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 #5449
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMANY
1872-1991 balance of the M.C.Gilhausen collection housed in 8 albums, including 2-volume specialized collection of Bavaria, with No.1, dozens of imperforate singles, various cancels, unaccepted proofs and essays, another volume with 1872 Large and Small shields, numerals, mostly used, but also unused blocks of four, shades and perforation varieties, other Old States, some better Oldenburg, Bremen, etc. Post World War II volumes include one dedicated to "the postal war" (East and West Germany), with covers franked with Black Berlin overprints, used in combination with Posthorn overprints of the Bizone and SBZ overprints and Leipzig Fair issue of the East Zone, October 1948 special pmks used during the 100 days of the Berlin Airlift, double franking east and west zone issues, West Berlin usage of East Berlin stamps, Communist slogan countered with rubber handstamped messages, postal stationery Communist slogans obliterated in West Berlin, others returned by East Berlin authorities as inadmissible, plus many ot
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Price Realized
$3,250.00

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