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.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #5299
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1923-32 five flown covers, Moscow Konigsberg (Apr 16, 1923), Moscow - Cologne - Brussels (Sep 21, 1927), Moscow - Berlin - Paris (Jun 25, 1929), Archangel - Utsisolsk (Jan 27, 1930), and Moscow - Berlin - Amsterdam (Jun 10, 1932); four of the five are mounted on colorful, professionally handmade album pages (text in Dutch); also includes a possible autograph of Victor Katchinsky, a Russian Navy pilot and contemporary of Igor Sikorsky on a 1959 U.S. Naval Ship cover with a filled in form inscribed (Pilot) "Lieut. Comm. Victor Katchinsky" (Soloed) "April 29, 1912. Russia" (Type Plane) "Farman IV"
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