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

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1978
GREECE
1861 Provisional Athens Printing, 20L deep blue on bluish, with faint Quadrille background and without control figures on reverse, canceled "13" in dots of Pyrgos, full margins all around, fresh and exceptionally nice example of this rarity, signed Behrens, Calves, Brun, also Peter Holcombe, with his 1989 and 1988 Diena certificates. A beautiful and extremely fine example of this rare and popular stamp, showing a good impression of the quadrille background,
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Catalog #10
Catalog Value $15,000
Price Realized
$8,500.00

Lot #1979
GREECE
1902 Hermes, 50L rose red, color error, n.h., v.f., rare (Karamitsos 186b)
**
Catalog #181var
Catalog Value €2,800
Price Realized
$1,400.00

Lot #1980
GREECE
1917 military postal history, selection of 13 covers or cards, many with British censor labels from Chios, Corfu, Mudros, Syra, Lemnos, Crete, Salonika, etc., Naval Mail incl. "Received from H.M.Ship, no charge to be raised", "Passed Aegean Postal Censor Syra", one complete telegram to an officer at Lemnos "16th Cyclist Corps", etc., mixed condition, many interesting and rare items from World War I
Envelope
Price Realized
$1,400.00

Lot #1981
GREECE
1933 Youth of Marathon, etc., set of three, l.h., v.f.,
*
Catalog #378-380
Catalog Value $785
Price Realized
$400.00

Lot #1982
GREECE
1933 Youth of Marathon, 100d brown & dull green, n.h. and post office fresh, v.f. (Karamitsos 525)
**
Catalog #380
Catalog Value €1,600
Price Realized
$700.00

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