraine, etc., collection of hundreds, used and unused issues from the revolutionary period mounted on pages, with Army of the Northwest to 5r, Latvian Cross overprints, Czech legion in Siberia, General Kolchak surcharges, Priamur Govt. imperf 15k on 1r used, Far Eastern Republic Vladivostok, Ataman Semenov, Wrangel inverted errors, also missing value errors, etc. *O | Price Realized $475.00 |
