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.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1188
RUSSIA Air Post
1937 souvenir sheet used and unused (n.h.), minor wrinkles, v.f.,
Box **O
Catalog #C75a
Catalog Value $390
Unsold
Lot #1189
RUSSIA Air Post
1944 Stratosphere Disaster set of three, used on registered 3.3.44 cover from Moscow to USA, opened by censor, with seal and additional military censor handstamp on back, New York May 24, 44 arrival pmk, fine and scarce war-time usage
Envelope
Catalog #C77-79
Price Realized
$400.00

Lot #1190
RUSSIA Air Post
1944 "Memorial to the Soviet Balloonists who on 30th January reached the height of 22,000 meters", 50k green (Vasenko), 50k ultramarine (Fedosenko) and 50k gray green (Usyskin), imperforate trial color essays in unissued colors and denominations, each mounted on card, with handwritten technical inscriptions, value with penciled line and official handstamp and signatures on back, archival punches through last two, with 2019 Liapine certificates
P
Catalog #C77-79P
Unsold

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