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 #5499 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1909-19 Single-frame, 16-page exhibit of varnish lines of Imperial and early Soviet Russia, George Shalimoff's study using ultraviolet photography, with stamps, panes, blocks, shifted and missing lines, double lines, varieties such as missing backgrounds, shifted, double and inverted centers, paper folds, etc. The study of this particular work was published in Rossica, British Journal of Russian Philately and the American Philatelist (July 1978). In addition, there is a binder with numerous panes of 25, some larger, fine-v.f.  *O | Price Realized $750.00 |
