Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
August 6-7, 2019
Welcome to our Summer auction to be held on August 6-7 2019 at our New York City galleries and on CherrystoneLive. There are 1,668 lots of rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, with properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. We begin with United States, followed by Austria, Belgium, France and Colonies, Germany and Colonies, Italy, Liechtenstein, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Scandinavian Countries. British Commonwealth is well represented with strength in Victoria and George V singles and sets. Also noteworthy is Colombia with a complete set of the 1920 Scadta vignettes unused and on individual covers. There is also a selection of Ethiopia, additional South and Central America, Asia and rest of the world. This auction concludes with 100+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1277 EGYPT Zeppelin Flights 1931 Suez acceptance, unaddressed picture postcard (LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin), franked with 50M ("1951" error) lower right sheet corner margin single canceled 11 Apr 31 Cairo, with three additional cancels (Suez, Alexandria and Port Said)produced by the Egyptian Post Office for the visit of the Airship in 1931. This is probably a souvenir card presented to one of the Graf Zeppelin's officers or passengers, v.f. An extremely rare Zeppelin item from Egypt, one of a few known with Suez postmark  | Unsold |
