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 #5365 TANNU TUVA 1927 (30 Oct) registered cover from Kizil to Moscow, franked with pair of 14k on 1r, tied by cds, with additional departure cds below, arrival pmk on back, v.f.  Catalog #12 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #5366 TANNU TUVA 1927 18k, also 2k and pair of 4k used on both sides of cover from Kizil (19 May 28) to Harbin, routed via Minusinsk (21 May), with transit pmk on back, with single 50c adhesive added and tied on arrival in China, fine cover Catalog #23 | Price Realized $625.00 |
 | Lot #5367 TANNU TUVA 1927 70k, used in 1930 on registered cover from Kizil (10 Sep) to Moscow (18 Sep), v.f., with arrival pmk Catalog #27 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #5368 TANNU TUVA 1928 (10 Mar) registered cover from Kizil to Moscow, franked with pair of 14k, tied by cds, with additional departure cds below, arrival pmk on back, v.f. Catalog #22 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #5369 TANNU TUVA 1933 (15 Oct) registered cover from Kizil to Harbin, franked on back with a vertical strip of 3x15k on 6k orange yellow (type 3), tied by departure pmks, with additional departure and Registry handstamps on front, Harbin arrival pmk on back, fine and extremely rare registered cover to China, without the customary postage dues, signed Peter Holcombe Catalog #41 | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #5370 TANNU TUVA 1935-36 Issues, 32 apparently different perforated commemoratives and Air Post adhesives, used on 13 registered, some flown, covers from Kizil to Czechoslovakia and USA, fine-v.f., with arrival pmks | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
