U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 8-9, 2019
We are pleased to kick off the New Year with our January 8-9 sale, with 1,678 lots, including additional offerings of the Heinz Gappe (H.G.I. Company) inventory of Flight and Zeppelin covers of the world, as well as properties of numerous other vendors and estates sold by their order. Heinz was well known to Aero philatelists, having been active in this field since the 1960s and amassing a wonderful holding of this ever-popular and exciting area. There are selections of attractive United States, rarities from Albania, Austria, France, Germany and Colonies, Italy and Colonies, Russia, Saar, Scandinavian countries and Switzerland. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, featuring a strong selection of Batum, booklet from India with set of Gandhi stamps overprinted specimen and lots more. As always, our sale includes selections of better South America, with Colombia Air Post, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 100+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers, mostly offered intact. This entire sale is online at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. Please check with us often, as additional scans are continuously uploaded. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1431 Georgia 1923 (15 Aug) cover to Khasavyurt, reduced at top, franked with four diff. handstamped surcharges, arrival pmk, fine  | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1432 Georgia 1923 (28 Feb) FL from Tiflis to Moscow, franked with 3x1,000r and 5,000r making up the proper 8,000r rate. The contents provide a unique insight into the activities of the local Trade Union that ranged from resolving local firehouse squabbles to evicting a former homeowner from the house being used as the Union headquarters on the grounds that "this house had been built by the workers and therefore belongs to the workers" Catalog #27,30 | Unsold |
