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.
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 | 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 |
