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 #1502 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS SAUDI ARABIA 1916-26 collection on Minkus album pages, with first issue Hejaz used or unused, overprints, including a page from Mohamed Ali Abdou with complete set of six overprints (L14-19,JL4,5,7), Arms of Sherif of Mecca issues, Jedda (L51/60), Nejd issues, including overprints on Hejaz Bill and Railway Tax stamps, Pilgrimage set (30/54), some varieties, many better items *O | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1503 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS SAUDI ARABIA 1916-45 selection of used and unused singles mounted on pages in a 1934 UPU presentation book, some cover wear, otherwise fine *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #1504 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS SAUDI ARABIA 1920-80 balance of the Al Hajj collection ("a philatelic treatise of the Pilgrimage to Mecca"),10 pages with few stamps, part sheets and other multiples, cigarette cards depicting Railway scenes, first nine stamps mounted on illustrated album page (apparently designed by T.E. Lawrence, who as not yet the legendary Lawrence of Arabia, worked on a project that became the symbolic first shot fired in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He designed and printed postage stamps. Collected in a limited edition book in 1918, A Short Note on the Design and Issue of Postage Stamps Prepared by the Survey of Egypt for His Highness Husein Emir & Sherif of Mecca & King of the Hejaz. One of the most respected and desirable volumes of philatelic literature, it has become an extremely rare book), Mesopotamia 1919 Hejaz Railway Revenue revalued for Postage (complete sheet of 1/2a), also Hejaz Revenues overprinted and used as Turkey 1920-21 Ankara issues, including multiples, etc. *O | Price Realized $2,100.00 |
