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 #2633 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS POLAND 1633-1864 collection of 53 different stampless covers, mostly written up exhibition style on pages, variety of postmarks and markings, with earliest being incoming letter to Archimado Guidoni in Posnania (16.5.1633), others include letters to "his Excellency Monsi€the Count de Dzuli, Grand Equerry to his Majesty the late King of Poland, duke of Lorraine, etc. (1773-1775)"; 1859 embossed cover used in USA to "Warsaw, Wyoming", others include bilingual markings such as Slupce, Wilkowicze, Siedlce, Kielce, Czestochowa, Plock, "Alexota 14 September" (envelope with contents), Brzesc, Suwalki and Lublin, all in red (some used during Napoleonic period), others include blue "Daleszyce", bilingual "Stoczek", embroidered ladies' cover from Lublin, via Warszawa and Berlin to Lauenburg, plus many others. One of the letters was sent 7.10.1864 from Warsaw to Konstanty Gorski, visiting professor of Polish Literature in Brussels. The letter was delivered two days later, having traveled by train and coach via Berlin. A fine group  | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
