U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 2-3, 2020
Welcome to our June 2-3, 2020, to be held via CherrystoneLIVE. This sale contains 1,215 lots of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, with United States and Europe, including Austria, with a fine showing of Rocket Mail and Austrian Levant, France and Colonies, German Area, Italy and Colonies, Poland, Russia, specialized Vatican City and other areas. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented with many high values and sets covering all reigns from Aden to Zanzibar. This sale concludes with a good selection of large lots and collections, which range from single country albums to a specialized collections and multi-carton worldwide stocks and cover lots.
This is a public auction, with live Internet bidding (via CherrystoneLIVE at cherrystoneauctions.com). Our usual catalogues have not been printed for this sale, due to completely unreliable postal service (we hope to resume printing catalogues for the future auctions)
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #6198 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (21 Feb) picture postcard addressed to Vienna, with perfectly struck "K.u.k. 15cm Haubitzbatterie No.36" cachet, "Zensuriert" alongside, with "W1" Vienna arrival, sent by an Austrian soldier from Constantinople, awaiting the long trip to Gaza, v.f.  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6199 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (11 July) picture postcard from Negev to Brozan, with Austro-Hungarian charity label, bilingual K.u.K. Ersatzabteiling (substitute division) military handstamp, censored, with "W1" Vienna arrival (for military and diplomatic mail from Turkey) | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6200 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (7 Aug) picture postcard (Jerusalem) with "Feldpost Mil. Miss. 1.Expeditionskorps" pmk and violet "K.u.K.Gebirgsartillerieregiment No.6 Haubitzbatterie No.2" (Mountain Artillery Regiment No.6, Howitzer Battery No.2), "Uberpruft Wien 1" censored in Vienna, sent from Beersheba, via Vienna to Chlunetz, v.f., rare and very early Expeditionskorps cancel (The first units of the German Expeditionary Corps "Pascha 300" arrived in Beersheba in April, 2016. It consisted of two planes, 48 machine guns, antiaircraft units, trucks and hospital equipment. They were reinforced by the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Howitzer division under the command of Major Adolf Marno von Eichenhorst) | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6201 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (5 Sep) cover with "Feldpost Mil. Miss. A.O.K.4" postmark sent from Jerusalem to Vienna, with straight-line "K.u.k.bakterliog. Feldlaboratorium Nr.39", mailed by the chief surgeon Dr. Schiller at the Ratisbone Monastery (which was leased to the Austro-Hungarian army for the use as their main hospital in the Middle East), carried by diplomatic mail from Jerusalem, with "Uberpruft Wien" censor label attached on back, also red "Zenzuriert" and "W" arrival markings | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6202 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (21 Sep) registered cover from Bir es seba to Vienna, with "Feldpost/Mil.Miss/1.Expeditionskorps" pmk at top right, rare "Feldpost d.Militar-Mission 1 Expeditionskorps No.114" registry label, "Eingeschrieben Portofreie Dienstsache" straight-line handstamps, Aleppo and Constantinople transit backstamps, the return address is the Paymaster of the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Howitzer Division of von Marno, his circular cachet also seals the backflap (top portion of backflap excised), assessed 15 heller Postage Due on arrival (despite the "Portofreie Dienstsache" markings, probably as this cover was addressed to a private printing company, it was not considered military mail), fine. The 1st Expedition Corps stayed only for two weeks at Bir es seba (today Beersheba), as part of the 4th Ottoman Army, extremely rare | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #6203 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (29 Sep) bilingual Feldpost card to Harnsdorf, with Constantinople railway cancel, handstamp of the Mountain Artillery detachment, "W1" Vienna transit, fine card from an Austrian soldier in Constantinople, later moved to the Palestine battlefront | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6204 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1916 (30 Sep) cover (with contents) canceled "Feldpost Mil. Miss. Aleppo", sent via Damascus to Vienna, by Lt. A. Rippel, Austrian instructor attached to the German army | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6205 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (22 Jan) picture postcard with "K.u.K.Kraftwagonkolonne Turkey" (Truck Convoy) handstamp, sent from Zahleh (Lebanon) to Vienna, sent by a truck driver travelling between Constantinople and Gaza, violet "Zensuriert", fine and unusual | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6206 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (6 Apr) registered cover from Jerusalem to Vienna, with "Feldpost/Mil.Miss/A.O.K.4" pmk at top right, rare "Militar-Mission Feldpost 4. Armee No.563" registry label, "Eingeschrieben Portofreie Dienstsache" (postage free official mail) straight-line handstamps, Constantinople transit backstamps, the return address is the Paymaster of the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Howitzer Division of von Marno, his circular cachet also seals the backflap, charged 15 Heller Postage due on arrival, erroneously assumed to be civilian mail, since this cover was addressed to a private printing firm, the "Bestellung" (order) at top obviously overlooked. A rarity | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #6207 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (15 Mar) picture postcard with Ottoman franking, tied by A.O.K.4 Fieldpost Mil. Miss. cds, sent via the Germany military post office in Jerusalem to Vienna, v.f. and colorful card | Price Realized $180.00 |
 | Lot #6208 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (15 June) registered cover from Jerusalem to Vienna, with "Feldpost/Mil.Miss/A.O.K.4" pmk at top right, rare "Militar-Mission Feldpost 4. Armee No.961" registry label, "Eingeschrieben Portofreie Dienstsache" straight-line handstamps, Constantinople transit backstamps, the return address is the Paymaster of the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Howitzer Division of von Marno, his circular cachet also seals the backflap, fine and very rare registered usage | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #6209 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (19 July) picture postcard with "Feldpost Mil. Miss. Damascus" postmark, further endorsed "Feldpost" and sent by artillery officer via the German military postal system to Constantinople and Vienna, v.f. | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6210 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (25 July) picture postcard (Damascus gate) franked with Ottoman 10pa green, tied by two different departure postmarks including octagonal "K.u.K. Feldpost Mil.Miss. Jerusalem 2" postmark, sent via German military postal service to Vienna (Jerusalem 2 octagonal postmarks are rare) | Price Realized $180.00 |
 | Lot #6211 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (25 Oct) cover addressed to Vienna, with return address handstamp of "Kommando der k.u.k. Autoformationen in der Turkei", Feldpost departure cds, charged 15kr Postage Due, obviously in error, as this was military mail, addressed to a printer, probably a printing order for this military unit | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6212 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 picture postcard showing "Aust.Ung. Schwere Kanonen Batterie 20 Gaza 1917", with pencil message on back "a souvenir from the war time in Palestine." Shortly after issue, similar cards were confiscated by censors and destroyed. Only a few are stated to have survived | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6213 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 picture postcard (Belgrade) with boxed "Von der Armee im Felde" (from the army on the battlefront), violet "K.u.K. Militarbevollmachtiger in Konstantinopel" (Military Plenipotentiary in Constantinople), mailed from one of the battlefields in Palestine, addressed to a military hospital in Poland | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6214 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1917 (6 Oct) picture postcard with "K.u.K.Feldpostampt 451" and "Oster.-Ung.Nationalspital in Konstantinopel" handstamps, franked with Turkish adhesives (one being a fiscal used as postage), sent from a member of Austro-Hungarian medical staff to Znaim | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #6215 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1918 (3 June) registered cover from Nazareth to Vienna, with "Deutsche Feldpost 663" cds at top right, on back is the cachet "Liquidierender Rechngst der k.u.k. Feldhaubitzabteilung i.u. Turkei" (Paymaster of the Field Howitzer Division), corresponding "Deutsche Feldpost 663 No.2" Registry label, filing fold away from the markings, fine and very rare registered cover, used by the Paymaster to mail payroll sheets, using the German Field Post Military services. One of only a few registered covers recorded | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #6216 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1918 (28 Aug) card to Sarajevo, canceled "K.u.K. Feldpostampt 451", with "K.u.K. Instruktions-Detachement Hptm.v. Hubka" bilingual cachet alongside, posted by the commanding officer of the regiment previously stationed in Palestine, now in Turkey, franked with a red due label, forwarded by diplomatic mail to Zagreb and Sarajevo | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6217 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1918 (15 April) registered cover from Nazareth to Vienna, with "Deutsche Feldpost 663" cds at top right, on back is the cachet "Liquid. Rechngst der k.u.k. Feldhaubitzabteilung i.u. Turkei" (Paymaster of the Field Howitzer Division), corresponding "Deutsche Feldpost 663 No.842" Registry label, also violet "Eingeschrieben Portofreie Dienstsache" (Official Mail Postage Free), sent via the German military postal service in Constantinople and one of only a few registered covers recorded | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #6218 AUSTRIA Austrian Military Forces in Palestine - WWI 1918 (6 July) registered cover to Vienna, with "K.u.K.Feldpostampt 451" pmks and violet "Intendanz des K.u.k. Artilleriekommandos i.d. Turkey als Truppenkommando", also "Dienstsache" and endorsed "Rekmdrt". The sender must have known that there was no registration service for Austro-Hungarian mail, but still endorsed as official registered letter, bringing a charge of 15 heller penalty assessed on arrival in Vienna. Stated to be the only known Austro-Hungarian registered military mail cover from the Middle East, incorrectly charged postage due | Price Realized $700.00 |
