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 #333 COLOMBIA Air Post 1920 10c Fuselage and Tail of Biplane, unused without gum as issued, large margins all around, including roulette lines at left, fresh and v.f., signed Diena, with his 1998 certificate. This is the key CCNA multicolor vignette, only 15 unused examples have been recorded (most have small defects). A major Colombia and Air Post rarity (a comparable, but slightly defective example fetched $12,390 including buyer's premium at Barry Fletcher's sale of Colombia in 2018) (*) Catalog #C7 Catalog Value $11,000 | Price Realized $16,500.00 |
