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 #4134 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1918 (11 Oct) Russian 10k stationery entire envelope additionally franked with 3k, 7k and 10k, paying 30k from Vladivostok to Spasskoye, Primorskoy Oblast, addressed to the Intelligence Detachment American E.F.S., with arrival pmk on back, opened by censor and resealed with Censor No.15 label, fine and rare example of civilian mail addressed to the U.S. Army Intelligence unit  | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #4135 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (19 July) cover with Russian Railway Service Corps corner cachet, sent by Col. G. H. Emerson with the A.E.F. Siberia to Mrs. Emerson in St. Paul, franked with Russian 70k imperf. adhesive, canceled by Vladivostok cds, violet "Passed Military Censorship A.E.F. Siberia" and censor's signature at bottom left, fine cover from the commandant of the R.R.S.C. (The Russian Railway Service Corps was a semi military organization of American railway engineers and technicians formed by the Department of State in September 1917 at the request of the Provisional Government of Russia to operate the Trans-Siberian, Chinese Eastern, and Ussuri Railways. The first contingent of 350 men under the command of Colonel George Emerson arrived in Vladivostok on December 14, 1917. Shortly after, they left for Nagasaki, Japan, because of unsettled conditions. In March 1918, the Corps returned to Russia and began its work under the direction of John F. Stevens, Chairman of the Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and la | Price Realized $800.00 |
