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 #71 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 1c-90c, complete set of eleven (with both 15c), used, various faults, mostly fine appearance O Catalog #112-122 | Unsold |
 | Lot #72 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 2c brown, l.h., nice color, fresh and fine, with 2016 PFC, * Catalog #113 Catalog Value $500 | Price Realized $170.00 |
 | Lot #73 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 3c ultramarine, re-joined block of four, slight gum disturbances (h.r.), fine (catalogued as four singles)  *Catalog #114 Catalog Value $1,100 | Unsold |
 | Lot #74 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 12c green, blue grid and traces of a purple cancel, well centered, with 2016 PFC graded "VF-XF 85" (SMQ $250, without premium for purple cancel) O Catalog #117 | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #75 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 15c brown and blue, type II, beautiful color, small part original gum (as a result of heavy hinge remnants), fine, with 2003 PSE cert., * Catalog #119 Catalog Value $2,750 | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #76 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 30c ultramarine and carmine, lightly canceled, used, tiny thin spot, v.f. appearance, with 2016 PFC, O Catalog #121 Catalog Value $375 | Price Realized $110.00 |
 | Lot #77 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 30c ultramarine & carmine, Flags Inverted, segmented cork cancel, well centered, with wide margins all around, nice color and fresh, with 2004 PFC. A beautiful, completely sound example of the 30c Invert, ex-Green. Siegel census documents a total of 47 stamps, including 7 unused and 40 used (one in the Miller Collection at The New York Public Library and one used in the Tapling Collection at the British Library). Of the 38 available to collectors, only 13 are sound or potentially sound (six are based on decades-old descriptions and need to be reexamined for condition). Of the confirmed sound copies, this is nearly perfectly centered, with unobtrusive cancel, O Catalog #121b Catalog Value $90,000 | Price Realized $75,000.00 |
 | Lot #78 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 90c carmine rose and black, black cork cancel, nice color, tiny marginal crease, fine appearance, with 2016 PFC, O Catalog #122 Catalog Value $1,800 | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #79 United States 1869 Pictorials 1869 1c-90c Atlanta trial color plate proofs on card, complete set of 78 (not including the newly listed, unique 90c color combination), all with large margins and fresh colors, v.f. A beautiful set of trial color proofs (prepared for display at the 1881 International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta, only one sheet of 100 of each value/color was printed), very few intact sets have been kept together, P Catalog #123-132TC1 Catalog Value $24,400 | Price Realized $15,000.00 |
