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 #5500 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA 1919-91 George Shalimoff's collection of errors and varieties, many hundreds on pages, housed in three volumes, one dedicated to RSFSR and early definitives, used and unused perforation and color varieties, listed and unlisted, shades and paper varieties (wove, granite, thin, thick, ordinary, chalky, white, yellow), vertical and horizontal screen varieties (rasters), scarce line and comb-perforations, plate flaws, dozens of fantails (imperf. at right, bottom, left, top, also occasional pairs imperf. between), perforation and color shifts, cliche varieties, souvenir sheets showing various types and positions, some blocks and se-tenant pairs and strips, gutter pairs, printing varieties, occasional imperf. singles and pairs and more, many double and inverted overprints, all neatly identified, many better items, generally fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $10,000.00 |
