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 #5011 LITHUANIA 1811 outer FL addressed (in French and Russian) to Prince Lubecki, Marshall of Grodno in St. Petersburg, with a good strike of "Telshi" in tall Cyrillic caps (35x10mm), part of wax seal removed, fine, scarce strike, ex-Kurt Adler and Matuzas  | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #5012 LITHUANIA 1812 (8 July) FL (four page) sent by Capt. de Castellane to his father, General de Brigade, count de Castellane in Paris, forwarded to chateau a Reuil, charged "3" (deci) as postage was paid only to Paris, with triangular "P" handstamp, contents include references to the army being in the vicinity of Dinanburg and the river Dwina, 500 leagues away from Moscow ("Adolphe de Maussien was in Warsaw and announced that the King is returning - the food here is excellent, although the soldiers have no bread and horses are without feed") (full text copies in French and German on request) | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #5013 LITHUANIA 1918 10sk-50sk, complete set of six, each with the inverted "h" for "u" in "Skatiku", tied by Kaunas (21.1.19) cds on unaddressed cover Catalog #3-8var | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #5014 LITHUANIA 1918 40sk (inverted "n" for "u" in "skatiku"), also 50sk, used in combination with First Kaunas issue 10sk-30sk (first one with clear double impression) on unaddressed Kaunas (19.3.19) cover, fine-v.f. Catalog #7,8,9-12 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #5015 LITHUANIA 1919 75sk imperf. horizontal pair, center omitted at left, inverted at right, v.f. * Catalog #57var | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #5016 LITHUANIA 1919 75sk imperf. top sheet corner margin block of six, center inverted and displaced to right, actually eight (!) impressions, l.h. in margin only, stamps n.h., v.f.  **Catalog #57var | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #5017 LITHUANIA 1919 75sk imperf. top sheet corner margin block of four, center double, l.h. in margin only, stamps n.h., v.f. **Catalog #57var | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #5018 LITHUANIA 1919 1auk perf. single, center inverted, used on piece, fine and rare O Catalog #58var | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #5019 LITHUANIA 1920 complete set of 11, tied on unaddressed cover by Kybartai (16.2) First Day of Issue pmks, backflap missing, otherwise fine and scarce FDC Catalog #70-80 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #5020 LITHUANIA 1920 10sk-5auk imperf., ten different singles (there were no imperforates of the 15auk value), all with large margins, used, v.f., rare O Catalog #70/80var | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #5021 LITHUANIA 1927 watermark wG. (parquetry), 5c green, 30c blue blocks of four, the former n.h., with red handstamp showing through at upper right, the latter without gum, fine-v.f., scarce, especially in blocks **(*)Catalog #216-17 | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #5022 LITHUANIA 1930 Grand Duke Vytautas, 60c blue & lilac rose, center double, used, v.f. O Catalog #250var | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #5023 LITHUANIA 1934 10c chocolate, affixed on card and signed by artist Jouzas Gaucas, also seven photo proofs of other designs proposed but not accepted, v.f. E | Price Realized $450.00 |
