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 #1298 SAUDI ARABIA 1926 1pi and 2pi Railway Issue, tied by Djedda (17.2.26) pmk on cover to Mrs. Philby in England, with Port Taufiq transit pmk on back, two archival pinholes at bottom of cover, which has been refolded at top (sender of this cover, Harry St John Bridger Philby, a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and colonial office intelligence officer. He converted to Islam in 1930, and later became an adviser to Ibn Saud, urging him to become King of the whole of Arabia and helping him to negotiate with both England and the United States when petroleum was discovered in 1938. His only son by his first wife Dora Johnston was Kim Philby, who became known worldwide as a double agent for the Soviet Union, where he defected in 1963)  Catalog #51,52 | Price Realized $625.00 |
