Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
September 17-18, 2019
Welcome to our September 17-18 Sale, to be held at our New York City galleries. There are 1,522 lots of rare stamps and postal history of the World, featuring properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. A selection of United States, including the Unique Double Franking Brattleboro Provisional, followed by Austria, Belgium, specialized Carpatho-Ukraine and Baltic Countries, Asia, France and Colonies, Germany and Colonies, Italian Area, specialized Liechtenstein, Spain, South America and Scandinavian countries. There are strong sections of Poland, with numerous ex-Mikulski items, as well as Russia, with rare proofs and essays. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented and there are numerous flight covers of the world, with selections of Zeppelin dispatches. The sale concludes with the usual selection of large lots, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers.
Live Internet bidding is available through our website www.cherrystoneauctions.com (via CherrystoneLIVE).
A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request. Preview of lots at our 57th Street galleries by appointment.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #756 ISRAEL Flight Covers 1948 (7 June) registered and flown cover to USA, with Doar Ivri franking (minor faults), canceled "Nordau Tel Aviv" (British Mandate postmark), repeated twice on back, minor faults, with framed postal censor handstamp, June 21, 1948 arrival pmk. A rare cover, carried on first or one of the first flights to USA via a European Airline  | Unsold |
 | Lot #757 ISRAEL Flight Covers 1949-50 three flown covers from the United States to Israel, variety of markings and frankings, with arrival postmarks | Unsold |
 | Lot #758 ISRAEL Flight Covers 1951 airletter from Osaka, Japan to Jerusalem, Israel, routed incorrectly through Lebanon and Jordanian Jerusalem, forwarded despite closed borders to reach Jerusalem Israel on May 15 (actually third anniversary of Israel independence), unusual item | Unsold |
