U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 12-13, 2019
We are pleased to present our March 12-13, 2019 sale, with 1,577 lots, properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. There are selections of attractive United States (over 350 lots), Western European countries with Austria, Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Danzig, Saar, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented and as always, our sale includes selections of better South America, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 130+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #320 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (31 Mar) soldier's mail, free frank letter (from Vladivostok) to Denver, boxed A.E.F. Siberia Censored handstamp, little toning at top, fine  | Price Realized $170.00 |
 | Lot #321 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (6 Mar) German 10pf stationery card additionally franked with 5pf green, used from Altona, via the Prisoner of War Committee in Bern to a German prisoner at Prison Camp American Expeditionary Forces Vladivostok, Siberia, violet "Passed by Censor 396" struck on arrival, fine and undoubtedly rare card | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #322 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (8 Aug) cover with red "The American Red Cross Commission to Siberia Camp Service" corner cachet, endorsed "Soldier's Mail", with black A.E.F. Siberia Censored handstamp, cover wear and some tears, scarce markings | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #323 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (15 Mar) soldier's mail, free frank letter (from Vladivostok) to Portland, boxed A.E.F. Siberia Censored handstamp, backflap missing, fine | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #324 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (25 Aug) cover (with letter), franked with 2c carmine, tied by "U.S.S. Brooklyn, Aug 25, 1918" datestamp and addressed to the Headquarters of A.E.F. in Vladivostok, interesting contents, mostly discussing conditions in the Philippines, with corresponding Manila, Philippine Islands departure pmk, and "USS Brooklyn" endorsement at top, cover tears, otherwise fine | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #325 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (28 June) free-frank Prisoner of War card from Osnabruck, sent via Danish Red Cross to a German prisoner at Prison Camp American Expeditionary Forces Vladivostok, Siberia, violet "140" censor handstamp struck on arrival, fine and undoubtedly rare card | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #326 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1919 (20 Nov) German stationery franked with 15pf violet, used from Altona, via the Prisoner of War Committee in Copenhagen, Denmark, sent to a German prisoner at Prison Camp American Expeditionary Forces Vladivostok, Siberia, violet "Agence des prisonniers de guerre" transit datestamp, fine and scarce usage | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #327 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1920 (16 Mar) letter datelined "U.S.S. Albany", with cover addressed to Newark, endorsed "Officer's Mail" and bearing U.S.S. Albany Mar 17, 1920 Departure pmk, with Vladivostok Siberia handstamp alongside, interesting contents ("We have been in this place since Dec 19, 1919, since the capture of the town by the Reds or Constitutionalists as they call themselves, everything has been very quiet. We seldom hear any shooting and very few murders occur. I am mighty glad that all our troops will be out of here about May 1st, both for their sakes and the future of Russia"). The United States landed troops at Vladivostok in Siberia, possibly to check Japanese pretensions in that area and to secure that port as an exit for the Czech Legion then transiting the Trans-Siberian railway. In 1919 and early 1920, Albany did several tours of duty at Vladivostok in support of American troops ashore. She also sent armed landing parties ashore on several occasions in further support of those troops and to evacuate sick and wo | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #328 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1920 (18 Feb) picture postcard (Vladivostok department store) addressed to Los Angeles, endorsed "Sailor's Mail" with U.S.S. Albany Feb 18, 1920 departure pmk, interesting contents ("this place is covered with snow, this building is typical of Russian architecture in Vladivostok"), also two additional picture postcards, one Chinese, both showing the U.S.S. Albany, fine lot | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #329 United States - U.S.Postal Agency Siberia 1920 cover addressed to Seattle, franked with 2c carmine, tied by indistinct meter cancel, straight line "Passed by Censor" and showing "U.S.S. South Dakota" endorsement at top ("South Dakota" served as flagship of the Asiatic Fleet and was stationed at Vladivostok, Siberia during the winter of 1920, serving to aid and defend in the withdrawal of American troops. The White Russian Army was defeated at the Volga Front and the Siberian government was collapsing. It was President Wilson in 1918 that ordered the 27th and 31st Infantry to Siberia and with pressure from the Congress; Wilson ordered that these American troops should withdraw from Siberia. The situation in Russia had deteriorated markedly and the Bolshevik armies had driven the White Russian forces back into Siberia, and the collapse of the White government, headed by Admiral Alexander Kolchak, sounded the death knell of the western attempt to intervene in the Russian Civil War; the American intervention was coming to an end) | Price Realized $900.00 |
