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 #690 GREECE German Military Occupation of Greek Islands 1943-44 selection of 13 covers or cards, neatly written-up exhibition style on pages, with Chios (3), Crete (5), Lemnos (1) and Mytilene (4), civilian mail with Greek commemorative or regular issue stamps used mostly on back, with "Deutsche Zensur Chios" also censor seal, others include "Zensiert Feld Kommandatur" and "Kreizkommandatur Iraklion", "Gepruft Postzensur Mytilene" and "Logokrisia Mytilinis", "Deutsche Zensur Mytilene" markings, censor seal "Geoffnet Deutsche Zensur", some cover wear, but generally fine or better, incredibly rare (after 1941, Greece passed in control of the Axis forces. To the Italians were handed the largest part of the Greek mainland, the Ionian islands, most of the smaller islands of the Aegean Sea and the eastern part of Crete. To the Bulgarians was handed the northern region of Thrace. The Germans kept under their control the most strategically important areas: the city of Athens, the port of Piraeus, Central Macedonia, one prefecture of Thrace which bordered with neutral Turkey and the some islands of the Aegean (including western and central Crete, Melos, Lemnos, Lesvos and Chios).  | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
